This week's Billboard magazine features a 10-paragraph story on the history of the concert and Jarrard, a Gainesville native and award-winning country music songwriter, who died in 2001 following a long battle with diabetes.
To read the article, click on the first link below. Billboard is a national music publication that has been in business since 1894, according to its website.

John Jarrard (Courtesy John Jarrard Foundation)
http://accesswdun.com/article/2013/9/265650