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Don Aters
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Don Aters is a rock and roll photographer and historian. Biography Don Aters was originally from Chicago, Illinois, moving to Jeffersonville, Indiana at the age of twelve. He attended Indiana University and obtained his Bachelors Degree of Arts in Literature & History, and his Masters Degree in Liberal Arts. His interests in the music scene led him to California. There he began as a photographer of the musicians of the mid 60s and early 70s, attending venues at the Fillmore East and Fillmore West. Don Aters first big venue was the The Monterey International Pop Music Festival, held from June 16 to 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. He also photographed the original Woodstock, at Bethel, New York, documenting the thirty some acts that performed that weekend in August 1969. He has also photographed the 40th anniversaries of the Monterey Pop Festival and the Summer of Love in Golden Gate Park and all the Bonnaroo festivals since their start in 2002. The Louisville Speed Museum, Indiana University, and the University of Kentucky possess photographs by Akers. Photographer and editor for Haight Street Music News Don Aters was the editor and photographer for the Haight Street Music News, about yesterday's musicians. 
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