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The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival held on a 600-acre (2.4-km 2) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Thirty-two acts performed during the sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers.
Sweetwater (band) Sweetwater was an American rock band originally from Los Angeles, California. They were the act scheduled to open the Woodstock festival in 1969 but were stuck in traffic, so that folksinger Richie Havens 's trio was the first act to perform. Sweetwater was eventually flown into Woodstock by helicopter and performed next ...
If the name 'Woodstock' has come to denote the flowering of one phase of the youth culture, 'Altamont' has come to mean the end of it." [ 39 ] The film Gimme Shelter was criticized by Pauline Kael , Vincent Canby and other reviewers for portraying the Stones too sympathetically, and for staging a concert for the sole reason that it could be ...
Woodstock was initiated through the efforts of Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, Joel Rosenman, and John P. Roberts. [18] [19] Roberts and Rosenman financed the project. [18]Lang had some experience as a promoter, having co-organized the Miami Pop Festival on the East Coast the previous year, where an estimated 25,000 people attended the two-day event.
Chris Willman. January 24, 2024 at 3:57 PM. Melanie, the singer who performed at Woodstock in 1969 and had major pop hits with “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” in the ...
By MORGAN GIORDANO It has been 45 years since festival-goers began to populate the tiny town of Bethel, N.Y., but the legacy of Woodstock lives on. The officially billed 'Woodstock Music and Art ...
Michael Scott Lang (December 11, 1944 – January 8, 2022) [ 1] was an American concert promoter, producer, and artistic manager who was best known as a co-creator of the Woodstock Music & Art Festival in 1969. [ 2] Lang served as the organizer of the event, [ 3][ 4] as well as the organizer for its follow-up events, Woodstock '94 and the ill ...
In an effort to recreate the “peace and love” vibes of the iconic 1969 Woodstock music festival, concert organizers chose to celebrate the event’s 30th anniversary with Woodstock ’99.