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It was one of the largest music festivals in history and became synonymous with the counterculture of the 1960s. [9] [10] [11] [12] The festival has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as a defining event for the silent and baby boomer generations.
Mar 9, 2018 · The Woodstock Music Festival began on August 15, 1969, as half a million people waited on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for the three-day music festival to start.
Jul 19, 2024 · Woodstock, the most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15–18, 1969. It was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nevertheless signed iconic acts such as Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, and Janis Joplin.
Sep 16, 2020 · The Artists Who Performed at the First Woodstock Music Festival. With iconic sets from Santana, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and more, the 1969 festival changed music history. By Leigh Weingus ...
Aug 14, 2019 · Woodstock became a major cultural event, amplified by news coverage, a popular documentary film, and the music that became symbolic of an era.
Aug 13, 2019 · Over 100 never-before-seen pictures from the 1969 Woodstock festival have emerged, taken by photojournalist Richard F. Bellak, who died in 2015 having never published them.
Aug 16, 2019 · Woodstock was the largest of the 1960s countercultural music festivals in the United States. It left an indelible impression on not only the artists and attendees but also on the minds of millions of young Americans who experienced Woodstock secondhand—through news media accounts, a widely seen documentary film, and the consumer products that ...
Aug 15, 2019 · The Woodstock music festival may not have been a smoothly run event, but it featured electric moments—musical and otherwise—that made it unforgettable.
In August 1969, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place on a dairy farm in Bethel, NY. Over half a million people came to a 600-acre farm to hear 32 acts (leading and emerging performers of the time) play over the course of four days (August 15-18).
Woodstock was the largest and most memorable of dozens of outdoor music festivals that took place between 1967 and 1969, an era that began with the widely publicized Monterey Pops Concert, Monterey, California, on June 16-18, 1967, and ended tragically, with a concert at the Altamont Racetrack, Altamont, California, on December 6, 1969, just ...
