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May 11, 2023 · Woodstock is possibly the most famous concert of all time. See our list of the 32 bands that performed at Woodstock, including Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.
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.
Woodstock received the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. In 1996, the film was inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry.
Jun 27, 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.
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- Woodstock was the most famous of the 1960s rock festivals. Its full name was The Woodstock Music and Art Fair. It took place on a farm property in...
- Woodstock featured a who’s who of 1960s rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the...
- Although a few tickets were sold, some 400,000 people showed up at Woodstock. Many demanded free entry, which they got due to virtually nonexistent...
- Woodstock (1970) is a documentary film made by Michael Wadleigh film based on the Woodstock festival. The film became a smash hit.
- The Museum at Bethel Woods, a multimedia exhibit space attached to a performing arts center, opened in 2008, with the stated mission of preserving...
- “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Jimi Hendrix
- “I Want to Take You Higher,” Sly and The Family Stone
- “With A Little Help from My Friends,” Joe Cocker
- “Freedom,” Richie Havens
- “Soul Sacrifice,” Santana
- “My Generation,” The Who
- “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” Crosby, Stills & Nash
- “Somebody to Love,” Jefferson Airplane
- “Swing Low, Sweet chariot,” Joan Baez
- “Ball and Chain,” Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix was Woodstock’s headliner. But because of delays, he didn’t end up playing until the morning of the final day of the festival, to a crowd that had dwindled down to somewhere around 25,000. No matter: The legendary guitarist made his time onstage count, closing out Woodstock with one of his most iconic live performances of all time. (An...
The psychedelic funk-rock groove of Sly and the Family Stone was a high point in the Woodstock lineup. Performing in the early morning hours of Aug. 17 for nearly an hour, they played a rendition of “I Want to Take You Higher” — with its juicy bass riff, horn sections and Sly’s energetic growl — as a dance-ready jam that got the crowd going. They h...
The Beatles didn’t go to Woodstock. But British crooner Joe Cocker was there to perform a cover of their song “With a Little Help From My Friends” that’s considered a top momentof the whole weekend. Cocker’s gruff, distinctive growl turns the sweet tune into something altogether new, and very much his own. Cocker was known for putting his whole bod...
“Freedom” wasn’t on the set list of the then relatively unknown folk-blues singer and guitarist Richie Havens. In fact, it was a song that didn’t even exist when he began playing it on Aug. 15. As the festival’s very first performer (a role he was coerced into after other artists were delayed by an epic traffic jam), he was tasked with holding the ...
The percussion-forward, 45-minute Santana set at Woodstock is legendary for a reason. With Carlos Santana on guitar, Gregg Rolie on keyboard, David Brown on bass, Michael Shrieve on drums and Michael Carabello and Jose Areas on percussion, it’s a masterclass of a band in sync. Perhaps the best part is that each player gets time to shine — and looks...
The Who had been hanging around for more than 12 hours before they took the Woodstock stage, and — against the peace-and-love spirit of the event— famously demandedpayment up front. But they came through in the end, finishing up their set, which coincided with sunrise, with their early hit “My Generation.” “It’s kind of our hymn. It’s a song about ...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were performing together live for just the second time in the band’s existence when they came to Woodstock, ending up playing around 4 a.m. on the festival’s final day. (Young only performed for two songs of their set, and sat out this particular one.) “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” is a sweet acoustic tune written by Stills t...
Singer Grace Slick introduced the Jefferson Airplane set as “morning maniac music,” which was apt given their performance time well into the morning of the festival’s second day. “It’s a new dawn,” she went on. Jefferson Airplane was well established in California as a favorite on the hippie scene. Slick’s impromptu vocal riffs gave their set a dis...
The last performer on the festival’s first night — which meant she went on well into the pre-dawn hours — Joan Baez was a folk voicein a field heavily skewed toward rock ‘n’ roll. She was considered the most overtly political of the artists to perform, with her husband imprisoned at the time for draft resistance. (And, at the ripe old age of 28, sh...
Janis Joplin was advertised as a Woodstock headliner. She finally went on well into early Sunday morning after killing time partying backstage. “Ball and Chain” was her encore song, on which Joplin let loose with her melodic screech. By the time she reached Woodstock, Joplin was a solo artist; she had previously performed at the Monterey Pop Festiv...
Visitors. About the City. Accolades & Awards. Recognition. All-America City (National Municipal League/Look Magazine 1964) 1889 Woodstock Opera House Historic Landmark Status (National Park Service/ National Register of Historic Places 1974)
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