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Woodstock
Genre
Rock and folk, including blues rock, folk rock, jazz fusion, hard rock, latin rock, and psychedelic rock styles.
Dates
scheduled: August 15–17, 1969, but ran over to August 18
Location(s)
White Lake, New York
(site of original festival)
Years active
Original festival held in 1969; namesake events held in 1979, 1989, 1994, 1999 and 2009.
Founded by
Michael Lang, John P. Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld
Website
The Woodstock Festivals
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock—was a music festival attracting an audience of 400,000 people, scheduled over three days on a dairy farm in New York state from August 15 to 17, 1969 but which ran over four days to August 18, 1969.Billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", it was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre (240 ha; 0.94 sq mi) dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel. Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43 miles (69 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, in adjoining Ulster County.During the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors before an audience of 400,000 people. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation.Rolling Stone listed it as one of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.The event was captured in the Academy Award winning 1970 documentary movie Woodstock, an accompanying soundtrack album, and Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which commemorated the event and became a major hit for both Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Matthews Southern Comfort.
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^ a b Jesse, Jarnow. "Woodstock Music and Arts Fair.". Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
^ "State Investigating Handling of Tickets At Woodstock Fair". The New York Times. August 27, 1969. p. 45. (subscription required (help)). Michael Lang stated 400,000 attended, half of them did not have a ticket.
^ Kilgannon, Corey (March 17, 2009). "3 Days of Peace and Music, 40 Years Later". Arts. The New York Times.
^ "Baby Boomer Generation Fast Facts". CNN. November 6, 2013.
^ "Woodstock in 1969". Rolling Stone. June 24, 2004. Archived from the original on February 9, 2007. Retrieved April 17, 2008.
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