How Long Did Woodstock Last
Woodstock
American music festival [1969]
Alternate titles: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair
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Woodstock, in full The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the most famous of the 1960s stone festivals, held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August fifteen–xviii, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was organized past four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who's who of electric current rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Rock, the Who, the Grateful Expressionless, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Plane, Ravi Shankar, and State Joe and the Fish.
The festival began to go incorrect almost immediately, when the towns of both Woodstock and Wallkill, New York, denied permission to stage information technology. (Yet, the proper name Woodstock was retained considering of the cachet of hipness associated with the town, where Bob Dylan and several other musicians were known to live and which had been an artists' retreat since the turn of the century.) Ultimately, farmer Max Yasgur made his land available for the festival. Few tickets were sold, but some 400,000 people showed upward, mostly demanding free entry, which they got due to virtually nonexistent security. Rain then turned the festival site into a body of water of mud, only somehow the audience bonded—possibly because big amounts of marijuana and psychedelics were consumed—and the festival went on.
Spectators at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, Baronial 1969; scene from the documentary pic Woodstock (1970), directed by Michael Wadleigh.
United Archives GmbH/AlamyAlthough it featured memorable performances by Crosby, Stills and Nash (performing together in public for simply the 2nd time), Santana (whose fame at that bespeak had not spread far beyond the San Francisco Bay area), Joe Cocker (then new to American audiences), and Hendrix, the festival left its promoters about bankrupt. They had, however, held onto the moving-picture show and recording rights and more than made their money back when Michael Wadleigh'south documentary moving-picture show Woodstock (1970) became a smash hit. The fable of Woodstock's "Three Days of Peace and Music," as its advertizement promised, became enshrined in American history, at least partly because few of the festivals that followed were as star-studded or enjoyable.
A 1994 festival on the same site was amend organized and more successful financially, if less legendary. In 1999 a third festival was marred past a small riot. The Museum at Bethel Wood, a multimedia exhibit space attached to a performing arts heart, opened in 2008, with the stated mission of preserving the original festival site and educating visitors about the music and civilization of the Woodstock era.
Ed Ward
Source: https://www.britannica.com/event/Woodstock
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