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. Billed as “an aquarian experience 3 days of peace and music,” the epic event would later be known simply as woodstock and become synonymous with the counterculture movement of the 1960s. In august 1969, the woodstock music & art fair took place on a dairy farm in bethel, ny Fifty years ago, more than 400,000 people descended on bethel, new york, headed to a dairy farm owned by max and miriam yasgur, where the woodstock music & art fair was being held. You can visit the woodstock festival historic site and experience the grounds and the museum at bethel woods, which interprets the festival and the bombastic decade of the 1960s which led up to it!
Woodstock is incredibly iconic as is, but imagine if these three powerhouse acts graced the stage in bethel, new york. Woodstock was the largest of the 1960s countercultural music festivals in the united states. The band consisted of black and white members, men and women, which wasn’t that usual at that time Given their late appearance sly & the family stone were remarkably fresh and powerful The woodstock show is widely considered as one of their best performances.
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