woodstock

woodstock

The Woodstock Music & Art Fair

(informally, Woodstock or the Woodstock

Festival) was a music festival, billed as "An

Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace &

Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-

acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the

hamlet of White Lake in the town of

Bethel, New York, from August 15 to

August 18, 1969. Bethel, in Sullivan

County, is 43 miles (69 km) southwest of

the town of Woodstock, New York, in

adjoining Ulster County. Performed

outdoors in front of 500,000 concert-

goers.

Woodstock was designed as a profit-making venture,

aptly titled "Woodstock Ventures". It f

amously

became a "free concert" only after it b

ecame obvious

that the event was drawing hundreds of thousands

more people than the organizers had prepared for.

Tickets for the three-day event cost $18 in advance

and $24 at the gate (equivalent to $112.70 and

$150.30 in 2013.Ticket sales were limited to record

stores in the greater New York City area, or by mail

via a post office box at the Radio City Station Post

Office located in Midtown Manhattan. Around

186,000 tickets were sold beforehand and organizers

anticipated approximately 200,000 festival-goers

would turn up.

There sing this people and bands:

Joe Cocker

The Band

Country Joe and the Fish

Arlo Guthrie

Janis Joplin

Carlos Santana

Crosby, Stills & Nash and Young

The Who

Joan Baez

James Marshall 'Jimi' Hendrix

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