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The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, [3] [4] 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock.
5. Michael Scott Lang (December 11, 1944 – January 8, 2022) [1] was an American concert promoter, producer, and artistic manager who was best known as a co-creator of the Woodstock Music & Art Festival in 1969. [2] Lang served as the organizer of the event, [3][4] as well as the organizer for its follow-up events, Woodstock '94 and the ill ...
Joel Rosenman. Joel Rosenman (born 1942) conceived and co-created the Woodstock Festival in 1969. Rosenman thought of the idea for the three-day concert when he and business partner John Roberts were evaluating a proposal from Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld for a recording studio in upstate New York. The four went on to create the event.
Michael Lang, who co-created the landmark 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair, has died at age 77 from non-Hodgkin lymphoma, his family confirms.
Festival posters on display for the show, "We Are Golden" at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on March 28, 2019. The show is part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival.
Woodstock revisited: whatever happened to the hippie dream? Mark Beaumont. August 12, 2024 at 1:00 AM. Two young music fans hitch a lift home from Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, August 1969 (Getty ...
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.
2007. Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life is a memoir describing the origins of the 1969 Woodstock Festival by Elliot Tiber with Tom Monte. It was published in 2007 by Square One Publishers, Inc., and was adapted into a film of the same name by James Schamus, Ang Lee's long time writing/producing partner.