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The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is an amphitheatre, performing arts center and museum located at the site of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair in Bethel, New York. Located approximately 90 miles (140 km) from New York City , the 800-acre (3.2 km 2 ) site includes a 15,000-seat outdoor concert venue, a 1,000-seat outdoor terrace stage, an ...
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.
Woodstock was initiated through the efforts of Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, Joel Rosenman, and John P. Roberts. [21] [22] Roberts and Rosenman financed the project. [21]Lang had some experience as a promoter, having co-organized the Miami Pop Festival on the East Coast the previous year, where an estimated 25,000 people attended the two-day event.
Apr. 9—The average age of a Woodstock festival attendee is more than 75 years old, and the Museum at Bethel Woods Oral History Initiative is seeking to capture their stories before they are lost ...
Woodstock lives because we yearn for that spirit of peace and love in the world and our personal lives, wishing the best for our loved ones.
The downloads became available one to five days after a concert ended and were available for free for three days. In order to access the download, a person had to enter a code given away at the concert they attended. After three days of access, the files were no longer available for free download but .flac files were still available for ...
Beverly “Cookie” Grant hitchhiked to the Woodstock music festival in 1969 without a ticket and slept on straw. Ellen Shelburne arrived in a VW microbus and pitched a pup tent.
The Woodstock rock festival also took place in August 1969, and the Harlem festival then became known informally as the "Black Woodstock". [8] [9] The Festival also involved the participation of community activists and civic leaders including Jesse Jackson. [10] The series of six free concerts had a combined attendance of nearly 300,000. [4]