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At the time of release, Woodstock 40 Years On was the most complete collection ever released of the festival, until the 50th Anniversary box set in 2019. All the artists who performed at Woodstock are featured on the album, except for Ten Years After, The Band, and the Keef Hartley Band.
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.
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, [6] [7] 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock.
Performers: Levon Helm Band, Mountain, Jefferson Starship, Ten Years After, Canned Heat, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Tom Constanten, Country Joe McDonald. Notes: This was the site of the original Woodstock Festival and held on the 40th anniversary of the first day, Friday August 15, 1969. Blind 15-year-old musician Conrad Oberg opened ...
An even more comprehensive 6-CD set, Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm, was issued by Rhino Records in 2009. The 2 cd version was also re-issued by Rhino in 2009. It was certified Gold in the US on April 1, 1971. [4] It peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Top LPs chart during the week of May 7, 1971. [5]
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 women, now ...
Yasgur's farm at 27 Yasgur Rd in Cochecton, New York, in 1999. Max Bernard Yasgur (December 15, 1919 – February 9, 1973) was an American farmer. He was the owner of the 600-acre (240 ha) dairy farm in Bethel, New York, where the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held on August 15–18, 1969.
The older ones, with rounded shoulders and last-call faces, rested their hands on their knees, as if bracing themselves for the onslaught. The 44-year-old with the coffee-cup charge had the bad luck to face 22-year-old Kenny Hamm, the equivalent of the facility’s Grand Inquisitor.