Just a few days prior to cancellation, Rolling Stone had confirmed with Merriweather Post Pavilion on July 29 that the potential tickets would be one-day passes and would be complimentary. The venue holds about 32, guests; originally, the Woodstock 50 organizers were hoping for a ,person festival. But if anyone shows up at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Aug.
On Aug. The town of Bethel is holding its own tribute to Woodstock this year, also taking place Aug. The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts has a planned weekend of activities on site, and the nearby Museum at Bethel Woods has special exhibits on Woodstock history.
The original version of this story misstated the date that Arlo Guthrie will perform. It is Aug. Write to Raisa Bruner at raisa. By Raisa Bruner. Young men and women skinny-dip in a river during Woodstock. Festivalgoers hang from bent metal tubing as another untangles rope to tie the tubes together to form a tent frame on the grounds of the Woodstock Festival in August The crowd looks toward the stage during a performance by the band Santana.
The musician Carlos Santana right and the bassist David Brown perform with the other members of Santana at Woodstock on August 16, A sound man stands on scaffolding with his equipment in front of the Woodstock crowd. An unidentified woman smiles while her pet monkey sits in the middle of her group. Rock-music fans sit on a tree sculpture as one leaps midair onto a pile of hay during Woodstock on August 15, A naked couple embraces as a river rushes around them while at Woodstock.
A man and a child walk past people in sleeping bags in August Rumor has it jugs of homemade wine were passed around freely. Many people who attended the festival claim not to have realized just how many people were present. Many quotes from in-person interviews during the festival which can still be found online estimate tens of thousands, not hundreds of thousands. Tens of thousands of vehicles of guests were parked as far as 20 miles away from the site of the festival.
Performer Melanie Safka was a relatively unknown year-old folk singer who was never given an artist VIP pass and had to sing to security guards in order to convince them she was scheduled to perform on stage. No rain! Singer Alvin Lee of the band Ten Years After chose to sing in the rain after reportedly ignoring warnings he could become electrocuted. While Woodstock was taking place, so was the Vietnam War. Dozens of attendees carried posters and wore clothing denouncing the war and calling for peace.
The famous nine-mile traffic jam really did occur, and it really was as bad as it sounds, according to witnesses. A local group of volunteers from a nearby Jewish community center attempted to help alleviate concerns about food by making and distributing thousands of sandwiches. It was burnt down by festival goers. The U. Army airlifted thousands of pounds of food, water, and medical supplies to the anti-Vietnam War crowds throughout the duration of the festival. There were surprisingly few episodes of violence, though one teenager was accidentally run over and killed by a tractor and another died from a drug overdose.
A number of musicians performed songs expressing their opposition to the Vietnam War , a sentiment that was enthusiastically shared by the vast majority of the audience. A 25th anniversary celebration of Woodstock took place in in Saugerties, New York.
Held over another rainy, muddy weekend, the event drew an estimated , people. Another, less successful Woodstock was held in A major 50th anniversary festival was planned for , but never came to fruition.
But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! On August 17, , Alice Roth experiences what surely is one of the worst days any spectator has had at a Major League Baseball game. After being struck by a foul ball off the bat of future Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn, Roth is being treated for a broken nose when the
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