The historic Woodstock Music & Arts Festival began on this date in 1969. Held on August 15 – 17, 1969, the landmark event for the era’s counterculture drew hundreds of thousands of people to Max ...

Enjoy this 23-hour sampling of songs that were played at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair between August 15-18, 1969.

Guitarist and vocalist Leslie West was born on this date in 1945 in New York City. West sadly died on December 23, 2020 but his legacy lives on in the countless musicians he influenced throughout the ...

About 450,000 people flocked to Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y. on Aug. 15, 1969, to celebrate three days of peace, love and music at the legendary Woodstock Music and Art Fair, replete with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Woodstock 1969 was happening, it was simply a three-day music festival to celebrate peace and music in a time of political ...

Michael Lang, the longtime Ulster County resident and driving force behind the staging of the 1969 Woodstock festival, who changed the trajectory of rock music and the live music experience while ...

You might say there were at least 450,000 ways in which the Woodstock Music and Art Fair united a divided nation in August 1969, harnessed live music to empower a generation and gave birth to a global ...

Woodstock is often remembered as a rock concert celebrating peace, love and music. But one of the best parts of the original 1969 festival in Upstate New York was playing a very different sound, ...

Woodstock remains one of the most iconic music festivals of all time. More than 400,000 people came to Max Yasgur‘s farm in Bethel, N.Y., for three days of peace, music and love in 1969. Before they ...

It seems like everything that could be known about Woodstock – the godmother of all rock festivals marking its 50th anniversary this month — has been documented, rehashed and repackaged to death. Then ...

After a tangled saga that included an investor who backed out, rejection by a small town government, and finally departing music stars, the organizers of the 50th anniversary Woodstock concert finally ...

Raue Center For The Arts invites music lovers and peace seekers alike to relive the magic of the 1969 Woodstock Festival with "The Woodstock Era," a live concert experience taking place on Saturday, ...