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 Read about Woodstock Festival at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Woodstock Festival and learn about Woodstock ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Music and Art Festival was the most famous rock festival of its era.
The Woodstock Festival represented the culmination of the
Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, which was free -- and that it only became a free festival after it became obvious that the concert was drawing hundreds of thousands more people than the organizers had expected or prepared for, and that the entry gates erected had been torn down by eager arrivals.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Woodstock_festival   (501 words)

  
 Woodstock Paper
Music was the peacekeeper at Woodstock, as the people in attendance listened to over twenty-five music groups that performed from the afternoon of August 15 through the morning of August 18.
Music was more than pure enjoyment for the fans that crowded the Woodstock festival, it was life and it was what they stood for.
Phillips notes that “their music is at Woodstock in the form of nearly 25 of the biggest names in rock and folk music.” The music is what brought the people together and kept them under control.
www.unc.edu /~sfox/woodstock.html   (2982 words)

  
 Woodstock Festival
The festival held at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, on 15, 16, and 17 August, 1969.
But Sam Yasgur persuaded his father to allow the concert to be held on the family's property, located in Sullivan County, which lies to the south and west of Ulster County.
Many who attended the festival felt that it was chaotic and did not report having a positive experience.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/woodstock_festival   (437 words)

  
 Music Paper
It is widely known what historical music event took place in the summer of 1969, and another Woodstock music festival took place thirty years later in New York in the summer of 1999 not far from the original Woodstock site.
The Woodstock in 1999 was believed to be an event to recapture, honor, and revisit the original Woodstock music and art festival.
A witness present at the ‘99 festival commented on an incident during Korn’s set on one of the nights of the 3 day festival which he stated, “ A very skinny girl, maybe 90 or 100 pounds got pushed into the mosh pit, where a couple of guys started taking her clothes off….
www.louisville.edu /~nkneal01/music.html   (1856 words)

  
 Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut) - $13.57   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Woodstock Music and Art Festival was the culmination of the cultural and sociological undercurrent of the turbulent and radical 60's.
Interspersed with these are features of the festival offstage with Hippies smoking their preferred substance, Yoga classes, skinny-dipping, playing in the mud, and interviews with performers, promoters, audience members, and residents surprised but generally appreciative of the masses of "Freaks" who have come to visit.
The three-day Woodstock music festival in 1969 was the pivotal event of the 1960s peace movement, and this landmark concert film is the definitive record of that milestone of rock & roll history.
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 Mohonasen History: The 60's World Around Us Woodstock Page
Woodstock was conceived by four young partners – Michael Lang, then the manager of a rock band, Artie Kornfeld, and executive of Capital Records, and two venture capitalists, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman.
The location was changed from the village of Woodstock, to the town of Wallkill, then finally to a farm at White Lake in the town of Bethel.
The essence of Woodstock was bringing people of like mind together, into a place where they were gonna enjoy music, most of which they didn’t even know and had never even heard before.
www.mohonasen.org /staffdev/mhistory/Summersell2/mhwor60woodstock.htm   (1455 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Woodstock Music and Art Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Music of the United States (1960s and 70s)
Woodstock has been romanticized and idealized in American popular culture as the culmination of the hippie movment -- a free festival where nearly 500,000 people came together to celebrate peace and love.
The money taken for the tickets sold before the festival was not refunded.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Woodstock-Music-and-Art-Festival   (529 words)

  
 CNN.com - Flashing back to Woodstock - Aug 17, 2004
From a few days of love and music at Woodstock to continued violence in Northern Ireland, CNN looks back on the week of August 15th to 21st.
Rain, mud, music, drugs, rock 'n' roll, teepees, pot, dancing, smoke, sleeping bags, meditation, tents, dogs, brown acid, granola and free love were the hallmarks of a music festival that was a defining moment of one generation's rebellion against popular society.
Woodstock '94 and Woodstock '99 were criticized for replacing the free and easy atmosphere of the 1969 prototype with corporate greed and high security.
www.cnn.com /2004/US/08/13/twih.woodstock   (1075 words)

  
 Profile - The Woodstock Art Colony - James Cox Gallery
Theater, opera, poetry, music, literature, painting, sculpture and crafts all vie for prominence in our cultural crucible and seem to ebb and flow in vitality and importance depending on the energy and makeup of the local citizenry.
If the lively arts are the warp of Woodstock, the weft is made up of the social and political forces that enjoy unusual tolerance and freedom of expression.
Woodstock artists, writers and musicians were producing artistic festivals with theatrical extravaganzas and bohemian revelry.
www.jamescoxgallery.com /wprof.shtml   (509 words)

  
 Woodstock Festival Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Woodstock Festival represented the culmination of the counterculture of the 1960s and the ultimate climax of the "hippie era".
An unlikely businessman, Lang was a light-hearted hippie who had owned a head shop, and now hoped to eventually build a recording studio in the Woodstock area to serve artists such as Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin, who had homes nearby, and saw a festival as a way to underwrite and promote the studio.
The Grateful Dead played at the festival but did not appear in the film or in any music releases due to their refusal to sign the contract given to them just before they went on stage.
encyclopedia.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/Woodstock_festival   (1026 words)

  
 List of music festivals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A music festival is a festival that presents a number of musical performances usually tied together through a theme or genre.
Music festivals may be subdivided by musical genre:
Woodstock (Bethel, New York, 1969), Woodstock 1994 (Saugerties, New York), and Woodstock 1999 (Rome, New York)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_festival   (313 words)

  
 Music During the Vietnam War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1969, music’s influence came to a climax at a musical festival dubbed Woodstock.
The most memorable event of Woodstock, and possibly 1969, was Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner.” With the help of Hendrix and the other artists, Woodstock brought rock music to the forefront of American pop culture.
Music is one of the most underestimated sources of influence and the spirit of rebellion.
homepages.udayton.edu /~santamjc/fall99-4/timothyblum.html   (1181 words)

  
 Britannica.com: Head Sounds - The Woodstock Music and Art Fair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held on a farm property in Bethel, N.Y., U.S., Aug. 15-17, 1969.
Rain then turned the festival site into a sea of mud, but somehow the audience bonded, possibly because large amounts of marijuana and psychedelics were consumed, and the festival went on.
The legend of Woodstock's "Three Days of Peace and Music," as its advertising promised, became enshrined in American history, at least partly because few of the festivals that followed were as star-studded or enjoyable.
www.britannica.com /psychedelic/textonly/woodstock.html   (347 words)

  
 Woodstock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Woodstock Music and Art Festival was held at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, near Woodstock, New York[?] on August 15, 16, & 17 1969.
Woodstock is the name of a small but historically important town in Oxfordshire, England
Woodstock is also the name of a fictional character in Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts.
www.termsdefined.net /wo/woodstock.html   (476 words)

  
 Lisa Law: Organizing Woodstock
It was, depending on one's point of view, four days of generosity, peace, great music, liberation, and expanding consciousness, or four days of self-indulgence, noise, promiscuity, and illegal drug use.
In 1969, Lisa Law and eighty-five experienced commune organizers were asked to assist with the medical tents, security, food services, stage activities, and information booths at a music festival near Woodstock, a little town in upstate New York.
Hog Farmers arrival at John F. Kennedy Airport en route to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, Woodstock, New York, 1969.
americanhistory.si.edu /lisalaw/7.htm   (226 words)

  
 arts festival music woodstock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This is an aerial photo of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival held on 600 acres of cow pasture leased from a farmer at in Bethel, N.Y., in mid- A...
Photos of Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, August 1969 by Greg T....
Celebrating the 35th Anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival Photos by Greg T. Jones, Skylitestudio.com, copyright 1969, 2004 all...
searchandlinkdirectory.com /art/arts-festival-music-woodstock/index.html   (198 words)

  
 Woodstock Festival,Bob Dylan,AlbertGrossman,Robbie Robertson,head games,Jonathan Taplin,Paul Sann,Rosalie ...
We were at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, where the backstage area resembled a midway at a carnival, with The Band's rented truck parked as if it were another concession stall, with its tailgate facing the midway.
I was backstage at the Woodstock Festival in a dual capacity.
Woodstock was, after all, an artists' colony and, living in a Woodstock that teemed with painters, Bob was bound to end up finding a buddy who would get him interested in oils.
www.bigmagic.com /pages/blackj/column48.html   (9106 words)

  
 Woodstock Music and Art Festival 1969   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
And so excited when the music started, since we thought we were too late.
There was such a long period of relative quiet that we were sure the concert had ended for the night.
Certainly, I was fortunate to have been there and note it as one of the major events in my life.
www.usinternet.com /users/cdnoto/Woodstock1.html   (1103 words)

  
 R.I.P. Woodstock - Pop Culture author, James Campion slams Woodstock 1999.
The small town known as Woodstock, nestled in the mountains of Sullivan County, New York seemed as good a place as any to have what was fast being known as a music festival.
The Woodstock Music and Art Festival didn’t turn out like the rich kids planned (Actually, it didn’t even take place in Woodstock, NY, but in nearby Bethel), but it could’ve been a whole hell of a lot worse.
But in reality the music didn’t have as much to do with the tragedy of Altamont as the fascist violence of the Hell’s Angels and the hippie mismanagement which inevitably led to infamous killings and another type of bell which tolled for the Baby Boomer peace and love era.
www.jamescampion.com /chekwood.html   (1163 words)

  
 Shenandoah Valley Music & Art Festival - Shenandoah Valley
Kuhn's career proceeded from The Art Institute of Chicago in the depressive 1930's as a conspicuously talented painter to an eventual long life on a secluded mountain-top in Virginia's beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.
He removed himself from the art world for the sake of personal, artistic freedom and took his own path.
Woodstock is located 90 miles west of the nation’s capital in the heart of the beautiful Shenandoah Valley.
www.shenandoahmusic.com /musicfest.htm   (1110 words)

  
 Moopuna: Term Papers on Woodstock - The Cultural Effects
The Woodstock Music and Art and Festival was held August 15 - 17, 1969 on a farm near Woodstock, New York.
It was a rock music festival and the starting event of the era known as the Counterculture.
Attracted by the presence of the most famous rock music bands and performers of the time, a huge crowd of almost 500,000 fans camped in a meadow and for three days lived in a heavy atmosphere of amplified music drugs and togetherness.
www.moopuna.com /c3124.htm   (372 words)

  
 Buy Concerts: Fleetwood Mac - The Dance, John Denver - The Wildlife Concert, Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Wildlife Concert is a reflective and moving musical celebration of the American West.
A fusion artist before the term was coined, the erstwhile Mexican street musician long ago extended his technical reach and broadened his stylistic palette by hungrily assimilating different styles of music.
Filmed in fl and white against the streamlined art deco stage of the since-demolished Coconut Grove in downtown Los Angeles, the concert is buoyed by a remarkable cast of A-list Orbison fans who signed on as his accompanists.
dvd.video-dvd.com.ru /C_163422/...&-Music-The-Director's-Cut.html   (1855 words)

  
 Memories of Woodstock 1969 from the Joneses
Ten Miles outside of Woodstock there was no movement of the bumper to bumper traffic, just lines of parked cars.
We left the car there and walked to Bethel, and on to Yasgur's farm where the Woodstock festival was taking place.
Photos by Greg T. Jones, first exhibited at the Center for Photography at Woodstock for their 20th Anniversary Exhibition in 1989.
jones-ny-video.com /woodstock   (270 words)

  
 Beatlefreak's Woodstock Festival 1969   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It's impossible to determine exact numbers, as the fences around the site were never completed in time, so tickets were never taken - it was a free concert.
    For "three days of peace & music" Woodstock was a living, breathing, working city.  In the last great multi-day music festival of our time, the young people showed the world that all those hippies could co-exist for a prolonged period of time without a catastrophe (and with little or no police intervention).
    So come take a look at what went into and what went on at the Woodstock Music Festival.  Inside you'll find plenty of photos, a schedule of events, set lists for the performers, information on how and why the Aquarian Exposition came to be, and much more.  It'll blow your mind, man!  Peace...
www.geocities.com /Beatlefreak1   (185 words)

  
 Woodstock Music Festival 1969 on Almondnet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1969 a large rock music festival named after the village was held at nearby small town in the Catskill Mountains.
Three days and nights of sex, drugs and rock and roll come to a peaceful end as the Woodstock music festival winds down.
The three-day Woodstock music festival in 1969 was the pivotal event of the 1960s peace movement, and...
www.siuk.org.uk /schb/woodstock_music_festival_1969.html   (440 words)

  
 Woodstock_festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Woodstock has been romanticized and idealized in American popular culture as the culmination of the hippie movement -- a free festival where nearly 500,000 people came together to celebrate peace and love.
Sam simply shrugged it off as he smiled at the camera, even though he was willingly entering himself into a multimillion dollar debt.
Woodstock - music from the original soundtrack and more (6 LP set 1970, double CD 2003)
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Woodstock_festival   (553 words)

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