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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.
Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life is a memoir describing the origins of the 1969 Woodstock Festival by Elliot Tiber with Tom Monte. It was published in 2007 by Square One Publishers, Inc., and was adapted into a film of the same name by James Schamus, Ang Lee's long time writing/producing partner. It was released in ...
The term Woodstock Nation refers specifically to the attendees of the original 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. The phrase was coined by Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman , [ 1 ] and was later used as the title of his book Woodstock Nation: A Talk-Rock Album describing his experiences at the festival.
PLAYBACK: Mark Beaumont asks if the legendary hippie music festival was really a ‘blueprint for a new society’ or as ‘shambolic, profit-driven and violence-marred’ as the attempt to do it ...
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.
Musician Bob Grimm beside the Woodstock VW "Light", painted by Hieronimus. Hieronimus sits down for an interview with a film crew from Brazil. Hieronimus's most famous artcar, the Volkswagen bus "Light" (better known as "the Woodstock bus"), was photographed by the Associated Press and Rolling Stone at the original 1969 Woodstock , and is still ...
Taking Woodstock is a 2009 American historical musical comedy-drama film about the Woodstock Festival of 1969, directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay by James Schamus is based on the memoir Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte.
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.