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The fabled music festival, seen as one of the seminal cultural events of the 1960s, took place 60 miles (96.5 kilometers) away in Bethel, New York, an even smaller village than Woodstock. An ...
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.
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.
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"I have talked to people who attended Woodstock when they were 5, but the average age of people who were there was 18," said Neal V. Hitch, senior curator at the Museum at Bethel Woods. The museum ...
So kids at Woodstock '99 were nostalgic for the mid-late '70s, with Dazed and Confused being popular. But Woodstock ’99 tried to push a nostalgia for the last '60s, and the ideals of counterculture and free love." [5] It was the first film of the six-part documentary series Music Box. [6]
Mar. 28—Woodstock defined a generation. The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts has an initiative to preserve an oral history of the iconic moment. From Aug. 15-18, 1969, the Woodstock Music and ...