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Stompin 76 Music Festival was known as "the Woodstock of Bluegrass". [1] The 3 day camp-out music festival took place from Friday through to Sunday, August 6, 7, and 8 in 1976, eight miles north of Galax, VA at the New River Jam Site, owned by the Lawson family.
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.
1988: The Festival began an annual Community Messiah Sing. 1991 and 1992: The Festival was named one of the Top 20 July events by the Southeastern Tourism Society. 1992: The Shenandoah Valley Music Festival Guild is formed to raise money for the Festival. 1994: Attendance for the Festival’s Symphony Weekends topped 5,000. A College Concerto ...
Beverly “Cookie” Grant hitchhiked to the Woodstock music festival in 1969 without a ticket and slept on straw. Ellen Shelburne arrived in a VW microbus and pitched a pup tent. The women, now ...
Woodstock is a town and the county seat of Shenandoah County, [5] Virginia, United States.It has a population of 5,212 according to the 2017 census. [6] Woodstock comprises 3.2 square miles of incorporated area of the town, and is located along the "Seven Bends" of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River.
Romney, as Wavy Gravy after the first Woodstock, has been the Master of Ceremonies of, and the only person to appear on the bill of all three Woodstock festivals: the original festival in 1969, the 25th anniversary Woodstock '94 festival in 1994, and the 30th anniversary Woodstock '99 festival in 1999.
Fright Fest runs from Sept. 21 through Oct. 27 on every Saturday and Sunday, as well as the following select dates: Friday Oct. 11, Monday Oct. 14, Friday Oct. 18 and Friday Oct. 25.
Though Woodstock first appeared in the "Peanuts" comic in 1967, he wasn't named until 1970. In the June 22, 1970 strip, Snoopy says, "I finally found out what that stupid bird's name is and you'll ...