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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, [3] [4] 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock.
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 Sound-Outs just had a great feel", said Woodstock Festival producer Michael Lang. "And it was in the country and it provided all the guidelines that I needed." [8] However, the town turned down their permit, [9] and the "Woodstock" Festival was actually held almost 60 miles (97 km) away at Max Yasgur's farm in the town of Bethel. [10]
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 ...
Square in the heart of the city's French Quarter, ... (site of Woodstock) The site of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair is considerably less, er, muddy and debaucherous than it was in 1969, when ...
By MORGAN GIORDANO It has been 45 years since festival-goers began to populate the tiny town of Bethel, N.Y., but the legacy of Woodstock lives on. The officially billed 'Woodstock Music and Art ...
Bethel is a town in Sullivan County, New York, United States.The population was estimated at 3,959 in 2020. [3] The town received worldwide attention after it served as the location of Woodstock in 1969, which was originally planned for Wallkill, New York, but was relocated to Bethel after Wallkill withdrew.
About 400,000 people attend the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, N.Y., August 16, 1969. (AP Photo) Lang, with his distinctive head of bushy brown hair, is ubiquitous in Michael ...