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While lodging on Manhattan's East Side from 1968–69, the Farm was approached by Woodstock Ventures with a proposal: participate in a planned music festival in upstate New York. Although the Farm had just bought land in Llano, New Mexico (near Truchas ) and had plans to depart New York City and settle in their new home, they accepted the offer ...
Monck was hired to plan and build the staging and lighting for the Woodstock Music & Art Fair's "Aquarian Exposition" music festival. Paid $7,000 for ten weeks of work, [3] much of his plan had to be scrapped when the promoters were not allowed to use the original location in Wallkill, New York. The stage roof that was constructed in the ...
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Hugh Nanton Romney Jr. was born in East Greenbush, New York, on May 15, 1936. [5] [1] [6] His father, Hugh Romney Sr., was an architect. [7]Romney was raised in early life in Princeton, New Jersey, and by middle school age his family moved to West Hartford, Connecticut.
The village is within the town of Goshen, some fifty miles northwest of New York City, on New York State Route 17 in the center of Orange County. Goshen is the home of the Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame , and hosted harness racing's top event, the Hambletonian , from 1930 to 1956, at the former Good Time Park .
The Woodstock rock festival also took place in August 1969, and the Harlem festival then became known informally as the "Black Woodstock". [8] [9] The Festival also involved the participation of community activists and civic leaders including Jesse Jackson. [10] The series of six free concerts had a combined attendance of nearly 300,000. [4]
Lang was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to a Jewish-American family. [5] [6] [7] In 1967, Lang dropped out of New York University and moved to Coconut Grove, Florida, to open a head shop. In 1968, after promoting a series of concert events in the Miami area, Lang (with Marshall Brevetz) produced the 1968 Pop & Underground Festival.
Jimi Hendrix in 1968. In 1968, Jimi Hendrix and his manager Michael Jeffery bought the Generation, a newly defunct nightclub in New York's Greenwich Village. [3] Hendrix had frequently joined jam sessions at the venue, which had hosted acts as diverse and legendary as Big Brother & the Holding Company, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Dave Van Ronk, Sly & the Family Stone, and John Fahey.