Life - Woodstock at 50 - 2019

THE GRAND DREAMS OF Woodstock’s promoters were nowhere near as grand as the resulting spectacle, when a crowd showed up that was ...

a song and a celebration In all, 32 different acts took the stage at Woodstock. It’s safe to say that none of the musicians had ...

WHATEVER HASSLES THE YOUNG fans had endured in getting to the festival, once the music began the mood was one of general bliss, ...

THE BIG RED DAIRY BARN OF Max Yasgur’s farm became a comforting touchstone for Woodstock campers, who surrounded it with their l ...

Friday to Saturday, August 15–16 Richie Havens 5–5:45 PM The festival began in chaos—a crush of scruffy youth, vehicular caravan ...

years, Satchidananda sat crossed-legged onstage and delivered a little over 900 words, excerpted here: My Beloved Sisters and Br ...

THE FIRST ACT TO TAKE THE stage was Richie Havens—and his set lasted longer than he had expected. The organizers backstage, he s ...

MANY WHO ATTENDED THE festival would later say that much of the delight was rooted in the discovery of half a million people in ...

many other parts of this country. But the entire success is in your hands, not in the hands of a few organizers. Naturally, they ...

Bert Sommer 7:15–8 PM He has been called the lost star of Woodstock, and his tale is as haunt- ing as the ethereal tenor voice t ...

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particularly well known at the time, whose careers just exploded because of Woodstock. For Bert, nothing.” Sommer, for whatever ...

A Conversation with Wavy Gravy One of the sudden stars of Woodstock was, and is, a lovable and generous soul ournalist and humor ...

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backup band including Richard Bock, Steve Booker, Gilles Malkine, Glen Moore, and Ralph Towner. The perfor- mance started off we ...

about the coming thunderstorm and the sea of humanity before him. “I am fright- ened in case something goes wrong with so many p ...

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largest crowd of people ever assembled for a concert, it’s dark, you can’t imag- ine how many of you there are. Light some match ...

inger-songwriter Melanie Safka-Schekeryk, 72, describes herself now as having been “the oddball” of her high school, a pigtailed ...

Los Angeles,” (about smuggling drugs into L.A. from London), a performance Wadleigh’s Woodstock film elevated to a countercultur ...