The Westport Library Resource Guides: Woodstock: 1969 (2024)

Successful Despite Everything Going Wrong

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who’s who of current rock acts, includingJimi Hendrix,Sly and the Family Stone,the Who, theGrateful Dead,Janis Joplin, theJefferson Airplane,Ravi Shankar, andCountry Joe and the Fish. The festival began to go wrong almost immediately, when the towns of bothWoodstockand Wallkill, New York, denied permission to stage it. (Nevertheless, the name Woodstock was retained because of the cachet of hipness associated with the town, whereBob Dylanand several other musicians were known to live and which had been an artists’ retreat since the turn of the century.) Ultimately, farmerMax Yasgur made his land available for the festival. Few tickets were sold, but some 400,000 people showed up, mostly demanding free entry, which they got due to virtually nonexistent security. Rain then turned the festival site into a sea of mud, but somehow the festival went on.Continue reading fromEncyclopaediaBritannica

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