Have you ever heard of woodstock? my parents met at woodstock!
I have! It was a large music and art fair held in 1969.
Yeah, it seems supercool, so many big people there, too bad it is not an every year thing anymore
I agree. It was widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history.
that is fore sure, it really captured the culture of the times as well
Rolling Stone listed it as one of the 50 movements that changed Rock and Roll. Imagine a concert like that today.
I cannot imagine, in this age of social media, that would be absolutely insane, all the memes haha
32 different acts performed during the weekend.
that is ridiculous, that would be like a giant firefly in our times now
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Matthews Southern Comfort. Joni Mitchell said, "Woodstock was a spark of beauty" where half-a-million kids "saw that they were part of a greater organism". In 2017, the festival site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In later years, it was revealed that Yasgur was in fact an operative of the Republican Party and actually supported the Vietnam War, which fueled the backdrop of Woodstock.
Planning and preparation.
Woodstock was
List of performances and events at Woodstock Festival
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival held on a 600-acre (2.4 km²; 240 ha, 0.94 mi²) 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. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest moments in popular music history and was listed on "Rolling Stone"s "50 Moments That Changed