Music festivals were created as a way for people to temporarily escape from the world's conflict. Throughout the decades, festivals continued to grow in popularity and new festivals were created.
The festival that started the the spread of festivals was Woodstock. In 1969 in New York, the first Woodstock was held on a dairy farm. 32 different rock acts came together on the farm to perform. During this time period, the Vietnam war was happening and Thousands of “hippies” traveled to Bethel, New York to see acts like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin perform and to take a break from all the conflict in the world. Woodstock promised 3 days of peace and music. Woodstock was a three day long music festival that brings peace through music, community,
On December 6, 1969 the Rolling Stones organized Altamont Music Festival at the Altamont Speedway near the northern California. The event is famous for it incredible violence, including the Meredith Hunter’s death and three accidental deaths The concert was presented by Santana, Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with the Rolling Stones taking the stage as the final performance. Unfortunately, appearance by The Grateful Dead were canceled at the last minute due to the increasing violence at the place. This festival had been scheduled at the Golden Gate Park, but San Francisco officials disprove their permission at the last minute when Mick Jagger announced that the Stones would be there without
The values, beliefs, and attitudes of the Family of Woodstock have changed over 40 years. When Woodstock occurred 40 years ago rock and roll was everything. There are many changes with the youth’s trends and how they act. There are big differences between the morals and values of the young and the old today. However, they do not create conflict with the delivery of the systems. At the time when Woodstock was going on drugs and rock and roll were big. The young people thought of it as being
Going to a music festival is an unforgettable experience, and you will definitely love it. It does not matter, if it is your first time, or fifteenth time – it is always new and exciting!
Every memory of the summer of 1969 is connected to, in one way or another, the historical event, Woodstock. The festival could not have left more of an impact on the “hippie” generation anymore than it did those three days of music and peace. The generation of the time wanted nothing more than what they got out of Woodstock. Today, people still look back on the festival and think of how well it made history without the expectance of doing so. Woodstock, one of the most important cultural events of the 20th century, combined iconic musical acts with interesting social behavior.
Woodstock was originally supposed to be held in the small town of Woodstock,New York and it was supposed to be a recording studio because in the late 60's many people from all over moves there to become musicians. For the studio to get built, a music festival was going to be held, and the ticket sells, we're going to go towards building the Woodstock studio (Perone,23) . Since the city of Woodstock denied their permission the great festival was held at the Max Lasgurs dairy farm in Bethel,New York on August 15-17, 1969, the farm was 600 acres of land. They kept the name "Woodstock" because the creators of the event wanted to still build the studio in Woodstock. Since they only expected a few thousand to come to the
The festival wasn’t held in Woodstock to many people's disbelief because of lack of space there to hold an astounding 100 000 people. So, it was moved to Middletown, New York but a month or so before the first day of the festival, permits were taken away because shockingly, people didn’t want stoners and hippies playing rock and roll in their backyard. This caused a rather big panic among organizers. But because of a very generous farmer, Max Yasgur, the festival location was changed to his farm in Bethel, New York, as he had 600 acres
Many large concerts have been hosted in the United States, but none have been as symbolic and memorable as the three-day music and art festival that shared messages of peace and love. The event was seen as a result of the peace movement and the emergence of the flower children, or “hippies”. Woodstock ‘69 was held near Woodstock, New York in White Lake, New York on August 15 to 17, 1969 and formed a symbol of 1960s American counterculture. There was a sense of social harmony, which with the music, the large mass of people, most in bohemian dresses, and attitudes helped make it ,perhaps, one of the greatest events of the century.
The cultural process of Woodstock consisted of rejoicing in the different styles of music and in each individual that came. The festival included many social dramas. Individuals, in that number, are bound to have differences. Woodstock taught people, approximately 400,000, how to resolve their issues by sharing a common goal. The celebration helped to advance the ideas of peace and unity throughout the generation.
In this chapter we will discuss and analize about the Social & cultural impacts of Glastonbury festival. As we know, The Glastonbury festival is a largest open-air music and performing arts in the world so it has considerable influence to people about social and cultural.
“Live music events have grown into global events, give five reasons as to what has driven their commercial growth and success”
The muddiest four days in history were celebrated in a drug-induced haze in Sullivan County, New York (Tiber 1). Music soared through the air and into the ears of the more than 450,000 hippies that were crowded into Max Yasgur's pasture. "What we had here was a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence," said Bethel town historian Bert Feldmen. "Dickens said it first: 'it was the best of times, it was the worst of times'. It's an amalgam that will never be reproduced again" (Tiber 1). It also closed the New York State Thruway and created one of the nation's worst traffic jams (Tiber 1). Woodstock, with its rocky beginnings, epitomized the culture of that era through music, drug use, and the thousands of hippies who attended,
There is a town called Woodstock which is like an artists’ colony in the Catskill Mountains of New York state. This was where many people thought the Woodstock Music Festival took place. The actual location was on a 600 acre dairy farm owed by Max Yasgur near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel 43 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock.
One of the most famous of these was the Monterey International Pop Music Festival in 1967. It was held in California. Both the Beatles and the Beach Boys were supposed to appear but both of them cancelled. Jimi Hendrix was one of the artists that were there. This helped him become an American star because after he performed he sprayed his guitar in lighter fluid and caught it on fire. It was all caught on film and is a documentary. Another one of these is the famous Woodstock in 1969. It was held in New York on a dairy farm. It rained for three days straight leading up and during the festival. There were over 400,000 people there. There were even two fatalities that they overdosed on heroin. It was also recorded and turned into a
Organizing an Outdoor Music Festival is no mean task. Starting with creating a team, Finding a place to create an event and also finding sponsors, Lots of Marketing, Managing the food and drinks during the event are some of the process involved to organize a music event. Some organized successful music festivals are “Tomorrowland”, Linkin Park’s “Meteora World Tour”, “Pink Floyd World Tour 1968” etc.
Attention Getter: When we think of the beginning of music festivals it takes us back to 1969, when 400,000 hippies gathered at a 600-acre dairy farm from all around the country to watch the iconic Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and more perform.