Woodstock Festival

Woodstock 1969 In August of 1969 at Bethel,New York, Woodstock was born. The three day festival was full of music,art,peace,love and crazy dancing. Woodstock was one of the most historic events of the 60's. Woodstock was a large event in the 1960’s that had both positive and negative events. At the festival many musicians that we call legends today performed at this festival and the ones who turned it down not knowing how big it was going to turn out sooner regretted it. The festival became so popular

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

In early 1969 four men were trying to create a music festival. They had quite a few speed bumps along the way. Financial and locations struggles were the first to slow them down. After they got those two figured out they had to worry about the music. Then in April 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival signed, after they signed people started lining up to play. The music, venue, and money now settled, they could start selling tickets. August 15th to 18th of 1969 in Bethel, NY 200,000 music lovers showed

Woodstock Music Festival The Woodstock Music Festival took place in 1969 and lasted for 4 days from August 15-18. This event was all about drugs and rock in roll and a few more negative things, but we are going to stick to the rock in roll part for right now. Woodstock was a giant festival that last 4 days total and impacted many lives in a negative and positive way. Set originally to only include three bands they ended up with 32 band playing. This was a major change in the festival because

A Brief History of Rock and Roll and The Woodstock Music Festival of 1969 Throughout history, major social transformations have taken place that has changed how people perceive themselves and the world around them. With each social reformation, cultural forms and institutions also change as well as their meanings. For Example, the development of recording and electronic communication within United States capitalism spurred the unique coming together of music traditions in twentieth century United

psychedelic guitar riffs, and teenage rebellion. The three day music festival, Woodstock, was the epitome of the peace movements during the sixties and seventies, encompassing three days of undeniable harmony in which the youth of 1960 was united, embodying ideals of peace akin, demolishing the foundation of conformity within society. The newly surfacing culture brought about by the “hippies” and further popularized during the festival countered the commonplace unchallenged mainstream culture that the

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. The August in 1969 when 400,000 hippies gathered together for some great music and lots of partying a man named Wayne Saward was just 12 years old.

advertised as three days of peace, love, and music, but was it really? The Woodstock Music and Arts Fair was held in New York in August of 1969. The crowd, formed by mostly drug-addicted youth, yearned for a peaceful weekend away from the constraints of society, however, the gathering turned out to be overcrowded and chaotic. Despite the unpredicted crowd and logistical problems with the venue, the audience made the festival memorable when they came together to enjoy the reason they came in the first

Woodstock was a four day long music and arts festival. The event was held on August 15 to 18 in 1969. Woodstock took place on Max Yasgur’s Dairy Farm in Bethel, New York. Nearly 500,000 people attended the festival, some as young as even two years old. The festival became a free event as people began to show up because even though tickets were sold there were far too many people to check tickets. The people who attended Woodstock savor all memories they have of the four day festival because it truly

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,