Woodstock Music Festival 1969
An excellent outlook of what Woodstock music festival was all about by someone that was there.
Tribute To The Woodstock Music Festival
The 60's were a turbulent decade. Vietnam came along, "we would all watch the "war lotto" to see which of our friends and
loved ones would go across the world to fight in a country that we had not even known had existed.
Many families were separated by what has been termed the "generation gap". Parents not knowing what their children were doing
and children learning not to trust anyone over 30. The world was spinning out of control and we were all angry about something.
Then for 3 days in 1969 the world stood still. This was Woodstock and our world and lives would be forever changed!"
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Woodstock Music Festival Facts
* More than 400,000 people attended the concert in Bethel, New York on August 15 thru 1969.
* The festival acquired its name "Woodstock" because it was originally scheduled to take place in the town of Woodstock, in Ulster County, New York.
Woodstock did not take place there because of local opposition to the concert.
* Preparations for the concert took six months.
* Advance purchase tickets for Woodstock were $18.00. The ticket price at the gate was $24.00.
* On Friday August 15 1969 at 5:07 PM the festival began with Richie Havens began performing "Minstrel From Gault Q"
* Waiting time between performing acts ranged from 40 minutes to 2 hours.
* The stage was eighty feet wide.
* Thirty three people were arrested on various drug offenses. There were two births and three deaths at the festival. Eighty lawsuits were filed after the concert ended