The week marks the 55th anniversary of the legendary Woodstock festival, which took place Aug. 15-18, 1969, on a grassy farm in upstate New York. An estimated 400,000 to 500,000 young music fans, many ...
Welcome to this week’s Tales from the Turntable! Throughout the year, I’ve covered almost every facet possible about music, including bands, songs, albums and rumors alike; however, I’ve never covered ...
Fifty years later, the new episode of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast takes a deep look back at the original Woodstock, with Country Joe McDonald, Santana percussionist Michael Carabello and Andy ...
The Lumineers, The War on Drugs, Tyler Childers and the Trey Anastasio Band are among the headliners at a new music festival taking place at the original Woodstock 1969 site in upstate New York.
“They played understandable, danceable, clean, clear American music,” said Walter, who carried a Kodak camera around Woodstock and used it frequently. He found the slides in a shoebox in his parents’ ...
Woodstock Museum Re-Creates '69 ConcertIf you don't remember being at Woodstock, you now have a second chance. On the site of the original 1969 concert in Bethel, N.Y., a new museum has opened. It may ...
More than twice the number of people expected showed up. Traffic issues caused performers to show up late – or to be thrown off the schedule entirely. Food, water and bathrooms were in short supply.
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Michael Lang, who co-created and organized the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel in 1969 and was a co-promoter of Woodstock ’94 in Saugerties, died Saturday, Jan. 8. He was 77.
Chip Monck may be the second-best known behind-the-scenes person from the original 1969 Woodstock festival, thanks to his having been drafted as a master of ceremonies for the daytime parts of the ...
SAUGERTIES, N.Y. – Celebration of the Woodstock festival will feature street art that includes decorated replicas of the painted vans that symbolize the 1969 event. However, the 35 fiberglass figures ...