Woodstock

 Woodstock's Beginnings

“Two young men with unlimited capital looking

for interesting investment opportunities” , this
was the add that Michael Lang and Artie
Kornfled saw that started the music festival of
the century.

Their original idea was to build a recording

studio in Woodstock N.Y. a small artists colony.
To open the studio they would plan an outdoor
music and art festival.

The site for the festival was a dairy farm

leased from Max Yasgur's. It included a field
that formed a natural amphitheater, the 600
acres was large enough for 30,000 to 50,000
people who would probably attend.
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farm
Bethal New
Impact on Locality.

Not many of the people in the area liked the idea

of having Woodstock near them because they
thought they would not be equipped to handle
the 30,000 to 50,000 people that would attend.
There was also a bias against the hippie
counterculture.
The New York state Throughway was closed
because of a thirty miles traffic jam in all
directions leading to Woodstock.
Many festival goers simply abandoned their cars
and walked to the festival.
Schools and stored all over donated to the
festival because of the need for supplies.
 Three days of Peace and Music

 Woodstock was the largest lineup of musical

groups in history with 31 acts performing during
the three days.
 It provided the largest live audience in history
with more than 500,000 people.
 It was historical for the lack of violence, despite
the bad conditions that included lack of good
sanitation, food, water or housing.
 Richie Haven the first to perform put it like this;
“we were there because we felt good about
ourselves, happy to be in this place with so
many brothers and sisters who shared this
common bond.” “We were at the exact center
of freedom.”
 When the people were at Woodstock they made
 Jimmy
Hendricks

Janis Joplin

Jefferson Airplane
A Three day ticket was $18.00
to $24.00 but few of the
tickets where collected, and
the number of people was
way more then the number of
Woodstock's Long term significance.

The largest number of people ever get together

for anything other then a war and live together in
a imitate and peaceful way.
Woodstock influenced Pop culture and the hippie
counterculture as the media coverage went out to
all of America so that everyone could see the
“hippies”.
Acid rock was brought out of the underground and
into the mainstream.
The beginning of arena rock concerts came from
the what music promoters learned from the
Woodstock weekend.
Just by saying Plymouth Rock,
Appomattox, Selma or Woodstock
, every American knows the
historical events that happened in
these places.
Woodstock is the history of the
60’s, and rock and roll and the new
generation. It will always stand for
Peace, Music and Change.
Bibliography.

Doyle Ph.D., Michael Wm. “Statements on the

Historical and Cultural Significance of the 1969
Woodstock Festival Site” Muncie, Indiana
September 25, 2001
Tiber, Elliot, How Woodstock Happened…Part 1
www.woodstock69.com/wsrprnt accessed
January 2, 2009
www.google.com Google images for the
pictures.