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Woodstock 69’
–“Three Days of Peace and Music”
The Sixties were an exciting revolutionary period with great cultural change. Some
people called it the “decade of discontent” due to the race riots in Detroit and LA, and the
demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Other people called it the decade of “Peace, Love, and
Harmony”. The sixties were about assassination, unforgettable fashion, new styles of music, civil
rights, gay and women’s liberation, Vietnam, Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, peace
marches, sexual freedom, drug experimentation, and Woodstock (Woodstock 1). All of these components caused
a change in the world of popular music and society. The most famous of the sixties rock festivals
was Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
Woodstock Planning
Woodstock was a rock music festival that took place near Woodstock, New York in a
town called Bethel. The festival took place over three days, August 15, 16, and 17, 1969. The
original plan for Woodstock was an outdoor rock festival for "Three Days of Peace and Music" in
the Catskill village of Woodstock. The festival was expected to attract 50,000 to 100,000 people.
It was estimated that an unexpected 400,000 or more people attended. It began with partners
Michael Lang, (the manager of a rock band), Artie Kronfeld, (an executive at Capitol Records),
and two capitalists John Roberts and Joel Rosenman, who supplied most of the money and the
original idea. Their original plan was to build a recording studio in Woodstock. To get the word
out, the four partners decided to hold a concert, which they called the Woodstock Music and Art
Fair. The group originally...
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