Woodstock 1969

A Woodstock Moment – 40 Years Later | Arts & Culture| Smithsonian Magazine

The Woodstock Music Festival began on August 15, 1969, as half a million people waited on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for the three-day music festival to start. Billed as “An Aquarian Experience: 3 Days of Peace and Music,” the epic event would later be known simply as Woodstock and become synonymous with the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Woodstock was a success, but the massive concert didn’t come off without a hitch: Last-minute venue changes, bad weather and the hordes of attendees caused major headaches. Still, despite—or because of—a lot of sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll and rain, Woodstock was a peaceful celebration and earned its hallowed place in pop culture history. See for more. See the Movie.

Crosby, Stills & Nash – Wooden Ships

Canned Heat – Going up the Country

Santana – Soul Sacrifice

Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends

The Who — See Me, Feel Me

Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit

Janis Joplin – Piece of My Heart

Richie Havens – Freedom

Jimi Hendrix – The Star Spangled Banner

Ten Years After – I’m Going Home

Arlo Guthrie – Coming Into Los Angeles

Joni Mitchell – Woodstock

Melanie – Beautiful People

Joan Baez – Joe Hill

John Sebastian – Younger Generation

Country Joe McDonald – I-feel-like-I’m-fixing- to-die-rag

The Incredible String Band – When You Find Out Who You Are

Mountain – Beside The Sea

Creedence Clearwater Revival – I Put A Spell On You

Sly & The Family Stone – Dance to the music

The Band – “Tears Of Rage

Johnny Winter – Mean Town Blues

Sweetwater – What’s Wrong

Lew Soloff performing “Spinning Wheel”” with Blood, Sweat & Tears

Sha-Na-Na – At The Hop

Grateful Dead Live at Woodstock 1969

Pandit Ravi Shankar

Keef Hartley band

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