Woodstock Festival: How We Got To “Three Days Of Peace And Music”
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Woodstock Festival: How We Got To “Three Days Of Peace And Music”
Woodstock, a three-day festival that started on Friday, August 15, 1969, wasn’t the only memorable festival of its time, but it remains the touchstone. The mythology holds that Woodstock changed lives and transformed the world – and what promoter wouldn’t want to claim that? Billed as “An Aquarian Experience: Three Days Of Peace And Music,” the epic event that would later be known simply as Woodstock become synonymous with the counterculture mov…
The Woodstock Festival, rather than bringing together a generation of musicians who would completely change the musical scene of the time – Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, The Who and Jimi Hendrix – this event, which took place from August 15 to 18, 1969, became an icon for American culture, specifically for those who faced the Vietnam War, professing love, peace and music in the best hippie style. What was happening in 1969? In essence, 1969 was one …
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