It's 50 years today since the legendary music festival took place
On 8/15/19 at 5:48 AM EDTToday marks the 50th anniversary of legendary music festival Woodstock. The three-day festival was host to performers such as Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Ravi Shankar, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead, and is considered the pinnacle of the"summer of love" culture of the late 1960s.has searched the Internet and picked out unbelievable facts about the festival in celebration.
Mexican-born guitarist Carlos Santana and bassist David Brown perform with the group Santana at the Woodstock Music Festival in Bethel, New York.1. Did you know that the Woodstock festival wasn't actually held in Woodstock itself? It was held in Bethel, New York, on August 15 to August 18, after the organizers couldn't get a site close to the town and plans to host in Wallkill fell through. It's named as a tribute to Bob Dylan, who was living in Woodstock at the time.
2. On Saturday morning, the audience picked up garbage from across the festival site as it was becoming overrun with rubbish., the sound system came on at 8:00 a.m. and said:"Within 15 minutes we're going to be distributing these bags to everybody to help clear up." 3. Governor Nelson Rockefeller declared the festival a disaster area, and he intended to send in the National Guard and remove the entire audience. According to, urgent negotiations took place with the governor's staff, which helped his decision to assist the festival with a field hospital and medical teams from the U.S. Army.
4. Not everyone who attended Woodstock got to see Jimi Hendrix's performance, including his interpretation of"The Star-Spangled Banner." His set began on Monday morning after a lot of the audience had already left.5. The land where the festival was held was owned by local dairy farmer Max Yasgur. The farmer,
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