{"id":2081624,"date":"2025-10-10T11:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2081624"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:32:04","slug":"woodstock-history-location-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/woodstock-history-location-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodstock | History, Location, &#038; Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"ref1\"><!--[PREMOD1]--><span class=\"marker PREMOD1 mod-inline\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"topic-paragraph\"><strong><span id=\"ref997985\"\/>Woodstock<\/strong>,  the most famous of the 1960s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/rock-festival\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">rock festivals<\/a>, held on a farm property in <span id=\"ref1047562\"\/>Bethel, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/New-York-state\" class=\"md-crosslink autoxref \" data-show-preview=\"true\">New York<\/a>, August 15\u201318, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who\u2019s who of current rock acts, including <span id=\"ref1259992\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Jimi-Hendrix\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Jimi Hendrix<\/a>, <span id=\"ref1259993\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Sly-and-the-Family-Stone\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Sly and the Family Stone<\/a>, <span id=\"ref1259994\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/the-Who\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">the Who<\/a>, the <span id=\"ref1259995\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Grateful-Dead\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Grateful Dead<\/a>, <span id=\"ref1259996\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Janis-Joplin\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Janis Joplin<\/a>, the <span id=\"ref1259997\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Jefferson-Airplane\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Jefferson Airplane<\/a>, <span id=\"ref1259998\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Ravi-Shankar\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Ravi  Shankar<\/a>, and <span id=\"ref1259999\"\/>Country Joe and the Fish.<\/p>\n<p><!--[MOD1]--><span class=\"marker MOD1 mod-inline\"\/><!--[PREMOD2]--><span class=\"marker PREMOD2 mod-inline\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"assemblies\">\n<div class=\"w-100 assembly-container\">\n<figure class=\"md-assembly m-0 mb-md-0 card card-borderless print-false\" data-assembly-id=\"243057\" data-asm-type=\"image\"><figcaption class=\"card-body\">\n<div class=\"md-assembly-caption text-muted font-14 font-serif line-clamp\"><span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"gtm-assembly-link md-assembly-title font-weight-bold d-inline font-sans-serif mr-5 media-overlay-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/03\/212903-050-E399A60B\/Film-still-documentary-Woodstock-Music-Art-Fair-August-1969-Bethel-New-York.jpg\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/media\/1\/647675\/243057\">spectators at Woodstock<\/a><span>Spectators at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, August 1969; scene from the documentary film <em>Woodstock<\/em> (1970), directed by Michael Wadleigh.<\/span><button class=\"js-more-btn d-none btn btn-unstyled font-12 bg-white js-content\" aria-label=\"Toggle more\/less fact data\"><span class=\"link-blue\">(more)<\/span><\/button><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"topic-paragraph\">The festival began to go wrong almost immediately, when the towns of both <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Woodstock-New-York\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Woodstock<\/a> and Wallkill, New York, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off eb\" data-term=\"denied\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/dictionary\/denied\" data-type=\"EB\">denied<\/a> permission to stage it. (Nevertheless, the name Woodstock was retained because of the cachet of hipness associated with the town, where <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Bob-Dylan-American-musician\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Bob Dylan<\/a> and several other musicians were known to live and which had been an artists\u2019 retreat since the turn of the century.) Ultimately, farmer <span id=\"ref1047561\"\/>Max Yasgur made his land available for the festival. Few tickets were sold, but some 400,000 people showed up, mostly demanding free entry, which they got due to virtually nonexistent security. Rain then turned the festival site into a sea of mud, but somehow the audience bonded\u2014possibly because large amounts of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/marijuana\" class=\"md-crosslink autoxref \" data-show-preview=\"true\">marijuana<\/a> and psychedelics were consumed\u2014and the festival went on.<\/p>\n<p><!--[MOD2]--><span class=\"marker MOD2 mod-inline\"\/><!--[PREMOD3]--><span class=\"marker PREMOD3 mod-inline\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"assemblies\">\n<div class=\"w-100 assembly-container\">\n<figure class=\"md-assembly m-0 mb-md-0 card card-borderless print-false\" data-assembly-id=\"243059\" data-asm-type=\"image\"><figcaption class=\"card-body\">\n<div class=\"md-assembly-caption text-muted font-14 font-serif line-clamp\"><span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"gtm-assembly-link md-assembly-title font-weight-bold d-inline font-sans-serif mr-5 media-overlay-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.britannica.com\/80\/181580-050-F1AC5DA1\/Joe-Cocker-British-music-festival-Woodstock.jpg\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/media\/1\/647675\/243059\">Joe Cocker<\/a><span>British singer Joe Cocker performing at the Woodstock music festival in Bethel, New York, 1969.<\/span><button class=\"js-more-btn d-none btn btn-unstyled font-12 bg-white js-content\" aria-label=\"Toggle more\/less fact data\"><span class=\"link-blue\">(more)<\/span><\/button><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"topic-paragraph\">Although it featured memorable performances by <span id=\"ref1259990\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Crosby-Stills-and-Nash-group\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Crosby, Stills and Nash<\/a> (performing together in public for only the second time), <span id=\"ref1259991\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Santana-musical-group\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Santana<\/a> (whose fame at that point had not spread far beyond the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/San-Francisco-Bay\" class=\"md-crosslink autoxref \" data-show-preview=\"true\">San Francisco Bay<\/a> area), <span id=\"ref1259989\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Joe-Cocker\" class=\"md-crosslink autoxref \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Joe Cocker<\/a> (then new to American audiences), and Hendrix, the festival left its promoters virtually bankrupt. They had, however, held onto the film and recording rights and more than made their money back when Michael Wadleigh\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/documentary-film\" class=\"md-crosslink autoxref \" data-show-preview=\"true\">documentary film<\/a> <em><span id=\"ref998017\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Woodstock-film\" class=\"md-crosslink \">Woodstock<\/a><\/em> (1970) became a smash hit. The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off mw\" data-term=\"legend\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/legend\" data-type=\"MW\">legend<\/a> of Woodstock\u2019s \u201cThree Days of Peace and Music,\u201d as its advertising promised, became enshrined in American history, at least partly because few of the festivals that followed were as star-studded or enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link-module shadow-sm d-block qa-quiz-module\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/quiz\/that-swinging-60s-quiz\"><\/p>\n<p>        <\/p>\n<div class=\"line-clamp clamp-5\">\n<p>Britannica Quiz<\/p>\n<p>That Swinging \u201960s Quiz<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/a><!--[MOD3]--><span class=\"marker MOD3 mod-inline\"\/><!--[PREMOD4]--><span class=\"marker PREMOD4 mod-inline\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"topic-paragraph\">A 1994 festival on the same site was better organized and more successful financially, if less legendary. In 1999 a third festival was marred by a small riot. The Museum at Bethel Woods, a multimedia exhibit space attached to a performing arts centre, opened in 2008, with the stated mission of preserving the original festival site and educating visitors about the music and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off mw\" data-term=\"culture\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/culture\" data-type=\"MW\">culture<\/a> of the Woodstock era.<\/p>\n<p><!--[MOD4]--><span class=\"marker MOD4 mod-inline\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.britannica.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woodstock, the most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15\u201318, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who\u2019s who of current rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, the Grateful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2081625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[25138,291457,291456,291455,346008],"class_list":["post-2081624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-article","tag-britannica","tag-encyclopeadia","tag-encyclopedia","tag-woodstock"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Woodstock-History-Location-Facts.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081626,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081624\/revisions\/2081626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2081625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}