Why was Woodstock canceled?
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, also known as just Woodstock, was a music event that took place in Bethel, New York, 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock, from August 15 to 18, 1969. More than 400,000 people attended what was advertised as “an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace &…
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, also known as just Woodstock, was a music event that took place in Bethel, New York, 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock, from August 15 to 18, 1969. More than 400,000 people attended what was advertised as “an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music,” also known as the Woodstock Rock Festival. 32 acts were presented outside despite occasional rain. The festival is now largely considered as a turning point in the history of popular music as well as a milestone for the counterculture generation. A 1970 documentary movie, a companion soundtrack CD, and a song written by Joni Mitchell that was a big hit for Matthews Southern Comfort and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young all served to highlight the significance of the event. For milestone anniversaries, such as the tenth, twentieth, twenty-fifth, thirtieth, fortieth, and fiftyth, music events bearing the name of Woodstock were scheduled. It was ranked 19th out of the 50 events that changed rock & roll history by Rolling Stone magazine in 2004. The festival location was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
Why was Woodstock canceled?
Woodstock was definitively postponed less than a month before its scheduled start date. Following an unsuccessful attempt to relocate the event to Maryland, Michael Lang, a co-founder of the original three-day festival, called it quits.
