Tag: Woodstock festival
An interview with the organisers of Woodstock Festival
The first time Woodstock organiser Michael Lang rode in a helicopter over the festival site, the event was over. Far below him, he could see the devastation wreaked by 500,000 kids on what had once been a pristine upstate New York alfalfa field, a scene that would take the next three weeks to clear up. [...]
Free festival to mark Woodstock’s 40th anniversary planned
The original Woodstock festival was the high watermark of Sixties flower power, memorable for its music, its nudity and its mellow atmosphere. The last attempt to revive it, for a 30th anniversary festival in 1999, ended in chaos with hundreds of police officers called to the site to stop rampaging fans from torching the stage [...]
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