Promoter Michael Lang’s Woodstock 50 festival didn’t pan out, and maybe that’s just as well. “Civil War re-enactors in everything but name” was one Facebook wag’s joke about its prospective attendees ...
In 1969, with flowers in their hair, the children of Woodstock made love, danced naked and braved the elements with a communal spirit of peace and protection. In 1999, with baseball caps on backwards, ...
The Woodstock Music Festival began on Aug. 15, 1969, and remains a symbol of the counterculture movement of the 1960s.Woodstock was a three-day music festival attended by mainly young people living ...
In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, the huge outdoor music festival (and social event) held in August of 1969, a community radio station, school district and some budding artists ...
When people think of 1960s fashion, they often envision Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, but that is more “personal style,” according to designer Jayne Min. “What ...
VACAVILLE, Calif. — The classic Volkswagen bus will forever be associated with the hippie movement of the 1960s. The distinctive micro buses were a favorite of free-spirited young people through the ...
BETHEL, N.Y.BETHEL, N.Y. — Woodstock didn’t even happen in Woodstock. The fabled music festival, seen as one of the seminal cultural events of the 1960s, took place 60 miles (96.5 kilometers) away in ...
Before there was Woodstock, there was the Sky River Rock Festival. On Labor Day weekend in 1968, nearly a year before Woodstock, tens of thousands of young longhairs gathered on a raspberry farm near ...
In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, the huge outdoor music festival (and social event) held in August of 1969, a community radio station, school district and some budding artists ...
FILE - Music fans relax during a break in the entertainment at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, Aug. 16, 1969, in Bethel, N.Y. An estimated 450,000 people attended the Woodstock festival in August ...