query: when was woodstock festival held in the catskills of new york

pos: Woodstock decade of radical cultural transformation, and the legacy of the Sixties and Woodstock today. Richie Havens' ashes were scattered across the site on August 18, 2013. In late 2016 New York's State Historic Preservation Office applied to the National Park Service to have including the site of the festival and adjacent areas used for campgrounds, all of which still appear mostly as they did in 1969 as they were not redeveloped when Bethel Woods was built, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There was worldwide media interest in the 40th anniversary of Woodstock in 2009. A number of

pos: Richie Havens while Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young said Havens "could never be replicated." "The Daily Telegraph" stated Havens "made an indelible mark on contemporary music," while Douglas Martin of "The New York Times" reported that Havens had "riveted Woodstock." Pursuant to Havens' request, he was cremated, and his ashes were scattered from the air over the original site of the Woodstock Festival, in a ceremony held on August 18, 2013, the 44th anniversary of the festival's last day. Havens was survived by his wife Nancy, three children, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Richie Havens Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens

pos: Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix album) Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix album) Woodstock is a live album by Jimi Hendrix released posthumously on August 20, 1994. The album is an edited recording of Hendrix's performance with his band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows at Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York on August 18, 1969. A more-complete version of the concert would be released in 1999 as "Live at Woodstock", albeit with some of the performers mixed out. In a contemporary review for "The Village Voice", music critic Robert Christgau said the under-rehearsed, highly eccentric music on "Woodstock" makes for what was a transitional but all-important live album by Hendrix: "All

neg: Woodstock Sound-Outs Woodstock,” "Hudson Valley Magazine", (August 2009), 60-1. Jean Young and Michael Lang, "Woodstock Festival Remembered", (New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1979). Catskills Concerts Counterculture New York Rock Festivals Woodstock, NY Ulster County, New York Woodstock Sound-Outs Woodstock Sound-Outs or soundouts were mini-festivals held outside Woodstock, NY from 1967 to 1970. They were the brainchild of John "Jocko" Moffitt, a roofer and drummer. He had heard about a number of folk festivals in his native California, and he wanted to stage a rock festival in a country setting. Planning for the event began in 1966 and by the early spring of

neg: Catskill Mountains Film Commission maintains a list of films set in the Hudson Valley / Catskills Region. Of them, more than three dozen films are set in the Catskills. The town of Bethel, New York, located in the Catskills, was home to the famous Woodstock Music festival that took place from August 15–18, 1969. The event, wherein 32 music acts performed in front of over 500,000 concert-goers, was captured in the documentary movie "Woodstock" (1970). The site is now home to the world-renowned Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. The many hotels and vacation resorts located in the Catskills are notable in

neg: Saugerties, New York Hudson Valley Garlic Festival was established in 1989 by Pat Reppert of Shale Hill Farm and Herb Gardens. In 1992, the Kiwanis Club of Saugerties took over sponsorship of the festival and moved it to Cantine Field where the festival is held on the last full weekend of every September. It attracts about 50,000 people during the two-day weekend. In 1994, Saugerties was the home of the Woodstock '94 music festival, held on the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival. Saugerties is just east of the town of Woodstock, New York. The original festival was held some west-southwest of

neg: Woodstock Bins". Thirty-two acts performed over the course of the four days: Very few reporters from outside the immediate area were on the scene. During the first few days of the festival, national media coverage emphasized the problems. Front-page headlines in the "Daily News" read "Traffic Uptight at Hippiefest" and "Hippies Mired in a Sea of Mud". The New York Times ran an editorial titled "Nightmare in the Catskills," which read in part, "The dreams of marijuana and rock music that drew 300,000 fans and hippies to the Catskills had little more sanity than the impulses that drive the lemmings to

neg: History of the Catskill Mountains refer to the Catskill region itself. In August, 1969, the Catskills were the site of a music and art festival in the town of Bethel, which had originally been planned for Woodstock, New York. Thirty-two of the best-known musicians of the era appeared during a sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers. The event, featuring liberal drug use and nudity, exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. History of the Catskill Mountains The Catskills began existence as a river delta 350 million years ago. Streams flowing off the then-mighty Acadian Mountains deposited sediment where the

neg: Woodstock '99 in March 2000. It features one song each from 29 of the participating acts, along with interviews from the musicians and concert-goers. Most of the Bush performance is available on the DVD of "". Woodstock '99 Woodstock '99 (also called Woodstock 1999), held between July 22 and 25, 1999, was the second large-scale music festival (after Woodstock '94) that attempted to emulate the original Woodstock festival of 1969. Like the previous Woodstock festivals, it was held in upstate New York, this time in Rome (roughly from the site of the original event). Approximately 400,000 people attended the festival. Cable network

neg: Alf Evers Alf Evers is located outside the Woodstock Historical Society museum on Comeau Drive in the town of Woodstock, New York. Evers' library of over 1000 books is owned by the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. Alf Evers Alf Evers (February 2, 1905 – December 29, 2004) was an American historian who lived in Ulster County, New York for much of his life and wrote lengthy, definitive histories of the Catskills and Woodstock, serving the latter as town historian. At the time of his death his history of Kingston was nearly complete and awaited publication. Evers was born in the Bronx neighborhood of

neg: Woodstock '99 Woodstock '99 Woodstock '99 (also called Woodstock 1999), held between July 22 and 25, 1999, was the second large-scale music festival (after Woodstock '94) that attempted to emulate the original Woodstock festival of 1969. Like the previous Woodstock festivals, it was held in upstate New York, this time in Rome (roughly from the site of the original event). Approximately 400,000 people attended the festival. Cable network MTV covered the concert extensively and live coverage of the entire weekend was available on pay-per-view. Excerpts from the performances were later released on compact disc and DVD. Unlike the previous four incarnations of

neg: Woodstock, New York per capita income for the town was $32,133. About 6.9% of families and 10.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.8% of those under age 18 and 3.9% of those age 65 or over. The town is famous for lending its name to the Woodstock Festival, which was actually held at Max Yasgur's dairy farm almost away in Bethel in Sullivan County. The festival was never planned to be held in or near the town of Woodstock; instead, it was first planned for Wallkill, New York, but was relocated to Bethel after Wallkill withdrew. The 1903 Byrdcliffe

neg: Woodstock the poem was published in January 2007 by Words Without Borders. "Taking Woodstock" is a 2009 film that dramatizes how the festival came together. In 2017, the singer Lana Del Rey released a song, "Coachella - Woodstock in My Mind," in order to show her worries about the tensions between North Korea and the United States, while she was at Coachella, expressing nostalgia by reminding the Woodstock festival as a symbol of peace. Woodstock Woodstock was a music festival held on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains, northwest of New York City, between August 15–18, 1969, which attracted an

neg: WVOS (AM) WVOS (AM) WVOS (1240 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format, simulcasting WVOS-FM 95.9 Liberty, New York. Licensed to Liberty, New York, United States, the station is owned by Vince Benedetto, through licensee Bold Gold Media Group, L.P. One of the station's biggest news scoops was on July 20, 1969 when it broke the news that the Woodstock music festival was going to be held in Bethel, New York. The news broke even as Max Yasgur and the promoters were in a White Lake restaurant negotiating the details of the site. According to Woodstock lore, restaurant employees

neg: Woodstock Woodstock Woodstock was a music festival held on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains, northwest of New York City, between August 15–18, 1969, which attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", it was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm near White Lake in Bethel, New York, southwest of Woodstock. Over the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation. "Rolling Stone" listed it as one

neg: Michael Lang (producer) Hendrix, Frank Zappa, John Lee Hooker, Arthur Brown, and Blue Cheer. On the afternoon of the second day (May 19) it started to rain and the event ended early. After he moved to Woodstock, NY and met Artie Kornfeld in New York, the two developed the concept for a major festival event to celebrate the '60s social movements, and planned to open a recording studio in the town of Woodstock. With Kornfeld and partners John P. Roberts and Joel Rosenman, Lang set into motion the Woodstock festival, which was held on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York, from August

neg: Upstate New York held in Upstate New York. In 1969 the Woodstock Festival was held in Bethel, New York, while in 1973 another multiday festival was held at the Watkins Glen International Raceway. Some literary, documentary and cinematic depictions of upstate present a sense of small town, simple lifestyles, such as "It's a Wonderful Life", set in a small upstate town (probably based on Seneca Falls) in the 1940s. The population of New York State is 19,746,227, with 11,323,961 living in either New York City or Long Island, leaving only 8,422,266 for the entire rest of the state. This means Upstate NY has

neg: Catskill Mountains Catskills are well known in American culture, both as the setting for films and works of art, including many 19th-century Hudson River School paintings, as well as for being a favored destination for vacationers from New York City in the mid-20th century. The region's many large resorts gave countless young stand-up comedians an opportunity to hone their craft. In addition, the Catskills have long been a haven for artists, musicians, and writers, especially in and around the towns of Phoenicia and Woodstock. Nicolaes Visscher I's 1656 map of New Netherland located the ' at the mouth of Catskill creek. The

neg: Woodstock (CDP), New York those under age 18 and 4.9% of those age 65 or over. Woodstock (CDP), New York Woodstock is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 2,088 at the 2010 census. The community of Woodstock is in eastern part of the Town of Woodstock and is northeast of Kingston, New York. It is located along NY 212 near its junction with NY 375. Although the name of the community and the town lent its name to the Woodstock Festival, that event did not take place in Woodstock. Woodstock is located at (42.040269, -74.117258).

neg: Woodstock (CDP), New York Woodstock (CDP), New York Woodstock is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 2,088 at the 2010 census. The community of Woodstock is in eastern part of the Town of Woodstock and is northeast of Kingston, New York. It is located along NY 212 near its junction with NY 375. Although the name of the community and the town lent its name to the Woodstock Festival, that event did not take place in Woodstock. Woodstock is located at (42.040269, -74.117258). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total

neg: Alf Evers histories that would define his later career. "The Catskills: From Wilderness to Woodstock", published in 1972 (with a later afterword to the 1984 edition) is a comprehensive 720-page history of a region that had previously been lacking for one. Extensive research went into covering every aspect of a long and tangled story, with special attention paid to the folklore that Evers had first heard from inhabitants of the region as a boy. His home in Shady, New York, which served as a Catskills museum, library, and archive, has been listed on the State Registry of Historic Places. A park honoring

neg: Isle of Wight Festival 1969 in semi-retirement. The event was well managed, in comparison to the recent Woodstock Festival, and trouble-free. The 1969 festival was considerably larger and more popular than the previous year's. Dylan had been little heard of since his allegedly near-fatal motorcycle accident in July 1966. Shunning the Woodstock Festival, held near his home in upstate New York, Dylan was initially reluctant to perform his comeback show on the little-known Isle of Wight. After weeks of negotiations, the Foulk brothers showed him a short film of the island's cultural and literary heritage; this appealed to Dylan's artistic sensibilities, as he was enthusiastic

neg: Alf Evers Alf Evers Alf Evers (February 2, 1905 – December 29, 2004) was an American historian who lived in Ulster County, New York for much of his life and wrote lengthy, definitive histories of the Catskills and Woodstock, serving the latter as town historian. At the time of his death his history of Kingston was nearly complete and awaited publication. Evers was born in the Bronx neighborhood of Williamsbridge and lived there till the age of nine, when his parents moved to a farm near Tillson. He developed a passion for history from the many stories of the farmhands, the work

neg: Moondance Although it was later acclaimed by critics, its collection of lengthy, acoustic, revelatory folk jazz songs was not well received by consumers at the time and the album proved to be a commercial failure. After recording "Astral Weeks", Morrison moved with his wife, Janet Planet, to a home on a mountain top in the Catskills near Woodstock, a hamlet in upstate New York with an artistic community. According to Planet, he was influenced by Bob Dylan, who had just moved out of town when Morrison arrived. "Van fully intended to become Dylan's best friend", Planet recalled. "Every time we'd drive

neg: Mountain Jam (festival) Mountain Jam (festival) Mountain Jam is an annual music festival that began in 2005, held at Hunter Mountain ski resort in upstate New York, usually in early June. Mountain Jam was originally conceived to celebrate the 25th anniversary of WDST/Radio Woodstock. More than 3,300 people attended the initial one-day event in 2005, reviews of which were overwhelmingly positive. The founders, including Warren Haynes, Gary Chetkof and members of Radio Woodstock, decided to make the event annual. Over time, the festival has grown to include a diverse lineup of smaller artists, as well as large acts including Michael Franti and Spearhead,

neg: Elliot Tiber 1969, and that he had a part in bringing the Woodstock Festival to Bethel, New York on 15–17 August 1969. Tiber said he led a closeted life in Bethel in the early 1960s as he spent time managing his parents' El Monaco Motel, serving as president of the Bethel Chamber of Commerce, and, at the same time, participating in the gay scene in New York, where he lived. According to "Taking Woodstock", Tiber read that Wallkill, Orange County, New York had on 15 July 1969—30 days before the music festival was to start—pulled the plug on the planned Woodstock Festival

neg: Woodstock, New York art colony is one of the nation's oldest Arts & Crafts colonies. It brought the first artists to Woodstock to teach and produce furniture, metal works, ceramics, weaving and established Woodstock's first painting school. Byrdcliffe forever changed the cultural landscape of the Town of Woodstock. In 1916, utopian philosopher and poet Hervey White built a "music chapel" in the woods. This became the home of the Maverick music festival, the longest-running summer chamber music festival in the country, still held annually as of 2012. Composers such as Henry Cowell, John Cage, Robert Starrer and Peter Schickele created works that were

neg: Wigstock Wigstock Wigstock was an annual outdoor drag festival that began in the 1980s in Manhattan's East Village that took place on Labor Day. Traditionally the festival would act as the unofficial end to the summer for the gay community of New York City. The name refers to the 1969 Woodstock Festival. The festival was revived by Lady Bunny and Neil Patrick Harris on September 1, 2018 at Pier 17 of the South Street Seaport in New York City. Hosted by co-creator Lady Bunny, the festival was held in its first years in Tompkins Square Park. According to Lady Bunny, the

neg: Hog Farm from 1968–69, the Farm was approached by Woodstock Ventures with a proposal — participate in a planned music festival in upstate New York. Although the Farm had just bought land in Llano, New Mexico (near Truchas, New Mexico) and the commune had plans to depart New York City and settle in Llano, they accepted the offer to become involved with Woodstock. Recruited to build fire pits and trails on the festival grounds at Woodstock, the Hog Farm convinced the promoter to let them set up a free kitchen as well. The Hog Farm group was flown to New York, were

neg: At the Woodstock Festival At the Woodstock Festival At the Woodstock Festival is a live album by Indian classical musician Ravi Shankar that was released in 1970 on World Pacific Records. It was recorded on 15 August 1969, during the first day of the Woodstock Festival in upstate New York. Shankar's set took place during a downpour and he later expressed his dissatisfaction with the event due to the prevalence of drugs among the crowd. Having performed at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, Woodstock was the last rock festival Shankar played, as he subsequently distanced himself from the 1960s hippie movement. He

neg: Brown's Hotel (Catskills) host the world premiere of his Hollywood film "Living It Up" without telling famed co-star Dean Martin. An ensuing argument, among other factors, caused America's most popular comedy duo to end their decade-long partnership. The movie ultimately premiered in Atlantic City on July 15, 1954. Interesting on August 15, 1969, the music festival Woodstock took place just 11.7 miles southwest of Brown's resort. In 1978, Charles Brown diedThat summer, Bob Hope was paid $50,000 to make his sole appearance at a Catskills venue. At that point Lillian Brown, who owned 100% of the company, began gifting small shares of stock

neg: Martha Dewing Woodward from the Paris Salon when Jule La Febre told the jury members that the painter was a woman,” and “who knows who might have helped her!” Returning permanently to America in 1907, Woodward and Johnson established the artist colony, the Blue Dome Fellowship, in Shady-in-the-Catskills where they taught for ten years. Likely branching from Woodward’s strong religious faith, the colony’s name comes from Woodward’s favorite slogan: Worship God under the blue dome of heaven. The colony was located near the Brydcliffe Art Colony in Woodstock, New York. The Blue Dome Fellowship followed the popular French style of painting where artists

neg: Fleetwood dance. The festival has been held continuously since 1971. The opening concert each year is staged aboard "Jacinta", the town's heritage trawler. The 2012 festival is set to run from Friday 31 August until Sunday 2 September. Another annual music festival, originating in 2005, is Fleetwoodstock, named after the famous New York Woodstock Festival and held in the autumn. The usual venue is the Marine Hall. The now annual Yuto Fest, which was first held in 2011, also takes place at the Marine Hall. Yuto Fest is a charity festival featuring local bands that was set up by Daz Rice

neg: Woodstock, New York Shalom Auslander, Kurt Andersen and Ned Leavitt were scheduled to speak and offer workshops on a variety of topics related to literature. The town has long been a mecca for artists, musicians, and writers, even before the music festival made the name "Woodstock" famous. The town has a separate "Artist's Cemetery". Film and art festivals attract big names, and hundreds of musicians have come to Woodstock to record. Woodstock, New York Woodstock is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 5,884 at the 2010 census, down from 6,241 at the 2000 census. Woodstock is in

neg: Phish tours an airport in upstate New York. 65,000 people attended and Phish played five sets of music over two days. A number of other groups such as Ozomatli, the Del McCoury Band, and Son Seals performed on a side stage throughout the weekend. The festival took place a week before Woodstock 1999, which was being held just miles away, with the violence and rioting at Woodstock being reported all over the news but without mention of the incident-free peacefulness of Camp Oswego (even though the success of the Phish event was mentioned on television by New York governor George Pataki). The

neg: Elliot Tiber Elliot Tiber Elliot Michael Tiber (April 15, 1935 – August 3, 2016) was an artist and screenwriter who wrote a memoir about the Woodstock Festival held in Bethel, New York in 1969. He claimed responsibility for the relocation of the festival after a permit for it was withdrawn by the zoning board of a nearby town. Tiber's 2007 memoir "Taking Woodstock", written with Tom Monte, was adapted into a movie of the same name by Ang Lee. The film opened in the United States in August 2009. In the film, Tiber is portrayed by comedian Demetri Martin. Tiber was born

neg: New Orleans Pop Festival New Orleans Pop Festival The New Orleans Pop Festival was a rock festival held on Labor Day weekend (August 30 - September 1, 1969), two weeks after the Woodstock Festival. It was held at the Louisiana International Speedway in Prairieville, Louisiana, about 65 miles up the Mississippi River from New Orleans and 15 miles south of Baton Rouge. Over 26 bands performed during the three days of the festival, including 7 veterans of Woodstock. It had a peak attendance of 25,000–30,000 people. The summer of 1969 saw a proliferation of the relatively new concert genre of pop/rock festivals. While the

neg: Woodstock, New York staged at Pan Copeland's Farm just over the town line in Saugerties from 1967 to 1970. These featured folk and rock acts like Richie Havens, Paul Butterfield, Dave van Ronk and Van Morrison and were identified with Woodstock's reputation as a summer arts colony. The Sound-Outs inspired the original Woodstock Festival's organizers to plan their concert at the Winston Farm in Saugerties; however, the town turned down their permit, and the "Woodstock" Festival was actually held almost away at Max Yasgur's Farm in the town of Bethel. Woodstock is also home to the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Buddhist monastery, situated at

neg: White Lake, New York to issue a permit for the Woodstock Festival, Tiber suggested they use his permit for the concert at the motel. Since the space was too small, the producers then staged the festival on the farm of Max Yasgur about three miles northwest of White Lake. White Lake, New York White Lake is a hamlet in the town of Bethel, Sullivan County, New York on the southeast shore of a lake of the same name. It was the closest community to the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969. The community has a post office on New York Route 17B. Its ZIP Code

neg: Aidan Quinn Eileen (b. 1989) , who has autism. Ava appeared as the baby "David" in "Avalon", and Mia played a ghost in "The Eclipse". Former residents of Englewood, New Jersey, Quinn and his family now live in Palisades, Rockland County, New York and Marbletown in the Catskills / Woodstock region of Ulster County, New York. As an avid sports fan, Quinn supports the Chicago Cubs, the Green Bay Packers, Michael Jordan, Rory McIlroy, and Roger Federer. Quinn has participated in charity golf events for the East Lake Foundation, a community redevelopment program, and Samuel L. Jackson's "One for the Boys" campaign

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Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm in order to simulate actually being at the festival. Also for the first time, the complete and accurate set lists are included in the booklet.
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 Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm is a 6-CD live box-set album of the 1969 Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York. Its release marked the 40th Anniversary of the festival. At six CDs, "Woodstock 40 Years On" is the most complete collection ever released of the festival. Every artist who performed

neg: Hans Schimmerling Walter Raleigh to Thomas Edison," and Part II is "A Parade of the Fifty States from Virginia to Hawaii." After his retirement, Schimmerling made frequent trips to Europe, visiting schools in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and the Scandinavian countries, comparing different methods of teaching. Schimmerling was the co-founder of the annual Woodstock Summer Festival (not to be confused with "The" Woodstock Festival held in Bethel, New York in 1969), which included the Harmony Hill lecture-recitals he began giving in 1955. He also wrote over 1200 articles for local and other papers and magazines. Many of Schimmerling's compositions have been performed

neg: Woodstock Revisited Mystery of Creativity", about the connections between creativity and spirituality. Woodstock Revisited Woodstock Revisited is a film by David McDonald that tells the story of how the countercultural movement associated most closely with The Woodstock Festival came into being. Ironically enough, while The Woodstock Festival did not end up happening in the town for which it was named, Woodstock, New York, it would never have transpired had it not been for a series of historical events in Woodstock that influenced the rise of the American counterculture. Some of these are already well-known, like Bob Dylan moving to the town in

neg: Woodstock Revisited Woodstock Revisited Woodstock Revisited is a film by David McDonald that tells the story of how the countercultural movement associated most closely with The Woodstock Festival came into being. Ironically enough, while The Woodstock Festival did not end up happening in the town for which it was named, Woodstock, New York, it would never have transpired had it not been for a series of historical events in Woodstock that influenced the rise of the American counterculture. Some of these are already well-known, like Bob Dylan moving to the town in 1964, The Band following Dylan to town, or a series

neg: Woodstock Mozart Festival the Festival such a value to the Woodstock community and beyond. We will miss performing for you…" Woodstock Mozart Festival The Woodstock Mozart Festival was a summer music festival in Woodstock, Illinois that presented classical music concerts, primarily of Mozart's music, by the Woodstock Mozart Festival Orchestra and guest artists. The Woodstock Mozart Festival had its origins in the 1987 as part of a summer festival at the Woodstock Opera House entitled "Woodfest". Additional performances were scheduled for the following year, and the 3 week festival continued to be held annually through 2015. Internationally recognized guest artists were a mainstay

neg: Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm is a 6-CD live box-set album of the 1969 Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York. Its release marked the 40th Anniversary of the festival. At six CDs, "Woodstock 40 Years On" is the most complete collection ever released of the festival. Every artist who performed at Woodstock is featured on the set, with the exception of Ten Years After, The Band, and the Keef Hartley Band. Unlike Ten Years After and The Band, the Keef Hartley Band has never been featured on any Woodstock

neg: Woodstock Mozart Festival Woodstock Mozart Festival The Woodstock Mozart Festival was a summer music festival in Woodstock, Illinois that presented classical music concerts, primarily of Mozart's music, by the Woodstock Mozart Festival Orchestra and guest artists. The Woodstock Mozart Festival had its origins in the 1987 as part of a summer festival at the Woodstock Opera House entitled "Woodfest". Additional performances were scheduled for the following year, and the 3 week festival continued to be held annually through 2015. Internationally recognized guest artists were a mainstay of the festival since the beginning. The festival's original conductor/artistic director was Charles Bornstein. Since 1983, guest

neg: Pol'and'Rock Festival Pol'and'Rock Festival Pol'and'Rock Festival - formerly known as Woodstock Festival Poland (Polish: "Przystanek Woodstock"; "Woodstock Station"; English-language materials often referred to it simply to the "Woodstock Festival Poland") is an annual free rock music festival in Poland, inspired by Woodstock Festival. The festival has been held since 1995. In 2009 Woodstock Festival Poland gathered an audience of over 400,000 people, in 2011 the attendance was above 700,000, in 2012 attendance was about 550,000 people, in 2013 attendance was about 500,000 and in 2014 attendance was about 750,000 (record). The average attendance for the past four years is 625,000 people. Since

neg: New Orleans Pop Festival cultural highlight was undoubtedly the Woodstock Music and Art Fair on August 15–18, 1969, near White Lake, New York, the New Orleans Pop Festival was among several major pop festivals held that year in the deep South. Unlike several other pop festivals around the country, the local citizenry and governmental bodies were tolerant though wary of such a large crowd. The experiences of other festival promoters having to fight local government ordinances and prohibitions was not shared by promoter Steve Kapelow and his sponsoring company, Kesi, Inc, with the result that concert preparations were complete upon commencement of the festival.

neg: Robert A. Berman was involved in several projects concerning the development of Native American gaming in the New York and Idaho area. Robert A. Berman’s father, Pip Berman, was a building contractor known for expanding the Concord Resort Hotel and the Imperial Room nightclub where Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Joan Rivers and Jerry Seinfeld performed. At 19 years of age, Robert A. Berman received the first mass gathering permit to operate an outdoor music festival in Sullivan County, New York where a decade earlier the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival was held. Collaborating with music impresario Sid Bernstein on the site of

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Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music as stage announcements and other ancillary material.
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neg: Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music is a 4-CD live box-set album of the 1969 Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York. Its release marked the 25th Anniversary of the festival. The box set contains tracks from "", "Woodstock 2", and numerous additional, previously-unreleased performances from the festival as well as the stage announcements and crowd noises. Just prior to the box set's release, Atlantic Records released a much shorter 1-CD version entitled "The Best of Woodstock". In 2009, Rhino Records issued a 6-CD box, "", which includes further musical performances as well

neg: Wallkill, Orange County, New York site through the Zoning Board of Appeals. Ultimately the Woodstock festival was held instead in Bethel NY, 40 miles northwest of Wallkill. Wallkill, Orange County, New York Wallkill is a town in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 27,426 at the 2010 census. The Town of Wallkill is centrally located in the county. Interstate 84 crosses New York State Route 17 in the southern part of the town. U.S. Route 6 and New York State Routes 17K, 211 and 302 also cross portions of the town. The original land patent for the town was dated 1724, but

neg: Amirah Kassem opened their Flagship Store in SoHo New York in November 2017. Her clients have included Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry and Beyonce, as well as brands likes Vans, Louis Vuitton, and Alice + Olivia. Amirah has headlined food festivals like Food and Wine Festival, New York City Wine and Food Festival and Catskills Festival. Amirah and her products have been featured Vogue, Harper’s BAZAAR, The New York Times, New York Post, Refinery29, Food and Wine, Elle, Teen Vogue, Late Night With Seth Myers and The Rachael Ray Show. Amirah Kassem works frequently on collaborations with photographer Henry Hargreaves. Their work includes

neg: Rome, New York of the United States Air Force's major technological accomplishments, especially in the area of radio communications. Griffiss Air Force Base consists of 3,552 acres. The Eastern Air Defense Sector (EADS) is also located in Rome, on the site of the former Griffiss Air Force Base. The nationally recognized rock festival, Woodstock 1999, was held in Rome. The festival was referred to as "the day the 90s died". The city staged it at the former Griffiss Air Force Base site. The three-day festival was held over the weekend of July 23–25, and drew a crowd of about 200,000 people. Cable network

neg: Woodstock Sound-Outs Terry. Woodstock troubadour Marc Black had been strongly influenced by the music of original Sound-Out performer Tim Hardin. Robbie Turner, who had attended the sixties Sound-Outs, played on stage this time around. Further Reading Peter Applebome, “50 Miles and 40 Years From Yasgur’s Farm, Woodstock Tries to Move on,” "The New York Times", Our Town/NY/Region (August 12, 2009), 1. Weston Blelock and Julia Blelock, "Roots of the 1969 Woodstock Festival: The Backstory to “Woodstock,”" (Woodstock, NY: WoodstockArts, 2009). Michael Lang with Holly George-Warren, "The Road to Woodstock", (New York, NY: Ecco, 2009). Jennifer Leba, “By The Time We Got To

neg: Woodstock Mozart Festival to maintain a superb orchestra that delivers extraordinary performances, centered on Mozart, which inspire and educate audiences of all ages. The orchestra was composed of musicians from Chicago, Milwaukee, and New York, as well as Europe. The Woodstock Mozart Festival website states that 2015 was its final season: "It is with great regret that we announce that the Woodstock Mozart Festival will close after this past 2015 season, our 29th. All of us associated with the Festival – musicians, Board members, Artistic and General Director – extend our deep appreciation to all who have attended concerts and contributed to make

neg: Paul Green (musician) and internationally in Mexico. In 2005, the company was the subject of a documentary film titled "Rock School". In early 2010, Paul Green left the Paul Green School of Rock Music, which is now known as The School of Rock. On August 9, 2011, the Woodstock Film Festival announced that Green has moved to the Woodstock, New York area and has joined as the Music Coordinator. He is also working with Woodstock Festival co-founder Michael Lang in founding a music college in the Woodstock area. Green has also launched a weekly rock radio show on Radio Woodstock 100.1 WDST called

neg: Overlook Mountain Overlook Mountain Overlook Mountain is the southernmost peak of the Catskill Escarpment in the central Catskill Mountains near Woodstock, New York. Centerpiece of the Overlook Mountain Wild Forest area of Catskill Park, the mountain is the site of one of the remaining five Catskill Mountain fire towers and the Overlook Mountain House, a hotel which was built at a higher elevation than any other in the range. Overlook Mountain is the southernmost peak of the Catskill Escarpment, which was formed of limestone bedrock by a period of glaciation. It is one of the timber rattlesnake habitats in the Catskills. The

neg: Isle of Wight Festival for the performance. Estimates of 150,000–250,000 attended. The 1969 festival opened on Friday 29 August—eleven days after the close of Woodstock. Dylan was living in Woodstock, New York, at the time and it was widely believed that he would perform there, after the event had been "put in his own backyard". As it happened, Dylan left for the Isle of Wight on 15 August—the day the Woodstock festival began. The 1970 event was by far the largest and most famous of these early festivals; indeed it was said at the time to be one of the largest human gatherings in

neg: Taking Woodstock Taking Woodstock Taking Woodstock is a 2009 American comedy-drama film about the Woodstock Festival of 1969, directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay by James Schamus is based on the memoir "Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life" by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte. The film premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and opened in New York and Los Angeles on August 26, 2009, before its wide theatrical release two days later. Set in 1969, the film follows the true story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin), an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer whose parents,

neg: Artie Kornfeld Artie Kornfeld Arthur Lawrence Kornfeld (born September 9, 1942) is an American musician, record producer, and music executive. He is best known as the music promoter for the Woodstock Festival held in 1969. He is also known for his collaborations with Artie Kaplan. Kornfeld was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He is the son of a New York City policeman and his wife (Irving and Shirley). Brought up in the early '50s in Levittown, New York, Kornfeld's family constantly moved and he attended six different schools. Kornfeld started playing symphonic trumpet but he loved the rock music he

neg: Kaustinen Folk Music Festival the festival nominates the Master Folk Musician, the Ensemble of the Year, and Festival Ensembles amongst prominent Finnish folk musicians. In 2006 Hyperborea were nominated as band of the year at the festival. The Peanuts comic strip bird Woodstock, named for the rock music festival in Woodstock, New York, is called Kaustinen in Finnish with obvious reference to this folk music festival. Kaustinen Folk Music Festival Kaustinen Folk Music Festival (), celebrated yearly in July in Kaustinen, Finland, is the biggest folk music and dance festival in the Nordic countries. It was first celebrated in 1968. In its first year,

neg: Aïyb Dieng on Mick Jagger's solo project, "She's the Boss". Other noteworthy credits include work with Yoko Ono (singer/composer/artist), Bill Laswell (producer/bassist/guitarist), William S. Burroughs (beatnik author), Haruomi Hosono, Bob Marley (reggae singer), and Ginger Baker. In 1981 he performed at the Woodstock Jazz Festival, held in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Creative Music Studio. In his early years in the U.S., Dieng taught African drumming at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York. He went on to perform with Karl Berger at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. The "chatan" was introduced by Dieng. It was played on

neg: Martha Frankel Martha Frankel Martha Frankel (born July 18, 1953) is an American writer. She was born in the Bronx, New York. She began her writing career at the original "Details" magazine, writing a column about plastic surgery titled "Knifestyles of the Rich and Famous." She went on to write book reviews, essays and celebrity profiles for other magazines, such as "Movieline", "Cosmopolitan" and "The New Yorker". Currently, she serves as executive director of the Woodstock Writers Festival, a yearly gathering of writers and readers in Woodstock, New York. Martha is host of Woodstock Writers Radio, a Sunday morning radio talk show

neg: Wade Rathke Daily News and Chief Organizer Reports that Rathke writes and records daily, as well as his weekly 30-minute interview show, Wade’s World. A film directed by Nick Taylor and produced by Joey Carey entitled The Organizer was released to festivals in 2017 with a world premier at the New Orleans Film Festival and other festival showings held or scheduled in Woodstock, New York; Cedar City, Utah; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Oxford, Mississippi; Lafayette, Louisiana and elsewhere. "The Organizer" is a film about Rathke and the work of ACORN from its founding through various struggles and accomplishments to its current international

neg: Catskill Mountains scenic part of the track from Highmount to Hubbell Corners, New York, for tourist use. The Catskill Mountain Railroad is also a heritage railroad in the Catskills, operating from Kingston up to Highmount. The Catskills are accessible by automobile from the east along Interstate 87/New York State Thruway, which runs north–south through the Hudson Valley. To the south and southwest, the Catskills are accessible by a variety of highways, including New York State Route 55, U.S. Route 44, U.S. Route 209, and New York State Route 17. Access to the western Catskills is provided by New York State Route 30;

neg: Woodstock (song) New York City, watching televised reports of the festival. "The deprivation of not being able to go provided me with an intense angle on Woodstock," she told an interviewer shortly after the event. David Crosby, interviewed for the documentary "Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind," stated that Mitchell had captured the feeling and importance of the Woodstock festival better than anyone who had actually been there. The lyrics tell a story about a spiritual journey to Max Yasgur's farm, the place of the festival, and make prominent use of sacred imagery, comparing the festival site with the Garden of

neg: Mountain Jam (festival) "little Bonnaroo". The lineup included: Friday Night Saturday Sunday The original Mountain Jam, a single-day event on June 4, 2005, celebrated the 25th anniversary of WDST, Woodstock's radio station. The festival featured performances by: Mountain Jam (festival) Mountain Jam is an annual music festival that began in 2005, held at Hunter Mountain ski resort in upstate New York, usually in early June. Mountain Jam was originally conceived to celebrate the 25th anniversary of WDST/Radio Woodstock. More than 3,300 people attended the initial one-day event in 2005, reviews of which were overwhelmingly positive. The founders, including Warren Haynes, Gary Chetkof and

neg: Times Herald-Record and online redesigns were launched to coincide with bolstered local and business news coverage. "The Record" is the newspaper covering Bethel, New York, where the Woodstock Festival was held in 1969. It can be seen in both the 1970 documentary and 2009's "Taking Woodstock". On September 4, 2013, News Corp announced that it would sell the Dow Jones Local Media Group to Newcastle Investment Corp.—an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, for $87 million. The newspapers will be operated by GateHouse Media, a newspaper group owned by Fortress. News Corp. CEO and former "Wall Street Journal" editor Robert James Thomson indicated

neg: William J. Byron mathematics professor at Scranton Preparatory School from 1956 to 1958. In 1962 he was named assistant editor of "America" and from 1965 to 1966 he held a teaching fellowship and a U.S. Department of Labor Manpower Research Fellowship at the University of Maryland. From 1967 to 1969 he served as assistant professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and served as adjunct professor of pastoral theology at Woodstock College. He was named associate professor of social ethics and director of field education at Woodstock College. When Woodstock moved from Maryland to New York City, he became rector of the Woodstock

neg: Saugerties, New York the town of Woodstock (on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York), while the 1999 festival in Rome, NY was away from Woodstock. HITS ("Horseshows In The Sun"), opened in 2003. They occupy of land and have a 10-ring, Olympic-sized horse show facility in central Saugerties. In 2005 the Esopus Bend Conservancy formed and acquired over with a little more than of the shoreline on the upper Esopus In 2014, Saugerties was home to the Hudson Music Project- which notoriously became known as the "Mudson Project". After 2 days of music and other festivities, the festival came to an abrupt

neg: Harlem Cultural Festival Harlem Cultural Festival The Harlem Cultural Festival (also known as "Black Woodstock") was a series of music concerts held in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City during the summer of 1969 to celebrate African American music and culture and to promote the continued politics of black pride. Notable participants included Nina Simone, B.B. King, Sly & the Family Stone, Jesse Jackson, Abbey Lincoln & Max Roach, The 5th Dimension, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, and Moms Mabley, among many others. Producer Hal Tulchin filmed the full concert series, though the majority of this film remains commercially unreleased.

neg: Film festival the time) is a major festival for independent film. The Woodstock Film Festival was launched in 2000 by filmmakers Meira Blaustein and Laurent Rejto with the goal to bring high quality independent film to the Hudson Valley region of New York. Indiewire has named the Woodstock Film Festival among the top 50 independent film festivals worldwide. The Regina International Film Festival and Awards (RIFFA) founded by John Thimothy, one of the top leading international film festivals in western Canada (Regina, Saskatchewan) represented 92 countries in 2015 festival . RIFFA annual Award show and red carpet arrival event is getting noticed

neg: Anita Miller Smith cited in a "New York Herald Tribune" article, and its writer dubbed her "The Herb Lady of the Catskills". After the war, Dr. James T. Shotwell, a neighbor and friend, asked Smith to compile a service database; the record was to include all Woodstockers who fought for their country during the Second World War. This formed a key chapter in her soon-to-be-published book, "Woodstock History and Hearsay"—the town's first official chronicle. Smith based her narrative on detailed scholarship as well as a wide-ranging collection of local folk stories gathered from Catskill mountain families and resident artists. The story's arc begins

neg: Denver Pop Festival Denver Pop Festival The Denver Pop Festival was a three-day music festival promoted by Barry Fey (Feyline) on June 27–29, 1969 which was largely overshadowed by Woodstock two months later. The peak attendance was estimated at 50,000. Unlike the free-form happening in upstate New York, the Denver festival had the full support and local resources of a major city, taking place in Denver Mile High Stadium. There were high expectations for the Festival; it was commonly called the "First Annual" Denver Pop Festival. The peak attendance was estimated at 50,000, though on Sunday when it was declared a free festival,

neg: New Orleans Pop Festival group was able to parlay its performance at the New Orleans Pop Festival into a record contract. The local group, Potliquor, caught the eyes of several record labels, eventually signing a record contract with Janus Records. New Orleans Pop Festival The New Orleans Pop Festival was a rock festival held on Labor Day weekend (August 30 - September 1, 1969), two weeks after the Woodstock Festival. It was held at the Louisiana International Speedway in Prairieville, Louisiana, about 65 miles up the Mississippi River from New Orleans and 15 miles south of Baton Rouge. Over 26 bands performed during the

neg: Sam Yasgur allowed the Woodstock Festival to take place on his land. The concert had just been barred from taking place at the Orange County town of Wallkill, NY. The Woodstock Festival took place from August 15 to 17, 1969. Yasgur went on to become an attorney at Hall Dickler, and also served as Westchester County Attorney. Yasgur wrote a book about his father, "Max B. Yasgur: The Woodstock Festival’s Famous Farmer", which was self-published in August 2009. Sam Yasgur Samuel S. Yasgur (January 9, 1942 – June 23, 2016) was an attorney; Sullivan County, New York official; and the son of

neg: Brown's Hotel (Catskills) Brown's Hotel (Catskills) Brown's Hotel was a nationally known resort complex located in the Borscht Belt area of upstate New York, in the Catskill Mountains. It was one of the largest and most elaborate establishments of its kind during an era when the entire region prospered as a tourist destination. From the 1940s to the 1980s, the hotel was a popular vacation destination for many upper-middle-class families living in the New York City metropolitan area. Jewish-American families were welcomed and even catered to specifically by the hotels in the Borscht Belt during a time period when anti-semitism was prevalent in

neg: Counterculture of the 1960s festivals, which played an important role in spreading the counterculture across the US. The Monterey Pop Festival, which launched Hendrix's career in the US, was one of the first of these festivals. Britain's 1968–1970 Isle of Wight Festivals drew big names such as The Who, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, Hendrix, Dylan, and others. The 1969 Woodstock Festival in New York state became a symbol of the movement, although the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival drew a larger crowd. Some believe the era came to an abrupt end with the infamous Altamont Free Concert held by The Rolling Stones, in which

neg: Arthur Max as a stage lighting designer in the music industry following graduation from New York University in the late 1960s. Those assignments included work at Bill Graham's famous music venue The Fillmore East in New York's East Village, and the historic Woodstock Festival of 1969 where he operated a spotlight for Chip Monck, a rock lighting and stage design company during the Woodstock festival in 1969. During the following decade, he designed concert lighting and festival stages for many rock and jazz artists. He was Pink Floyd's lighting designer during the bands' tours in the US and around the world in

neg: Joel Rosenman Joel Rosenman Joel Rosenman (born 1942), conceived and co-created the Woodstock Festival in 1969. Rosenman thought of the idea for the three-day concert when he and business partner John Roberts evaluated a recording studio proposal brought forward by Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld. The four went on to create the event; Rosenman and Roberts are the co-authors of "Young Men with Unlimited Capital", also published as "Making Woodstock", a non-fiction account of their exploits as producers of Woodstock. Born the second of three children, Rosenman grew up on Long Island in the town of Cold Spring Harbor, New York. He

neg: Woodstock, New York the Fleur de Lis Gallery, which features over 60 artists. Voice Theatre currently has permanent residency at the Byrdcliffe Theater, which they renovated in 2015. Byrdcliffe is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a haven for today's artists. In 1981, the town hosted the Woodstock Jazz Festival, a celebration of the Creative Music Studio, an organization founded in 1971 by Karl Berger and Ornette Coleman. The show featured Jack Dejohnette, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Anthony Braxton, Lee Konitz, and Miroslav Vitouš, among others. On April 19–22, 2012, Woodstock hosted the Woodstock Writers Festival. Ann Hood, Augusten Burroughs,

neg: Woodstock Reunion 1979 Woodstock Reunion 1979 Woodstock Reunion 1979 was a concert on Saturday at Parr Meadows racetrack in the hamlet of Yaphank in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. It had an audience of about 18,000 - 40,000 (reports vary) and was organized for the 10th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival, by concert promoter Richard Nader. It was one of several Woodstock reunion events that year. Performers included Paul Butterfield and Rick Danko, Canned Heat, Richie Havens, Jorma Kaukonen, Country Joe McDonald, John Sebastian, Michael Shrieve, Stephen Stills, Leslie West, and Johnny Winter. This reunion concert faced

neg: Woodstock Nation with the passage of time. Woodstock Nation The term Woodstock Nation refers specifically to the attendees of the original 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival that took place from August 15–17 on the farm of Max Yasgur near Bethel, New York. It comes from the title of a book written later that year by Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman, describing his experiences at the festival. More generally, however, the term is used as a catch-all phrase for those individuals of the baby boomer generation in the United States who subscribed to the values of the American counterculture of the 1960s and

neg: Woodstock Nation Woodstock Nation The term Woodstock Nation refers specifically to the attendees of the original 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival that took place from August 15–17 on the farm of Max Yasgur near Bethel, New York. It comes from the title of a book written later that year by Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman, describing his experiences at the festival. More generally, however, the term is used as a catch-all phrase for those individuals of the baby boomer generation in the United States who subscribed to the values of the American counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The term is

neg: Woodstock (film) of films emerging at the time. Woodstock (film) Woodstock is a 1970 documentary film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York. "Entertainment Weekly" called this film the benchmark of concert movies and one of the most entertaining documentaries ever made. The film was directed by Michael Wadleigh. Seven editors are credited, including Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese, and Wadleigh. "Woodstock" was a great commercial and critical success. It received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Schoonmaker was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, a rare distinction for a

neg: Woodstock (film) Woodstock (film) Woodstock is a 1970 documentary film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York. "Entertainment Weekly" called this film the benchmark of concert movies and one of the most entertaining documentaries ever made. The film was directed by Michael Wadleigh. Seven editors are credited, including Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese, and Wadleigh. "Woodstock" was a great commercial and critical success. It received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Schoonmaker was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, a rare distinction for a documentary. Dan Wallin and L. A.

neg: Gerardo Velez Gerardo Velez Gerardo "Jerry" Velez (born August 15, 1947) is an American musician. Best known for performing with American psychedelic rock musician Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock Festival in August 1969, Velez is a veteran percussionist and drummer, who has performed with many artists covering a number of different genres of music. He is also a common member of jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra. Born in New York on August 15, 1947, Velez began his musical career in The Bronx, New York. He notably joined Jimi Hendrix's band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows in July 1969, performed at the Woodstock Festival and

neg: Strawberry Fields (Canadian festival) Zeppelin and Leonard Cohen were listed on the bill but did not appear. The festival concluded at 5:30 am on Monday morning, August 10 with a performance by Woodstock alumni Sly & the Family Stone, playing, "I Wanna Take You Higher", as the sun came up. Other performers who also appeared at the 1969 Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York included Melanie, Ten Years After and Mountain. Chip Monck, who designed the stage lighting for Woodstock and became the impromptu emcee of that event, had planned to emcee Strawberry Fields, but the various changes in dates and venues pushed the

neg: Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life the motel, and establishing an "underground cinema." He describes how he became friendly with Max Yasgur, who operated the largest farm in the area and had his own brand of dairy products. Every year, Tiber sponsored a rock festival at which six to ten local bands would perform. As head of the chamber of commerce, he had the authority to grant himself an official town permit allowing him to conduct the annual music and arts festival. When Tiber learned that the town of Walkill had decided not to allow the Woodstock festival to be held there, Tiber telephoned Woodstock organizer

neg: Woodstock titled "", which included further musical performances as well as stage announcements and other ancillary material. Max Yasgur refused to rent out his farm for a 1970 revival of the festival, saying, "As far as I know, I'm going back to running a dairy farm." Yasgur died in 1973. Bethel voters tossed out their supervisor in an election held in November 1969 because of his role in bringing the festival to the town. New York State and the town of Bethel passed mass gathering laws designed to prevent any more festivals from occurring. In 1984, at the original festival site,

neg: Taking Woodstock "Chicago Tribune" gave it 3 out 4 stars saying "Screenwriter James Schamus doesn’t do anything as stupid as shove Elliot back in the closet, but this is no "Brokeback Catskills Mountain". It’s a mosaic—many characters, drifting in and out of focus—stitching the story of how the peace-and-music bash fell together as it bounced in the haphazard planning stages from its originally scheduled Wallkill, N.Y., location to a cow pasture in White Lake. (Eugene Levy, working hard to restrain his natural comic ebullience, plays the dairy farmer, Max Yasgur.) Stephen Holden at "The New York Times" liked the film, which he

neg: Creative Music Studio Oral History Project, a partnership with Columbia University Jazz Studies Program; Improvisers Performances; ongoing residencies, workshops and performances in New York City, Woodstock and around the world. In 2013, CMS began hosting residential workshops in the Catskills after not offering any for several years. The organization takes over the Full Moon Resort to conduct its four-day workshop intensives. Artists at these workshops included MacArthur Fellows Vijay Iyer and Steve Coleman, 2016 Pulitizer Prize winning composer Henry Threadgill, Dave Douglas, Joe Lovano, John Medeski and Steven Bernstein, among many, many others. A CMS Scholarship Program has enabled roughly half of workshop

neg: Simone Forti "Festival Music and Dance U.S." (1972), and "Musica e danza contemporanea" (1974). Other musicians and artists that performed in these festivals included Joan Jonas, Charlemagne Palestine, and La Monte Young. Forti moved back to New York in August 1969 to attend the Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Forti ended up staying in Woodstock, New York, for a year, living communally and experimenting with LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs, which she wrote about in her 1974 book "Handbook in Motion". After her year of living in Woodstock, Simone moved back to southern California in 1970, where she started living with a

neg: Amy Helm the Edmonton Folk Music Festival. Helm was born in Woodstock, New York, United States, and spent her childhood between Woodstock, Los Angeles, and New York City. She attended Trinity High School where she studied jazz with Dr. Aaron Bell, while singing in bands, playing in New York City clubs and bars. In 1999, Helm joined her father in his blues band The Barn Burners. They toured the country playing traditional blues music. In 2001, she was a co-founding member of alt-country ensemble Ollabelle. Ollabelle toured and recorded for 10 years, releasing three critically acclaimed albums, "Ollabelle" (2004), "Riverside Battle Songs"

neg: Pol'and'Rock Festival the "Dziki Przystanek" ("The Wild Station"). In 2001 Żary was again the setting for the festival. The 2002 Woodstock was significant, because it was filmed, and the footage was used to produce "Przystanek Woodstock. Najgłośniejszy Film Polski" ("The Woodstock Station. The Loudest Film In Poland"), a concert film, which was screened in movie theatres across the country the following year, and also took part in a number of international film festivals. The 2003 Woodstock was the last one held in the town of Żary. Because of controversy surrounding some incidents during the festival, that Jerzy Owsiak was part of, it

neg: Woodstock Sound-Outs Woodstock Sound-Outs Woodstock Sound-Outs or soundouts were mini-festivals held outside Woodstock, NY from 1967 to 1970. They were the brainchild of John "Jocko" Moffitt, a roofer and drummer. He had heard about a number of folk festivals in his native California, and he wanted to stage a rock festival in a country setting. Planning for the event began in 1966 and by the early spring of 1967 performers like Richie Havens were being tentatively booked. The first festival was sited at Pan Copeland's farm outside Woodstock—just south of Route 212 on Glasco Turnpike. The festival featured over twenty music acts

neg: Liberty Kid But to her eternal credit, Chaiken keeps her movie grounded in her characters, allowing Thompson and Savinon's true-to-life performances to carry us through what is, on paper, an elaborate plot. Don Willmot, of Film Critic, said that Thompson and Savinon are a terrific pair and deserve big parts in bigger films. The film won Best Film at the New York Latino Film Festival. The film won Critics' Pick from both "The New York Times" and "New York Magazine". The film played at New York Latino Film Festival, the Woodstock Film Festival, and the Atlanta Film Festival. The DVD has an

neg: Bill Hanley (sound engineer) the large rock Mar Y Sol festival in Puerto Rico in the 1970s. Bill Hanley (sound engineer) Bill Hanley (born 1937) is regarded as the "father of festival sound". He is most widely known as the sound engineer behind the Woodstock festival in Bethel, New York in August 1969. He was also influential in a number of other festivals. According to Michael Lang, "I was trying to find someone who could do a sound system for Woodstock, and there was no one who had ever done something like that before. Then there was this crazy guy in Boston who might