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The Woodstock Music & Art Fair
(informally, Woodstock or the Woodstock
Festival) was a music festival, billed as
"An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace
& Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-
acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the
hamlet of White Lake in the town of
Bethel, New York, from August 15 to
August 18, 1969. Bethel, in Sullivan
County, is 43 miles (69 km) southwest of
the town of Woodstock, New York, in
adjoining Ulster County. Performed
outdoors in front of 500,000 concert-
goers.
Woodstock was designed as a profit-making venture,
aptly titled "Woodstock Ventures". It
famously
became a "free concert" o
nly after it became obvious
that the event was drawing hundreds of th
ousands
more people than the organizers had prepared for.
Tickets for the three-day event cost $18 in advance
and $24 at the gate (equivalent to
$112.70 and
$150.30 in 2013.Ticket sales were limited to record
stores in the greater New York City area, or by mail
via a post office box at the Radio City Station Post
Office located in Midtown Manhattan. Around
186,000 tickets were sold beforehand and organizers
anticipated approximately 200,000 festival-goers
would turn up.
There sing this people and bands:
Joe Cocker
The Band
Country Joe and the Fish
Arlo Guthrie
Janis Joplin
Carlos Santana
Crosby, Stills & Nash and Young
The Who
Joan Baez
James Marshall 'Jimi' Hendrix