So exclaimed many – in emailed remembrances to the Freeman – of their place at the iconic Woodstock Music & Art Fair in Bethel, Sullivan County. The weekend generational-defining rock extravaganza ...
“I don't even know how I walked, and next thing I know we're playing this set, and I think I'm going by what Shirley MacLaine calls muscle memory,” he confessed. “When we got to ‘Soul Sacrifice,’ I ...
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, ...
When it comes to iconic festivals, Woodstock ’69 immediately comes to mind. Long before Coachella, Woodstock was a cultural earthquake that brought half a million strangers together for three days of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The festival is most associated, of course, with co-founder Michael Lang, with whom Monck worked closely to prepare the logistics ...
While he was “honored and thrilled to be part of Woodstock,” 50 years ago this month, Max Furek of Mocanaqua says another music event that took place in August 1969 — the Atlantic City Pop Festival — ...
Welcome to this week’s Tales from the Turntable! Throughout the year, I’ve covered almost every facet possible about music, including bands, songs, albums and rumors alike; however, I’ve never covered ...
Five Village residents, to our knowledge, went to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in upstate New York in August 1969. At the time, they were teenagers in school, a high school English teacher, a ...
We were in New York City with Joni Mitchell, and Elliot Roberts [who managed both CSNY and Mitchell] decided that Joni shouldn’t go to Woodstock because she was also scheduled to do The Dick Cavett ...
In the 1960s, the Monterey Pop Festival '67 and Woodstock '69 pioneered the hippie festival movement. But which festival had ...
When he was 16-years old, future VH1 Behind the Music subject Joel Rosenman '63 had no clue which college to go to. "I knew nothing about colleges; I didn't go to visit them," he said, admitting the ...