Woodstock+1969

Jake Holm Chris Wilson Mr. Burkhart American History May 16, 2011**W o o d s t o c k ﻿ **

From August 15th to the 18th of 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art's Fair has been considered the greatest rock concert ever, and more so the acme of the counterculture movement of the 1960's. Over 500,000 people showed up and experienced three days of peace, love, and music. Some of the most notable performers were The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, and the most known, Jimi Hendrix. Woodstock was a place where people went to break rules. Those in attendance went looking for freedom, at least for a few days, and to surround themselves with people of similar interests.



**How? ** - Woodstock was made possible by the efforts of Michael Lang, John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, and Artie Kornfeld, but specifically it was Roberts and Rosenman who funded it. Lang and Kornfeld discovered an ad in //The New York Times// for land and brought it to Roberts and Rosenman, who decided to make a retreat-like recording studio, which turned into an outdoor music and arts festival. All four friends has different approaches to how this festival was to work out, which when they combined their ideas they made it possible for everyone to gather in one central place to relax, enjoy, and be peaceful while listening to rock-and-roll from their favorite artists.

- People who went to Woodstock were rebelling against the government, known to them as the establishment. They were looking for peace and a way to escape the conflicts around the world. For the most part they were teens who fled from home in hopes to discover the counterculture. People who went said the common thought of Woodstock was that is was a "perfect time", when the people who actually experienced it said it was cold, wet, and they had no food, anything but perfect.

- Woodstock took place on the days of August 15th through the 18th in 1969. This is when a lot of Americans were involved with the counterculture movement and had been expressing their views throughout America, weather being a hippie or expressing themselves through drugs, anti-activist movements, or just through music.

Where?
- Woodstock was originally supposed to be held near Wallkill, NY but after a dispute over land zoning and the amount of people expected, it was moved to Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, NY.



What?
- The Woodstock Music and Art's Fair of 1969 was a three day event that is considered to be the height of the counterculture movement and the hippie era of the 1960s. With the unexpected amount of over 500,000 people who showed up to experience three days of peace and rock-and-roll, the town of Bethel, NY was overtaken by hippies and counterculture activists. Woodstock was also a place where people did drugs of all kinds, and were brought closer because it.



Why?
- Woodstock was originally supposed to be a profitable concert over two days where people could come and relax. It turned into a three day event where over 500,000 people came to enjoy the peacefulness and experience the music. The tickets sold for $18-$24 until they sold about 186,000 and then it turned into a "free concert". Woodstock was situated on 600-acres of land that was, for the most part, completely occupied by concert goers. Woodstock has gone down in history as the greatest rock concert of all time and was a place where people who were trying to escape conflicts could go and have peace.

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