Photo Special: Remembering Woodstock

Published by djmick on August 18th, 2009

The Woodstock Festival Gallery

This pictorial looks back at the world famous, and possibly world changing, Woodstock Festival that took place 40 years ago.

The event was billed as “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music”. It took place at Max Yasgur’s 600 acre dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969.

Thirty-two acts performed over the course of the four days (full list below) and this gallery captures several performances plus a selection of shots taken during the festival of the peace loving hippie crowd and surrounding area.

Friday, August 15

* Richie Havens
* Swami Satchidananda
* Sweetwater
* The Incredible String Band
* Bert Sommer
* Tim Hardin
* Ravi Shankar
* Melanie
* Arlo Guthrie
* Joan Baez

Saturday, August 16

* Quill, forty minute set of four songs
* Keef Hartley Band
* Country Joe McDonald
* John Sebastian
* Santana
* Canned Heat
* Mountain
* Grateful Dead
* Creedence Clearwater Revival
* Janis Joplin with The Kozmic Blues Band
* Sly & the Family Stone
* The Who
* Jefferson Airplane

Sunday, August 17 to Monday, August 18

* The Grease Band
* Joe Cocker
* Country Joe and the Fish
* Ten Years After
* The Band
* Blood, Sweat & Tears
* Johnny Winter featuring his brother, Edgar Winter
* Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
* Paul Butterfield Blues Band
* Sha-Na-Na
* Jimi Hendrix

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