Woodstock Festival

How Did Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young Get to Woodstock?

Arts & Entertainment, Celebrities & Entertainment News, Music & Audio, Rock Music / April 20, 2022

The 1969 Woodstock Music Fair was a peaceful 3-day musical exposition. With an estimated 500,000 attendees, the free concert made its mark in pop culture history as numerous now-iconic artists graced the music festival with their presence, including The Who, Janis Joplin, Santana, and Jimi Hendrix. As their charter plane flew to the wrong airport, …

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Max Yasgur, whose farm held the infamous 1969 Woodstock concert, was a Vietnam War-supporting Conservative Republican. Nonetheless, he saw the concert as a way to close the generation gap, as well as subsidize the cost of purchasing hay for his dairy farm.

Arts & Entertainment / March 18, 2021

Daily TWiP – Max Yasgur, who rented out his farm as the site of Woodstock, dies today in 1973 Welcome to Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays and history we couldn’t cram into The Week in Preview. Looking for a surefire way to upset your neighbors? Invite a couple hundred thousand hippies …

Max Yasgur, whose farm held the infamous 1969 Woodstock concert, was a Vietnam War-supporting Conservative Republican. Nonetheless, he saw the concert as a way to close the generation gap, as well as subsidize the cost of purchasing hay for his dairy farm. Read More »