Woodstock

Four men in their twenties set out to build a recording studio in Woodstock, New York, and ended up booking a dairy farm forty miles away for a weekend in August 1969. They sold about 186,000 tickets and expected perhaps fifty thousand people. Somewhere north of four hundred thousand came, the roads seized solid, the fences came down, and the festival became free because there was no other option left. Then it rained. What happened over those three days and the Monday morning that followed, Richie Havens improvising "Freedom" because the other acts were stuck in traffic, Santana breaking through on "Soul Sacrifice", Sly and the Family Stone at three in the morning, Hendrix playing the national anthem at nine on Monday to a field that had mostly gone home, became the defining image of a generation, largely because a young director named Michael Wadleigh filmed it and won an Academy Award for it. The name has been borrowed ever since, most notoriously in 1999, when it burned. This archive is the whole of it: the organising, the sets in the order they were actually played, the crowd and the mud, the film and the records, the later festivals, and the long argument about how much of the myth was ever true.

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Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-08-22

Eras

  1. - Artie Kornfeld before Woodstock. Artie Kornfeld (left), one of the four Woodstock Ventures organisers, with Steve Duboff of The Changin' Times. A period portrait taken in 1965, four years before and away from the festival.
  2. - Jimi Hendrix, 1967. PERIOD PORTRAIT, NOT TAKEN AT WOODSTOCK. Jimi Hendrix photographed in Stockholm on 24 May 1967, two years before he closed Woodstock on the Monday morning with 'The Star-Spangled Banner'.
  3. - Crosby, Stills & Nash. PERIOD PORTRAIT, NOT TAKEN AT WOODSTOCK. A publicity photograph of Crosby, Stills & Nash, who played their second-ever live show at Woodstock, later reprinted in the Indonesian magazine Aktuil.
  4. - Sly and the Family Stone, 1968. PERIOD PORTRAIT, NOT TAKEN AT WOODSTOCK. An Epic Records publicity photograph from 1968 of Sly and the Family Stone, whose pre-dawn Woodstock set is often called the festival's peak.
  5. - The May 1969 advertising flyer. A magazine advertisement for the festival listing Joan Baez, The Band, the Jeff Beck Group and Keef Hartley, published three months before the event. A period document, not a photograph of the festival.
  6. - The Woodstock poster. Arnold Skolnick's 1969 poster for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, with the dove on the guitar neck and the 'three days of peace & music' line.
  7. - A ticket to three days of peace and music. An original admission ticket for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, 15-17 August 1969, held by the rock'n'popmuseum in Gronau. A period document, not a photograph of the festival.
  8. - Janis Joplin on television, 1969. PERIOD PORTRAIT, NOT TAKEN AT WOODSTOCK. An ABC Television publicity still from a 1969 broadcast with Tom Jones.
  9. - Building the stage at Bethel. Footage of the 1969 stage construction on Yasgur's farm, the crew race that ran right up to the opening day.
  10. - Kornfeld and Lang at the festival. Footage of Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang at Woodstock in August 1969, as it appeared in the Warner Bros. film.
  11. - Ravi Shankar at Woodstock. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH of Ravi Shankar, who played through the Friday-night rain, taken by Mark Goff.
  12. - Santana, 1969 press photo. PERIOD PORTRAIT, NOT TAKEN AT WOODSTOCK. A 1969 Columbia Records press photograph of Santana, whose Woodstock set that August made the then-unsigned band famous.
  13. - Backstage at Woodstock. Photograph described on Commons as taken backstage at the 1969 Woodstock festival. The Commons file page carries no author or date field, so the attribution is thinner than for the rest of this set.
  14. - Two in the crowd, faces obscured. A privacy-edited derivative of the same 1969 festival photograph, with the subjects' faces covered. The underlying image is a genuine 1969 festival photograph.
  15. - Two in the crowd. Two festivalgoers photographed among the audience. A genuine photograph of the 1969 festival.
  16. - Waiting out the rain. The audience waiting for one of the festival's downpours to pass. A genuine photograph of the 1969 festival.
  17. - The natural amphitheatre. The crowd filling the sloping field with the stage at the bottom. A genuine photograph of the 1969 festival.
  18. - Tents and Volkswagens in the camping area. The campground beside the field, with the Volkswagens that were ubiquitous there. A genuine photograph of the 1969 festival.
  19. - The Port-O-San Man. The scene from the Woodstock documentary in which the man servicing the portable toilets explains that one of his sons is at the festival and another is in Vietnam.
  20. - The Brown Acid Announcement. The original stage warning, archived by the author of a book on the festival's medical operation.
  21. - Rain at Woodstock. Footage of the downpours that turned the field to mud and stopped the music twice.
  22. - It Is a Free Concert From Now On. The stage announcement conceding that the fences were down and Woodstock had become a free festival.
  23. - Woodstock Stage Announcements - Fifty-Two Minutes. A long compilation of the announcements made across the whole festival: warnings, missing persons, food, medical calls and instructions to the crowd.
  24. - The Crowd's Rain Chant. The half-million-strong 'no rain' chant, from Michael Wadleigh's 1970 Woodstock documentary.
  25. - John Morris Announces from the Stage. Production co-ordinator John Morris addressing the crowd with the festival's practical news.
  26. - A Reporter Struggles to Get a Live Shot. ABC's Gregory Jackson trying, and failing, to file a live report from the middle of the crowd.
  27. - The Grateful Dead, July 1969. PERIOD PHOTOGRAPH, NOT TAKEN AT WOODSTOCK. The Grateful Dead at the Kinetic Playground in Chicago on 5 July 1969, six weeks before their rain-plagued Woodstock set.
  28. - Tim Hardin - If I Were a Carpenter. Hardin's best-known song, performed in his Friday-night set. He was in poor shape and this was the only number that made the official releases.
  29. - Ravi Shankar - Complete Woodstock Set (Audio). Shankar played through the rain with Alla Rakha on tabla. He later said he found the mud and the crowd frightening.
  30. - Swami Satchidananda opens the festival. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH by Mark Goff of Swami Satchidananda delivering the opening invocation at Woodstock on 15 August 1969.
  31. - Melanie - Beautiful People. Melanie's signature song from her late-Friday set at Woodstock.
  32. - The crowd on the first day. Part of the audience on the Friday, the festival's opening day. A genuine photograph of the 1969 festival.
  33. - Ravi Shankar - Raga Manj Khamaj. The long raga from Shankar's rain-soaked Friday-night set, as issued on the 'Live at the Woodstock Festival' album.
  34. - Melanie - Mr. Tambourine Man. Melanie's Dylan cover from her Woodstock set.
  35. - Woodstock Opening Stage Announcements. The very first announcements from the stage, before Richie Havens went on, straight from the festival tapes.
  36. - Bert Sommer - Complete Woodstock Set. Sommer's set, which included a cover of 'America' that reportedly earned the festival's first standing ovation, was left out of the film and album entirely.
  37. - Richie Havens - Freedom. The improvised closing number of Havens' opening set, built on the spiritual 'Motherless Child'. Footage from the Woodstock film.
  38. - Stage Announcements After the Swami and Richie Havens. The public-address channel immediately after the festival's opening invocation and first set.
  39. - Melanie - Complete Woodstock Set. Melanie Safka was an unknown 22-year-old booked at short notice. The candles the crowd lit during her set inspired 'Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)'.
  40. - Sweetwater - Complete Woodstock Set (Audio). The full audio of Sweetwater's Friday-evening set. The band's career was cut short when singer Nancy Nevins was badly injured in a car crash months later.
  41. - Woodstock, 15 August 1969. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH taken on the opening day by Milwaukee photojournalist Mark Goff, who released his Woodstock negatives into the public domain.
  42. - Bert Sommer - Jennifer. Sommer's own song, performed in his Friday-evening set. Rare surviving footage of a performer almost entirely omitted from the Woodstock film.
  43. - Faces in the Friday crowd. A crop of the opening-day crowd photograph. A genuine photograph of the 1969 festival.
  44. - Richie Havens - Complete Woodstock Set. Havens opened the festival at about 5pm on the Friday and stretched his set to fill time, improvising 'Freedom' at the end. Full 44-minute set with intro and stage raps.
  45. - Sweetwater - Woodstock Set, with Swami Satchidananda's Opening Address. Sweetwater were scheduled to open the festival but were stuck in traffic; this recording includes Swami Satchidananda's invocation that preceded them.
  46. - Richie Havens opens the festival. Richie Havens performing on the Woodstock stage. A genuine photograph of the 1969 festival, one of the few free-licensed images of the event.
  47. - Joan Baez and Jeffrey Shurtleff - One Day at a Time. Baez performed with Jeffrey Shurtleff and dedicated part of her set to her husband David Harris, then imprisoned for draft resistance.
  48. - The sound and light towers. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH of the scaffold towers that carried Bill Hanley's sound system over the Woodstock crowd.
  49. - Canned Heat - Complete Woodstock Set. Canned Heat's Saturday set included 'Going Up the Country', the flute-led song that became the Woodstock film's theme.
  50. - Grateful Dead - Complete Woodstock Set. A famously troubled set: the stage was sinking, the rig was electrifying the band, and equipment failures dogged 'Dark Star' and a marathon 'Turn On Your Love Light'.
  51. - Quill - Complete Woodstock Set (Audio). The Boston band Quill opened the Saturday bill. They had been hired to play warm-up shows in the area beforehand and were cut from the film and album.
  52. - John Sebastian - Complete Woodstock Set (Audio). Full audio of Sebastian's unplanned solo set, including his raps to the crowd.
  53. - Applause across the field. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH of the Woodstock audience applauding between sets.
  54. - Towers and the artists' tent. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH showing the scaffold towers and the performers' tent beside the stage.
  55. - Santana - Persuasion. Another number from Santana's Saturday-afternoon breakthrough set.
  56. - Bethel residents selling hot dogs and soda. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH. With the festival's own food concessions overwhelmed, local Sullivan County residents sold what they had.
  57. - A pipe offered and refused. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH taken among the audience at Woodstock.
  58. - John Sebastian - Darling Be Home Soon. The Lovin' Spoonful song, sung by Sebastian in the unscheduled solo set he was pulled on stage to play.
  59. - Route 17B jammed with traffic. A GENUINE 1969 PHOTOGRAPH of Route 17B choked with cars heading for Bethel; the traffic jam ran for miles and stranded performers and audience alike.
  60. - Quill open the second day. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH of the Boston band Quill, who opened the Saturday programme; shot through binoculars, hence the softness.
  61. - Santana - Evil Ways. Santana's early set-opener at Woodstock, months before the studio version became a hit.
  62. - Finding a spot on the field. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH of a festival-goer picking his way through the seated crowd.
  63. - Sleeping bags on the field. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH. Most of the half-million who came to Bethel slept where they sat.
  64. - Stage Announcements After the Santana Set. Sixteen minutes of the festival's public-address channel: lost persons, medical calls and crowd instructions, recorded straight off the stage tapes.
  65. - Sunny Saturday afternoon on the field. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH. The audience spread across Max Yasgur's sloping field on the Saturday of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
  66. - A parasol against the sun. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH of the audience improvising shade during the Saturday afternoon of the festival.
  67. - Quill at Woodstock. Surviving footage of Quill's Saturday-afternoon opening set with stage announcements.
  68. - Joan Baez - I Shall Be Released. Baez's reading of the Dylan song, from footage of her Woodstock set.
  69. - The Incredible String Band at Woodstock. The Scottish folk group had refused to play in the Friday rain and were moved to Saturday, where their gentle set landed awkwardly between rock bands.
  70. - Hats off, shirts on. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH of festival-goers on the Woodstock field.
  71. - Santana - Complete Woodstock Set. Santana were almost unknown and had not yet released an album. Their set, closing with 'Soul Sacrifice', made them famous overnight.
  72. - Keef Hartley Band - Complete Woodstock Set (Audio). The British blues-rock band's set survives only as audio; they were excluded from the film and album by their label.
  73. - Standing ovation, with the hospital tent behind. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH. The medical tent visible in the frame treated thousands over the weekend.
  74. - On the field at Bethel. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH from the Woodstock audience; the photographer noted no particular subject.
  75. - A balloon over the campground. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH looking across the Woodstock field toward the camping area.
  76. - John Sebastian at Woodstock. Sebastian was in the audience, not on the bill; he was pulled on stage to fill time while the rain-soaked equipment was dealt with.
  77. - Looking back up the field. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH, shot from the crowd looking away from the stage toward the top of the natural amphitheatre.
  78. - Country Joe McDonald - Solo Woodstock Set (Audio). McDonald was pushed on stage solo on the Saturday afternoon to fill a gap, and led the crowd through the 'Fish Cheer' and the 'Fixin'-to-Die Rag'.
  79. - Arlo Guthrie at Woodstock (Complete Audio). Full audio of Guthrie's set with the stage announcements around it.
  80. - Evening falls on Saturday. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH taken as darkness came down over the field on the second day.
  81. - Quill - Waiting for You. Footage of Quill, the band that opened the Saturday and was then written out of the Woodstock story.
  82. - Dancing on Saturday night. An audience member dancing during the Saturday-night sets. A genuine photograph of the 1969 festival.
  83. - Joan Baez - Joe Hill. Baez, six months pregnant, closed the first day with this labour ballad about the executed union organiser.
  84. - Stage Announcements, Saturday Morning. The morning announcements to a crowd that had slept in the field, from the raw festival tapes.
  85. - Arlo Guthrie - Complete Woodstock Set. Guthrie's set, opening with 'Coming into Los Angeles' and including his famous stage announcement that the New York State Thruway was closed.
  86. - Mountain - Complete Woodstock Set. Mountain had played only a handful of shows before Woodstock. Their set included 'For Yasgur's Farm', named for the festival's host.
  87. - Joan Baez - Oh Happy Day. Baez leading the crowd through the gospel song in the small hours of the festival's second morning.
  88. - Mountain on Saturday night. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH of Mountain, with Leslie West, performing at Woodstock on the Saturday night.
  89. - The Band - Complete Woodstock Set. The Band lived in Woodstock, the town, and played a restrained set that ran from 'Chest Fever' to 'The Weight'.
  90. - The Who, then Jefferson Airplane. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH taken during the long Saturday-into-Sunday programme at Woodstock, when The Who played before dawn and Jefferson Airplane followed at sunrise.
  91. - Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers. The Airplane's call-to-arms, played to a crowd in full morning sunlight.
  92. - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Suzie Q. From CCR's 'Live at Woodstock' album, released officially in 2019, fifty years after the band's set was left off every earlier release.
  93. - After Jefferson Airplane's dawn set. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH taken on the Sunday morning, after Jefferson Airplane closed the Saturday-night programme at dawn.
  94. - Joe Cocker at Woodstock. Surviving footage of Cocker's Sunday-afternoon set.
  95. - A car seat in the field. A crop of a festivalgoer who carried a car seat onto the field to sit on. A genuine photograph of the 1969 festival.
  96. - The Who - Complete Woodstock Concert (Remastered). The Who played most of 'Tommy' at dawn. Mid-set Pete Townshend knocked Abbie Hoffman off the stage when he tried to seize the microphone.
  97. - Sly and the Family Stone - I Want to Take You Higher. The official audio of the song that became the band's Woodstock signature, performed in the small hours to a crowd Sly got on its feet.
  98. - Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit. Slick's Alice in Wonderland song, from the Airplane's dawn set.
  99. - Jefferson Airplane - Complete Woodstock Concert. The Airplane closed the second day well after sunrise; Grace Slick greeted the crowd with 'good morning, people'. Restored from the best available sources.
  100. - Max Yasgur at Woodstock. Archival footage of Yasgur's stage appearance, from a channel that archives the festival's tapes.
  101. - Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love. Grace Slick fronting the band's hit at the end of the festival's long second night.
  102. - Sunday morning on the field. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH of the audience waking on the third morning of the festival.
  103. - Cocker's set, second frame. A second frame of Joe Cocker and the Grease Band performing. A genuine photograph of the 1969 festival.
  104. - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Complete Woodstock Set. CCR followed the Grateful Dead and went on to a crowd largely asleep. John Fogerty blocked their footage from the film for decades.
  105. - A car seat carried onto the field. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH of festival-goers who brought a car seat to sit on.
  106. - Joe Cocker - Complete Woodstock Set. Cocker and the Grease Band played the Sunday afternoon, closing with the Beatles cover that made him a star in America. A thunderstorm broke shortly after they finished.
  107. - Janis Joplin - Complete Woodstock Set. Joplin, with the Kozmic Blues Band, waited ten hours to go on and was unhappy with the result; she blocked her performance from the film.
  108. - Newspaper coverage, 17 August 1969. A page from the Binghamton Press and Sun-Bulletin of 17 August 1969, carrying wire photographs of the festival while it was still under way.
  109. - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Keep on Chooglin'. The closing number of CCR's Woodstock set, from the official 2019 album release.
  110. - The Who - Summertime Blues. The Eddie Cochran cover from The Who's dawn set, re-edited to the correct camera angles.
  111. - Country Joe and the Fish - Complete Woodstock Set. The full-band set on the Sunday evening, distinct from McDonald's solo appearance the day before.
  112. - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising. CCR's then-current hit, from the official 'Live at Woodstock' release.
  113. - Joe Cocker and the Grease Band. Joe Cocker with the Grease Band on stage on the Sunday. A genuine photograph of the 1969 festival.
  114. - Joe Cocker seen through binoculars. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH of Joe Cocker's Sunday set, shot from deep in the crowd through a pair of binoculars.
  115. - Joe Cocker - With a Little Help From My Friends. The official upload of Cocker's Woodstock performance of the Beatles song, the set-closer that made his reputation.
  116. - Ten Years After - Complete Woodstock Set. Alvin Lee's band closed with 'I'm Going Home', the performance that made them famous in America.
  117. - The Woodstock Music and Art Fair. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH of the crowd at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair on the Sunday.
  118. - Joe Cocker - Something's Coming On. A song from Cocker's Woodstock set that appeared only on the 'Untold Stories' release.
  119. - Ten Years After - I'm Going Home. The official audio of the set-closing rockabilly medley, one of the most celebrated moments in the Woodstock film.
  120. - Sly and the Family Stone - Complete Woodstock Set. Sly's pre-dawn set, and in particular 'I Want to Take You Higher', is widely regarded as the moment that woke the whole festival up.
  121. - The Who - Sparks, Pinball Wizard and See Me Feel Me. Black and white footage of the 'Tommy' sequence, ending with 'See Me Feel Me' as the sun came up over the crowd.
  122. - The Who at Woodstock - All Officially Released Footage. A compilation of everything from The Who's set that was officially released, including the Abbie Hoffman incident.
  123. - Stage Announcements Around the Janis Joplin Set. The overnight announcements bracketing Joplin's pre-dawn set.
  124. - Ten Years After - Woodstock '69 (Full Set, Official). The band's complete Woodstock set as issued by Chrysalis Records, their own label.
  125. - Stage Announcements Around the Jefferson Airplane Set. The morning announcements as the Airplane closed the festival's second day well after sunrise.
  126. - Max Yasgur Addresses the Crowd. The dairy farmer whose land hosted the festival tells the crowd they have proved that half a million young people can gather for three days with nothing but fun and music.
  127. - Blanket tent, waiting for the music. A GENUINE 1969 FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPH of festival-goers sheltering under an improvised blanket tent on the Sunday.
  128. - Johnny Winter - Complete Woodstock Set. Winter's blues set, with his brother Edgar joining him, was omitted from the film and only officially released decades later.
  129. - Sha Na Na - At the Hop. The doo-wop group's set-piece, played half an hour before Hendrix closed the festival.
  130. - Stage Announcements Around the Johnny Winter Set. Announcements from the after-midnight stretch of the festival's final night.
  131. - Jimi Hendrix - The Star-Spangled Banner. The unaccompanied instrumental national anthem, played into 'Purple Haze', to the few thousand still on the field on the Monday morning.
  132. - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Complete Woodstock Set. Butterfield's horn-driven blues band played to a thinning, exhausted crowd in the Monday dawn.
  133. - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Complete Woodstock Set (Audio). Only their second live show. Stephen Stills told the crowd 'we're scared shitless' before opening with 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes'.
  134. - Leaving the Festival - Home Movie, Monticello. Amateur film by Barbara Bedick of attendees walking out along Mongaup Road near Sackett Lake as local summer residents look on.
  135. - ABC News Coverage of Woodstock, 18 August 1969. ABC's report on the festival as it broke up, filed the same day.
  136. - Jimi Hendrix - Complete Woodstock Set. Hendrix closed the festival on the Monday morning to a crowd reduced to about 30,000, playing a two-hour set that included 'The Star-Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze'.
  137. - Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock, Part Two. The middle of Hendrix's Monday-morning set, released officially by Experience Hendrix.
  138. - Sha Na Na - Book of Love. Another number from Sha Na Na's early-Monday-morning set.
  139. - Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock, Part One. The first part of Hendrix's closing set, from his own estate's official channel.
  140. - Blood, Sweat and Tears - Complete Woodstock Recording. The surviving complete recording of the band's after-midnight set.
  141. - Jimi Hendrix - Spanish Castle Magic. From Hendrix's closing set with the Gypsy Sun and Rainbows band, including Larry Lee on second guitar.
  142. - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, with Stage Announcements. Played from the original 1970 Woodstock triple LP, including the stage announcements about feeding the crowd that preceded the song.
  143. - CBS News Coverage of Woodstock, 18 August 1969. The CBS Evening News report filed as the festival ended, complete with the original commercials.
  144. - Leaving Woodstock - NBC News, 18 August 1969. NBC's footage of the crowd streaming away from the site after Hendrix closed the festival.
  145. - NBC News: The End of Woodstock. Correspondent Lem Tucker reports from upstate New York as the festival comes to an end.
  146. - Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock, Part Three. The closing stretch of the set, including 'The Star-Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze'.
  147. - Jimi Hendrix - Izabella. A then-unreleased song from Hendrix's Woodstock set. The description credits the official Experience Hendrix release with the 18 August date.
  148. - Sha Na Na - Complete Woodstock Set (Audio). The doo-wop revival group, then Columbia University students, played a 30-minute greaser set immediately before Hendrix closed the festival.
  149. - Young people near the festival grounds. A GENUINE 1969 PHOTOGRAPH taken near the Woodstock festival grounds on the final day, 18 August 1969, by Louisville journalist Ric Manning.
  150. - NBC News Report on Woodstock, 18 August 1969. NBC's network report from the site as the festival ended.
  151. - Janis Joplin performing, 1969. PERIOD PORTRAIT, NOT TAKEN AT WOODSTOCK. An ABC Television publicity montage of Janis Joplin from October 1969, two months after her Woodstock set with the Kozmic Blues Band.
  152. - Ten Years After, 1970. PERIOD PORTRAIT, NOT TAKEN AT WOODSTOCK. A Deram/London Records trade-press photograph of Ten Years After from May 1970; Alvin Lee's 'I'm Going Home' at Woodstock became one of the film's set pieces.
  153. - Original 1970 theatrical trailer. Warner Bros. theatrical trailer for Michael Wadleigh's 'Woodstock', released in March 1970.
  154. - Woodstock (1970) trailer, restored. Restored theatrical trailer for the 1970 film, credited to Wadleigh with Joan Baez, Richie Havens and Roger Daltrey.
  155. - Matthews Southern Comfort, Woodstock (1970). The Matthews Southern Comfort recording of Joni Mitchell's 'Woodstock', which reached number one in the UK in 1970.
  156. - The 1970 trailer in full. The original trailer for Michael Wadleigh's documentary, presented at length.
  157. - Jefferson Airplane, c. 1970. PERIOD PORTRAIT, NOT TAKEN AT WOODSTOCK. An RCA Records publicity photograph of Jefferson Airplane from around 1970; the band played Woodstock at sunrise on the Sunday.
  158. - Country Joe McDonald, 1970. PERIOD PHOTOGRAPH, NOT TAKEN AT WOODSTOCK. Country Joe McDonald at the Kralingen Music Festival in Rotterdam on 27 June 1970; his 'Fish Cheer' solo set was a Woodstock landmark.
  159. - Drive-in advertisement for the Woodstock film, 1970. A newspaper advertisement of 13 July 1970 for a Santa Cruz drive-in screening of Michael Wadleigh's documentary 'Woodstock', released by Warner Bros. that spring.
  160. - Canned Heat, 1970. PERIOD PORTRAIT, NOT TAKEN AT WOODSTOCK. A Liberty Records publicity photograph of Canned Heat from August 1970; the band played Woodstock on the Saturday.
  161. - Woodstock wins Best Documentary, 1971. Bob Maurice accepts the Academy Award for Documentary Feature for 'Woodstock' at the 43rd Academy Awards, presented by Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss.
  162. - John Sebastian, 1971. PERIOD PORTRAIT, NOT TAKEN AT WOODSTOCK. A 1971 publicity photograph of John Sebastian, who was pulled onto the Woodstock stage unbilled during the Friday rain delay.
  163. - Richie Havens in Hamburg, 1972. PERIOD PHOTOGRAPH, NOT TAKEN AT WOODSTOCK. Richie Havens performing in Hamburg in May 1972, three years after opening the festival.
  164. - Richie Havens, 1973. PERIOD PORTRAIT, NOT TAKEN AT WOODSTOCK. A management portrait of Richie Havens from October 1973.
  165. - Arlo Guthrie, 1976. PERIOD PORTRAIT, NOT TAKEN AT WOODSTOCK. A Reprise Records portrait of Arlo Guthrie from 1976; he played Woodstock on the opening Friday night.
  166. - Canned Heat at the Woodstock Reunion, 1979. Canned Heat performing at the Woodstock Reunion festival on 7 September 1979. A 1979 photograph, not from the 1969 festival.
  167. - Trent Reznor at Woodstock '94. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails at Woodstock '94 in Saugerties, New York. This is the 1994 anniversary festival, not the 1969 event.
  168. - BBC News at Woodstock '94. BBC News footage from the 1994 Saugerties festival.
  169. - Woodstock '94 in the news. A compilation of contemporaneous 1994 broadcast news reports on the Saugerties festival.
  170. - The Woodstock '94 footage that never aired. A WABC-TV Eyewitness News cameraman assembles the material he shot at Saugerties that his newsroom declined to broadcast.
  171. - Mud and merchandise, a CBC report. A CBC reporter at Woodstock '94 measures the commercial anniversary event against the 1969 original.
  172. - The Goods on MTV, Woodstock '94. MTV's on-site 1994 programme from Saugerties.
  173. - MTV's Best of Woodstock '94 special. The MTV television special broadcast after the 1994 festival, collecting performance highlights and VJ segments.
  174. - NBC and local coverage of Woodstock '94. NBC network and local station reports on the 1994 festival, transferred from the original master tape.
  175. - A muddy mess at Woodstock '94. Rochester station archive reel of its August 1994 reporting from Saugerties, where crowds outran the ticketing and the field turned to mud.
  176. - Week in Rock at Woodstock '94. MTV News' Week in Rock report from the 1994 festival.
  177. - Woodstock '94 opens at Saugerties. AP archive report marking the opening of Woodstock '94 at Winston Farm in Saugerties on 12 August 1994.
  178. - MTV live from Saugerties, 12 August 1994. MTV's live coverage from the opening day of Woodstock '94.
  179. - Nine Inch Nails: Happiness Is Slavery, Woodstock '94. Official recording from Nine Inch Nails' 13 August 1994 Woodstock set.
  180. - Nine Inch Nails: Burn, Woodstock '94. Official recording from the band's 13 August 1994 Saugerties set.
  181. - Nine Inch Nails: Suck, Woodstock '94. Official recording of Nine Inch Nails at Saugerties on 13 August 1994, the mud-covered set that became the festival's defining image.
  182. - Nine Inch Nails: Wish, Woodstock '94. Official recording from the band's 13 August 1994 Saugerties performance.
  183. - Green Day at Woodstock '94. Official Music Vault recording of Green Day performing at Saugerties on 14 August 1994, the set that ended in the crowd's mud fight.
  184. - The Wallkill anniversary marker. A New York State historic marker in Wallkill, Orange County, commemorating the festival's fifteenth anniversary. A modern photograph, not from 1969.
  185. - Max Yasgur's farm. The Bethel dairy farm whose fields Max Yasgur rented to the organisers after Wallkill refused a permit. A modern photograph taken in 1999, thirty years after the festival.
  186. - A station's full Woodstock '99 archive. Rochester's 13WHAM assembles its own July 1999 reporting from Rome, covering the heat, the overcrowding, the water shortages and the final-night violence.
  187. - MTV's 1999 documentary on the festival. MTV's contemporaneous documentary about Woodstock '99, broadcast in the aftermath.
  188. - WTVH Syracuse reports the disorder. Local Syracuse news anchors Keith Kobland and Donna Adamo report on the breakdown of order at Woodstock '99 in Rome, New York.
  189. - 22 July 1999: the gates open at Rome. AP's On This Day item on the 225,000 people who arrived at the former Griffiss Air Force Base for Woodstock '99.
  190. - CBS 6 report, 26 July 1999. Richmond station's archive of its 26 July 1999 report on the final night of Woodstock '99.
  191. - Artie Kornfeld and the roots of Woodstock. Author Domenic Priore traces the path from Los Angeles pop production through Artie Kornfeld to the founding of Woodstock Ventures.
  192. - The original festival site. The original Woodstock festival site at Bethel, photographed in December 2007. A modern photograph, not a 1969 image.
  193. - Trees at Bethel Woods. The grounds of the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, built on the 1969 festival land. A modern photograph.
  194. - The Bethel Woods grounds. Another view of the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts grounds on the former festival site. A modern photograph.
  195. - The monument's line-up panel. The left panel of the Bethel monument listing the performers who played the 1969 festival, photographed in December 2007.
  196. - The 'Peace and Music' marker. The bronze 'Peace and Music' marker on the original Woodstock site, photographed in December 2007.
  197. - Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the performing-arts complex built on the 1969 festival site and opened in 2006. Photographed in December 2007.
  198. - The monument's second line-up panel. The right panel of the Bethel monument, continuing the list of 1969 performers. Photographed in December 2007.
  199. - Candles left at the site. A table of memorial candles left by visitors at the original festival site. A modern photograph.
  200. - The 69/99 wood marker. A carved wooden marker on the original festival site. A modern photograph.
  201. - The bowl-shaped field today. The natural amphitheatre that held the 1969 audience, photographed in December 2007. A modern photograph, not a 1969 image.
  202. - Sunlight harvested here. A sign on the grounds of the former festival site at Bethel Woods. A modern photograph.
  203. - The '69/'99 wooden marker. A wooden marker on the original site recording both 1969 and the 1999 anniversary. Photographed in December 2007.
  204. - The Museum at Bethel Woods opens. AP report from 2 June 2008 on the opening of the museum on the original festival site, part of a $100 million arts centre.
  205. - Inside the new museum, 2008. AP Television footage from Bethel on 2 June 2008 with senior museum director Mike Eagan, as the first visitors walk the displays.
  206. - Forty years later, Woodstock lives on. New York Times video on the Bethel Woods museum, opened in June 2008, and the festival's continuing hold on American memory.
  207. - Artie Kornfeld on the first conversation. Co-creator Artie Kornfeld describes the initial conversation with Michael Lang that led to the formation of Woodstock Ventures.
  208. - Wadleigh after Woodstock. Michael Wadleigh, encountered at a UNESCO conference in Bonn, speaks about the documentary and the work that followed it.
  209. - The Woodstock '94 signed guitar. An acoustic guitar signed by the performers at the 1994 Woodstock revival, displayed at the Hard Rock Cafe in St. Louis. A modern photograph of a 1994 artifact.
  210. - Michael Riedel interviews Michael Lang. New York Post columnist Michael Riedel sits down with Woodstock co-creator Michael Lang about how the festival was assembled.
  211. - Michael Lang at the Taking Woodstock premiere. Woodstock co-creator Michael Lang (right) with James Schamus, Ron Nyswaner and director Ang Lee. A modern photograph from 2009, not from the festival.
  212. - Taking Woodstock: renting the El Monaco. Clip from Ang Lee's 2009 feature dramatising Elliot Tiber's role in bringing the festival to Bethel.
  213. - The fortieth anniversary at Bethel. Voice of America report from the 2009 anniversary weekend, including how a festival named for one town ended up in another.
  214. - How a concert became a political symbol. VOA goes to Bethel for the fortieth anniversary to ask how three days of music came to stand for the protest movement of the era.
  215. - Lang and Kopple recount the planning. Associated Press interview with organiser Michael Lang and filmmaker Barbara Kopple about planning the festival and their documentary 'Woodstock: Now and Then'.
  216. - The Forgotten: filming the 25th anniversary. Promotional film for an unfinished documentary shot with eight synchronised cameras across the three days of the 1994 anniversary concert.
  217. - Michael Wadleigh at Dubai Film Festival. Interview with Michael Wadleigh, director of the 1970 documentary, at the Dubai International Film Festival.
  218. - Elliot Tiber and the Bethel permit. Elliot Tiber, whose family ran the El Monaco motel, describes producing the local permit that let the festival relocate to Sullivan County after Wallkill.
  219. - Michael Lang looks back forty years on. Guardian interview with Michael Lang, the promoter who conceived the 1969 festival, reflecting on how it came together. Filmed for the 40th anniversary.
  220. - A painted VW bus at Bethel. A decorated Volkswagen bus parked at the Bethel site, photographed in August 2011.
  221. - How split screen won the argument. Producer Fred Weintraub recalls Wadleigh persuading him that split screen was the right way to cut the concert footage.
  222. - A Tale of Two Posters at Bethel Woods. Museum at Bethel Woods film on its exhibition of the poster work of David Edward Byrd and Arnold Skolnick, the two designers commissioned for Woodstock.
  223. - Panorama of Bethel Woods. A panoramic view across the Bethel Woods site, photographed in July 2012.
  224. - Wavy Gravy and Jahanara Romney. Wavy Gravy, who led the Hog Farm commune that ran Woodstock's free kitchen and 'Please Force' security in 1969, with Jahanara Romney, photographed in July 2013. A modern photograph.
  225. - 40th anniversary director's cut trailer. Warner Bros. trailer for the 40th anniversary director's cut of 'Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music'.
  226. - Michael Lang and Baron Wolman on Woodstock. The festival's creator and its Rolling Stone photographer talk about the event, on the release of Wolman's book of photographs.
  227. - Yasgur Farm dairy sign in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A Yasgur Farm dairy sign displayed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, photographed in December 2014. Museum object, not a 1969 photograph.
  228. - Sam Yasgur on his father and the farm. Sam Yasgur, son of Max Yasgur, gives a full lecture at the Robert H. Jackson Center on how the family came to host the festival.
  229. - The Hanley Sound memorial. A memorial in Medford, Massachusetts to Hanley Sound, the company that built and ran the Woodstock sound system. A modern photograph.
  230. - The 1969 monument at Bethel. The commemorative monument on the original festival field at Bethel. A modern photograph taken in 2016.
  231. - Scorsese was on the crew. Short note on Martin Scorsese's work as assistant director and editor on the 1970 documentary.
  232. - Rock Docs: Woodstock (1970). Critical appraisal of Wadleigh's Academy Award-winning documentary as a work of film-making.
  233. - Archaeologists Excavate the Woodstock Site. Associated Press on the first formal excavation of the festival grounds, to establish exactly where the stage stood.
  234. - The Woodstock monument, 2018. The Bethel monument photographed in September 2018.
  235. - The historic-site placard. The interpretive placard marking the Woodstock festival site as a historic place, photographed for Wiki Loves Monuments. A modern photograph.
  236. - Dale Bell on making the movie. Producer Dale Bell gives a long account of how the film crew worked at the festival and how the picture was cut afterwards.
  237. - Integral Yoga on the opening invocation. The Integral Yoga institute's own account of how their founder came to give the opening invocation, asking the crowd to use music for peace.
  238. - Trailer: Three Days That Defined a Generation. Trailer for the 2019 PBS American Experience documentary on the festival, built largely from unseen footage.
  239. - A Shure Unisphere 565 from the Woodstock stage. A modern photograph of a Shure Unisphere 565 microphone of the type used on the Woodstock stage in 1969. This is an object photograph taken in 2019, not a festival photograph.
  240. - Why Woodstock 50 was cancelled. Summary of the collapse of the anniversary festival that was to have featured Robert Plant, Greta Van Fleet and The Killers.
  241. - Woodstock 50 loses its investor. AP report of 30 April 2019 on the financial backer withdrawing from the fiftieth anniversary festival.
  242. - Lang and Fogerty on the festival's status. Coverage of Michael Lang's email to fans insisting Woodstock 50 would proceed, with John Fogerty's response.
  243. - A 38-disc set announced. Report on the announcement of the complete 38-disc Woodstock archive for the 50th anniversary, containing every act on the bill.
  244. - The Original Woodstock Stage Has Been Found. The story of how the timber from the 1969 stage was rediscovered fifty years later.
  245. - Skolnick on designing the poster. Studio interview with Arnold Skolnick, recorded in 2017, about the commission and the making of the 'Three Days of Peace and Music' poster.
  246. - A new documentary returns to Bethel. ABC7's Sandy Kenyon reports from Bethel on a 2019 documentary taking a different view of the 1969 event.
  247. - Trailer: Creating Woodstock. Trailer for the 2019 documentary that interviews the key figures behind the festival's organisation to correct fifty years of myth.
  248. - Dutch reissue trailer, 2019. Warner Bros. Netherlands trailer for the one-night 2019 cinema screening of the restored film.
  249. - Marker at the festival location. A marker at the Woodstock festival location in Bethel, photographed in June 2019.
  250. - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Woodstock Exhibit. Michael Carabello of Santana and Freddie Stone of Sly and the Family Stone recall their sets, in a museum exhibit for the 50th anniversary.
  251. - Back To The Garden, official trailer. Rhino's trailer for the 50th anniversary archival box sets drawn from the restored festival tapes.
  252. - Woodstock 50's appeal denied. Local news item on the court ruling against the Woodstock 50 organisers in July 2019.
  253. - Wavy Gravy and the Please Force. PBS clip on Hugh Romney (Wavy Gravy) and the Hog Farm, brought in to handle crowd care and bad trips at the festival.
  254. - An academic conference on 1969. Opening session of the Marist College conference '1969: When Woodstock Changed the World', with historians on the Vietnam War and the peace movement.
  255. - 50th anniversary director's cut in cinemas. Fathom Events spot for the 2019 theatrical return of the director's cut, marking fifty years since the festival.
  256. - The road to Woodstock closes. PBS clip on the traffic that seized up for miles before the festival grounds as crowds far exceeded the organisers' projections.
  257. - Max Yasgur, the unexpected champion. PBS clip on the Bethel dairy farmer who, five weeks before the festival, agreed to host it on his land after the Wallkill rejection.
  258. - Unboxing the definitive anniversary archive. Rhino walks through the 50th anniversary releases, including the 10CD 'Experience' set, the first to include every act that performed.
  259. - Designing the anniversary box set. Rhino's package design film on how the 50th anniversary archive was physically built and illustrated.
  260. - Organisers confirm the cancellation. Broadcast report on the organisers' formal announcement that Woodstock 50 would not take place.
  261. - The end of Woodstock 50. A round-up of what the organisers said as the anniversary festival collapsed, and where they turned next.
  262. - The Rhino Podcast on Woodstock, part one. Rhino's label podcast on the festival and the 50th anniversary reissue programme, with rarely heard archival audio.
  263. - Woodstock 50 is officially cancelled. AP report of 31 July 2019 on the cancellation of the fiftieth anniversary festival after four months of setbacks.
  264. - Joel Rosenman, Woodstock producer. PBS American Experience clip on Joel Rosenman and John Roberts, the financiers who joined Kornfeld and Lang to form Woodstock Ventures.
  265. - Handing security to a hippie commune. PBS clip on the decision to have the Hog Farm commune run Woodstock's security rather than police.
  266. - Inside the Warner Music Vault. CBS Sunday Morning visits the Warner Music Vault with Andy Zax to hear the near-complete festival tapes, including P.A. announcements and crowd audio.
  267. - Not a summation but a harbinger. Bill Flanagan argues on CBS Sunday Morning that the festival was not the culmination of the counterculture but a sign of what was coming.
  268. - Woodstock by the numbers. Jane Pauley presents the recorded figures behind the 1969 festival for CBS Sunday Morning.
  269. - The poster was just another job. Skolnick describes designing the dove-and-guitar poster on a tight deadline, and how the image outgrew the festival it advertised.
  270. - The ten-disc set examined. Goldmine compares the 10CD anniversary set against the 3CD, 5LP and 38-disc editions of the archive.
  271. - Fogerty, Crosby and Browne on the legacy. John Fogerty, David Crosby and Rolling Stone's David Browne assess the festival's legacy as its fiftieth anniversary approached.
  272. - Historian David Farber on C-SPAN. C-SPAN's American History TV marks the fiftieth anniversary with historian David Farber on the social movements surrounding the festival.
  273. - The Couple on the Woodstock Album Cover. Bobbi and Nick Ercoline, photographed wrapped in a blanket in 1969, still together fifty years later.
  274. - Artie Kornfeld - Oral History. C-SPAN's oral history with Kornfeld on signing the artists and the business arrangements behind the film.
  275. - Hunting the missing master tapes. Part two of Rhino's podcast, on the search for lost Woodstock master tapes and how the anniversary collections were assembled.
  276. - Working backstage at Woodstock. Bill Pratt, one of Bill Hanley's sound engineers, describes the backstage working conditions during a 2019 panel at Bethel Woods.
  277. - Joni Mitchell's Woodstock. Video essay on the song Joni Mitchell wrote about a festival she never attended, and how CSNY's version displaced her own.
  278. - Remembering Woodstock in Buffalo. A local station's fiftieth anniversary piece built around a painted Volkswagen van, the era's emblematic vehicle.
  279. - The Road to Woodstock and Beyond, with the Woodstock Guru. A longer account from Integral Yoga of Satchidananda's arrival by helicopter and his address to the crowd.
  280. - Bill Hanley and the sound system. PBS piece on Bill Hanley, the Boston engineer hired to build a sound system for an unprecedented crowd, and how his setup shaped the recordings.
  281. - Bill Hanley and the Woodstock Sound Crew Reunion. A Bethel Woods panel with sound engineer Bill Hanley and his crew on building and running the festival's PA.
  282. - An attendee's memories after fifty years. Linda Goldman, who travelled from Toronto to Bethel aged 18 in 1969, shows her mementos and recalls the weekend.
  283. - Carlos Santana fifty years on. Santana, an unknown when he played Woodstock in 1969, reflects on what the festival meant and what it left behind.
  284. - Bethel Woods curator on the 1960s illustrated. Wade Lawrence, founding director and senior curator of the Museum at Bethel Woods, gives a multimedia lecture at the Norman Rockwell Museum on the era that produced the festival.
  285. - Arlo Guthrie returns to the field. Arlo Guthrie, 22 when he played the festival, gives a full interview after performing one song on the same ground fifty years later.
  286. - He Drove a Sandwich Truck Through Woodstock. Van D. Wing on being sent to drive a box truck of sandwiches through half a million people, a delivery that took hours.
  287. - Firsthand Stories: Jeannie Whitworth and Van Wing. Two attendees describe getting to the site, what the three days were actually like on the ground, and what stayed with them.
  288. - The stage announcements, restored. Rhino episode on the between-song stage announcements preserved on the festival tapes and included in the anniversary set.
  289. - Andy Zax on restoring the audio. Interview with producer Andy Zax, who restored the festival's audio for the 'Back to the Garden' box set.
  290. - Capturing Woodstock on tape and film. Rhino episode on how the festival's audio and images were recorded in 1969 and what survived to be restored.
  291. - Henry Diltz, the Festival's Official Photographer. Diltz on his fondest memories of photographing Woodstock from the stage and the field.
  292. - PBS Distribution trailer for the 2019 film. Distribution trailer for 'Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation', using never-before-seen footage of the crowd and organisers.
  293. - Joel Selvin: Altamont and the end of the sixties. Author Joel Selvin at the Commonwealth Club on the fiftieth anniversary of Altamont and whether it really closed the decade Woodstock opened.
  294. - The director's cut on Blu-ray. Review of the 40th Anniversary Revisited Blu-ray edition of the director's cut, covering what the extended version restores.
  295. - The monument sign. The interpretive sign beside the Woodstock monument at Bethel, photographed in June 2021.
  296. - The 'Peace Tree' at the festival site. A tree at the Bethel site decorated by visitors with ribbons and tokens, photographed in June 2021.
  297. - Welcome sign at Bethel Woods. The entrance sign at Bethel Woods, photographed in June 2021.
  298. - Covid-19 guidance at Bethel Woods, 2021. Pandemic guidance signage at Bethel Woods in June 2021, as the site reopened to visitors.
  299. - Visitor stickers left at the site. Stickers left by visitors at the Woodstock festival site in Bethel, photographed in June 2021.
  300. - The festival monument, 2021. The Woodstock monument on the original Bethel site, photographed in June 2021.
  301. - Trailer: Peace, Love, and Rage. HBO's trailer for Garret Price's 2021 documentary, the first film in the Music Box series, on how Woodstock '99 collapsed.
  302. - Garret Price on Woodstock 99. Interview with director Garret Price on the day his HBO documentary about the 1999 festival premiered.
  303. - The Museum at Bethel Woods. 1969 festival and the 1960s, photographed in October 2021.
  304. - The concert field in 2021. The 1969 concert field at Bethel as it appeared in October 2021. A modern photograph of the site, not a 1969 image.
  305. - Fathom Events trailer for the reissue. Trailer for the Fathom Events cinema reissue of the Oscar-winning documentary.
  306. - Michael Lang dies at 77. Local news report on the January 2022 death of Michael Lang, co-creator of the 1969 festival and driving force behind the abandoned Woodstock 50.
  307. - Michael Lang and the story behind the festival. Feature-length documentary following Lang and Woodstock Ventures from the initial idea through the event itself.
  308. - Remembering Michael Lang. Willie Geist's Sunday TODAY tribute to Michael Lang, who with three partners conceived the festival and billed it as three days of peace and music.
  309. - Altamont, four months later. Documentary account of the free concert at the Altamont Raceway on 6 December 1969, the event routinely set against Woodstock as its counterpoint.
  310. - Walking the Yasgur farm site today. A visit to the Bethel field where the festival was staged, tracing the natural bowl that made the site work.
  311. - Death of the poster's designer. Report on the death of Arnold Skolnick on 15 June 2022 at 85, and the afterlife of the image he made in a few days in 1969.
  312. - Trailer: Trainwreck: Woodstock '99. Netflix trailer for the 2022 series built from insider footage and interviews with festival staff and performers.
  313. - The filmmakers on Trainwreck. Long interview with the makers of the Netflix series about what their research found behind the three days at Griffiss.
  314. - Jamie Crawford's Netflix series. Trailer for the Netflix documentary series directed by Jamie Crawford examining why the 1999 revival went so badly wrong.
  315. - Every version of the song Woodstock. Musicologists compare Joni Mitchell's original with the CSNY reading and the Matthews Southern Comfort hit.
  316. - What hosting the festival cost Max Yasgur. Account of the Bethel dairy farmer who leased 500 acres expecting 40,000 people, and the local fallout that followed.
  317. - Arnold Skolnick, who drew the dove and guitar. Public television profile of the graphic designer behind the 1969 poster, filmed at his Easthampton studio and rebroadcast after his death in June 2022.
  318. - Reviewing the HBO film with its director. A documentary podcast reviews 'Peace, Love, and Rage' and interviews director Garrett Price about his approach to the material.
  319. - What the acts were actually paid. A walk through the fees paid to the 32 acts booked for the festival, from Jimi Hendrix down to the smallest names on the bill.
  320. - The 43rd Academy Awards recap. Recap of the 1971 ceremony where 'Patton' swept the night and 'Woodstock' took Documentary Feature, with Thelma Schoonmaker nominated for editing.
  321. - The Woodstock Oral History Project. Julia Fell, curator of exhibits and oral history at the Museum at Bethel Woods, presents the museum's programme of recording first-hand accounts of the festival.
  322. - The museum at fifty-four years. ABC7 entertainment reporter Sandy Kenyon on how the Bethel Woods museum holds the memory of the festival that named a generation.
  323. - Camping on the festival grounds. Report on Bethel Woods opening on-site camping on the original 1969 concert field for the 2024 season.
  324. - The famous one and the forgotten ones. A history covering the 1969 festival alongside the far smaller 1979 and 1989 gatherings held on the same ground.
  325. - Two friends return after fifty-five years. AP follows Beverly Grant, who hitchhiked in without a ticket in 1969, and Ellen Shelburne, who came in a VW Microbus, as they return to the site in 2024.
  326. - A festival crowd at Bethel Woods, 2024. An audience at the Outlaw Music Festival at Bethel Woods in July 2024, on the ground where the 1969 festival was held. A modern photograph.
  327. - The Woodstock site in 2024. The 1969 festival site at Bethel Woods photographed in July 2024.
  328. - Inukshuk sculpture at Bethel Woods. Wayne Holbert's Inukshuk sculpture on the Bethel Woods grounds, photographed in July 2024.
  329. - New York State historic marker. The New York State historic marker for the Woodstock Music Festival site at Bethel Woods, photographed in July 2024.
  330. - Two attendees, twenty-five years on. Bryan Stone and Elizabeth Thorpe give first-hand accounts of the heat, the performances and the breakdown at Woodstock '99, a quarter-century later.
  331. - Dr Kevin Schattenkirk on the festival. A university lecture placing the 1969 festival in its historical context and examining its claimed cultural significance.
  332. - The anniversary vinyl box. A look at the vinyl edition of the 50th anniversary archive and the sound quality of the restored source tapes.
  333. - Qwest TV on the festival's legacy. Qwest TV's documentary excerpt on the festival, its performers and its aftermath.
  334. - Why Led Zeppelin turned Woodstock down. Account of the management decision that kept Led Zeppelin off the 1969 bill despite the invitation.
  335. - The site in 4K. A long-form visit to the Bethel Woods grounds and the nonprofit arts centre now occupying the historic festival field.
  336. - Wadleigh on making the film. Extended interview with director Michael Wadleigh about shooting and assembling 'Woodstock'.
  337. - An original 1969 Woodstock bus poster. Heritage Auctions presents a rare surviving 1969 bus-sign advertisement for the festival, one of the few original promotional artefacts to reach auction.
  338. - An attendee recorded for the museum archive. Excerpt from a first-hand account recorded on 24 April 2025 by the Museum at Bethel Woods for its ongoing project collecting testimony from people who were there.
  339. - The fifty-sixth anniversary week, 2025. Report on Woodstock Anniversary Week 2025 at Bethel Woods, running 12 to 15 August with live music, films and peace workshops on the original site.
  340. - Walking the historic grounds. A tour of the amphitheatre and field at Bethel Woods built on the original festival site, filmed for the 2025 anniversary.
  341. - Camping at Bethel Woods, 2025 season. The venue's own spot for camping on the 1969 site, available from May through October.
  342. - Joni Mitchell's song at the anniversary. A performance of 'Woodstock' in the museum's special events room at the 56th anniversary, exactly fifty-six years after Bert Sommer sang it on the original stage.
  343. - What the Hog Farm actually did. A look back at the commune led by Hugh Romney that handled crowd care at the 1969 festival in place of conventional security.
  344. - Creating Woodstock, full documentary. Feature documentary on how the festival was built, told through interviews with organisers and archival footage of the site preparation.
  345. - Peace, Love and Pumpkins at Bethel. The site's fifth annual autumn walk-through, held on the grounds of the 1969 festival from 10 October to 2 November 2025.
  346. - Dale Bell's Interviews and Recollections. Audiobook sample of Dale Bell's oral history of the film crew, drawn from interviews with the people who shot and cut 'Woodstock'.
  347. - Inside the Woodstock Museum, 2025. A walk through the museum galleries and out onto the historic concert field at Bethel.
  348. - A pilgrimage to Bethel in 2025. A solo visit to the hill at Bethel where the 1969 stage stood, and what the site means to a visitor arriving more than half a century later.
  349. - Peace, Love and Lights, 2025. Bethel Woods CEO Eric Frances on the winter light display conceived out of necessity during the pandemic and now an annual fixture at the site.
  350. - What really happened at Woodstock '99. A summary of the documented causes of the 1999 breakdown: extreme heat, water pricing, thin security and an overwhelmed site.
  351. - A hat worn at the 1969 festival. The Museum at Bethel Woods presents the Jim Merrie Boone hat from its collection, worn at the festival in August 1969.
  352. - Green Day remember the mud fight. Billie Joe Armstrong and Green Day recall their breakout Woodstock '94 performance in a 2024 radio interview.
  353. - The museum in March 2026. A walk through the Woodstock Museum galleries at Bethel Woods, filmed on 7 March 2026.
  354. - VH1 Rock Story on Woodstock '99. VH1's documentary account of the 1999 festival and what went wrong at Griffiss.
  355. - The real Woodstock location, 2026. A visit to Bethel Woods and its museum, distinguishing the actual 1969 site from the town of Woodstock that gave the festival its name.
  356. - Three days that changed everything. Feature documentary hosted by Mark Goodman with Richie Havens and Artie Kornfeld among the interviewees, on the festival and what followed.
  357. - How it became the defining moment. An account of how a three-day festival in upstate New York came to be treated as the symbol of an entire generation.
  358. - A podcast tribute to Michael Lang. Hosts revisit their 2020 interview with Michael Lang after his death, replaying his own account of the festival.
  359. - Michael Lang's own account, recorded 2020. Full interview with Michael Lang about how he made the festival happen, recorded before his death.
  360. - The 1994 director's cut on DVD. A look at the 1997 DVD of the 1994 director's cut, the near-four-hour extended edition of Wadleigh's film.

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