50th anniversary Woodstock Music Festival is a photograph by Randall Nyhof which was uploaded on January 28th, 2019.
50th anniversary Woodstock Music Festival
50th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival 1969-2019.
Woodstock was a music festival held on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains,... more
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50th anniversary Woodstock Music Festival
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Randall Nyhof
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Photograph - Fine Art Photography
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50th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival 1969-2019.
Woodstock was a music festival held on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains, northwest of New York City, between August 15–18, 1969, which attracted an audience of more than 400,000.
Billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", it was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm near White Lake in Bethel, New York, 43 miles (70 km) southwest of Woodstock.
Over the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation. Rolling Stone listed it as number 19 of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.
After the concert, Max Yasgur, who owned the site of the event, saw it as a victory of peace and love. He spoke of how nearly half a million people filled with potential for disaster, riot, looting, and catastrophe spent the three days with music and peace on their minds. He stated, "If we join them, we can turn those adversities that are the problems of America today into a hope for a brighter and more peaceful future ... "
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January 28th, 2019