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Woodstock Music and Art Fair Poster for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, August 15–18, 1969.

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Ed Ward
(d. 2021)Rock critic and historian who wrote for Rolling Stone, Cream, and Crawdaddy magazines. Author of The History of Rock & Roll, Volume...
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The most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15–17, 1969. It was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who’s who of current rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, and Country Joe and the Fish. The festival began to go wrong almost immediately when the towns of both Woodstock and Wallkill, New York, denied permission to stage it. (Nevertheless, the name Woodstock was retained because ...(100 of 336 words)

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