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“People kept turning up”: the legendary gig that Sly Stone called scary
Revisiting the iconic appearance of Sly and the Family Stone at the Woodstock Festival back in 1969, a truly legendary gig ...
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Don't call it Black Woodstock
Before almost half a million people flocked to an overwhelmed Bethel Woods, New York in August of 1969 for the Woodstock Music Festival ... culture and fashion. The overall event was bigger ...
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Oral history project to collect Woodstock, counterculture stories at ComFest
They included stories from counterculture shop owners, pioneers of fashion and several ... ComFest, or Community Festival, runs Friday to Sunday at Goodale Park. Anyone interested in sharing a story ...
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Why does 1969 Woodstock festival still matter? We yearn for that spirit of peace and love
How could the 1969 Woodstock festival still matter today? Life-and-death issues stare us in the face every day — from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine to the hate-fueled divisiveness right ...
Newsday11mon
Back to Woodstock, with Wi-Fi: Women return after 55 years to glamp and relive the famous festival
BETHEL, N.Y. — Beverly “Cookie” Grant hitchhiked to the Woodstock music festival in 1969 without a ticket and slept on straw. Ellen Shelburne arrived in a VW microbus and pitched a pup tent.
San Diego Union-Tribune10mon
Woodstock’s legacy: Reflections from musicians who played at the festival in 1969
How enduring is the impact of Woodstock, the legendary 1969 music festival that took place in upstate New York 55 years ago this week and drew nearly half a million attendees to hear such rock ...