10. What is Woodstock:
“ A half a million young people can get
together and have three days of fun and
music and have nothing but fun and music
and I God bless you for it”
Max Yasgur
11. Founders of Woodstock John Roberts, Joel
Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld &
Mike Lang
Woodstock was a
profit making venture
titled “Woodstock
Ventures”
12. ● 7$ for one day
● 13$ for two days
● 18$ for all three
days
● Estimate 50 000 pax
186 000 Ticket sold
13. Location …….
● Wallkill industrial park
was 1st Designated area,
but the town passed a law
on the 2nd July 1969
banned festival in vicinity
● Bethel-Dairy Farm 600
acres in mid- July
● Both in the New York
district
14. Max Yasgur’s Dairy farm
Elliot
Tibet
helps
find this
location.
Max Yasgur
owns the 600
acre dairy
farm
15. Where things went wrong:
● 3 days before the concert the
people started camping at
the festival without buying
tickets
● Ticket booth and adequate
fencing were not set up yet.
● So on the 15th of August it
was decided free pass for
everyone
16. 500 000 people in attendance
Festival staff were volunteers.
19. Other
Activities:
∙ Swimming
∙ Yoga
∙ American Indian Art
Exhibit
∙ “Movement City”
∙ Drug
dealing/purchasing
∙ Children’s playground
∙ Free food service
20. • Financial loss
• Lack of food
• Lack of
sanitation
The Magic of
Woodstock
• Lack of medical staff
• 500,000 descended on
Woodstock
• Traffic congestion
• Bad weather
22. I came upon a child of god
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, where are you going
And this he told me
I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farm
I’m going to join in a rock n roll band
I’m going to camp out on the land
I’m going to try an get my soul free
Then can I walk beside you
I have come here to lose the smog
And I feel to be a cog in something turning
Well maybe it is just the time of year
Or maybe its the time of man
I don’t know who l am
But you know life is for learning
By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was song and celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation
We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devils bargain
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
The Music
· 31 acts over 4 days
∙ over 200 songs
performed
∙Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame
∙ American popular
music
