It might be meter to bring thetie - dyeheadbands and bell bottomland out of computer memory . The legendary Woodstock concert is celebrating its 50th anniversary in the biggest way possible : with a three - daymusicfestival at the same situation where Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin , and The Who performed in August 1969 . As theAssociated Pressreports , the former Woodstockgroundsin Bethel , New York will play master of ceremonies to musical acts spanning multiple genres from August 16 to 18 , 2019 .
The card for the effect , call the Bethel Woods Music and Culture Festival , has n’t been announced yet . However , both " prominent and emerge artists " will be on the bill , according to the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts , which have the concert andcultural venueas well as a ' 60s - themed museum on the site .
As for the " culture " half of the fete , it will feature " TED - style talks from leading futurist and retro - tech expert , " as the arts shopping mall describes it . Guests will also have access to the upcoming exhibit at the Museum at Bethel WoodsWe Are fortunate : Reflections on the 50th day of remembrance of the Woodstock Festival and Aspirations for an Aquarian Future , which spread March 30 .
Bethel Woods also held a festival marking the40th anniversaryof Woodstock in 2009 , which featured performances by Richie Havens ( who spread out the original Woodstock ) , Country Joe McDonald , Big Brother and the Holding Company , Canned Heat , and Jefferson Starship .
Although 400,000 people attended theoriginalWoodstock — a seemingly insufferable number by today ’s standard — the out-of-door coliseum at Bethel Woods concur just 15,000 people . Still , it ’s big than a number of the rural area ’s other famed outdoorvenues , like the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison , Colorado , or the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago .
In recent years , tourists have cluster to Bethel to take a historic walking tour of the Woodstock situation . Last summertime , researchers from New York ’s Binghamton University also held an archeological dig to gain a deep sympathy of the grounds , but the " artifacts"they foundwere mostly shards of disordered bottles and perpetrate yellow journalism from aluminum cans . Still , it facilitate them put on a dependable sympathy of where certain performers stood , which will be used to create what the museum calls " interpretive walking path " for the 50th anniversary celebration .
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