Uncovering the story behind the art Jul 1, 2009
I went to the Woodstock Festival looking like my image in this self-portrait trying to retrieve 18 of my paintings that I believed had been stolen, he writes. That is probably why I was accused of being a F.B.I. Agent trying to set up a sting operation at the festival about drugs. (Boston Globe)
This time, Newsom plays it straight May 27, 2009
Michael Lang, co-creator of the original 1969 Woodstock Festival, claims exclusive control over the Woodstock trademark and has sicced the lawyers on Boots. Lang tells us he would allow the show to go on under the name "WestFest - A Celebration of Woodstock's 40th Anniversary.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Hippy bootcamp May 17, 2009
His story operates as the film's focal point, while the actual Woodstock Festival provides the backdrop. But Lee insists that, unlike his award-winning drama Brokeback Mountain, this is not another film about homosexuality. (BBC News)
Report from Cannes: Ang Lee's Woodstock Aberration May 17, 2009
But when he reads that the Woodstock festival planned for that August has been denied a permit in a nearby town, he calls the promoters and invites them to White Lake and its neighboring town Bethel, where farmer Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy) might be willing to rent it to them for $5,000. Make that $75,000, when he learns how desperate they are. (Time.com)
Cannes race gets serious as heavyweights step up May 16, 2009
The cheering hippie film by the maker of "Brokeback Mountain" is a hilariously funny and moving take on how a family running a rundown motel get involved with the promoters of the 1969 Woodstock festival attended by half a million people. Campion's "Bright Star" drew a mixed response from critics. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Big talent booked for Myrna concerts May 16, 2009
Havens, whose career dates back to the mid-1960s and who famously played the opening show at the Woodstock festival in 1969, plays Aug. 9. Shocked, touring in support of her 13th album, Soul of My Soul, will play a June 15 show. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Sun rises on Cannes 2009 May 14, 2009
Lee takes a humorous look at the 1960s Woodstock festival, Suleiman offers a Palestinian family saga, while in an out-of-competition movie, Anne Aghion's 'My Neighbour, My Killer' recounts the chilling aftermath of the Rwanda genocide. The late Heath Ledger's unfinished stint in Terry Gilliam's 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus', being screened out of competition, is also guranteed to create a buzz at the festival which ends on 24 May. (iAfrica.com)
Taos events mark 'Easy Rider' anniversary, '60s May 5, 2009
Country Joe McDonald will recreate his performance from 1969's Woodstock festival at a June 6 concert. "Our approach to the whole thing was to really have fun with it," said the town's public relations director, Cathy Connelly. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
The Woodstock Festival Builds an Online Community for the 21st Century Apr 17, 2009
com will also offer a platform where fans can share their experiences from all of the Woodstock Festivals ('69,'94 & '99) as well as other live concert events ... com will also premiere WikiStock, an interactive wiki-style encyclopedia of all things Woodstock, which will accept and incorporate contributions about the individual experiences visitors have had at Woodstock festivals over the years ... com is being created under the auspices of Michael Lang and Joel Rosenman, two of the founders of... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Woodstock founder plans 'sequel' Mar 25, 2009
Michael Lang, the co-founder of the legendary 1969 Woodstock festival, is reportedly seeking sponsors for a 40th anniversary reprise in New York City. "The chances that something will happen are probable," he told the Times. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Hollywood Undead: The New 'Nookie' Monsters Of Rock Mar 12, 2009
NEWS : STOR 00003CDB IES. Is it time for a nu-metal/ rap-rock revival. (VHI.com -- Music News)
A Gift of Music: Michael Grande presents a concert for Valentine's Day (4) Feb 16, 2009
Beginning his career at the original Woodstock Festival, Grande was picked up by Richie Havens, then traveled the world with him for the next three years, playing both with Havens band and solo, in the great opera houses of Europe. (Use arrows above to view more photos). (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
29 places to go in 2009 Feb 7, 2009
Why go in 2009: The 40th anniversary of the momentous Woodstock Festival will draw visitors to explore both the festivals artsy namesake town and the site of the original 1969 event at the modern-day Bethel Woods Arts Center, where visitors today can catch al fresco concerts and peep into the newly dedicated Woodstock Museum, which masterly documents the festival and its surrounding 1960s social and political movements. Meanwhile, the magnificent Mohonk Mountain House (www. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Arlo Guthrie coming to Rockport to headline Bay Chamber Concerts benefit Mar 15, 2008
That same year Guthrie appeared in the original Woodstock Festival. With songs like "Alice's Restaurant," which is too long for frequent radio airplay, "Coming into Los Angeles," which was banned from many radio stations, and the definitive rendition of Steve Goodman's "City of New Orleans," Guthrie is not a one-hit-wonder. (Courier Publications, ME)
Today's best bets Feb 9, 2008
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A frightened world ponders ultimate loneliness Dec 20, 2007
A similar scene takes 00004000 place in The Omega Man, the second filming of I Am Legend, when Robert Neville (played by Charlton Heston) sits in an empty theatre watching footage of the Woodstock festival and quoting the lines of an idealistic concert-goer. Serling made the most direct examination of the subject in Where Is Everybody. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
TEMPO: Michaels Christmas Concert: Dont miss Grande at Our Lady of the Mountains Friday Dec 8, 2007
After the original Woodstock Festival, he was picked up by Richie Havens. He traveled the world for three years, then opened for such music greats as Jose Feliciano, John Lee Hooker, James Taylor and many others. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Community conversations should be offered with humility Nov 27, 2007
Humility in life is such an asset, despite words from Joan Baez, the Woodstock Festival folksinger and songwriter who said: "I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble about it.". There are many things I like about Baez, mostly her music. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
'We don't care if we suck' Nov 26, 2007
The following year, they joined Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Who and other giants of the era to perform at the Woodstock festival, which saw flower power go out in a blaze of purple-hazed glory. Around here, it feels as if musical history is etched into the landscape. (Guardian Unlimited)
Hillary bashing -- the new GOP game Nov 15, 2007
Someone born in the year of the Woodstock festival is now 38, and it's not just liberal Democrats hoping The Who go on tour next year. Normally, the party that holds the White House campaigns on their president's record. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Calls from Pakistan Nov 12, 2007
Charles Schumer had nothing to do with an effort to revive a $1 million earmark for the Woodstock festival museum in Bethel, N.Y., after it had been rejected by the full Senate. Appropriations Committee staffers on their own partially restored the proposal in the final version of a spending bill even though it had not been passed by either house. (Human Events Online)
PAK PUGILISTS BESIEGE BIDEN Nov 10, 2007
and opposi tion leader Benazir Bhutto each placed phone calls from Pakistan to Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Woodstock museum staying open Oct 30, 2007
The Woodstock festival was billed as "three days of peace and love". Aside from the drugs, mud and rain, there were career-defining performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and a myriad of others. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Peace, love, politics at Woodstock Oct 29, 2007
The museum's mission is to put into perspective the events of the 1960s, including the Vietnam War and the assassination of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, which were followed by counterculture rebellions and a burst of folk and rock creativity that culminated in the Woodstock festival. At the Woodstock concert site, where the autumnal glory of the Catskills had just reached its peak late last week, there were amazement and understanding about how a long-sought infusion of... (Boston Globe -- Nation)
Woodstock museum to open in Bethel, N.Y., next year despite loss of federal funding Oct 29, 2007
The Woodstock festival was billed as "three days of peace and love," and drew about 500,000 people to the natural amphitheater on Max Yasgur's farm. Aside from the drugs, mud and rain, there were career-defining performances by Jimi Hendrix, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and Janice Joplin and myriad others. (AZCentral -- News)
Woodstock Museum Becomes A Campaign Issue Oct 28, 2007
Officially it will be the Museum at Bethel Woods, and it will be focused on the Woodstock festival, the "three days of peace and music" that took place here in August 1969. But the museum has been tagged by critics with a different name: the Hippie Museum. (CBS News)
ACU Hails Defeat of Taxpayer Funding for Hippie Museum Oct 20, 2007
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene says the successful effort by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) to eliminate one million dollars of taxpayer funds for an arts center dedicated to the Woodstock Festival of 1969 is a victory over liberal hypocrisy. "The fact that this was part of a bill to fund children's health and education programs puts the lie to liberals in Congress who have fought every attempt to restrain the massive increases in... (PR Newswire)
UPDATE: Earmarxists Lose on Summer of Love Museum Oct 20, 2007
Tom Coburn (R-Ok) engineered a successful floor fight against the Clinton-Schumer $1 million earmark to support the Hippiefest museum on the site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. Conservatives should cheer this small victory and encourage Coburn and the other earmark-fighters to keep at it. (Human Events Online)
Earmarxists Commemorate the Hippie Summer of Love Oct 18, 2007
The Bethel Performing Arts Center, near Liberty, NY, is on the site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. According to its website, the museum, Through dramatic imagery, audio-visual technology and immersive interactives, this exhibition tells the story of the 1969 [Woodstock] festival and its significance in a time of unrest and change, concluding with the myth, reality, and impact of the Woodstock Festival today. (Human Events Online)
PORK PAYBACK Oct 18, 2007
The 1 million goes to the performing arts center of the Bethel Museum in Liberty, the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Festival. Coburn argues that a "taxpayer-funded Woodstock flashback" cuts into the government's Education for Homeless Children and Youth grants. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Earmarks Over All Oct 18, 2007
The $1 million goes to the performing arts center of the Bethel Museum in Liberty, N.Y., the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Festival ... The $1 million goes to the performing arts center of the Bethel Museum in Liberty, N.Y., the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Festival. (Townhall.com)
Return Ticket To Redwood City Sep 20, 2007
A New York investment group run by one of the promoters of the 1969 Woodstock festival has sued disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu for allegedly funneling $40 million in financing for a nonexistent clothing company into political campaign contributions and an "extravagant international lifestyle." ... The investors were headed by Joel Rosenman, one of the four promoters of the original Woodstock festival. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
That's Entertainment!: Forgach House presents 12th annual Variety Show at BPAC Sep 20, 2007
Born in Brooklyn, he began playing professionally at the original Woodstock Festival, which is where he met Richie Havens. He spent the next three years traveling the world with Richie s band. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
The Skinny: Computer Geeks Scoop Al Qaeda Sep 13, 2007
A company controlled by Hsu recently received $40 million from a Madison Avenue investment fund run by Joel Rosenman, one of the creators of the Woodstock festival in 1969, the Journal reports. And that money, Rosenman told investors this week, is missing. (CBS News)
Sunday's Summer of Love concert lineup Aug 31, 2007
Among the guest master of ceremonies will be Wavy Gravy, Woodstock festival producer Artie Kornfeld and poet Lenore Kandel of "The Love Book.". 9:15 a.m.. (San Francisco Chronicle)
End of the Woodstock era: Max Yasgur's farm for sale Aug 9, 2007
The 1969 Woodstock festival was held in a nearby alfalfa field, but that parcel isn't included in the sale. Roy Howard, the current owner, is packing it in after years of tangling with local officials over permits for reunion gatherings to mark the three-day Woodstock music festival in 1969 that helped ignite a generation. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
18 minutes and 40 years later Aug 7, 2007
He looks like he just stumbled out of the Woodstock festival parking lot -- one might expect to find Guthrie in a nostalgic frame of mind. Or not. (Boston Globe)
Woodstock property for sale Aug 7, 2007
The 103-acre estate is about two miles from the site of the Woodstock festival and also includes a 7,000 square foot calving barn ... The Aug. 15-18, 1969 Woodstock festival drew more than 450,000 revelers to see performers including Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Crosby, Stills, Nash. (AZCentral -- Business)
Brits in Northern Ireland: Mission Over Aug 2, 2007
Operation Banner began in August 1969, the same weekend that hippies were gathering in upstate New York for the Woodstock Festival. After street violence overwhelmed local police, troops wearing World War II-issue steel helmets were sent in to separate rioting factions of Protestants and Catholics. (Time.com)
I want to take you ... lower Jul 16, 2007
It is over 20 years since he went completely AWOL; 36 since he made his last masterpiece, 1971's There's A Riot Goin' On; 39 since Sly amily Stone had their first hit with 'Dance to the Music', and subsequently stole the show at the Woodstock festival with their extended, crowd-galvanising performance of 'I Want To Take You Higher. Now, 40 years after he formed the group, made up of friends and family members, that went on to change the course of popular music, Sly Stone, the Godfather of... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Love fest: 40th anniversary Jul 16, 2007
McDonald became a counterculture rock star with The Fish Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag, a satirical anti-war song that became a hippie anthem after he and his band performed it at the 1969 Woodstock festival in upstate New York. DON KOHLBAUER / Union-Tribune Tijuana's David Choy and La Mesa's Briana Gomez, both 17, regard the Summer of Love as a keycultural event. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The fortnight that wasn't Jul 1, 2007
Organizers of "Live Earth," the 24-hour, seven-continent concert featuring more than 100 artists, said they expected the July 7 event would "trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis" in much the same way that the 1969 Woodstock Festival succeeded in bringing peace and love to the world. Buoyed by the success of a series of recent sequels, a collaborative of the major Hollywood studios announced the summer's "ultimate sequel," "Fantastic Spidershrek of the Caribbean Ocean's Almighty... (Boston Globe)
Hymn For My Soul| Jun 24, 2007
Quite amazing, if you recall that he was one of the star attractions at the Woodstock Festival with numbers such as 'Delta Lady' and 'Lets Get Stoned. He hit the high time in the '60s, nearly drowned in the booze and drugs in the '70s, but bounced right back in the '80s and '90s with classics such as 'You Are So Beautiful', 'You Can Leave Your Hat On', 'When The Night Comes' and 'Feels Like Forever. (iAfrica.com)
Michael Grande presents a concert for history at church Jun 22, 2007
While at the original Woodstock Festival, he was picked up by Richie Havens and toured the world for three years. Managed by the prestigious William Morris Agency and Neil Portman, Grande went on to share the stage with such greats as James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, John Lee Hooker, Jose Feliciano and many others. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
What We Believe: The Bahai Faith May 25, 2007
It all started in 1969, he said, when he was getting ready to go to the Woodstock Festival and visited his favorite bookstore in New York City's Greenwich Village. As he reached for a book on a very high shelf, he recalled, a booklet fell to the floor, facing down. (North County Times)
Eric Clapton: The 'Road' less traveled Mar 16, 2007
Chris Stainton: As an original member of Joe Cocker's Grease Band, this English keyboardist performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. His other credits include albums with The Who, Spooky Tooth, Marianne Faithfull and jazz organ great Jimmy Smith. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Film on champion in fight to end slavery ready to sweep across U.S., UK Feb 10, 2007
Arlo Guthrie performed it at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. In 1970 a version by US singer Judy Collins spent 67 weeks in the UK charts. (WorldNetDaily)
Bold Vistas for Microsoft Jan 31, 2007
A trio of TV spots that broke last night are more traditional, showing vignettes of historic and personal moments of amazement, such as the Woodstock Festival, the Mercury 7 space launch and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Each ad ends with a man in an office starting his computer. (MediaWeek.com)
Jimi Hendrix name to be used on new energy beverage Jan 25, 2007
After making his debut in 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival and then performing at the historic Woodstock Festival in 1969, Jimi died one year later in 1970 at the age of 27 from a drug overdose in London. Since his untimely death, Hendrix has become synonymous with the electric guitar and is credited with influencing everyone from The Who and Prince to Public Enemy and Wyclef Jean. (Actress Archives)
Rage Against the Machine Reunites for Coachella 2007 Jan 23, 2007
In a protest to the widely-criticized Woodstock festival, which was notorious for its $4 bottles of water, Coachella promoters handed out a free bottle of water to all attendees. At the point of their break-up in 2000, Rage Against the Machine had become one of the most popular political hard rock bands of all time, and certainly of the 1990s. (Playfuls.com)
