The Woodstock Music Festival began on August 15, 1969, as half a million people waited on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for the three-day music festival to start. Billed as “An Aquarian Experience: 3 Days of Peace and Music,” the epic event would later be known simply as Woodstock and become synonymous with the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Woodstock was a success, but the massive concert didn’t come off without a hitch: Last-minute venue changes, bad weather and the hordes of attendees caused major headaches. Still, despite—or because of—a lot of sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll and rain, Woodstock was a peaceful celebration and earned its hallowed place in pop culture history. See for more. See the Movie.
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Wooden Ships
Canned Heat – Going up the Country
Santana – Soul Sacrifice
Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends
The Who — See Me, Feel Me
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
Janis Joplin – Piece of My Heart
Richie Havens – Freedom
Jimi Hendrix – The Star Spangled Banner
Ten Years After – I’m Going Home
Arlo Guthrie – Coming Into Los Angeles
Joni Mitchell – Woodstock
Melanie – Beautiful People
Joan Baez – Joe Hill
John Sebastian – Younger Generation
Country Joe McDonald – I-feel-like-I’m-fixing- to-die-rag
The Incredible String Band – When You Find Out Who You Are
Mountain – Beside The Sea
Creedence Clearwater Revival – I Put A Spell On You
Sly & The Family Stone – Dance to the music
The Band – “Tears Of Rage
Johnny Winter – Mean Town Blues
Sweetwater – What’s Wrong
Lew Soloff performing “Spinning Wheel”” with Blood, Sweat & Tears
Sha-Na-Na – At The Hop
Grateful Dead Live at Woodstock 1969
Pandit Ravi Shankar
Keef Hartley band