This week in music we celebrate the 50th anniversary of an iconic and historical music festival, that would close out the decade of the 60s
we're talking about "Woodstock", where 500,000 people would gather in Bethel, new york on a farm owned by a man who took a chance on letting
all these people gather none other than Max Yasgur, who was also impressed that all of that crowd could come together for three days of
peace, love and music and survive all the rain and mud that would come along with that memorable weekend with such acts as Country joe
& The Fish, Ritchie Havens, John B. Sebastian, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Janis Joplin, Sly & The Family Stone,
The band, The Greatful Dead, burt Sommer, melanie, Joe Cocker, Sweetwatter, Melanie, Canned Heat, Leslie West & Mountain, Ten Years After, and of course Jimi Hendrix along with many many more
to have come to play for that tremendously large crowd of people. Everyone who attended this festival should be commended for all of
the conditions they survived for that weekend including food shortage, bathroom conditions, lack of drinking water and so much more. On the
50th anniversary of this legendary festival we won't have as big of a festival to go and celebrate but what they will have for us are three giant
legends playing at Bethelwoods where the festival took place in August of 1969 starting on Friday August 16th with Ringo Starr and his All Star Band
taking the stage at 7 p.m. but there will be other festivities going on that day at Bethelwoods including a book signing by rock journalist
and author Mike Greenblatt who's book just came out in mid-july called "Woodstock 50: Back To Yasgur's Farm" Mike was an original attendee
of the original festival and was practically right in the front row for the show and tells his experiences of being in that crowd of 500,000
people and he'll be there signing copies of his book and answering questions for anyone who has any for him as well, he will be there all three days .
Along with Mike Greenblatt there will be some bands performing on an outdoor stage before Ringo goes on that night one band included on the
outdoor stage is Grammy nominated band American Nomads who will be taking the stage at 5:00 p.m. and will perform until 6:30 in honor of the
50th anniversary of Woodstock American Nomads have a new single written to pay homage to the woodstock era and that song is entitled
"1969" the link to their youtube video of this song will be at the end of this article. On August 17th at Bethelwoods you can catch
Santana an original alumni member of the 1969 woodstock festival and he'll be joined that night by the Doobie Brothers as a supporting act ,
and to close out the weekend of festivities at bethelwoods will be another original woodstock alumni memebr none other than John Fogerty on
sunday August 17th. There is so much you can do and see at Bethelwoods besides see the great weekend of shows there like you can check out
the meuseum of the original woodstock festival. If for some reason you can't get to the festivities there is always some other options like
the new 3-cd version of the complete woodstock music out to buy in stores or digitally right now or there is the big full and complete vrsion
of all the performances that were at woodstock and that's called Woodstock 50: Back To The Garden and that is 38-cds along with the director's cut of the movie
a book of the history of the festival, and much much more so be sure to go out and get into that hippie mode and play that woodstock memorable
music.
Link to the current single with over 20,000 views on youtube and counting and has also been just recently released to 2,000 radio stations please check out this song it will put you in the mood for some classic woodstock music for sure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAaU_d8OUxM
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