Journal Woodstock en Anglais

« Woodstock festival A unique festival, never to be seen again Let's go back 50 years to talk about one of the biggest music festivals in history.

3 days of pure music and peace, over an half million of attendees.

The Woodstock Festival is just the symbol of the festival for a whole generation.

In this article, we'll retrace its history, from its creation through the twists and turns that made it one of the world's most influential festivals, right up to its end. The Woodstock festival took place in New York state at Bethel, was supposed to dure to the 15th august 1969 from 17 august 1969 and was expecting 50 000 attendees, at least the festival finished the 18th august 1969 in the morning with a high score of a half million attendees, ten times more than expected. Michael Lang Artie Kornfeld Joel Rosenman John Roberts So the public was very receptive to the festival and the atmosphere it created. Indeed, at the start of the festival, none of the programmed artists wanted to play first, for fear of the audience's reaction.

So it was Richie Havens, after a hurried arrival by helicopter because the site was overloaded with people, who began a folkloric chase with the rest of the audience to get them on stage. Everything happend thanks to Michael Lang, but also Artie Kornfeld, a musician and producer and also two investors: Joel Rosenman and John Roberts.

More precisly, the festival took place in a hayfield next to the town. It caused some problems with the long rain period, the mud in the whole field and more. However, many issues quickly appeared... Only with the increase in attendance due to a radio New York announcement that the festival was free, it quickly became chaotic. There was already 200 000 peoples on Saturday evening. For example, the heavy consumption of drugs and alcohol increased the violence.

As for the organization, it also quickly became a mess. At first, people slept in tents, then the other arrivals ended up sleeping on the ground in the mud for.... »