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Plan For Woodstock Concieved
Michael Lang and Artie Kornfield pair up with John Roberts and Joel Rosenman, as Lang and Kornfield wanted to open their own recording studio in Woodstock. They planned to raise the money to do this by holding a 2 day music festival, which would later become the famous Woodstock music festival. -
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Woodstock TImeline
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An Industrial Mill Is Leased For The Event
The young men find a 300 acre industrial park in Wallhill, New York. They lease it from a man named Howard Mills for $10,000. -
The Town Of Wallkill Shows Distaste For The Event
The townspeople of Wallkill don't want a bunch of hippies congregrating in their town, and protest the event being held there. They didn't want them there doing a bunch of drugs and causing trouble, and the young men planning it try to convince them otherwise. -
The Town of Wallkill Passes a Law Banning The Event
Unable to be persuaded, the town of Wallkill rids itself of hosting the planned Woodstock event. This shook up the planning and supporters of the festival by a lot, due to the fact that they had to find a location with only a month and a half until the event was supposed to be held. -
2nd Day of Woodstock
The music starts again, at noon, and featured some big psychedelic artists at the time, including Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, and The Who. The music continues until 9 am the next day! -
Elliot Tiber Brings A Solution
Elliot Tiber had an offer of land for the event to be held on. Lang wasn't convinced that it would be the best land, but he had a friend named Max Yasgur with a 600 acre dairy farm who was willing to host the festival there. Lang and Yasgur make a deal to host it there for $75,000, and a location for Woodstock is found. -
Town of Bethel Approves Woodstock
The town allows them to host a 3 day music festival, and they sey that they are expecting around 50,000 people to attend the event. -
Less Time to Build Makes For Lack of Preparation
Since the location had to be changed last minute, the building of concession stands, outhouses, and other necessities had to be rushed. Also, the predicted number of people attending had skyrocketed from 50,000 to almost 200,000. This left a lot of the event unprepared, and they rushed to get in more water, lavatories, and supplies. They didn't have time to build ticketbooths or gates. Many people had already arrived, and since they didn't have time to put up any gates, they had to make it free. -
The Festival Is Set To Begin
The event was scheduled to start at 4 p.m., but there was so much traffic that artists and people hadn't all yet arrived, although hundreds of thousands were already in attendance. At 5 p.m., the artist Ritchie Havens kicked off the festival with a set that included some Beatle's covers. Several other artists followed after him until the conclusion of that friday night. -
Final Day of Woodstock
The final day carried on from Sunday to Monday, and was famously closed with an improvised cover of the Star Spangled Banner performed by Jimi Hendrix. That ended the music festival that was an iconic event in American history. -
The Woodstock Documentary Is Released
A documentary that filmed the events of Woodstock was directed by Michael Wadleigh. It was released on this day.
