An event advertised as "three days of peace and music" kicked off on a farm in Bethel, New York, on this day in history, Aug. 15, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, which would come to be known ...

Musician Sly Stone of the psychedelic soul group Sly and the Family Stone performs at the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, N.Y., on Aug. 17, 1969. Woodstock, the music festival that defined a generation, ...

In the summer of 1969, the festival to top all festivals took place on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York (the festival site was not actually in the town of Woodstock itself). The Woodstock Music and ...

BETHEL, N.Y. — The Woodstock Music Festival began on Aug. 15, 1969, and remains a symbol of the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Woodstock was a three-day music festival attended by mainly young ...

The week marks the 55th anniversary of the legendary Woodstock festival, which took place Aug. 15-18, 1969, on a grassy farm in upstate New York. An estimated 400,000 to 500,000 young music fans, many ...

BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) — Woodstock didn’t even happen in Woodstock. The fabled music festival, seen as one of the seminal cultural events of the 1960s, took place 60 miles (96.5 kilometers) away in Bethel, ...

When Woodstock 1969 was happening, it was simply a three-day music festival to celebrate peace and music in a time of political disturbance. But the event went on to become a significant cultural ...

Music festivals are among the most sacred aspects of the music industry, dating back to the Middle Ages. In the modern era, music festivals have served as weekend-long safe havens for fans of a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. With her camera, Lisa Law documented ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — John Morris, who helped organize the Woodstock Festival of Art and Music during the summer of 1969, died Friday. He was 84. According to his obituary, Morris died at his home in Santa ...

Yamim Ba’im, starring Orthodox Israeli superstar Ishay Ribo, will take place Aug. 7 at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts — the same site as the legendary 1969 Woodstock Festival. An Orthodox Jewish ...