WOODSTOCK 3 Days of Peace & Music [50th Anniversary]

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Woodstock was a music festival held 50 years ago, August 15–18, 1969, which attracted an audience of more than 4,00,000.
Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", it was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 43 miles (70 km) southwest of Woodstock. 
It was alternatively referred to as the Bethel Rock Festival or the Aquarian Music Festival. 
Thirty-two acts performed outdoors despite sporadic rain. 
It has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, as well as the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation. 
I remember my Dad taking me to EROS Theatre to see the film when it was released.
[wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock]
Bobbi and Nick Ercoline, the couple on the iconic Woodstock album ... together decades later!



Judy & Jerry Griffin at Woodstock 48 hours after they met, and 50 years later ...




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