Plans are finally coming together for a multi-day music event in celebration of Woodstock‘s upcoming 50th anniversary at the original location of the historic music festival. The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts announced on Thursday that a three-day event will take place on August 16th-18th in 2019, and will be held at the same location where the original Woodstock Music & Arts Festival took place back on August 15th-17th, 1969.
The 2019 event will be produced by Live Nation, with a live experiential marketing agency known as INVNT also coming on to help bring the project to life. Co-founder of the original Woodstock, Michael Lang, is also planning to stage his own celebratory event, although no announcement has been made yet.
The official event will be the Bethel Woods Music and Culture Festival, “celebrating the golden anniversary at the historic site of the 1969 Woodstock festival.” According to their Facebook page, the three-day event will be aimed towards fans across all age generations, and will plan on featuring live music, TED-style talks, and special exhibits. No line-up of performers has been announced as of yet.
The original Woodstock Music & Arts Festival took place in August of 1969 in the small community of Bethel, NY near White Lake. Performers including Joan Baez, Santana, The Who, Grateful Dead, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Ten Years After, Jimi Hendrix and Country Joe McDonald all performed at the orignal concert and many are still alive and still available to perform at the reunion. Nearly a half a million people attended the first event, shutting down the New York State Thruway.
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