Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Woodstock 1969 was happening, it was simply a three-day music festival to celebrate peace and music in a time of political ...

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 ...

In mid-August 1969, hundreds of thousands of people swarmed Max Yasgur’s Farm in upstate New York to attend the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, but Joni Mitchell sadly wasn’t one of them. Despite being ...

Woodstock is often remembered as a rock concert celebrating peace, love and music. But one of the best parts of the original 1969 festival in Upstate New York was playing a very different sound, ...

They nearly canceled the festival twice in the days before it began, with permits revoked, roads clogged, and organizers scrambling to find land and security. When half a million people showed up with ...