Woodstock

Woodstock, otherwise known as Three Days of Peace and Music, has been one of the most talked about events of the hippie era. It all started out as an idea that four young named John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld, and Mike Lang, had. Roberts and Rosenman wanted to find ways to invest all of Roberts’ fortune and make even more money. They put an ad in The New York Times, looking for anyone that was interesting in their idea. This is when Kornfeld and Lang came in the picture. These two men had the idea of creating retreat for musicians in Woodstock New York, along with a recording studio. To pay for the studio, they came up with the idea of having a two-day concert expecting up to 50,000 people.
The event was gonna take place in Wallkill, New York, and tickets were being sold all around the country. Things went wrong when the city of Wallkill banned the concert because of all the hippies that were going to be there. Foreturnaltey, Max Yasgur, the owner of a 600 acre dairy farm in Bethnal New York, let them have the concert there.
Two days before the concert 50,000 people were already camping at the site. Since there was no time to build gates to stop people from walking in, the Woodstock Music Festival had to become a free concert. Because woodstock became a free concert, the organizers lost a tremendous amount of money. Police sent many cars back to where they come from, so about 500,000 people made it to woodstock. Performers were taken to the concert by helicopters, because traffic was so bad.
The Woodstock Music Festival started on Friday, August 15, of 1969. The first performer was Richie Havens. The show started up again Saturday in the afternoon, with Quill being the opener of that day. The music did not stop till 9 a.m. on Sunday. By Sunday night there were only 150,000 people left. Jimi Hendrix was the to perform at Woodstock. His last set ended on Monday morning. By then there were only 25,000 people in the crowd. Despite all the complications that the organizers went through, Woodstock became one of the most successful concerts of all time. The concert involved nudity, sex, drugs, not to mention mud, but it was also involved a massive amount of peace and incredible music.
-Carla Mendoza