This is a complete
compilation of articles published in the New York Times, reporting on the 1969
Woodstock Music and Arts Festival,
the events that
preceded the event, and the aftermath.
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Peaceful Rock Fete Planned Upstate
Jun 27, 1969, Friday
By LOUIS CALTA
Page 24, 334 words
The promoters of a rock music festival planned for mid-August in Wallkill, N. Y., met here yesterday to plan security measures. They hope to prevent disorders such as those that marred similar activities…
Woodstock Pop-Rock
Fete Hits Snag
Jul 17, 1969, Thursday
Special to The New York Times
Page 56, 362 words
WALLKILL, N.Y., July 16 -- This Orange County town of 8,000 has sounded a discordant note that threatens to drown out a pop - rock music festival scheduled to present such stars as…
Woodstock Festival
Vows to Carry On
Jul 18, 1969, Friday
By RICHARD F. SHEPARD
Page 16, 488 words
The producers of a mammoth three-day music festival in the Orange County town of Wallkill continued yesterday to make preparations for the fete, but a group of local residents said they would seek…
Pop Rock Festival
Finds New Home
Jul 23, 1969, Wednesday
By RICHARD F. SHEPARD
Page 30, 749 words
An ambitious pop rock festival is going west 30 miles in the hope of finding a warmer reception than the one received in Orange County's Wallkill, where the climate of opposition led to the search for another…
Rock Festival at
Bethel Defeats New Challenge
Aug 13, 1969, Wednesday
By McCANDLISH PHILLIPS
Page 38, 260 words
A move to block this week's pop rock festival at
Bethel, N. Y. -- the Woodstock Music and Art Fair and Aquarian Exposition -- was
dropped yesterday. A motion for an injunction against it was …
346 Policemen Quit
Music Festival
Aug 15, 1969, Friday
By LACEY FOSBURGH
Page 22, 969 words
The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival encountered its latest problem yesterday, one day before its opening, when the 346 off-duty New York policemen hired as "ushers" …
Aug 16, 1969, Saturday
By BARNARD L. COLLIER
Page 1, 1576 words
BETHEL, N. Y., Aug. 15 -A crowd estimated at more than 200,000 poured into this Catskill Mountain hamlet today for a three-day rock and folk music festival, creating massive traffic jams and…
Aug 17, 1969, Sunday
Special to The New York Times
Page 80, 74 words
Aug 17, 1969, Sunday
By BARNARD L. COLLIER
Page 1, 1753 words
BETHEL, N. Y., Aug. 16 -- Despite massive traffic jams, drenching rainstorms and shortages of food, water and medical facilities, about 300,000 young people swarmed over this rural…
Promoter Baffled
That Festival Drew Such a Big Crowd
Aug 17, 1969, Sunday
Special to The New York Times
Page 80, 910 words
BETHEL, N. Y., Aug. 16 -- The man at the head of it
all surveyed the scene at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair land Aquarian
Exposition tonight and expressed a certain bafflement…
Offstage Shows Are
'Out of Sight' at Music Festival
Aug 17, 1969, Sunday
By MURRAY SCHUMACH
Page 80, 582 words
BETHEL, N. Y., Aug. 16 -- Legends of tomorrow were formed here tonight.
Rock Audience Moves
to Dusk-to-Dawn Rhythms 12
Aug 18, 1969, Monday
By MIKE JAHN Special to The New York Times
Page 25, 666 words
BETHEL, N. Y., Monday, Aug. 18 -- The Band, the country-rock group that once was Bob Dylan's backup band, left the stage just before midnight last night as the…
Aug 18, 1969, Monday
By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN Special to The New York Times
Page 25, 758 words
MONTICELLO, N. Y., Aug. 17 -- "Like wow, these people are really beautiful, the cops, the storekeepers, the Army, everybody."
Tired Rock Fans
Begin Exodus; Tired Rock Fans Begin Exodus From Music Fair
Aug 18, 1969, Monday
By BARNARD L. COLLIER Special to The New York Times
Page 1, 1507 words
BETHEL, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 18 -- Waves of weary youngsters streamed away from the Woodstock Music and Art Fair last night and early today as security officials reported at least two deaths and…
Bethel Pilgrims
Smoke 'Grass' And Some Take LSD to 'Groove'
Aug 18, 1969, Monday
Special to The New York Times
Page 25, 623 words
BETHEL, N. Y., Aug. 17 -- A billowy haze of sweet smoke rose through purple spotlights from the sloping hillside where throngs of young people -- their average age about 20 -- sat or sprawled in…
FAIR'S FINANCIER
CALLS IT 'SUCCESS'; But He Estimates Losses as High as $2-Million
Aug 18, 1969, Monday
By RICHARD REEVES Special to The New York Times
Page 25, 572 words
BETHEL, N. Y., Aug. 17 -The young men who created the Woodstock Music and Art Fair were left today with the memory of a "beautiful thing" and, according to their figures, deeply in debt.
Aug 18, 1969, Monday
Page 34, 438 words
The dreams of marijuana and rock music that drew 300,000 fans and hippies to the Catskills had little more sanity than the impulses that drive the lemmings to march to their deaths in the sea. They ended in a …
19-HOUR CONCERT ENDS
BETHEL FAIR; Producer Says Town Has Asked Festival to Return
Aug 19, 1969, Tuesday
By WILLIAM E. FARRELL
BETHEL, N. Y., Aug. 18 -- Undaunted by rain, mud, wet clothes and chilly mountain breezes, thousands and thousands of youths sat on a rural hillside here for a marathon 19-hour session of folk-rock music…
Aug 19, 1969, Tuesday
Page 42, 354 words
City Councilman Here
Asks Investigation of Bethel Fair
Aug 19, 1969, Tuesday
Page 34, 170 words
City Councilman Joseph Modugno, whose son attended the folk-rock festival in Bethel, N. Y., and became ill, called yesterday for a Federal investigation of what he charged was "deliberate misrepresentation, …
Bethel Farmers Call
Fair a Plot 'to Avoid the Law'
Aug 20, 1969, Wednesday
By ALFONSO A. NARVAEZ
Page 37, 945 words
BETHEL, N. Y., Aug. 19 -- A number of Bethel residents threatened legal action today against the Town Board and the Woodstock Music and Art Fair to recover money they said they lost because…
Aug 21, 1969, Thursday
RALPH B. LEVERING
Page 40, 246 words
Many of those who attended the Bethel Music Festival -- including the entire
family of the writer who has just been made indignant upon reading your Aug. 18
editorial "Nightmare in the Catskills" -- imbibed …
Aug 22, 1969, Friday
Page 37, 488 words
The producers of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, faced with a million-dollar deficit and at least one lawsuit, promised yesterday to hold an even bigger festival next summer.
FARMER AT BETHEL
WARY OF ENCORE; Yasgur Denies Festival's Producer Talked to Him
Aug 23, 1969, Saturday
Page 30, 441 words
Max Yasgur, whose 600-acre dairy farm was the site of the music festival that drew hundreds of thousands of young people to Sullivan County last weekend, said yesterday that he had "no thoughts of renting…
' A Joyful
Confirmation That Good Things Can Happen Here'
Aug 24, 1969, Sunday
By PATRICK LYDON
Section: arts and leisure, Page D16, 974 words
IT ALL happened up at the farm and everything happened. Half a million kids -- hippies, rock people, and even straights -- ran up to the farm for a long weekend of rock 'n' roll music mixed with…
Woodstock: Like It
Was; Woodstock: Like It Was in Words Of Participants at Musical Fair
Aug 25, 1969, Monday
Page 1, 4216 words
In the minds of millions of adults who weren't there and who still imagine that popular music means Perry Como and Dinah Shore, it started out as a disaster, the kind of thing that makes governors call out…
State Investigating
Handling of Tickets At Woodstock Fair
Aug 27, 1969, Wednesday
Page 45, 252 words
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair is being investigated by the state because of "hundreds of complaints" from ticket holders who did not get in to see the musical performances.
Workmen, Who Remain
Unpaid, Still Cleaning Rock Festival Site
Aug 28, 1969, Thursday
Special to The New York Times
Page 43, 458 words
BETHEL, N.Y., Aug. 27 -- Nearly two weeks after 300,00 young people converged on a farm here for a three-day rock festival, workers are still toiling to smooth over the scars of mud, garbage and …
Sep 1, 1969, Monday
MARGOT H. GERSON
Page 16, 135 words
Sep 3, 1969, Wednesday
Page 46, 160 words
It is curious that in your extensive coverage of the Woodstock Festival no mention is made of the fact that at that fantastic outpouring there was an almost total absence of Negro youth. This is…
Sep 7, 1969, Sunday
By RICHARD REEVES
Section: Magazine, Page SM34, 4407 words
HERE comes Mike Lang! He's rolling along the New Jersey Turnpike in a U-Haul truck filled with a few thousand psychedelic posters and some other salable stuff. The kid from Brooklyn is coming…
Sep 9, 1969, Tuesday
By BARNARD L. COLLIER
Page 43, 1191 words
The four young men who created the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival that lured more than 300,000 rock and folk fans to the alfalfa fields of tiny Bethel, N. Y., last month are splitting up.
Oct 5, 1969, Sunday
KEITH ROBERTS
Section: magazine, Page SM54, 185 words
Richard Reeves's article about the promoters of the Woodstock Festival unfairly and nastily maligns Joel Rosenman, my brother's partner. I have known Joel for same time, and worked very closely with …
Woodstock Festival
Costs Bethel Official His Post
Nov 6, 1969, Thursday
Page 38, 108 words
REFUNDS SCHEDULED
FOR MUSIC FESTIVAL
Nov 21, 1969, Friday
Page 55, 148 words
People who were prevented from using their tickets to the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in Bethel, N. Y., last August will be able to get refunds up to a total of $15,000, State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz said yesterday.
Refunds Being Sent
To 4,062 Left Out of Woodstock Fair
Mar 2, 1970, Monday
Page 45, 160 words
Some ticket holders who were unable to gain admittance to the Woodstock Music Festival when several hundred thousand persons converged last August on the town of Bethel, N.Y., will be receiving…
Woodstock: A
Desperate Fear for the Future?
Apr 19, 1970, Sunday
By CRAIG McGREGOR
Section: Arts & Leisure, Page 99, 1001 words
Advertising:
Woodstock Sees a Pot o' Gold
Jun 16, 1970, Tuesday
By PHILIP H. DOUGAERTY
Section: Business & Finance, Page 77, 980 words
It just may be that the young entrepreneurs who created last year's Woodstock Music and Art Fair might find their way out of the financial hole they went into while making history.
2 at Woodstock
Festival Charged With Bad Checks
Aug 25, 1971, Wednesday
Special to The New York Times
Page 33, 158 words
MONTICELLO, N. Y., Aug. 24 -- Two concessionaires who sold nearly $100,000 worth of supplies at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival two years ago have been indicted on eight counts of grand larceny …
Where Have All the
Woodstock Flowers Gone?
Apr 16, 1972, Sunday
By FOSTER HIRSCH
Section: ARTS AND LEISURE, Page D11, 1024 words
WOODSTOCK, 1969, the Youth Movement was riding high on energy and purpose: a sunny, spirited, sensuous three-hour movie of the Event, more people shown on a screen in that final shot than in…
A Toilet Cleaner
Loses Suit Over 'Woodstock'
Nov 18, 1974, Monday
Page 73, 128 words
A maintenance man shown cleaning toilets in the film "Woodstock" had his suit for damages for invasion of privacy denied yesterday.
*Additional NY Times
articles written about Max Yasgur and Michael Wadleigh’s “Woodstock” can be
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