How The Woodstock Music Festival That Changed American Culture

If you haven't ever heard of Woodstock, then you don't know what the greatest musical festival was. Woodstock was all about peace, love and music and it was the musical festival that changed how we look at music today . The Woodstock Music and Art Festival was a three day festival that was held in Bethel, New York. It was a historic event that changed many people’s outlook on life, and was a big part of what was known as the hippie movement. The original idea of the festival was suppose to be this small, simple festival for a couple thousand people, but it turned out to have around half a million people from all over the United States. Some of the greatest and most influential musicians performed at Woodstock, but some of the even better musicians
At the end of the three days, many of the people left with a new perspective life and how they saw peace, love, and music. Woodstock was the name of the famous music festival, but the name actually came from the idea of building a recording studio in Woodstock, New York, and naming it Woodstock. So many musicians were moving to the town by the late sixties so they thought it would be fitting to build a studio in the town. They wanted to hold a music festival to kick off the beginning of the music studio and raise money to build it. The town denied the idea of holding the music festival in the town. No matter how the young men and their lawyers spun it, the citizens did not want a bunch of drugged up hippies coming into their town. After much dispute, the town passed a law on July 2, 1969 that effectively banned the concert from their festival was know only a month and a half away and they didn't have a place to hold it. The festival was eventually moved to Max Yasgur’s 600 acre dairy farm on the outskirts of Bethel, New York. The festival was set to
The oldest of the four was only 27 years old at the time of the Woodstock Festival. The four were able to get some of the biggest rock musicians at the time, such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Who. Between these four people, they had many important contacts in the music industry, knowledge of the youth and counterculture market, and financial means to get this festival started. With their contacts they were able to get thirty-two performers to show up and some of them were very well known during that year. Artie Kornfield was the one who had the most experience out of all four of them. According to a history expert who wrote the article, The Woodstock Festival of 1969 for AboutEducation, she said the rest of them had little experience to get things established for the festival so it became more of a “let’s put on a rock festival, we’ll call all our friends” situation. (AboutEducation.) Arnold Skolnick, who designed the poster of a guitar and dove, described this festival as "Something was tapped, a nerve, in this country. And everybody just came. The whole festival itself had cost about $2.4 million just to fund. The oldest of the four, John Roberts, who was 27 at the time, supplied most of the money from a multi-millionaire trust fund he had from pharmaceuticals. Their advertising did not focus on the names of the performers who would make an