The company offices were located in an oddly decorated floor of 47 West 57th Street in Manhattan. Kornfeld and Lang agreed to the new plan, and Woodstock Ventures was formed in January 1969. Unpersuaded by this Studio-in-the-Woods proposal, Roberts and Rosenman counter-proposed a concert featuring the kind of artists known to frequent the Woodstock area (such as Bob Dylan and The Band). Lang and Kornfeld's lawyer, Miles Lourie, who had done legal work on the Mediasound project, suggested that they contact Roberts and Rosenman about financing a similar, but much smaller, studio Kornfeld and Lang hoped to build in Woodstock, New York. Įarly in 1969, Roberts and Rosenman were New York City entrepreneurs, in the process of building Mediasound, a recording studio complex in Manhattan. Lang had some experience as a promoter, having co-organized the Miami Pop Festival on the East Coast the previous year, where an estimated 25,000 people attended the two-day event. Roberts and Rosenman financed the project. Woodstock was initiated through the efforts of Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, Joel Rosenman, and John P. 3.2.1 Soundtrack albums and 25th anniversary releases.2.4 Declined invitations or missed connections.In 2017, the festival site became listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine listed it as number 19 of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll. Music events bearing the Woodstock name were planned for anniversaries, which included the tenth, twentieth, twenty-fifth, thirtieth, fortieth, and fiftieth. The event's significance was reinforced by a 1970 documentary film, an accompanying soundtrack album, and a song written by Joni Mitchell that became a major hit for both Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Matthews Southern Comfort. The festival has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history as well as a defining event for the counterculture generation. Thirty-two acts performed outdoors despite sporadic rain. Billed as 'an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music' and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted an audience of more than 400,000. 'It was one of the last festivals where marijuana triumphed over hard drugs.Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to simply as Woodstock, was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock. There was so much good will – and hope,' Connell, the author of Outback Elvis: the story of a festival, its fans, and a town called Parkes remarked. 'It showed how people might work together to build a festival from nothing and cooperate on such basic things as making sandwiches.

Human geographer from the Faculty of Science, Professor John Connell, also recognised Woodstock's uniqueness. Altamont, many historians would say, marked the end of the Sixties, for sure.” “To realise how special Woodstock was, one only has to think of the tragedy that happened just a few months later at Altamont. “It’s almost a miracle that Woodstock – with so many in the audience – happened as smoothly as it did,' he said. Dr James Wierzbicki is an expert in 20 th century music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, who is currently writing a book on 1960s American music, remains in awe of Woodstock's success.

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