Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock festival, and the coverage has been mixed. First of all, a proposed 2019 live concert crashed and burned before liftoff. Second, several essays ...

In 1969, with flowers in their hair, the children of Woodstock made love, danced naked and braved the elements with a communal spirit of peace and protection. In 1999, with baseball caps on backwards, ...

Promoter Michael Lang’s Woodstock 50 festival didn’t pan out, and maybe that’s just as well. “Civil War re-enactors in everything but name” was one Facebook wag’s joke about its prospective attendees ...

A freewheeling weekend of indulgence. A New York farm transformed by idealistic youths into a mid-size city. A celebration of rock music and utopian ideals. Woodstock was many things but one thing is ...

Fifty years ago Thursday Les Poinelli was hitch-hiking to the now storied Woodstock music festival he'd heard about on the radio -- and hopped in the car where he would meet his wife. Today he's ...

What was it like to be at Woodstock? It’s a question that attendees have been fielding since Graham Nash regaled then-girlfriend Joni Mitchell (who’d been stuck in New York City that weekend preparing ...

Check out Pandora's "The Sounds of Woodstock 1969" playlist to listen to the music of the moment. When most classic rock fans think of the original Woodstock festival, held a half-century ago in ...

They say if you remember the ’60s, you weren’t there. This week lots of people are trying to remember Woodstock, the legendary music festival that took place Aug. 15-18, 50 years ago. I was there, ...

Jimi Hendrix had barely finished playing "The Star Spangled Banner" when the myth began that Woodstock was the climax of the 1960s. It was not. The moon landing was the climax of the Sixties.

What was it like to be at Woodstock? It’s a question that attendees have been fielding since Graham Nash regaled then-girlfriend Joni Mitchell (who’d been stuck in New York City that weekend preparing ...