On the opening day of the first Woodstock Festival – August 15 1969 – nearly half a million Americans descended on the dairy farm of Max Yasgur, in Bethel, New York. This three-day “Aquarian ...

Billed as “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music,” the music festival that would become the 20th century’s most famous was always called Woodstock. But Woodstock, which spanned three days in ...

How could the 1969 Woodstock festival still matter today? Life-and-death issues stare us in the face every day — from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine to the hate-fueled divisiveness right here at ...

Michael Lang, the co-creator and organizer of 1969’s Woodstock Music and Art Fair, and its follow-ups Woodstock ’94 and the ill-fated Woodstock ’99, died Saturday at the age of 77 at Sloan Kettering ...

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Fifty years ago, the iconic music festival Woodstock rocked a dairy farm in rural New York. Despite the name, the location of the festival wasn’t anywhere near the town of Woodstock, ...

Do aging baby boomers need a major nostalgia fix for the 40th anniversary of Woodstock? Publishers must think so - they're bringing out a raft of new books on the world-famous music festival.

About 450,000 people flocked to Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y. on Aug. 15, 1969, to celebrate three days of peace, love and music at the legendary Woodstock Music and Art Fair, replete with ...

Three concerts, one famous town, 50 years and plenty of controversy. With just a few words, some people could sum up the five-decade legacy of perhaps the most famous concert ever held – Woodstock.