Summer Of 1969 – August 15th – First Day Of Notorious WOODSTOCK Festival
Every day of this summer we go back to the same summer day somewhere in history
15 August 2026
On 15 August 1969, the notorious and historic
WOODSTOCK MUSIC AND ART FAIR kicked off
in Bethel, New York
Attended by over 400,000 people, the event featured, Jimi Hendrix, Crosby Stills
Nash & Young, Santana, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Janis
Joplin, The Band, Canned Heat, Joan Baez, Melanie, Ten Years After, Sly and the Family
Stone, Johnny Winter, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shanker, Country Joe and the Fish, Blood
Sweat and Tears, Arlo Guthrie, and Joe Cocker.
Woodstock offered the counterculture generation a respite amid the Vietnam War and unrest at home, and would become a defining moment of the era, as well as an iconic milestone in pop culture history.
The festival would be captured in a documentary
as well as a best-selling soundtrack to the film.







