USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Woodstock Festival, held in August 1969, was a watershed moment in the 1960s counterculture movement. Expecting 50, 000 attendees for a three-day music concert, the event instead drew an estimated 500, 000.

Detailed explanation-2: -Attendance estimates vary, but it’s believed at least 400, 000 music lovers attended Woodstock.

Detailed explanation-3: -Its full name was The Woodstock Music and Art Fair. It took place on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15–18, 1969. Woodstock was organized by four inexperienced promoters who managed to sign rock acts that included Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, and the Grateful Dead.

Detailed explanation-4: -2. At the time, Woodstock was the largest outdoor music festival, and it’s still one of the largest music festivals in the world to date. Especially in an age without digital communication, it was a miraculous feat to gather that many people from all over the world and to accomplish such a crowd.

Detailed explanation-5: -The National Register Woodstock Music Festival site commemorates a three-day music festival that took place on August 15, 1969-August 18, 1969, on nearly 300 acres of rolling farmland in rural Sullivan County, NY.