EVENTSMusicians for Peace has formed a coordinating committee to help organize and promote 40th Anniversary Woodstock events. West Fest is a free anniversary show in Golden Gate Park's Speedway Meadows on October 25. [ BULLETIN: Woodstock Ventures, who lay claim to the Woodstock name, have issued a cease and desist order to the SF organizers.] I will perform. A show is being planned for Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Plans are afoot for a Woodstock festival in Norway on June 10-13. I will be playing with the "Heroes Of Woodstock" package at Bethel during one of those days, although it's not really an anniversary event. There will be a new DVD and Blu-Ray release from Warner Brothers, a six-disc CD package by Rhino, and a TV documentary on VH-1. Ang Lee's film Taking Woodstock will be released on the August 14 anniversary. See the trailer. Read an interview with the director. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland will celebrate the anniversary with a new exhibit running from July 3 to November 29. Simon and Shuster will publish Back to the Garden by Pete Fornatale, for which I wrote a foreword. Promoter Mike Lang has written The Road to Woodstock (Ecco, 2009). The Shadowbox Cabaret in Columbus, Ohio is producing an original musical about Woodstock. Director Steve Guyer is taking the plum roles of Country Joe and Max Yasgur. "When I was in Ohio on November 15 I was lucky to see Back to the Garden, a musical performance by Shadowbox. This excellent musical brings to the stage the entire Woodstock Music Festival in a entertaining way I would not have thought possible. And it is an honor to have someone play me and sing "I Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die." This show belongs on Broadway! Shadowbox is bringing it back by popular demand starting February 7, 2010. I suggest you all go and see it." --Joe LINKSMichael Carabello of Santana, Paul Kantner of the Airplane, and I reminisce about Woodstock in the San Francisco Chronicle. Find out who was born at Woodstock and who's going to get married there. Thomas Overbeck has a webcomic about a time traveller named Cassie who visits Woodstock. Read Sing Out editor Irwin Silber's old-left take on Woodstock. Look at my original Woodstock page. Look at "Wildman" Dave Diamond's Woodstock page.
Woodstock Set List
DAY ONE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 15
Richie Havens
Sweetwater
Bert Sommer
Tim Hardin
Ravi Shankar
Melanie
Arlo Guthrie
Joan Baez
DAY TWO: SATURDAY, AUGUST 16
Quill
Country Joe McDonald
Santana
John Sebastian
Keef Hartley Band
Incredible String Band
Canned Heat
Mountain
The Grateful Dead
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Janis Joplin
Sly & The Family Stone
The Who
Jefferson Airplane
DAY THREE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 17
The Grease Band
Joe Cocker & The Grease Band
Country Joe & The Fish
Ten Years After
The Band
Johnny Winter
Blood Sweat & Tears
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Sha Na Na
Jimi Hendrix
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