Woodstock Festival
1969 music festival in New York, United States
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Summary
Woodstock Festival is a music festival[1]. It ranks in the top 0.44% of music festival entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20,129 views/month, #4 of 910).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: United States[3]
- Instance of: open-air concert[4], festival occurrence[5]
- Genre: blues rock[6], folk rock[7], jazz fusion[8], hard rock[9], Latin rock[10], psychedelic rock[11], pop music[12], traditional folk music[13]
- Named after: Woodstock[14]
- Location: White Lake[15]
- Commons category: Woodstock Music Festival[16]
- Inception: 1969[17]
- Start time: August 15, 1969[18]
- End time: August 18, 1969[19]
- Participant: Jimi Hendrix[20], Joan Baez[21], Richie Havens[22], Arlo Guthrie[23], Melanie[24], Tim Hardin[25], Ravi Shankar[26], Bert Sommer[27], Satchidananda Saraswati[28], Sweetwater[29], Sha Na Na[30], The Paul Butterfield Blues Band[31], Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young[32], Blood, Sweat & Tears[33]
- Official website: http://www.woodstock.com[34], https://www.booksie.com/601919-woodstock-1969-the-house-at-303[35]
- Topic's main category: Category:Woodstock Festival[36]
- Commons gallery: Woodstock Music Festival[37]
- Attendance: 500,000[38]
- Date of official opening: August 15, 1969[39]
- Native label: Woodstock[40]
- Duration: 3 day[41]
- Has list: list of performances and events at Woodstock Festival[42]
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Works and Contributions
Things named for Woodstock Festival include Woodstock[43], a comics character[44].
Why It Matters
Woodstock Festival has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[45] It is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[46]
Entities named for it include Woodstock[43], a comics character[44].