An event advertised as "three days of peace and music" kicked off on a farm in Bethel, New York, on this day in history, Aug. 15, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, which would come to be known ...

Musician Sly Stone of the psychedelic soul group Sly and the Family Stone performs at the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, N.Y., on Aug. 17, 1969. Woodstock, the music festival that defined a generation, ...

The week marks the 55th anniversary of the legendary Woodstock festival, which took place Aug. 15-18, 1969, on a grassy farm in upstate New York. An estimated 400,000 to 500,000 young music fans, many ...

BETHEL, N.Y. — The Woodstock Music Festival began on Aug. 15, 1969, and remains a symbol of the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Woodstock was a three-day music festival attended by mainly young ...

Stephen Stills (left) and David Crosby of the group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young perform at Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, N.Y., on Aug. 17, 1969. It's been over five decades since the ...

When Woodstock 1969 was happening, it was simply a three-day music festival to celebrate peace and music in a time of political disturbance. But the event went on to become a significant cultural ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. With her camera, Lisa Law documented ...

Even five and a half decades after it happened, Woodstock still looms large in the minds of a lot of people, both performers and attendees. Thanks to the abundance of drugs and alcohol, there are ...

Music festivals are among the most sacred aspects of the music industry, dating back to the Middle Ages. In the modern era, music festivals have served as weekend-long safe havens for fans of a ...

Woodstock is incredibly iconic as is, but imagine if these three powerhouse acts graced the stage in Bethel, New York.

Woodstock, the music festival that defined a generation, took place from Aug. 15-18, 1969, at a dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y. Officially known as the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, approximately 500,000 ...