Woodstock festivities kick off at Bethel Woods
Performances from Santana, John Fogerty and Ringo Starr will bring in Woodstock’s 50th birthday at the original Bethel Woods site this weekend
News By | 16 August 2019
Despite the well-publicised difficulties and eventual cancellation of the official Woodstock 50 anniversary event, the 1969 festival will receive its half-century commemoration this weekend, in the form of a four-day series of events at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts (BWCA).
The events, set on the site of the 1969 Woodstock festival at Bethel Woods, kicked off yesterday (15 August), with Arlo Guthrie taking once again to the Woodstock stage for a free concert.
Originally announcing a full-scale anniversary festival – to have been…
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