So exclaimed many – in emailed remembrances to the Freeman – of their place at the iconic Woodstock Music & Art Fair in Bethel, Sullivan County. The weekend generational-defining rock extravaganza ...

“I don't even know how I walked, and next thing I know we're playing this set, and I think I'm going by what Shirley MacLaine calls muscle memory,” he confessed. “When we got to ‘Soul Sacrifice,’ I ...

Welcome to this week’s Tales from the Turntable! Throughout the year, I’ve covered almost every facet possible about music, including bands, songs, albums and rumors alike; however, I’ve never covered ...

While he was “honored and thrilled to be part of Woodstock,” 50 years ago this month, Max Furek of Mocanaqua says another music event that took place in August 1969 — the Atlantic City Pop Festival — ...

Chip Monck may be the second-best known behind-the-scenes person from the original 1969 Woodstock festival, thanks to his having been drafted as a master of ceremonies for the daytime parts of the ...

The (about) 450,000 people who converged on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in the summer of ’69 for Woodstock didn’t all experience three days of peace, love and music. Some endured miles of traffic snarls ...

When it comes to iconic festivals, Woodstock ’69 immediately comes to mind. Long before Coachella, Woodstock was a cultural earthquake that brought half a million strangers together for three days of ...

Woodstock, ’69. Over the past 50 years, the legendary music festival has evolved into a narrative of biblical dimensions, touching on the miraculous and transcendent. People talk reverently about the ...

The Lumineers, The War on Drugs, Tyler Childers and the Trey Anastasio Band are among the headliners at a new music festival taking place at the original Woodstock 1969 site in upstate New York.

We were in New York City with Joni Mitchell, and Elliot Roberts [who managed both CSNY and Mitchell] decided that Joni shouldn’t go to Woodstock because she was also scheduled to do The Dick Cavett ...