Plans to hold a big Woodstock 50 festival may have collapsed, but the former concert site is still hosting a long weekend of events. But you'd better have tickets.
BETHEL, N.Y. — Woodstock will be celebrated on its 50th anniversary, but it won’t be your hippie uncle’s trample-the-fences concert.after a run of calamities, the bucolic upstate New York site of the 1969 show is hosting a long weekend of events featuring separate shows by festival veterans like Carlos Santana and John Fogerty.
Woodstock organizers were denied permits a month before the ’69 show, too — that time in Wallkill, New York. Lang found the Bethel site with weeks to go. No such kismet this time. Eleventh-hour plans to stage a free concert in Maryland fizzled. The actual concert site in upstate farm country has attracted tie-dyed pilgrims for decades. Famous for becoming a muddy mess on Woodstock weekend, the old farm field is now a tidy greenspace. Visitors can wander the trimmed grass and make peace sign poses by the waist-high Woodstock monument in a corner.
“When they first built it, I had mixed feelings about it,” said 66-year-old Bill Bokesz on one of his regular visits to the site. “But there’s not condos here. It’s still here. They preserved the field. ... They did a really good job.”
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