Woodstock 50 was a cancelled music festival originally scheduled to be held on August 16–18, 2019 at the Watkins Glen International racetrack in New York and later the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Ma
Original Woodstock 50 promotional poster
Part of the Watkins Glen International racetrack (pictured in 2014), the original planned venue of the festival.
The festival was to be held at the Merriweather Post Pavilion (pictured in 2017) in Columbia, Maryland.
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 60 miles southwest of the tow
Woodstock 50
…racetrack in New York and later the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Maryland. The event was intended as a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, a landmark festival that was held August 15–18, 1969, in Bethel, New York. The event faced numerous challenges, including permit and production issues…
Promotional poster designed by Arnold Skolnick. Originally, the bird was perched on a flute.
Max Yasgur's dairy farm in 1968
Woodstock festival site with the stage
Joe Cocker performs on stage at left before crowd and huge lighting/sound towers.