Santana, 'Soul Sacrifice': Woodstock 50th Anniversary, Aug. 15-18, 1969

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Woodstock 50th Anniversary, 10 Facts About the Iconic Counterculture Festival, Newsweek:
https://www.newsweek.com/woodstock-50th-anniversary-10-facts-iconic-1969-counterculture-festival-1453985

Couple Who Met 50 Years Ago At Woodstock, Sees Photo For The First Time, People Mag.:
https://people.com/human-interest/couple-who-met-at-woodstock-finds-photo-50-years-later/



Judy & Jerry Griffin met at Woodstock in 1969, but never saw a photo of themselves at the festival until summer 2019.

For 50 years, Judy and Jerry Griffin have been telling friends and family the fairy tale story of how they met on the way to Woodstock in 1969 and have been together ever since. The only downside to their meet-cute is that they never had any physical proof that they were at Woodstock together — until two months ago.

Judy met Jerry on Aug. 15, 1969 — day one of the iconic Woodstock music festival — when her car broke down on New York’s Tappan Zee Bridge, roughly 90 miles from the concert grounds, and she and the two acquaintances she was traveling with decided to hitchhike.

“I was just thinking, ‘Damn, now we can’t go,’ and we were dying to,” recalls Judy, 71. “Then Jerry and his friends pulled up. I stuck my head in and I saw that there was a woman in the car. I’d never hitchhiked before, but I figured, ‘Well, since there was a woman, it was fairly safe, and I probably should just get in the car.’ “... ~ Read more at the link above.

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1. What a band.

And Michael Shrieve. Amazing.

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2. So, they could have been better if they were they same color.

Rachel on Steven Manashi for the 2nd circuit...it gets good at around 6 minutes:

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5. White Ethnostate- I saw this judge, tx for posting

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3. One of the Best of All Time

This song at Woodstock is a live performance for the ages. My only complaint?

I coulda used a little more cowbell. 😂

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4. NEW FILM THAT WAS THE SOURCE OF THE PHOTO: 'Woodstock: Three Days..'

TRAILER. 'Woodstock: Three Days That Defined A Generation' (2019)

or *WATCH Online (90 mins.): https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/woodstock/#part01

WOODSTOCK: THREE DAYS THAT DEFINED A GENERATION (2019) premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28, 2019 and opened in select theaters on May 24, 2019. Click here to find a screening near you.

In August 1969, nearly half a million people gathered at a farm in upstate New York to hear music. What happened over the next three days, however, was far more than a concert. It would become a legendary event, one that would define a generation and mark the end of one of the most turbulent decades in modern history.

Occurring just weeks after an American set foot on the moon, the Woodstock music festival took place against a backdrop of a nation in conflict over sexual politics, civil rights and the Vietnam War. A sense of an America in transition—a handoff of the country between generations with far different values and ideals—was tangibly present at what promoters billed as “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace and Music.

Woodstock turns the lens back at the audience, at the swarming, impromptu city that grew up overnight on a few acres of farmland. What took place in that teeming mass of humanity — the rain-soaked, starving, tripping, half-a-million strong throng of young people — was nothing less than a miracle of teamwork, a manifestation of the “peace and love” the festival had touted and a validation of the counter-culture’s promise to the world. Who were these kids? What experiences and stories did they carry with them to Bethel, New York that weekend, and how were they changed by three days in the muck and mire of Yasgur’s farm?

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