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+ For the record: Three Days of Peace, Love and Music
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For the record: Three Days of Peace, Love and Music
This weekend into the early part of next week marks the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, the infamous 1969 three-day-long music festival promoting peace and love in Bethel, New York.
Woodstock served as the pacifists’ answer to the Vietnam War and featured great acts like Joan Baez, The Who, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone and Joe Cocker, along with two of my personal favorite geniuses, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix; I still get chills when I listen and watch Hendrix perform “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
The Woodstock legacy is a hard one to just file away in the history books. In the years since 1969, multiple revivals have taken place, the most controversial (and last to date) of which in 1999 where the festival ended in fire-engulfed riots, somewhat tainting the Woodstock name.
40 years later, modern artists are showing their appreciation in a variety of ways.
Last month, the Bristol Riverside Theatre presented “Woodstock at 40,” a stage production celebrating the music and the atmosphere of the festival.
On Aug. 28, the Bryn Mawr Film Institute will premiere Oscar winner Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, a film about Elliot Tiber, without whom Woodstock would have never existed.
And tomorrow, Aug. 14, VH1 will show Oscar winner Barbara Kopple’s documentary, “Woodstock: Now & Then” beginning at 9 p.m.
While an official 40th anniversary show didn’t quick make it to fruition, all across the country this weekend there are sure to be smaller versions of the 1969 classic popping up for a whole new generation to enjoy.
-Cara Donaldson, St. Joseph’s '08
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“Operation Bedding”
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“Dave Matthews Band”
Samantha Bokoski previews Dave Matthews Band’s annual summer trip to Philly.
“Jim Johnson”
Brittany McLeod pays tribute to fallen Eagles Defensive Coordinator and legend, Jim Johnson.
Friday, August 14:
Help save the rhinos with a game of bowling at Wynnewood Lanes.
Saturday, August 15:
John Legend and India Arie play the Mann Center.
Sunday, August 16:
90s rockers Our Lady Peace headline the Theatre of the Living Arts.
Monday, August 17:
Check out Star Trek: The Exhibition at the Franklin Institute.
Tuesday, August 18:
Hippiefest 2009 invades the Keswick Theatre.
Wednesday, August 19:
Bead Fest: Philadelphia takes place at the Valley Forge Convention Center.
Thursday, August 20:
The Top 10 of “American Idol” come to the Wachovia Center.
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