An event advertised as "three days of peace and music" kicked off on a farm in Bethel, New York, on this day in history, Aug. 15, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, which would come to be known ...

Musician Sly Stone of the psychedelic soul group Sly and the Family Stone performs at the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, N.Y., on Aug. 17, 1969. Woodstock, the music festival that defined a generation, ...

The week marks the 55th anniversary of the legendary Woodstock festival, which took place Aug. 15-18, 1969, on a grassy farm in upstate New York. An estimated 400,000 to 500,000 young music fans, many ...

When Woodstock 1969 was happening, it was simply a three-day music festival to celebrate peace and music in a time of political disturbance. But the event went on to become a significant cultural ...

Stephen Stills (left) and David Crosby of the group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young perform at Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, N.Y., on Aug. 17, 1969. It's been over five decades since the ...

BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) — Woodstock didn’t even happen in Woodstock. The fabled music festival, seen as one of the seminal cultural events of the 1960s, took place 60 miles (96.5 kilometers) away in Bethel, ...

Even five and a half decades after it happened, Woodstock still looms large in the minds of a lot of people, both performers and attendees. Thanks to the abundance of drugs and alcohol, there are ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. With her camera, Lisa Law documented ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — John Morris, who helped organize the Woodstock Festival of Art and Music during the summer of 1969, died Friday. He was 84. According to his obituary, Morris died at his home in Santa ...