Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Woodstock 1969 was happening, it was simply a three-day music festival to celebrate peace and music in a time of political ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1969, the festival to top all festivals took place on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York (the festival site was not actually in the town of Woodstock itself). The Woodstock Music and ...

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, ...

Woodstock is often remembered as a rock concert celebrating peace, love and music. But one of the best parts of the original 1969 festival in Upstate New York was playing a very different sound, ...

Singer-songwriter Country Joe McDonald, whose performance of his anti-war anthem during the 1969 Woodstock music festival made him famous, has died. He was 84. McDonald died on Saturday in Berkeley, ...

How could the 1969 Woodstock festival still matter today? Life-and-death issues stare us in the face every day — from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine to the hate-fueled divisiveness right here at ...

He passed away on March 7, 2026.

Country Joe McDonald, who became a Woodstock festival legend and fronted the band Country Joe and the Fish in the 1960s, has ...

Welcome back to Tales from the Turntable! This week is the second installment of the Woodstock trilogy. Last week, we looked at the original Woodstock festival in 1969, which largely remained peaceful ...