Claire Tole-Moir
Head of Department
Rock & Pop
Lot 51
Woodstock: An interesting group of original flyers, magazines, site plans, and programmes, 1969, Qty
12 June 2019, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge£1,000 - £1,500
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Woodstock: An interesting group of original flyers, magazines, site plans, and programmes,
1969,
comprising; three original flyers for the Woodstock Music & Art Fair listing the fair where it was going to be located in Wallkill N.Y (before the location was changed); accompanied by another three original flyers for the fair in White Lake N.Y (where it was held) with headline acts list including Joan Baez, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Who, Jeff Beck, and Jimi Hendrix; together with a copy of a highly detailed site plan with annotations; two original programmes; a special edition copy of LIFE magazine for Woodstock Music Festival; a copy of the Rolling Stone newspaper from 20th September 1969; a copy of Woodstock Special RAT Subterranean news dated 12th-26th August; a copy of New York magazine from 1st September 1969; and various other magazines published later, (Qty)
comprising; three original flyers for the Woodstock Music & Art Fair listing the fair where it was going to be located in Wallkill N.Y (before the location was changed); accompanied by another three original flyers for the fair in White Lake N.Y (where it was held) with headline acts list including Joan Baez, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Who, Jeff Beck, and Jimi Hendrix; together with a copy of a highly detailed site plan with annotations; two original programmes; a special edition copy of LIFE magazine for Woodstock Music Festival; a copy of the Rolling Stone newspaper from 20th September 1969; a copy of Woodstock Special RAT Subterranean news dated 12th-26th August; a copy of New York magazine from 1st September 1969; and various other magazines published later, (Qty)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Offered by the vendor who volunteered at the festival.
Woodstock music festival was held on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains, northwest of New York City, between August 15–18, 1969, which attracted an audience of more than 400,000. Billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", 32 acts performed outdoors over the weekend, and is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the festival.
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