The famous 1969 music festival held on a dairy farm near Bethel, New York, was Woodstock.
Officially called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the festival took place from August 15 to 18, 1969, on land leased from dairy farmer Max Yasgur. Although organizers promoted it as a three-day event, delays and weather extended performances into the fourth day. The site was in Bethel, about 60 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock, where the organizers had originally hoped to hold it.
More than 460,000 people attended, and 32 acts performed, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, and Joan Baez. Traffic, rain, mud, and overcrowding became part of the festival’s legend, but the event was also associated with the counterculture’s ideals of peace and communal living.
Woodstock is often confused with Altamont, another major 1969 festival held in California. Monterey Pop occurred in 1967, while the Isle of Wight Festival was held in England.