Woodstock

Woodstock Festival was a three day hippy generation music event held in August 1969 in upstate New York. The event was organized by four Jews, John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang. Jewish dairy farmer Max Yasgur (1919-1973) provided the acreage for the event.

Bands

Friday, August 15 (billed as being a folk music related day)

• Richie Havens
• Swami Satchidananda
• Sweetwater
• The Incredible String Band
• Bert Sommer
• Tim Hardin
• Ravi Shankar
• Melanie
• Arlo Guthrie
• Joan Baez

Saturday August 16

• Quill
• Keef Hartley Band
• Country Joe MacDonald
• John Sebastian
• Santana
• Canned Heat
• Mountain
• Greatful Dead
• Creedence Clearwater Rivival
• Janis Joplin
• Sly & Family Stone
• The Who
• Jefferson Airplane

Sunday August 17

• The Grease Band
• Joe Cocker
• Country Joe and the Fish
• Ten Years After
• The Band
• Blood, Sweat & Tears
• Johnny Winter
• Crosby,Stills,Nash & Young
• Paul Butterfield Blues Band
• Sha-Na-Na
• Jimi Hendrix

Declined Invitations

• Iron Butterfly
• Led Zeppelin
• The Doors
• The Beatles
• Juthro Tull
• The Byrds
• Tommy James and the Shondells
• Bob Dylan
• Joni Mitchell
• Moody Blues
• Spirit
• Plastic Ono Band

Jewish influence

Jewish musicians and bands performing at Woodstock included:

• Robbie Robertson of "The Band" (Jewish father Native American mother)
• Jefferson Airplane (Paul Kantner, Marty Balin, Jorma Kaukonen)
• Blood, Sweat & Tears (Randy Brecker, Bobby Colomby, Steve Katz, Fred Lipsuis, Jerry Weiss)
• Arlo Guthrie (Jewish mother)
• Country Joe McDonald (Jewish mother)
• Sha Na Na (Ritchie Joffe, Elliot Cahn, John "Bowser" Baumann)

See also

• 1960s counter-culture

External links

• The Hidden Jewish History of Woodstock