15 Super Groovy Facts About Woodstock

It’s time to get your hippie-chic on with these 15 Super Groovy Facts About Woodstock. Out team has pulled out 15 facts about Woodstock that might make you pull the old tie die t-shirt out.

• The Woodstock Music Festival took place on August 15 – 17, 1969.
• It was formally called: “Woodstock Music and Art Fair“.
• Over 400,000 people attended Woodstock.
• Although called “Woodstock”, the festival took place on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York.
• About three dozen musicians performed.

• Bob Dylan declined to attend Woodstock because he did not like Hippies.
• Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, and other big name artists demanded that they be paid upfront, before they performed.
• By the time Jimi Hendrix performed, Monday at about 9am, most of the attendees had left the festival.
• In spite of the crowd shrinkage, Jimi Hendrix was the highest paid performer during the festival, a reported $18,000.
• John Lennon and The Beatles refused to play at the festival because the organizations declined their request to allow Yoko Ono perform alongside them.
• Joan Baez‘s performance was interrupted during a thunderstorm when the crowd started hollering out, “No rain, no rain!”.

• Three deaths were reported during the festival. Two from drug overdoses and one person was sleeping in a sleeping bag and a tractor driver on the farm didn’t notice him, and the well, you can imagine the rest.
• There was at least 400 reports of people having bad acid trips.
• There was no violence reported during the festival, peace and love and all that.
• If you didn’t come prepared, you were able to purchase pot, hashish, hallucinogens, and paraphernalia at the festival.

Well, that wraps up our 15 Groovy Facts about Woodstock. We hope you enjoyed looking in the past at one of the most epic music festivals in history.

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