The 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Festival will be held a little further up in Watkins Glen State Park. Click the website in this listing for the full lineup and details about each days scheduled performances.
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Woodstock 50th @ Watkins Glen State Park
The 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Festival will be held a little further up in Watkins Glen State Park. Click the website in this listing for the full lineup and details about each days scheduled performances.
Woodstock 50th @ Watkins Glen State Park
The 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Festival will be held a little further up in Watkins Glen State Park. Click the website in this listing for the full lineup and details about each days scheduled performances.
Watkins Glen International Pulls Plug On “Woodstock 50” Location
Tenured readers are already pretty much up to date on the developments about the much lauded “Woodstock 50” Anniversary Concert which has been broadcast as being held up in Watkins Glen State Park some 255 miles from where I keep you in the aware at my Metal Media Command HQ in Brooklyn. The first dent in the armor came when an investment group pulled out (noted HERE) but it was quickly spoken against by the Festival Organizer Michael Lang (seen HERE). Yesterday, the event received another blow to the abdomen which you can learn more about after the next logo.
Yesterday, the news started making the rounds that Watkins Glen International racetrack will no longer be serving as the venue hosting the upcoming Woodstock 50 Festival. As I didn’t receive the official statement here at the Metal Media Command HQ I did some poking around and discovered the WGI Statement which has been copied below.
“Watkins Glen International terminated the site license for Woodstock pursuant to provisions of the contract. As such, WGI will not be hosting the Woodstock 50 Festival.”
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A Statement from Woodstock Founder Michael Lang
Yesterday we posted the news about the purported cancellation of the upcoming “Woodstock 50” concert festival (seen HERE) and today, the original events founder has released a statement. check it out.
“Dear Woodstock Friends
It seems in a way that history is repeating itself. In July of 1969 we lost our site in Walkill and with only a month to go we managed to move to Bethel. Woodstock was going to happen no matter what!
This time around, Woodstock’s new hometown, Dix & Watkins Glen, NY and New York State have been really wonderful. I went door to door to talk to the neighbors. Some remembered Summer Jam back in ’73 and were worried about history repeating itself. But they opened their doors to us and we talked it out. Many of those people have reached out over the last 24 hours with messages of hope and encouragement.
The venue, Watkins Glen International, have been totally supportive and professional.
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