Woodstock

Nearly half a million Hippies headed over to a 600 acre farm in New York for the Woodstock Festival. Many top rock musicians were there. It lasted three days, a weekend of music, love and peace. 
Thirty-two acts performed over the course of the four days:

[edit] Friday, August 15

• Richie Havens
• Swati Satchidananda - gave the invocation for the festival
• Sweetwater
• The Incredible String Band
• Bert Sommer
• Tim Hardin
• Ravi Shankar
• Melanie
• Arlo Guthrie
• Joan Baez

[edit] Saturday, August 16

• Quill, forty-minute set of four songs
• Keef Hartley Band
• Country Joe McDonald
• John Sebastian
• Santana
• Canned Heat
• Mountain
• Grateful Dead
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Janis Joplin with The Kozmic Blues Band ^[27]
• Sly & the Family Stone
• The Who began at 4 a.m., kicking off a 25-song set including Tommy
• Jefferson Airplane

[edit] Sunday, August 17 to Monday, August 18

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