You’ll be rocking to the sounds of Jimmy Hendrix, Led Zepplin, Joe Cocker, and more on Saturday, July 12th at the Kinsmen Park, in Dresden. Board our time machine and take a trip back to 1969 for the peace, love, and music that was Woodstock 69. Welcome to the Dresden Kinsmen Club’s first Classic Rock Festival.
But first a refresher course on Woodstock.
Woodstock—was a music festival, billed as “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music”. It was held at Max Yasgur’s 600-acre (240 ha; 0.94 sq mi) dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to 18, 1969. Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43 miles (69 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, in adjoining Ulster County.
During the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors before an audience of 400,000 young people.[2] It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history. Rolling Stone listed it as one of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll. The festival is also widely considered to be the definitive nexus for the larger counter culture generation. Source Wikipedia.
The event was captured in the 1970 documentary movie Woodstock, an accompanying soundtrack album, and Joni Mitchell’s song “Woodstock”, which commemorated the event and became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
Now that we’ve brought you up to speed about Woodstock 69, let’s talk about Dresden’s Classic Rock Festival scheduled to pound out the tunes on Saturday, July 12th from the Kinsmen Part at 750 Tecumseh St. Dresden.