{"id":485243,"date":"2019-04-29T18:51:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T00:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=828953"},"modified":"2019-04-29T18:51:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T00:51:40","slug":"woodstock-50-organizers-committed-to-festival-after-losing-financial-backing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/woodstock-50-organizers-committed-to-festival-after-losing-financial-backing\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodstock 50 Organizers \u2018Committed\u2019 to Festival After Losing Financial Backing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/shutterstock_10160758ba.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/woodstock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_woodstock\" data-tag=\"woodstock\">Woodstock<\/a> 50 investors announced they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/woodstock-50-canceled-828606\/\">pulling support for the festival<\/a>, organizers confirmed they are \u201ccommitted\u201d to continue with the high-profile event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to ensuring that the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock is marked with a festival deserving of its iconic name and place in American history and culture,\u201d Woodstock 50 LLC said in a statement. \u201cAlthough our financial partner is withdrawing, &nbsp;we will of course be continuing with the planning of the festival and intend to bring on new partners. We would like to acknowledge the State of New York and Schuyler County for all of their hard work and support. The bottom line is, there is going to be a Woodstock 50th Anniversary Festival, as there must be, &nbsp;and it\u2019s going to be a blast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pledge to push forward caps off a wild afternoon of headlines after investment arm Dentsu announced that Woodstock 50 \u2014 organized in part by Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang \u2014 would not proceed. \u201cIt\u2019s a dream for agencies to work with iconic brands and to be associated with meaningful movements,\u201d the company said in a statement Monday afternoon. \u201cWe have a strong history of producing experiences that bring people together around common interests and causes which is why we chose to be a part of the Woodstock 50th Anniversary Festival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The festival has faced other issues in recent months. While its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jay-z-dead-co-chance-the-rapper-black-keys-woodstock-50-804603\/\">all-star lineup<\/a> \u2013 featuring Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus, Dead &amp; Company, the Raconteurs, Chance the Rapper and Run the Jewels, among others \u2014 was announced in early March, tickets did not go on sale; in addition, a planned Earth Day on-sale was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/woodstock-50-ticket-on-sale-postponed-825171\/\">postponed<\/a>&nbsp;due to reported permit issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/woodstock-50-organizers-committed-not-cancelled-828953\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after Woodstock 50 investors announced they were pulling support for the festival, organizers confirmed they are \u201ccommitted\u201d to continue with the high-profile event. \u201cWe are committed to ensuring that the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock is marked with a festival deserving of its iconic name and place in American history and culture,\u201d Woodstock 50 LLC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 07:06:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}