{"id":792228,"date":"2019-01-21T08:02:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=779553"},"modified":"2019-01-21T08:02:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:02:43","slug":"the-two-woodstock-anniversary-fests-what-legacy-acts-might-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-two-woodstock-anniversary-fests-what-legacy-acts-might-return\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Woodstock Anniversary Fests: What Legacy Acts Might Return?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Woodstock<\/a> festival has been on ice since the disastrous one back in 1999 nearly ruined the brand forever, but now that the 50th anniversary is almost upon us, two competing events are trying to bring back the spirit of the 1969 original.\u00a0One is being organized by original Woodstock co-creator Michael Lang and will take place in Watkins Glen, New York on August 16th to the 18th, while the Bethel Woods Music and Culture Festival will take place on the original Woodstock grounds that same weekend.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone<\/em>, Lang \u2013 who has the legal right to call his festival \u201cWoodstock\u201d \u2013 dismissed the Bethel Woods event as too small-scale for what he\u2019s trying to accomplish. \u201cThey\u2019re good stewards of the original site and they built a beautiful performing arts pavilion,\u201d says Lang.<\/a> \u201cBut it\u2019s a 15,000-seat shed. That\u2019s not a Woodstock.\u201d<\/p>\n

At his Woodstock, Lang has promised \u201clegacy bands\u201d from the original festival along with tributes to Joe Cocker, the Band and Janis Joplin. The Bethel Woods show, meanwhile, has promised \u201cprominent and emerging artists spanning multiple genres and decades.\u201d While neither festival has announced lineups, it\u2019s likely that both festivals will have acts that played at the 1969 Woodstock. Let\u2019s take a look at the groups still around from that era that could conceivably return (in one form or another). Note: We\u2019re leaving out groups that are completely dormant like Sweetwater, Quill, the Incredible String Band the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.<\/p>\n