{"id":2440805,"date":"2019-02-20T15:38:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T22:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=796958"},"modified":"2019-02-20T15:38:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T22:38:48","slug":"ringo-starr-santana-lead-bethel-woods-50th-anniversary-of-woodstock-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/ringo-starr-santana-lead-bethel-woods-50th-anniversary-of-woodstock-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringo Starr, Santana Lead Bethel Woods\u2019 50th Anniversary of Woodstock Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bethel Woods has announced that Ringo Starr<\/a> and Santana<\/a> will lead the original Woodstock<\/a> site\u2019s 50th anniversary celebration to the legendary 1969 festival. New York\u2019s Bethel Woods Center for the Arts\u2019 half-centennial event \u2013 a separate festival from the one being organized by original Woodstock founder Michael Lang<\/a> in Watkins Glen, New York \u2013 will also feature performances by Edgar Winter Band and the Doobie Brothers during August 15th through the 18th, that exact dates of the original festival.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, August 15th, Bethel Woods will host a screening of the concert film Woodstock: The Director\u2019s Cut<\/em> on the field where the festival happened. Starr and the Edgar Winter Band will perform Friday at the venue\u2019s 15,000-person amphitheater, with Santana and Doobie Brothers booked for Saturday. Sunday\u2019s attendees will be announced soon.<\/p>\n

Carlos Santana, who performed at the 1969 fest, previously revealed to Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> that he had aligned with the Bethel Woods celebration and not Woodstock 50.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have an amphitheater there,\u201d Santana said in January of the Bethel Woods event. \u201cI\u2019m going to invite whoever is still here, whether it\u2019s Joan Baez or members from Sly Stone, and I\u2019m going to play Santana music. Santana\u2019s going to be the house band, but I want to be able to honor those who are still here and maybe invite rappers like Common or Kendrick Lamar. Santana\u2019s very interested, like Miles Davis, into connecting with people from seven-years-old to under 33. I don\u2019t want to be just like a jukebox in the twilight zone, stuck in the Sixties.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, with just four artists booked, Bethel Woods has dramatically reduced the original scope of their 50th anniversary celebration, which initially promised \u201clive performances from prominent and emerging artists spanning multiple genres and decades, and TED-style talks from leading futurists and retro-tech experts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are humbled by the interest in the anniversary year and we realized it was greater than we\u2019d ever dreamed,\u201d Bethel Woods Center for the Arts\u2019 Chief Executive Officer Darlene Fedun said in a statement. \u201cWe recognize the importance of this place to so many, and our mission of preservation and interpretation of the 1960s is central to A Season of Song and Celebration, as it provides our guests the opportunity to reflect, to learn and to celebrate the legacy of what occurred here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Lang\u2019s Woodstock 50 festival, taking place August 16th through 18th, will announce its lineup when tickets go on sale later this month, although the organizer said 40 bands, including big-name headliners, have already been booked.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll be an eclectic bill,\u201d Lang told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019ll be hip-hop and rock and some pop and some of the legacy bands from the original festival.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bethel Woods has announced that Ringo Starr and Santana will lead the original Woodstock site\u2019s 50th anniversary celebration to the legendary 1969 festival. New York\u2019s Bethel Woods Center for the Arts\u2019 half-centennial event \u2013 a separate festival from the one being organized by original Woodstock founder Michael Lang in Watkins Glen, New York \u2013 will […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2440805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 09:11:32","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}