By The Time We Get To Woodstock 2019

The famous Woodstock Music & Art Festival of August 1969 will celebrate its 45^th anniversary this summer. There are no plans to mark that occasion, but Michael Lang, the co-creator of the original event, says that he’s already turning his thoughts to a potential 50th-anniversary Woodstock Festival celebration in 2019.

“I think we’re certainly done until the 50^th. We’re starting to think about it now,” Lang told Rolling Stone, revealing that he is beginning to scout potential locations.

The 25^th anniversary of the festival was marked at Woodstock ‘94, which is remembered chiefly as a mud bath because of the dreadful weather that plagued the event, and the 30^th at Woodstock 1999, which was marred by violence, fires and other controversies.

So the message to new bands just getting started now: you have five years to get big enough to make the bill for a potential new “3 Days of Peace and Music,” as the original Woodstock was billed.

Format: UK English