An event advertised as "three days of peace and music" kicked off on a farm in Bethel, New York, on this day in history, Aug. 15, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, which would come to be known ...

The week marks the 55th anniversary of the legendary Woodstock festival, which took place Aug. 15-18, 1969, on a grassy farm in upstate New York. An estimated 400,000 to 500,000 young music fans, many ...

Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock” became one of the defining anthems of the 1969 music festival—yet she never attended the event. Instead, Mitchell wrote the song based on stories from her then-boyfriend ...

Organizers of Woodstock believe the 1969 music festival's logo and the 2016 logo for the Republican National Convention look similar. The 1969 Woodstock Dove & Guitar logo features a dove perched on ...