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Woodstock Ticket

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The Woodstock Music & Art Fair, more commonly known simply as Woodstock, was a music festival attracting an estimated audience of over 400,000 people.  It was originally intended to be held from August 15 to 17, 1969, although it ran over into a fourth day.  It is considered by many people to be the most famous music festival in history.

The event was held on a 600-acre dairy farm owned by Max Yasgur in the Catskills in the town of Bethel in upstate New York. Tickets had been sold in advance, but as people came by the thousands to Woodstock, it became obvious that there was no possible way to charge at the gate. As a result, it was difficult to get an accurate headcount on the number of actual attendees.

Over the course of the sometimes rainy weekend, thirty-two acts performed at the outdoor venue. The event featured some of the more memorable acts of that time, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Santana, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Grateful Dead, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, to name just some of the performers and/or bands. 

The event is widely regarded as a defining moment in popular music history, as well as being an avenue for the counterculture movement to express their discontent with the more mainstream views.  The event was billed as “three days of peace and love”, with scores of activists, as well as many of the performers, making antiwar speeches expressing opposition to the war in Vietnam.

Woodstock was known not only for the rock ‘n’ roll music, but for drugs, sex and open nudity, that demonstrated the generation’s rebellion against popular society.  

The item in my collection is an unissued single-day admission ticket for Saturday, August 16, 1969.   It bears ticket number 02533.  The ticket is accompanied by a copy of a letter from the former Sales Manager of Globe Ticket Company attesting to the authenticity of the ticket.