How could the 1969 Woodstock festival still matter today? Life-and-death issues stare us in the face every day — from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine to the hate-fueled divisiveness right here at ...

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 ...

When Woodstock 1969 was happening, it was simply a three-day music festival to celebrate peace and music in a time of political disturbance. But the event went on to become a significant cultural ...

On the opening day of the first Woodstock Festival – August 15 1969 – nearly half a million Americans descended on the dairy farm of Max Yasgur, in Bethel, New York. This three-day “Aquarian ...

No, that’s not a four-word summation of the early evolution of humans — or a chortle-accented quip from a vintage episode of “MTV’s Beavis & Butt-Head.” But mud was inextricably a key ingredient at ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — John Morris, who helped organize the Woodstock Festival of Art and Music during the summer of 1969, died Friday. He was 84. According to his obituary, Morris died at his home in Santa ...

Carlos Santana's career-launching performance at the 1969 Woodstock festival almost didn't happen because he had a little too much fun before taking the stage. The guitarist, 75, recently revealed ...

Bethel, N.Y. — Beverly “Cookie” Grant hitchhiked to the Woodstock music festival in 1969 without a ticket and slept on straw. Ellen Shelburne arrived in a VW microbus and pitched a pup tent.

Beverly “Cookie” Grant hitchhiked to the Woodstock music festival in 1969 without a ticket and slept on straw. Ellen Shelburne arrived in a VW microbus and pitched a pup tent. Fifty-five years later, ...

Welcome back to Tales from the Turntable! This week is the second installment of the Woodstock trilogy. Last week, we looked at the original Woodstock festival in 1969, which largely remained peaceful ...