Clayton Call / Contributor
Between August 15-18 in 1969, more than 400,000 experienced music history when they attended the original Woodstock at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm near White Lake in Bethel, New York in the Catskill Mountains. Now, 50 years later, another epic concert will take place in northwest New York state.
Woodstock 2019 goes down between August 16th-18th to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic concert and it will have an incredible bill. The 50th-anniversary show goes down in Watkins Glen, New York and will feature a variety of musical acts from different genres including hip-hop, rock, pop, plus even some of the legendary bands who performed at the original Woodstock 50 years ago.
Some of the noteworthy acts to appear in the festival include JAY-Z, The Black Keys, Robert Plant, Chance the Rapper, Santana, The Killers, David Crosby, Janelle Monáe, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, The Raconteurs, Imagine Dragons, John Fogerty, Greta Van Fleet, Run the Jewels, Earl Sweatshirt, Portugal the Man, Dead and Company, Halsey, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and Miley Cyrus.
“It’ll be an eclectic bill,” said the Woodstock 2019 organizer Michael Lang. “It’ll be hip-hop and rock and some pop and some of the legacy bands from the original festival … I want it to be multi-generational. Woodstock ’94 was a nice mix of young and old and that’s kind of what we’re going for here.”
Tickets for Woodstock 50 go on sale on April 22nd and are available for purchase on the Woodstock official website.
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Woodstock 50 Lineup:
Day 1: The Killers, Miley Cyrus, Santana, The Lumineers, The Raconteurs, Robert Plant, John Fogerty, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Run the Jewels, The Head and the Heart, Maggie Rogers, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Anderson East, Princess Nokia, John Sebastian
Day 2: Dead and Company, Chance the Rapper, Black Keys, Sturgill Simpson, Greta Van Fleet, Portugal. The Man, Leon Bridges, Gary Clark Jr., Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes, Dawes, Margo Price, Country Joe and the Fish, Rival Sons, Emily King, Soccer Mommy, Taylor Bennett
Day 3: Jay-Z, Imagine Dragons, Halsey, Cage The Elephant, Brandi Carlile, Janelle Monae, Young The Giant, Courtney Barnett, Common, Vince Staples, Judah and the Lion, Earl Sweatshirt, Boygenius, the Zombies, Canned Heat, Hot Tuna, Pussy Riot, Cherry Glazerr