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Singer Richie Havens, who was also the first performer at the original Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York on August 15, 1969, talks about his extended performance that ended up lasting two hours and 45 minutes. Because some of the bands that were supposed to come up after Havens were late due to the amount of traffic, Havens was asked to play more and more songs for the crowd in order to wait for the other bands to arrive. He also goes on to talk about the crowd of Woodstock, commenting on the generation that attended and explaining that they were a generation that wanted to help, connect with everybody around them and be emotionally moved by the performances.

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Richie Havens Stalls at Woodstock appeared first on Witnify.

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Susan Rodriguez, self-proclaimed hippie that was present during the first Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York on August 15, 1969, takes us day-by-day through the music festival that helped to define a generation. Rodriguez discusses such topics as how people acted in a unified and loving manner, who her favorite performers were, her fondest memory of Woodstock and what she found most surprising. Being only 15-years old when she traveled to the three-day concert with friends from Boston to New York, she claims that she was never worried about being too young or getting lost due to the fact that all the concert-goers acted in a unified manner as “one giant family.”

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