In 1969, four organizers, Artie Kornfeld, Michael Lang, John P. Roberts and Joel Rosenman collaborated to put on a three day music and art festival. It was to be held in a small town named Bethel, about forty miles from Woodstock in upstate New York. What turned out to be a legendary festival was chaotic from beginning to end. Also known as the Woodstock Rock Festival, this event attracted almost half a million people. The organizers had lost their permit one month before the event and were scrambling to find a new location. The scene was set on a dairy farm in Bethel owned by a man named Max Yasgur. The event planners of The Woodstock Music and Art Festival, had no idea what to expect as conditions were not ideal for those three days: August 15th-18th, 1969. The festival grounds were hot, humid, rainy and muddy. So many people flooded the event that the promoters had to stop checking tickets and allow free entry for all. Thirty two acts performed over three days and nights. The roads were backed up for miles resulting in the late arrival of many performers. Although it is remembered as the greatest rock concert ever, many artist had a “miserable time”. The stage was not properly protected from the rain so it was quite challenging for the bands to perform under these conditions. There wasn’t enough toilets and medical facilities, electrical wires going under the mud, monitors breaking, sound was “shit”; What should have been a major disaster turned out to be a memorable experience for many. Acts included Jimmi Hendrix, The Who, Sly and the Family Stone, Joe Cocker and Richie Havens , just to name a few. Surprisingly only two concert goers lost their life attending this festival; one man from a drug overdose and another fellow who fell asleep under a tractor. The driver of that tractor had no idea that a weary patron had made his death bed underneath his machine. The concert featured folk and rock music, blues rock, hard rock, jazz fusion, psychedelic and progressive acts. Warner Bros. released a documentary with an accompanying soundtrack a few months after the event entitled “Woodstock”. Music lovers lived Woodstock through this film and for many the music wasn’t the most important part of Woodstock; it was the atmosphere. Despite poor conditions, the crowds remained rather peaceful and non-violent. In 2004 Rolling Stones Magazine listed it as number nineteen out of Fifty Moments that changed the History of Rock n’ Roll. The festival site was also listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.