Artists performing at
Woodstock '69
Jimi Hendrix
Performing on August 17, 2009
James Marshall Hendrix (November 27,1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, producer, innovator and guitarist. Widely hailed by music fans and critics alike as the greatest electric guitarist of all time, there is no disputing that he remains one of the most influential rock guitarists (and songwriters). Jimi was not very popular in America at the outset of his musical career...
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Richie Havens
Performing on August 17, 2009
Born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Richie Havens moved to Greenwich Village in 1961 in time to get in on the folk boom then taking place. Havens had a distinctive style as a folksinger, appearing in such clubs as the Cafe Wha? His guitar set to an open tuning, he would strum while barring chords with his thumb, using it essentially as percussion while singing rhythmically in a gruff voice for a mesmerizing effect. Bio from Last.FM
Swami Satchidananda
Performing on August 17, 2009
H.H. Sri Swami Satchidananda, famously referred to as the "Woodstock" Guru, is the founder of the Integral Yoga Institutes, International, and Satchidananda Ashram, Yogaville. He is considered by many to be one of the most revered Spiritual Masters of our time. Invited to America by filmmaker,Conrad Rooks, who featured him in his film, "Chappaqua", and famed pop-artist, Peter Max, Sri Swamiji was one of the great Yoga Master's who first introduced Yoga to the U.S in the 60s. He was invited to preside over the original "Woodstock" festival, where he delivered a message of universal peace that helped to restore equanimity and harmony to the festivities. During his lifetime, he has been the recipient of many renowned honors for his service, including the U-Thant Award, and the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award. One of the eminent leaders of the Ecumenical Movement, he has been internationally recognized, respected and loved for his tireless dedication to the cause of universal understanding and peace throughout the world. His devotees include many other luminaries in the film and music industry, including Carole King, Alice Coltrane, Felix Caveliere, John Stewart, Diane Ladd, Laura Dern, Lindsay Crouse and Billy Bob Thornton
Country Joe and the Fish
Performing on August 17, 2009
Country Joe and the Fish was a rock music/folk music band known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1965 to 1970. The lead singer was "Country" Joe McDonald. The lead guitarist was Barry "The Fish" Melton. Co-founders McDonald and Melton added musicians as needed over the life of the band. By 1967, what many consider the classic line-up included Gary "Chicken" Hirsh (drums), David Cohen (keyboards) and Bruce Barthol (bass). Bio from Last.FM
Country Joe McDonald
Performing on August 17, 2009
"Country" Joe McDonald (born Joseph McDonald, on January 1, 1942 in El Monte, California) was the leader and lead singer of the 1960s rock & roll group Country Joe and the Fish. He started his career busking on Berkeley, California's famous Telegraph Avenue in the early 1960's Country Joe has recorded 33 albums and has written hundreds of songs over a career spanning 40 years. He and Barry Melton co-founded Country Joe and The Fish which became a pioneer psychedelic band with their eclectic performances at The Avalon, Fillmore, Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock.
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John B. Sebastian
Performing on August 17, 2009
Over four decades the contributions of John Sebastian have become a permanent part of our American musical fabric. John His group The Lovin' Spoonful played a major role in the mid-'60s rock revolution, but what leader, singer and songwriter Sebastian had in mind was actually a counter-revolution. "We were grateful to the Beatles for reminding us our rock & roll roots," John explains, "but we wanted to cut out the English middlemen, so to speak, and get down to making this new music as an 'American' band." This the Lovin' Spoonful did like nobody before or since, putting their first seven singles into the Top 10. This was unprecedented, and utterly unthinkable at the height of Beatlemania. At first they'd taken older material from blues, country, folk and jug band sources - what we now term "roots music" - and made it sound modern. Then, in a series of original songs composed and sung by John Sebastian, they did the reverse, creating thoroughly modern music that sounded like it contained the entire history of American music. Which it did.
Sweetwater
Performing on August 17, 2009
Sweetwater was the first GROUP to play at the Woodstock festival(after Richie Havens, Country Joe McDonald and John Sebastian). Their music-style is a fusion of rock, jazz, folk, psychedelia, latin and even classical music. They released three albums in the period of 1968 - 1971. Their career was shortlived due to a tragic auto accident involving lead singer Nansi Nevins, which led to her vocal chords being injured.
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Tim Hardin
Performing on August 17, 2009
More successful as a songwriter than as a performer, Tim Hardin penned such famously-covered tunes as "Reason to Believe" (Rod Stewart) and "If I Were a Carpenter" (Bobby Darin). His jazz- and folk-inspired compositions are lively and moody, especially the earlier recordings on the Verve label (for example, "How Can We Hang on to a Dream," "Misty Roses"), while later pieces are more inconsistent. Recordings dwindled in the 70's, and Hardin died of a drug overdose in 1980.
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Ravi Shankar
Performing on August 17, 2009
Ravi Shankar (born April 7, 1920 in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India) is a Bengali India n musician best known for his virtuosity on the sitar. A disciple of Allauddin Khan (founder of the maihar gharana of indian classical music), Pandit Ravi Shankar is arguably the best-known Indian instrumentalist, and is well known for his pioneering work in bringing the power and appeal of theindian classical music tradition, as well as indian music and its performers in general, to the West. This was done through his association with The Beatles as well as with his own personal charisma.
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Melanie
Performing on August 17, 2009
Melanie Ann Safka-Schekeryk (known professionally as Melanie) is an American singer-songwriter. Born on February 3rd, 1947, in Astoria, New York City, Melanie made her first recording, "Gimme a Little Kiss", when she was five. She first found chart success in Europe. Her 1969 song "Bobo's Party" reached number one in France. Later that year she had a hit in the Netherlands with "Beautiful People" before performing at Woodstock.
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Arlo Guthrie
Performing on August 17, 2009
Arlo Guthrie (born July 10, 1947, Brooklyn, New York ) is an American folk singer who is the son of folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie and his wife Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a one-time professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease. He graduated from the Stockbridge School of Massachusetts in 1965, and briefly attended Rocky Mountain College.
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Joan Baez
Performing on August 17, 2009
Joan Baez, born on January 9th, 1941, is an American folk singer-songwriter of mixed Mexican and Scottish descent. Baez rose to prominence in the early '60s with her stunning renditions of traditional balladry. In the late '60s and early '70s, Baez came into her songwriting own, penning many songs (most notably "Diamonds & Rust," a nostalgic piece about her ill-fated romance with Bob Dylan, and "Sweet Sir Galahad," a song about sister Mimi Fariña's ( of Richard & Mimi Fariña fame) second marriage, and continued to meld her songcraft with topical issues.
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Quill
Performing on August 17, 2009
There are two bands named Quill: #1. Quill opened up the Saturday festivities at Woodstock in 1969, though some may say the real claim to fame for Jo Unk Khol (aka John Cole) is the sound effects he makes (uncredited) at the beginning of Andy Pratt's 1973 classic "Avenging Annie." The group's self-produced album is one of the better offerings from "The Bosstown Sound," as was Pratt's 1971 Polydor release Records Are Like Life.
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Keef Hartley Band
Performing on August 17, 2009
Born March 8th, 1944, in Preston, Lancashire, England. Started out as drummer for The Thunderbeats in 1961. Various bands until joining John Mayall in 1967. Bit of session work with Jimi Hendrix in same year. Stayed with John Mayalls Bluesbreakers until 1969 when Mayall decided he no longer needed a drummer. Formed the Keef Harley band releasing The Halfbreed, probably one of the best British Blues/Jazz Blues albums ever. CD discontinued but can be obtained on Universal's CD archive series.
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Santana
Performing on August 17, 2009
Santana was formed originally in 1966 in San Francisco, California. Originally named The Santana Blues Band, they rose to international fame when they performed at the Woodstock festival in 1969. This led to their second studio album, Abraxas (1970), becoming a Latin-Rock standard and a huge critical and commercial success. Over the years their line-up has changed constantly, allowing them to evolve with the times.
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Canned Heat
Performing on August 17, 2009
Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie band that formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts, Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 Canned Heat Blues, a song about an alcoholic who has desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called "canned heat".
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Grateful Dead
Performing on August 17, 2009
The Grateful Dead is a psychedelic/jam/country rock band which formed in 1965 in San Francisco, California, United States from the remnants of another band, "Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions," the Grateful Dead were known for their unique and eclectic songwriting style which fused elements of rock, folk music, bluegrass, blues, country, and jazz, and also for live performances of long modal jams. The group disbanded immediately after the death of their frontman, singer/guitarist Jerry Garcia in 1995.
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Mountain
Performing on August 17, 2009
There are two artists with the name Mountain. 1) Mountain is an American rock band mainly active in the early 1970s. The band still tours and had a number of UK and US dates scheduled in 2006. The classic-era lineup of the group was Leslie West on guitar, Felix Pappalardi on bass, Corky Laing on drums (the original drummer was N. D. Smart), and Steve Knight on piano and organ. West's raw vocals, Laing's flowing drumming, and Pappalardi's heavy but not overly imposing bass lines were the elements of Mountain's distinctive sound.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival
Performing on August 17, 2009
Creedence Clearwater Revival, frequently referred to as CCR or simply Creedence, was an American roots rock band, fronted by John Fogerty. The band started out as The Blue Velvets, formed by John Fogerty, Doug Clifford, and Stu Cook in El Cerrito, California in the late 1950s. They were an instrumental trio, however during the early '60s they began backing Tom Fogerty, John's older brother, for school dances at El Cerrito High School, on fraternity house gigs and in the recording studio.
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Sly and The Family Stone
Performing on August 17, 2009
There is more than one artist called Sly (1) Heavy metal band from Japan. (2) Sly (also known as Lowell Dunbar) ofSly & Robbie, legendary dub reggae producers from Jamaica. The Japanese Sly were established by Minoru Niihara (v) and Munetaka Higuchi (d) from Loudness when they have went from this group. In group played also Earthshaker guitarist Shinichiro Ishihara and Blizard bassist Koichi Terasawa. Band is split-up nowadays.
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Janis Joplin
Performing on August 17, 2009
Blues-rock musician Janis Joplin's screaming soulful voice in many ways is a personification of the Flower Power Era (along with Jimi Hendrix, Eric Burdon, Grace Slick and many others). She came to symbolize energy of the Psychedelic, Haight Ashbury, love beads, love ins, free love, flower children, black light posters and incense, expansion of consciousness, spiritualism soaked in the unusual drug idealism of the late 1960's. It was a time of bright hope and optimism and the shedding of many social-psychological-sexual traditions that went sour.
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The Who
Performing on August 17, 2009
The Who is an English rock band that formed in Shepherd's Bush, West London, England, in 1964 and grew to be considered one of the greatest and most influential bands in the world. They are also famed for their prowess as a live band - winning awards and being described as "possibly the greatest live band ever". The primary lineup consisted of Pete Townshend (lead guitar, vocals), Roger Daltrey (lead vocals), John Entwistle (bass, vocals) and Keith Moon (drums, vocals).
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Jefferson Airplane
Performing on August 17, 2009
Jefferson Airplane was the first of the San Francisco psychedelic rock groups of the 1960s to become internationally known. The band was founded by singerMarty Balin and guitarist Paul Kantner in 1965. With the addition of Signe Anderson their male-female singing style showed their folk music roots plus Balin's love of R&B singing styles. In fact their dual lead vocals were a hallmark of their sound throughout the Airplane's career, as confirmed (to international acclaim) after Grace Slick replaced Signe Anderson as the female singer.
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Joe Cocker
Performing on August 17, 2009
Joe Cocker OBE (born 20 May 1944) is an english rock/blues singer who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, which remembers of Eric Burdon and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles. Joe Cocker was born in Sheffield, England, the youngest son of a civil servant. In 1961 Joe by day, worked as an apprentice gas fitter and by night, in dark suit and bow tie, became Vance Arnold singing with The Avengers in rough Sheffield pubs. The set included songs by mentor Ray Charles "What'd I Say" and "Georgia On My Mind.Bio from Last.FM
Ten Years After
Performing on August 17, 2009
Originally from Nottingham in the UK, this band of virtuoso musicians under the leadership of Alvin Lee conquered the UK scene and then spread their wings to the USA. Their blend of jazz, blues and rock was initially slightly awkward but their first album provided an opening for them. In October, their 1967 self-titled debut album was released. In 1968, after touring Scandinavia and the United States, Ten Years After released their second album, live Undead, which brought their first classic, "I'm Going Home.Bio from Last.FM
The Band
Performing on August 17, 2009
The Band was an influential Canadian-American rock and roll group of the 1960s and '70s, formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Band included Robbie Robertson (guitar, piano); Richard Manuel (piano, harmonica, drums, saxophone, organ); Garth Hudson (organ, piano, clavinet, accordion, synthesizer, saxophone); Rick Danko (bass guitar, violin, trombone), and Levon Helm (drums, mandolin, guitar, bass guitar).
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Johnny Winter
Performing on August 17, 2009
Johnny Winter (born John Dawson Winter III on 23 February 1944 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American blues guitarist and singer. He is the first son of John and Edwina Winter who were very much responsible for Johnny and his younger brother Edgar Winter's early musical awareness. He began performing at a young age with Edgar, who is also affected with albinism. His recording career began at the age of 15, when their band "Johnny and the Jammers" released "School Day Blues" on a Houston record label.
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Crosby, Stills, Nash
Performing on August 17, 2009
Initially formed by the trio of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, the genesis of the group lies in two 1960s rock bands, The Byrds and The Hollies, and the demise of a third, Buffalo Springfield. Friction existed between David Crosby and his bandmates in the Byrds, and he was dismissed from the Byrds in the fall of 1967.[1] By early 1968, Buffalo Springfield had also disintegrated over personal issues, and after aiding in putting together the band’s final album, Stephen Stills found himself unemployed by the summer. He and Crosby began meeting informally and jamming, the results of one encounter in Florida on Crosby’s schooner being the song “Wooden Ships,” composed in collaboration with another guest, Paul Kantner.[2] Graham Nash had been introduced to Crosby when the Byrds had toured the UK in 1966, and when the Hollies ventured to California in 1968, Nash resumed his acquaintance with Crosby.[3] At a party in July 1968 at Cass Elliot's house, Nash asked Stills and Crosby to repeat their performance of a new song by Stills, “You Don't Have To Cry,” with Nash improvising a second harmony part.[4] The vocals gelled, and the three realized that they had a unique vocal chemistry. Creatively frustrated with the Hollies, Nash decided to quit and throw his lot in with Crosby and Stills. After failing an audition with the Beatles' Apple Records, they were signed to Atlantic Records by Ahmet Ertegün, who had been a fan of Buffalo Springfield and was disappointed by that band's demise.[5] From the outset, given their respective band histories, the trio decided not to be locked into a group structure, using their surnames as identification to ensure independence and a guarantee against the band simply continuing without one of them, as had both the Byrds and the Hollies after the departures of Crosby and Nash. Their record contract with Atlantic reflected this, positioning CSN with a unique flexibility unheard of for an untested group. The trio also picked up a unique management team in Elliot Roberts and David Geffen, who had engineered their situation with Atlantic and would help to consolidate clout for the group in the industry.[6] Roberts kept the band focused and dealt with egos, while Geffen handled the business deals, since, in Crosby’s words, they needed a shark and Geffen was it.[7] Roberts and Geffen would play key roles in securing the band’s success during the early years. When it was announced that the band was forming, they ran into a slight contractual problem. Nash was already signed to Epic Records, the North American distributor of records by the Hollies, while Crosby and Stills were signed to Atlantic. In order to resolve this problem, Geffen engineered a deal whereby Nash was essentially traded to Atlantic for the rights to Richie Furay's band Poco; Furay was signed to Atlantic as a result of his membership in Buffalo Springfield.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Performing on August 17, 2009
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was signed to Elektra Records after adding Michael Bloomfield as lead guitarist. Their original debut album was scrapped, then re-recorded after the addition of organist Mark Naftalin. Finally, their self-titled debut, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, was released in 1965. It had an immediate impact, serving as a wakeup call for a generation of musicians. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paul_Butterfield_Blues_Band Bio from Last.FM
Sha-Na-Na
Performing on August 17, 2009
Sha-Na-Na is a Rock 'n Roll band that was prominently featured in the movie adaptation of Grease.
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