How to Listen to Every Minute of the Original Woodstock Festival
The Woodstock 50th anniversary concert may not have gone as planned, but if you can’t make it to the Maryland event, here’s something you can still do to celebrate: listen fully to the original 1969 festival …
Starting at 5:07 PM EST today, Aug 15, you can listen to every minute of three live days thanks to Philadelphia radio station WXPN . It will include all of the festival’s archived audio files, from iconic performances to stage announcements and rain delays.
The exclusive broadcast will include newly remodeled audio archives of each of Woodstock’s 32 performances, from Richie Havens’ opening address to Jimi Hendrix’s final Sunday morning performance. According to a message from the station , it will be broadcast “as close to real time as possible.”
You can stream audio online through the WXPN website . Don’t have time to listen all weekend? There is a timetable so you know when each act will be broadcast:
Thursday 15 August
17:07 – Richie Havens
19:10 – Swami Satchidanadna
19:30 – Sweetwater
20:30 – Bert Sommer
21:20 – Tim Hardin
22:20 – Ravi Shankar
23:20 – Melanie
23:55 – Arlo Guthrie
Friday 16 August
12:55 – Joan Baez
12:30 – Feather
13:20 – Country Joe McDonald
14:00 – Santana
15:30 – John B. Sebastian
16:45 – Keefe Hartley’s group
18:00 – Incredible string orchestra
19:30 – Heat canned food
21:00 – Mountain
22:30 – Grateful Dead
Saturday 17 August
12:30 – Creedence Clearwater Revival
2 am – Janis Joplin
3:30 – Sly and family stone
5 am – Who
8am – Jefferson plane
14:00 – Joe Cocker
18:30 – Country Joe & The Fish
20:15 – Ten years later
22:00 – Group
Sunday 18 August
12am – Johnny Winter
1:30 – Blood, Sweat and Tears
3:00 – Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
6:00 – Butterfield Blues Orchestra
7:30 – Sha Na Na
9am – Jimi Hendrix
So relax, grab a drink and enjoy the music without spending your weekend in a messy tent.