Merrill Piepkorn joins It Takes 2 to announce a joint concert series tuning up August 16th and 17th 2017 that will pay tribute to the music of Woodstock on the 50th anniversary of the famed upstate NY concert.
(Promoter Merrill Piepkorn in the KFGO studio)
50TH ANNIVERSARY OF WOODSTOCK
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 2019
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 2019
Tickets on sale now. Early bird two-day reserved, $50 (available now through August 24) Regular ticket price increase starts August 25th.
Jade Presents and Merrill Piepkorn are pleased to announce the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock, a two- day celebration featuring local music, food, and craft vendors.
In August 1969, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place on a dairy farm in Bethel, NY. Over half a million people came to a 600-acre farm to hear 32 acts (leading and emerging performers of the time) play over the course of four days (August 15-18). Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, the Who, Janis Joplin and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were among the line-up. Woodstock is known as one of the greatest happenings of all time and perhaps the most pivotal moment in music history.
By Wednesday, August 13, some 60,000 people had already arrived and set up camp. On Friday, the roads were so clogged with cars that performing artists had to arrive by helicopter. Though over 100,000 tickets were sold prior to the festival weekend, they became unnecessary as swarms of people descended on the concert grounds to take part in this historic and peaceful happening. Four days of music… half a million people… rain, and the rest is history.
This two-day event will take place at Bluestem Amphitheater and will feature over 20 acts and 100 musicians performing songs from the original Woodstock lineup setlists. Local food and craft vendors will round out the all ages event.
“It’s exciting to be working with Jade Presents to bring this once-in-a-lifetime event to Bluestem,” Piepkorn says. “Extremely talented regional musicians playing songs from the greatest rock and roll festival of all time for thousands of music fans at the amazing Bluestem venue—it just doesn’t get any better than that.”
Tickets are available at JadePresents.com, at the Tickets300 box office (306 N. University Drive in Fargo; open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday), or by calling (866) 300-8300.
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