| Woodstock '94 | |
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 Woodstock '94 poster design | |
| Genre | |
| Dates | August 12–14, 1994 |
| Location(s) | Saugerties, New York, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 42°05′24″N 73°59′06″W / 42.09°N 73.985°W |
| Founders | Michael Lang, John P. Roberts, Joel Rosenman, (Woodstock ventures) |
| Attendance | about 350,000 |
| Website | The Woodstock Festivals |
Woodstock '94 was an American music festival held in 1994 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock festival of 1969.[1][2] It was promoted as "2 More Days of Peace and Music". The poster used to promote the first concert was revised to feature two catbirds perched on the neck of an electric guitar, instead of the original one catbird on an acoustic guitar.
The 1994 concert was scheduled for the weekend of August 13–14,[3] with a third day (Friday, August 12) added later. Tickets to the festival cost $135 each.[4] The weather was hot and dry on Friday but by early Saturday afternoon storms rolled in. The rains turned much of the field into mud.[1][2]
The event took place on Winston Farm, just west of Saugerties, New York-about 100 miles (160 km) north of New York City and 70 miles (110 km) northeast of the original 1969 festival site near Bethel, which had 12,000 on hand to celebrate the silver anniversary.[5]
Though only 164,000 tickets were sold,[6] the crowd at Woodstock '94 was estimated at 350,000.[7] The size of the crowd was larger than concert organizers had planned for and by the second night many of the event policies were logistically unenforceable. The major issues related to security, when attendees arrived, left or returned to the site, and the official concert food and beverage vendor policy which initially restricted attendees from entering with supplies of food, drinks, and above all alcohol. With the concert site mostly enclosed by simple chain link fences, there was hardly any difficulty for many attendees to enter freely with beer and other banned items. The security staff, along with the entrance and exit staff, could not continue reasonable monitoring of the increasing number of people entering and exiting while at the same time maintaining safety, security, and a peaceful atmosphere.
Three deaths at the festival were confirmed. An unidentified 45-year-old male died on Saturday of suspected diabetes complications. On Sunday, a 20-year-old died of a ruptured spleen. Organizers also confirmed 5,000 were treated at medical tents and 800 were taken to hospitals.[8]
The festival was followed by Woodstock '99, also in New York at Rome.[9]
- ^ a b Written at Saugerties, New York. "Nonstop party consumes Woodstock nation". The Register-Guard. Eugene, Oregon. Los Angeles Times. August 14, 1994. p. 5A.
- ^ a b Braun, Stephen; Goldman, John (August 15, 1994). Written at Saugerties, New York. "Woodstock revelers slog home". The Register-Guard. Eugene, Oregon. Los Angeles Times. p. 1A.
- ^ "Woodstock Revisited?". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 59. EGM Media, LLC. June 1994. p. 212.
- ^ Newman, Melinda (July 9, 1994). "Expensive Tickets Don't Hinder Sales for Woodstock '94 : Big Ticket Sales for Woodstock '94". Billboard. p. 78. Retrieved December 25, 2018.
- ^ Written at Bethel, New York. "12,000 revisit Woodstock". The Register-Guard. Eugene, Oregon. Associated Press. August 14, 1994. p. 5A.
- ^ Flick, Larry (July 7, 1999). "POST-WOODSTOCK ACTIVITY ON TRACK". Billboard. Retrieved December 25, 2018.
- ^ Hill, Michael (February 23, 1997). "Getting Back To the Garden in Bethel". Bethel, N.Y.: Associated Press. Archived from the original on May 8, 2009. Retrieved August 15, 2009. (Article archived on Woodstock Nation Web site.)
- ^ Hughes, John (August 15, 1994). Written at Saugerties, New York. "MUDSTOCK". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Retrieved June 26, 2021 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Hill, David (July 27, 2019). "Woodstock 1999: When Rome was on the world's biggest stage". Rome Sentinel. Rome, New York. Retrieved June 26, 2021.