Excerpt from Historical Overview

No one expected the 1969 Woodstock Concert and festival to draw a crowd estimated at half a million – nor that the gathering would become a legendary touchstone for the counter-culture of the late 1960s and a unique event in the annals of music. Held in the open air on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, New York, Woodstock ’69 can now be looked upon as the single most important musical event of the twentieth century.

Excerpt from Performer and Outfit Detail

Plate 3. Joan Baez, the celebrated folk singer, was born in New York City in 1941. She started out as a traditional folk singer, but her anti-war and protest songs made her into one of the most controversial performers of the 1960s. She often performed the protest anthem “We Shall Overcome,” a song associated particularly with the civil rights movement. Here, Baez, performing barefoot, wears a velveteen sweater top and faded, cropped denim jeans.