In spite of the differences in approach by the promoters and They initially expected only 50,000 people to attend the festival, but an estimated 400,000 actually poured in throughout the 3-day festival, which started on August 15 and ended in the morning of August 18, 1969. Over the course of the festival, 32 musical acts performed on-stage at Woodstock. The festivities started at 5pm of August 15, with Swami Satchidananda giving the invocation for the Day 1 ended at 2am the next day, with Joan Baez, who was already 6 months pregnant at the time, being the closing actJimi Hendrix, together with his new band Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, gave what critics would say was one of the most iconic live musical performances of the 20th century.
Initially, most of those who covered the event focused on the chaos caused by the event
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