On Sunday (August 18) in Bethel, the ashes of music legend Richie Havens will be scattered across the field where the historic Woodstock Festival took place in 1969, which today is the site of Bethel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fotos International/Getty Stephen Stills (left) and David Crosby of the group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young perform at Woodstock ...

Musician Sly Stone of the psychedelic soul group Sly and the Family Stone performs at the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, N.Y., on Aug. 17, 1969. Woodstock, the music festival that defined a generation, ...

For 10 years, Walter Parks, was the sideman guitarist for Woodstock legend Richie Havens. Upon Havens’ 1967 Guild acoustic guitar Walter performs renditions of his favorite tunes from both The ...

Back to the Garden 1969 - The Woodstock Experience is the premier tribute to the Woodstock era you won't want to miss! Expect ...

47 years ago today, beloved performer and New Orleans festival favorite Richie Havens opened the first day of the Woodstock Festival. With his soulful voice and gentle demeanor, Havens embodied the ...

Havens died of a heart attack in New Jersey, his family said in a statement. He was born in Brooklyn. Havens was known for his crafty guitar work and cover songs, including his well-received cover of ...

Half a million people came to a small dairy farm in upstate New York. They came to be a part of what would become an historic event. They came to be a part of “a gathering of the tribes.” They came to ...

Music festivals are among the most sacred aspects of the music industry, dating back to the Middle Ages. In the modern era, music festivals have served as weekend-long safe havens for fans of a ...

It's been over five decades since the original Woodstock Music Festival took place, and the performances — and images from those sets — remain iconic. The historic event took place on a 600-acre dairy ...

Woodstock, the music festival that defined a generation, took place from Aug. 15-18, 1969, at a dairy farm in Bethel, N.Y. Officially known as the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, approximately 500,000 ...