1970 a two-hundred and thirty minute documentary was released entitled "Woodstock." This documentary has set the standard for other documentaries to come. This documentary covers a three day festival that was held in August of 1969. The festival symbolized the ideas of the late 1960’s in terms of music, politics, and society in general. The documentary depicted the event as a major love and drug fest. Woodstock was a historic event that was the idea of four men by the names of Michael Lang,
from the wisdom that grows here, grows from the gathering of souls.” -Terry Maness What could such a compelling statement be about? Woodstock Music Festival, or otherwise known as the greatest music festival of the counter-culture era; but only four short months later, the music died, all thanks to Altamont Music Festival. Woodstock was a three day music festival (with a short extended fourth day), that brought together the hottest rock stars of the sixties, including: Santana, Grateful Dead, Creedence
was a three day music festival famously known for “peace and music” it happened August 15 to August 18, 1969 It was held at a 600 acre farm Bethel, New York in the Catskill Mountains. The festival created massive traffic jams and extreme shortages of food, water, and medical and sanitary facilities, it is still known today to be one of the biggest concerts in history. Woodstock drew 400,000 young people including a man named TJ Eck who was 28 at the time and had a thrive for music, Woodstock was
Music has always been an integral part of human culture, from the first humans who used human voice as an instrument to the development of technology that allowed various different sounds to be produced and used. Music has become an inevitable part of our present culture, whether it is an everyday enjoyment of a specific genre, a way to express onself artistically or participating in music events such as music festivals. Furthermore, music does not only display our personal taste and preferences
Country Music Festival Tamworth (TCMF). The TCMF is the Australia’s largest music festival and rated in the top ten coolest festivals (Destination NSW 2016). In this report, it will outline and analysis the planning intentions of the TCMF in regard to the goals, objectives, program, relationship between community and stakeholders, governance and event impacts. Purpose, goals, and objective of event The TCMF has a strong history, 2017 is the 45th of celebration (Tamworth Country Music Festival 2016)
Music festival financial requirements generally fall into three areas: * Management: administration costs, office rental, telephone, staff wages. * Event cost, may include, development, venue hire, visual arts, fees to performers, travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses, event logistic and equipment, ticketing, catering and insurance (it is a major part of the budget, in 2013 is estimated costs grow about 20% thousand, mainly because the artists rates have risen, according to Forbs (2010)
Cultural events are events pertaining to cultures, such as a feast or festivals. By attending cultural events, you experience firsthand the diverse offering of culture and artistic expression found in a community. The Essence Music Festival and the Mardi Gras are two of the festivals that many people attend for all over the world. The Essence Music Festival is a festival, of many, that is held in New Orleans every year. This festival, which is scheduled during the 4th of July, draws many people from
Since the earliest days of human civilization music has been a key tool for communication of stories which carried emotions through them. If we think back to our youngest years of life music has surrounded us whether it was from our parents singing us lullabies or from some sort of toy that played music we can say that musical melodies have helped shape or lives one way or another. Once we start growing up and figuring out who we are our musical preferences change; some people like classical and
Kertesz Period 3 1969 Woodstock Music Festival At a time of social reflection, with America reacting to war in Southeast Asia, the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy (1963), his brother Senator Robert F. Kennedy (1968), and Martin Luther King Jr.(1968), the Apollo landing on the moon, and a culture of public demonstration, through Woodstock, the country was asked to question its attitudes toward drugs, sex, and the establishment. Was Woodstock simply a music festival or a sign of growing dissatisfaction
Glastonbury Music Festival is a five day celebration which is held in England a lot of people from all as far and wide as possible attempt to be a piece of it yet lamentably just a couple have the capacity be a piece of it. Diverse bands play at the Glastonbury Music Festival. Offer of the Glastonbury Festival tickets started at 9am on the fifth of October 2014. Around 120,000 tickets, costing £210 each, were gobbled up in one hour and 27 minutes, as per coordinators, who said more than one million
Since 2005, the electronic music festival Tomorrowland has become one of the largest in Europe and worldwide. The Tomorrowland festival holds over three days on 27, 28 and 29 at the end of July. It takes place every year as the recreational area at De Schorre Boom, near Antwerp in Belgium. Tomorrowland takes place each year in a park with restaurants, cocktail bars, open bar and a nice lake crossed by wooden bridges and swans paddle shaped spaces. 15 scenes spread over the vast hilly terrain or stands
Electronic Dance Music, also known as EDM, has increased in popularity over the past few years. The spike in popularity has helped create a bigger industry for EDM event planners. For example, the founder and CEO of Insomniac (a popular EDM event planning company), Pasquale Rotella is worth ten million dollars alone. In the 2014 Electric Daisy Carnival trailer, Rotella said, “Finally, I’ve felt like we’re getting somewhere,” in regards to the popularity and impact of these festivals. Because thousands
Differing Views on the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival On August 15, 1969 at five-o’clock p.m., on a 600-acre hog farm in the small town of Bethel, NY, Richie Havens took the stage as the opening act at the legendary Woodstock Festival. Destined to become the largest gathering of people in one place at one time, Woodstock stood for three days of peace, love, and music amidst the horrors of the Vietnam War. Hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children made their way to the Catskills in New
genre of music in one place? Of course, anyone would say yes, because most people haven't been to an event like the huge one that happens in California each year. This is an event many people save up all year to attend just maybe once in their life time. The Coachella Music and Arts Festival, it is one of the most talked about festivals that this generation knows about. It is like a whole new world for most people each time they attend. Believe it or not The Coachella Music and Arts Festival started
Introduction Tamworth Country Music Festival (TCMF) is Australia’s largest music festival and one of the top ten music festivals in the world, attracting many visitors each year (TCMF 2016). This report will examine and outline the positive and negative impacts of this event and analyse the operational management to find out whether it has achieved the goals and objectives of the event and the satisfaction of stakeholders. The two methods the principles of sustainability and the triple bottom line
moment, but it was only a pretension. In the beginning of my sophomore year, I decided to join the All-State Music Festival, a music program where anyone can audition to play at a festival in Anchorage, Alaska. Although the result was not what I expected, the experience has influenced me to become the person I am today. To enter the festival, everyone had to send in recordings of the audition music chosen by All-State. It took one month to find out about the result, and it was a friend who notified me
Woodstock Music Festival was a music event in Bethel, New York that changed the way people live. During August of 1969, many large crowds of American music lovers all came together to listen to the music of their favorite musicians for this huge music event. Woodstock swept the nation with not only talented musicians, but also many new thoughts and opinions on the world. This popular concert event introduced the ideas of peace, unity, kindness, and togetherness. The Woodstock Festival made a major
Peace, Love, and Music. The Woodstock Music Festival focused on these three things. Young people came from all over the country to go to Bethel, New York in 1969 to listen to many influential musicians perform. With about 400,000 participants, the venue was packed with not only people, but with drugs, sex, and alcohol. In the end, the concert-goers left with a different view of their lives and had developed a new philosophy of understanding, peace, and love. Although there were many obstacles
Music is more than just listening to a favorite band in the car. For the people who are actually involved with playing in a band, they know how different each type of band can be because of past experiences. It can provide not only music specific experiences, but others as well. These experiences include benefits that seem to go unseen, but will turn out to be useful in the future. One of the biggest benefits that comes from being in band is gaining the social benefit of working together, as it
Woodstock is a talked about legend. On August 16-18, 1969 Woodstock Music Festival took place on a patch of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New York town of Bethel. John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and Michael Lang who all worked together to organize originally envisioned the festival as a way to raise funds to build a recording studio and rock-and-roll retreat near the town of Woodstock, New York. The longtime artists’ colony was already a home base for Bob Dylan and