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Music Entertainment
Professional Live Music Entertainment is Accessible
The most notorious of all live music entertainment is, of course, Woodstock.
There have been other live music entertainment venues that were held with not
quite so many attendees but with the same sort of peaceful theme and atmosphere
as the Woodstock festival such as the Monterey Pop festival which was held two
years prior to Woodstock. There are some similarities between both Woodstock and
other entertainment venues. Live music entertainment is a great way for people
to come together with a common interest because they provide an outlet for
hippies and people of all ages.
The Monterey music festival was held in 1967 at the Monterey Fairground in
California. Over two hundred thousand guests attended the event. The Monterey
music festival featured big hits like the Mamas and Papas, Country Joe and the
Fish, and Jefferson Airplane just to name a few. Only one performer was paid to
perform and the proceeds from the live music entertainment were donated to
charity. The Monterey music festival was a ground breaking phenomenon that may
have given birth to other gatherings. But sadly, here was no second annual
Monterey Pop experience
The Woodstock music festival held in Bethel, NY is one of the more famous venues
that have occurred in America. Woodstock promoted peace, love, and happiness
with 3 days of music on a 600 acre track of dairy farm land. Originally the live
music entertainment was going to have ticket booths to charge admission for the
concert, but they did not get put up in time before people started their
pilgrimage to the event. Over five hundred thousand people attended with only
two deaths occurring and 2 births occurring as well. Many bands performed such
as, The Band, CCR, Grateful Dead, Canned Heat, Melanie, Santana, and The Who.
The 600 acre farm took five days to clean up but many people stayed to clean up
after the festival.
In recent years there have been several reunions of the Woodstock festival. In
1994 there was a huge Woodstock reunion called Woodstock 94. It was the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the original Woodstock festival and their logo
stated it was 2 more days of peace and love. Many bands performed including
Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, and Live. There were only seven bands that performed
at both the original Woodstock festival and the Woodstock 1994 reunion. A few of
those bands were Santana, The Band, and Joe Cocker. Woodstock 1994 was later
dubbed Mudstock due to a massive rainstorm during the concert. Like the original
Woodstock, people helped others by giving food and sharing.
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