Blog: 30 Days Out

Richie Havens Well, here we are in New York's Hudson Valley just about 30 miles from Bethel, where the Woodstock 40th anniversary festival will take place on Saturday. The event, called "The Heroes of Woodstock" because it isn't really sanctioned by the promoters who put on the original festival (and who own the copyright on the Woodstock name), is at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts which is this fancy $100 million entertainment complex built on the grounds of the original festival. Friday afternoon, they kicked off the weekend's festivities with a media-only performance [...]