Heroes of Woodstock Tour

Heroes of Woodstock Tour

Tour by Jefferson Starship, Canned Heat, Ten Years After, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Tom Constanten and Country Joe McDonald
Legs	1
Shows	15

The Heroes of Woodstock Tour was a North American concert tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. The tour features several bands, most of which performed at the original Woodstock festival or feature members that performed at the festival. The musicians featured differed slightly from venue to venue but most of the concerts featured Jefferson Starship, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Canned Heat, Ten Years After and Tom Constanten. Some dates featured Melanie, Edgar Winter, John Sebastian, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Mountain and the Levon Helm Band. Country Joe McDonald hosted all of the concerts, playing a couple of songs in between the different sets.

1 Notes
2 Soundboard Downloads
3 Tour dates
4 External links
5 References

Notes

Canned Heat reunited with former members Joemar "Jumaw" Galicano and Jan Eric "Choyoy" Tallo for the tour. They, along with Canned Heat's current drummer Fito de la Parra, were both members of the group when it played the original Woodstock Festival.^[1]
Jefferson Starship added bassist Jeff Pevar for this tour. They had previously been touring without a bassist while Chris Smith provided synthesized bass.
Tom Constanten performed the music of the Grateful Dead as a guest of Jefferson Starship.
Big Brother and the Holding Company performed the music of Janis Joplin. Although Big Brother did not play at the original Woodstock Festival, Sam Andrew performed at it with Janis as a member of her Kozmic Blues Band.

Soundboard Downloads

With every ticket to a Heroes of Woodstock performance the ticket holder will receive a free soundboard download of the concert they attended in .mp3 format. The downloads will become available one to five days after a concert ends and will be available for free for three days. In order to access the download a person must enter a code given away at the concert they attended. After three days of access the files will no longer be available for free download but .flac files will be available for purchase.^[2]

Tour dates

Notes: This was the site of the original Woodstock Festival and held on the 40th anniversarry of the first day, Friday August 15, 1969. Blind 15 year old musician Conrad Oberg opened up the show. Jocko Marcellino from Sha Na Na performed a song backed by Canned Heat. Gary Duncan guested with Jefferson Starship. Leslie West married his fiancé Jenny Maurer on stage to a sold out audience at the end of Mountain's set. Japanese vocalist Shiho Ochi of Superfly performed with Big Brother and the Holding Company singing "Down On Me" and "Piece of My Heart" as part of her Following the Steps of Janis documentary on the Music On! TV channel.^[3]