List of performances and events at Woodstock Festival
Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival held on a 600 acre (2.4 km²; 240 ha, 0.94 mi²) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Thirty-two acts performed during the sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest moments in popular music history and was listed on Rolling Stone's 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.[1]
Friday, August 15
The first day officially began at 5:07 p.m. with Richie Havens and featured folk artists.
- Richie Havens - 5:07pm - 7:00pm
- "Minstrel From Gault"
- "From The Prison>Get Together>From The Prison"
- "I’m A Stranger Here"
- "High Flyin' Bird"
- "I Can't Make It Any More"
- "With a Little Help from My Friends"
- "I Had A Woman"
- "Handsome Johnny"
- "Strawberry Fields Forever / Hey Jude"
- "Freedom/Motherless Child"
- Swami Satchidananda - gave the invocation for the festival - 7:10pm - 7:20pm
- Sweetwater - 7:30pm - 8:10pm
- "What's Wrong"
- "Motherless Child"
- "Look Out"
- "For Pete's Sake"
- "Day Song"
- "Crystal Spider"
- "Two Worlds"
- "Why Oh Why"
- "Let The Sunshine In"
- "Oh Happy Day"
- Bert Sommer - 8:20pm - 9:15pm
- "Jennifer"
- "The Road To Travel"
- "I Wondered Where You'd Be"
- "She's Gone"
- "Things Are Going my Way"
- "And When It's Over"
- "Jeanette"
- "America"
- "A Note That Read"
- "Smile"
- Tim Hardin - 9:20pm - 9:45pm
- "Hang Onto A Dream"
- "Susan"
- "If I Were a Carpenter"
- "Reason To Believe"
- "You Upset The Grace Of Living When You Lie"
- "Speak Like A Child"
- "Snow White Lady"
- "Blue On My Ceiling"
- "Simple Song Of Freedom"
- "Misty Roses"
- Ravi Shankar, with a three-song set, played through the rain - 10:00pm - 10:35pm
- "Raga Puriya-Dhanashri/Gat In Sawarital"
- "Tabla Solo In Jhaptal"
- "Raga Manj Kmahaj (AIap, Jor, Dhun In Kaharwa Tal)"
- Melanie Safka - 10:50pm - 11:20pm
- "Johnny Boy"
- "Close To It All"
- "Momma Momma"
- "Beautiful People"
- "Animal Crackers"
- "Mr. Tambourine Man"
- "Tuning My Guitar"
- "Birthday Of The Sun"
- Arlo Guthrie--order of set list unknown; - 11:55pm - 12:25am
- "Coming Into Los Angeles"
- "Wheel Of Fortune"
- "Walking Down the Line"
- "Story about Moses and the Brownies"
- "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep"
- "Every Hand In The Land"
- "Amazing Grace"
- Joan Baez- she was six months pregnant at the time - 12:55am - 2:00am [2]
- Story about how the Federal Marshals came to take David Harris into custody "Joe Hill"
- "Sweet Sir Galahad"
- "Hickory Wind"
- "Drugstore Truck Driving Man" duet with Jeffrey Shurtleff
- "Sweet Sunny South"
- "One Day At A Time"
- "Why Was I Tempted To Roam"
- "Let Me Wrap You In My Warm and Tender Love"
- "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
- "We Shall Overcome"
Saturday, August 16
The day opened at 1:20 pm, and featured some of the event's biggest psychedelic and guitar rock headliners.
Sunday, August 17 to Monday, August 18
Joe Cocker was the first act on the last officially booked day (Sunday); he opened up the day's events at 2 PM. His set was preceded by at least two instrumentals by The Grease Band.
- Joe Cocker - 3:30pm - 4:10pm
- "Dear Landlord"
- "Something Comin' On"
- "Do I Still Figure In Your Life"
- "Feelin' Alright"
- "Just Like A Woman"
- "Let's Go Get Stoned"
- "I Don't Need A Doctor"
- "I Shall Be Released"
- "Hitchcock Railway"
- "Something To Say"
- "With a Little Help from My Friends"
- After Joe Cocker's set, a thunderstorm disrupted the events for several hours.
- Country Joe and the Fish 8:00pm - 8:30pm
- "Rock and Soul Music"
- "Love"
- "Love Machine"
- "The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag"
- Ten Years After- 9:00pm - 10:00pm
- "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"
- "I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes"
- "I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always"
- "Hear Me Calling"
- "I'm Going Home"
- The Band - 10:30pm - 11:30pm - Set list confirmed in Levon Helm's book "This Wheel's On Fire"
- "Chest Fever"
- "Tears of Rage"
- "We Can Talk"
- "Don't You Tell Henry"
- "Don't Do It"
- "Ain't No More Cane"
- "Long Black Veil"
- "This Wheel's On Fire"
- "I Shall Be Released"
- "The Weight"
- "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever"
- Johnny Winter - 12:00am - 1:00am featuring his brother, Edgar Winter, on two songs.
- "Mama, Talk to Your Daughter"
- "To Tell the Truth"
- "Johnny B. Goode"
- "Six Feet In the Ground"
- "Leland Mississippi Blues/Rock Me Baby"
- "Mean Mistreater"
- "I Can't Stand It" (with Edgar Winter)
- "Tobacco Road" (with Edgar Winter)
- "Mean Town Blues"
- Blood, Sweat & Tears - 1:30am - 2:30am
- "More and More"
- "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know"
- "Spinning Wheel"
- "I Stand Accused"
- "Something Comin' On"
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 3:00am - 4:30am with separate acoustic and electric sets. Chip Monck announced the group as "Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young", but the name Young was dropped from the movie and film soundtrack.
- "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"
- "Blackbird"
- "Helplessly Hoping"
- "Guinnevere"
- "Marrakesh Express"
- "4 + 20"
- "Mr. Soul"
- "Wonderin'"
- "You Don't Have To Cry"
- "Pre-Road Downs"
- "Long Time Gone"
- "Bluebird Revisited"
- "Sea of Madness"
- "Wooden Ships"
- "Find the Cost of Freedom"
- "49 Bye-Byes"
- Neil Young skipped most of the acoustic set (the exceptions being his compositions "Mr. Soul" and "Wonderin'") and joined Crosby, Stills & Nash, but refused to be filmed during the electric set; by his own report, Young felt the filming was distracting both performers and audience from the music. Young's "Sea of Madness," heard on the album, was drawn from the Fillmore East concert, one month after the festival. The original recording was later restored on the six-CD boxed set Woodstock: 40 Years On [Back To Yasgur's Farm]
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band - 5:00am - 6:00am
- "Everything's Gonna Be Alright"
- "Driftin'"
- "Born Under a Bad Sign"
- "Morning Sunrise"
- "Love March"
- Sha-Na-Na - 6:30am - 7:30am
- "Na Na Theme"
- "Yakety Yak"
- "Teen Angel"
- "Jailhouse Rock"
- "Wipe Out"
- "A Teenager in Love"
- "Book of Love"
- "Duke of Earl"
- "At the Hop"
- "Na Na Theme"
- Jimi Hendrix - 8:30am - 10:00am After being introduced as the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Hendrix corrected the new group's name to "Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, for short it's nothin’ but ‘A Band Of Gypsies." Later during the set he introduced them as "Sky Church."
- "Message to Love"
- "Hear My Train A Comin'" (titled "Get My Heart Back Together" on Woodstock 2 album)
- "Spanish Castle Magic"
- "Red House" (Hendrix's high E-string broke while playing, but he played the rest of the song with five strings.)
- "Mastermind" (written and sung by Larry Lee)
- "Lover Man"
- "Foxy Lady"
- "Jam Back at the House"
- "Izabella"
- "Gypsy Woman"/"Aware of Love" (These two songs written by Curtis Mayfield were sung by Larry Lee as a medley)
- "Fire"
- "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"/"Stepping Stone"
- "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- "Purple Haze"
- "Woodstock Improvisation"/"Villanova Junction" (both titles are posthumous)
- "Hey Joe"
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