Woodstocked

It looks like the 40th anniversary of the infamous 1969 Woodstock concert will go uncelebrated.

Michael Lang is one of the partners who staged the ‘69 concert and has been the public face of Woodstock in the 40 years since.  Lang initially wanted to stage a free concert in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park to coincide with the Woodstock anniversary August 15-18.  But the global recession made it difficult to obtain sponsors to cover the $8-10 million cost.

As the deadline passed, Lang then hoped to stage an anniversary concert in conjunction with Climate Week at the end of September.  But that didn’t work out either, so it looks like there will be no Woodstock concert in 2009.  Perhaps they can get their act together by the 50th anniversary in 2019.

Story at Poughkeepsie Journal

This summer is the 40th anniversary of the infamous 1969 Woodstock concert, and rumors are flying about another massive Woodstock.  Original producer Michael Lang has been hinting about plans for one concert in New York City and another in Berlin.

But Joel Rosenma, Lang’s producing partner for 40 years, says the concert hasn’t been booked yet and therefore likely won’t happen this year.  “It may not be the year for Woodstock,” he says.  “We’ve had some very encouraging news about this year in the past few weeks, but we don’t know for sure.  We’re not going to let some technical number, some digit, determine when the next Woodstock is.  We’re going to let something bigger than that determine it.”  Would that be money?

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