Although when most people think of the Woodstock Music Festival they think of the famous original concert held in August 1969 in upstate New York that was in fact far from the only time a music festival was held under that name and banner although they were not always organized enough to merit things like an official Woodstock poster.

After years of holding these “unofficial” festivals on the original Yasgur farms site in 2009 an official 40th Anniversary Concert was organized. The site was now the splendid Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, which does feature a full Woodstock museum and directly overlooks the original festival site.

The gathering attracted musicians who had performed at the 1969  festival including Country Joe McDonald, Jefferson Starship (who had been Jefferson Airplane in 1969) , Canned Heat and the Levon Helm Band. The outdoor gig lasted for eight hours and was performed in front of a sellout crowd, some of whom had not even been alive in 1969 but came to soak up the atmosphere anyway.