Woodstock 50, a festival of doubts | Will there be a party …

Will there be a festival celebrating 50 years of Woodstock? Earlier this year, Michael Lang – the organizer of the original mythical meeting – announced a liaison meeting that would take place on the former race circuit. Watkins Glen, in New York State, from August 16th to 18th.

Despite a list of other interesting artists who understood Robert Plant and The Space Shifters, Greta Van Fleet, Santana, David Crosby & Friends, The Raconteurs, The Killers, Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus and others, the problems began in April: at the end of the month, the company Dentsu Aegis Network, the main sponsor of the festival, announced that it was withdrawing from the project.

At this time the organizer Woodstock 50 LLC He issued a statement stating that "we are committed to Woodstock's birthday and we are organizing a festival that honors the brand and its history. Although our financial partner has retired, of course we will continue"

However, things continued to get worse. On June 12th, the people in charge of the chosen site gave the kickoff:Watkins Glen International has terminated Woodstock's license, in accordance with the provisions of the contract. We will not be home to the Woodstock 50 Festival. One of the organizers confirmed the news to the magazine Rolling stone, and noted that "we are in talks to organize the festival on the same dates as elsewhere, which we will announce before the sale of the tickets, in the coming weeks".

The weeks have advanced and the bad news accumulated. Shortly after, the one who left the project was the company CID Entertainment, responsible for providing facilities for camp participants, travel packages and tickets, as well as transportation to the venue "CID is no longer involved in Woodstock 50in its place, "Dan Berkowitz, CEO of the company, told Billboard, and to hide the image, the New York State Department of Health reported that had ended his permission for the festival

As the clock slowed down, the organizing company again tried to organize the festival in the city of Vernon, where it obtained in principle the support of the town hall but finally they met a new refusal. The Lang team said, "We regret that those in Vernon who support our strong and well thought out proposal, are deprived of a unique opportunity to be part of the group. rebirth of a cultural movement for peace it changed the world in 1969 and how much the world needs today. " Virgin Produced, another of the companies involved in festival logistics, did not move this sentence by also announcing her retirement, announcing her retirement with a statement that "Despite our tremendous effort to badist Michael Land and Woodstock 50 to resurrect the festival, It has become clear that the time is up"

The organizers, however, do not lose hope: this weekend, they announced that the festival would finally take place at Columbia, a city in the state of Maryland, a few miles from Baltimore. Anyway, we can not say that the story is over: the new site is the Merriweather Post Pavilion, an outdoor facility with a capacity of only 32,000 people. According to the Bloomberg website, Woodstock 50 LLC is currently in talks with artist representatives to find out their reaction to the changes. In addition, the event was reclbadified as a "charity", with a portion of the proceeds of the sale being allocated to various organizations.

On the official website, we make sure that the tickets, which were going to be on sale in April, "will soon be on sale".