Michael Lang’s plans for 40-year-anniversary Woodstock go down the drain
Michael Lang, the executive producer of the original Woodstock Festival, gave up on his original wish to organise a 40-year-anniversary of the original festival and link it to the “Climate Week”, which takes place between 20th and 26th September. So, yes, in the year of recession, that’s another event that’s not going to happen. As he explained, it’s a “very tough year for this stuff”.
It’s more around the issue than the date for me. The most interesting thing about doing it in September was that it was tied to Climate Week. Should another issue emerge and it makes sense for us to do it then we’ll do it. It would have been free and the sponsors had to be green. Those elements just didn’t go together in this economic climate.
In an interview with Billboard some months ago; Lang mentioned The Who; Santana; Crosby, Stills & Nash; Ben Harper Red Hot Chili Peppers; and Dave Matthews as some of the performers he’d like to see at the concert.
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