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Berlin's Tempelhof airport will host a concert to mark the
40th anniversary of the legendary Woodstock music festival on
August 22-23.
Festival organizers expect between 200,000 to 300,000 visitors
to turn up to listen to the bands, many of whom played at the
original festival in August 1969.
The event in Berlin will take place simultaneously with a
concert at the original Woodstock location in upstate New York.
Woodstock founder Michael Lang is involved once again. The
65-year-old music producer is working with PR company Media
Consulta, who have been tasked with promoting the event in
Germany.
According to a statement on their Website, the airport will
serve as the "the ultimate concert location."
The original festival, organized as an anti-establishment
protest against the Vietnam War, has achieved absolute cult
status, not least through a series of documentary films and Jimi
Hendrix's famous version of the American national anthem.
Festival organizers had expected around 50,000 visitors, but
nearly half a million people descended on the farmland in
upstate New York.
The 1969 Woodstock bands that are expected in Berlin include
Santana, Joe Cocker, The Who, Neil Young & Crazy Horse and The
Grateful Dead.
Republished with permission from "The Week in Germany"
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