The on-again, off-again 50th- anniversary celebration of Woodstock is back on again, maybe.
The embattled event, co-produced by original Woodstock promoter Michael Lang, finally might have found a new home at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., after a series of financial and logistical hurdles threatened the future of the event.
If the plan progresses, the venue would be helping a production that was hobbled in the spring when Woodstock 50’s financial backer, Dentsu Aegis Network, That apparently was enough for Howard County executive Calvin Ball to reach out to Woodstock 50 organizers. “When we heard that there was an opportunity to save this festival and bring a piece of American history to our community this summer, we jumped at the chance,” Ball wrote in a letter to organizers,The new location is much smaller than Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel where that first Woodstock became a touchstone of the baby boomer generation.
According to the Bloomberg report, the event, originally planned as a for-profit festival, will now be a fundraiser in support of voter turnout and climate change nonprofit organizations.
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