Bethel Woods has announced that Ringo Starr and Santana will lead the original Woodstock site’s 50th anniversary celebration to the legendary 1969 festival. New York’s Bethel Woods Center for the Arts’ half-centennial event – a separate festival from the one being organized by original Woodstock founder Michael Lang in Watkins Glen, New York – will also feature performances by Edgar Winter Band and the Doobie Brothers during August 15th through the 18th, that exact dates of the original festival.
On Thursday, August 15th, Bethel Woods will host a screening of the concert film Woodstock: The Director’s Cut on the field where the festival happened. Starr and the Edgar Winter Band will perform Friday at the venue’s 15,000-person amphitheater, with Santana and Doobie Brothers booked for Saturday. Sunday’s attendees will be announced soon.
Carlos Santana, who performed at the 1969 fest, previously revealed to Rolling Stone that he had aligned with the Bethel Woods celebration and not Woodstock 50.
Michael Lang’s Woodstock 50 festival, taking place August 16th through 18th, will announce its lineup when tickets go on sale later this month, although the organizer said 40 bands, including big-name headliners, have already been booked.
“It’ll be an eclectic bill,” Lang told Rolling Stone. “It’ll be hip-hop and rock and some pop and some of the legacy bands from the original festival.”
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