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40 years ago on August 15 - 17, 1969, approximately 500,000 people converged on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel New York for three days of peace and music called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. While those lucky attendees, who took in 32 musical acts including mind-blowing performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and The Who, must have felt that they were a part of something special, they could not have known that 40 years later Woodstock would still be celebrated as the greatest moment in rock and roll history.
To celebrate the festival's 40th anniversary there is no shortage of memorabilia, re-issues and new material on sale, and Philadelphia is one of many cities that will have its own celebration when the Heroes of Woodstock come to the Mann Center on Tuesday August 18. The concert, hosted by Country Joe McDonald, will feature Jefferson Starship (performing the music of Jefferson Airplane), Ten Years After, Canned Heat, Big Brother & The Holding Co. (performing the music of Janis Joplin) and Tom Constanten of the Grateful Dead. Tickets for the event, which begins at 8pm, range from $33-$73 and can be purchased at www.manncenter.org.
If you can't wait until then to hear some Woodstock tunes, starting at noon today, Sirius Satellite Radio launched The Woodstock Channel, which will air through Sunday August 16 on Deep Tracks (Sirius channel 16, XM channel 40). Also 88.5 WXPN's World Cafe with David Dye will air a two hour retrospective of Woodstock music and behind-the-scenes interviews on Friday August 14 at 2pm, which will be rebroadcast on Saturday August 15 at 10am.
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