{"id":1201965,"date":"2022-01-09T13:49:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1201965"},"modified":"2022-01-09T13:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T18:49:36","slug":"michael-lang-woodstock-festival-co-creator-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-lang-woodstock-festival-co-creator-dies-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Lang, Woodstock Festival Co-Creator, Dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichael-lang-woodstock-festival-co-creator-dies-at-77%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1201965&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/obit-michael-lang-woodstock-producer-founder-michael-lang-participates-woodstock-50-lineup-announcement-e1641752503138-639x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Michael Lang, a co-creator and promoter of the 1969 Woodstock music festival that served as a touchstone for generations of music fans, has died.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Pagnotta, a spokesperson for Lang\u2019s family, said Sunday the 77-year-old had been battling non-Hodgkin lymphoma and passed away Saturday at New York\u2019s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe was absolutely an historic figure, and also a great guy,\u201d Pagnotta, who said he had known Lang for about 30 years, told The Associated Press. \u201cBoth of those thing go hand in hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with partners Artie Kornfeld, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman, Lang put together the festival billed as \u201cthree days of peace and music\u201d in the summer of 1969 as the Vietnam War raged and led increasing numbers of disaffected young Americans to turn away from traditional mores and embraced a lifestyle that celebrated freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 400,000 people descended on the hamlet of Bethel, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of New York City and endured miles-long traffic jams, torrential rains, food shortages and overwhelmed sanitary facilities. More than 30 acts performed on the concert\u2019s main stage at the base of a hill on land owned by farmer Max Yasgur, and concertgoers were treated to iconic performances from artists including Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, The Who and Jefferson Airplane.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lang, sporting a head of bushy brown hair, is seen throughout Michael Wadleigh\u2019s 1970 documentary movie that chronicled the festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the beginning, I believed that if we did our job right and from the heart, prepared the ground and set the right tone, people would reveal their higher selves and create something amazing,\u201d Lang wrote in his memoir, \u201cThe Road to Woodstock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lang and others sought to mount a concert in 2019 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the original Woodstock, but the endeavor ultimately was scrapped due to financial issues and difficulty securing a venue. In an interview with the AP at the time, Lang called the experience \u201ca really bizarre trip,\u201d and said he still hoped to hold the concert in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Although Woodstock often is viewed as creating the template for large-scale music festivals, it wasn\u2019t the first to take place in the U.S. Two years earlier, the Monterey Pop festival drew about 200,000 people to California, and in 1968 the Miami Pop Festival followed, which Lang also organized. But Woodstock nonetheless holds an indelible place in history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of them are modeled after Woodstock \u2014 Bonnaroo and Coachella, in particular,\u201d Lang said of other festivals in a 2009 interview. \u201cThere was a ritual that was created that keeps getting replicated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Michael Lang, a co-creator and promoter of the 1969 Woodstock music festival that served as a touchstone for generations of music fans, has died. 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