Five weeks before the festival, Max Yasgur agreed to host Woodstock on his property. His farm provided natural amphitheater seating for Woodstock. Over 400,000 people showed up for the music festival.

“Woodstock here I come ... New York where the original festival took place on what was Max Yasgur’s dairy farm (now it’s known as the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts).

The Woodstock Music & Art Fair ... Bernard Hagerty did not attend but had many friends who made the trip to Max Yasgur’s farm, where future rock legends such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin ...

A dairy farmer named Max Yasgur agreed to host the event on his ... the idea of accepting tickets for Woodstock was swiftly abandoned as the crowd grew ever larger (the traffic jam was monumental).

Three Days Of Peace And Music, an event whose title has over the succeeding 40 years been contracted, simply, to “Woodstock ... a nostalgic baby boomer, Yasgur’s Farm can’t go down ...

In 1967 the Hog Farm began traveling the country as entertainers in converted school buses. Then the Woodstock organizers invited the group to their music festival in 1969.