El Festival Cosa Sarà by Woodstock which was held from August 15 to 17, 1969 turned 50, and it was planned to organize a massive concert like that year.
However, on July 31, 2019 it was announced that the festival of Woodstock would not celebrate his 50 anniversary.
The organizers made the decision after two proposed venues in New York and that renowned artists like the rapper Jay Z and pop star Miley Cyrus They will get off the poster.
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It was planned that the mythical date would take place in Maryland, a half hour drive from Washington DC, on August 16, 17 and 18, 2019. The historic festival wanted to celebrate its half century of life in style, with part of the musicians who performed at the original festival held in 1969. But it was not achieved.
And it is that, a month before it was announced Woodstock 50, the festival was already in serious trouble. In December, michael lang, the co-founder of the original 1969 event that had become its symbol hippie baffled in subsequent decades, he had entered into negotiations with the international media company Dentsu Aegis to finance the event, writing in an email dated December 4 to the company's commercial director, DJ Martin, who was imagining a crowd of 150 people, despite the fact that the government would limit it to only 60, and from there the conflicts began.
Woodstock 50 it had just about every resource a festival could ask for: a famous brand, the financial backing of a multinational communications company, and agents eager to book their artists for hefty paychecks.
The three-day extravaganza would not only celebrate rock's most iconic festival; would connect the inheritance of the original with the generation of Coachella across hip-hop artists and pop chart hits.
Instead, it turned into a slow train wreck.
"We are sorry that a series of unforeseen setbacks have made it impossible to carry out the festival that we imagined with the great artists that we had contracted and the social commitment that we were anticipating," lamented Lang less than three weeks before the call and still without the tickets were on sale.
All this happened thanks to the rejection of several permits, and after the failed attempt to take him to the amphitheater Merriweather Post Pavilion.
the poster for Woodstock 50 included contemporary artists such as Imagine Dragons, Miley Cyrus and Chance the Rapper, alongside veterans who played at the original festival like Melanie Safka, Santana and John Fogerty.
Lang said he's not worried that the issues from the failed attempt will affect the brand's legacy, as Woodstock "it continues to represent the same motivations and relevant social issues from back then."
Woodstock 50, a multigenerational party, was left alone in the project, putting in check the value of the festival that transcends its history.