June 30, 2009 23:17

Rock Hall Of Fame to stage elaborate Woodstock exhibit

Museum celebrates famed music festival's 40th anniversary

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has announced that it will mark the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock "peace and music" festival with an elaborate exhibit featuring several artifacts from the legendary 1969 event.

'Woodstock: The 40th Anniversary' is slated to run from July 3 to November 29 at the Cleveland museum and will feature several items from the three-day festival, which saw performances from the likes of The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Santana, The Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Sly And The Family Stone and Crosby Stills Nash & Young.

The exhibit will feature a vast array of artifacts from bands that performed at the festival as well as Woodstock's executive producer Michael Lang. These include Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's performance contract, the original press release for the festival, the vest Lang wore to the event, the original hand-written plan for the entire Woodstock festival, and a letter from The Beatles' Apple Corp to Lang discussing potential performances by various artists, which never materialised.

For further information, visit Rockhall.com/calendar.

--By our Los Angeles staff.
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