Full Woodstock recording to air on WXPN at precise time of unique competition
Woodstock 50 isn’t taking place, however there are nonetheless loads of methods to have fun the enduring competition’s gold anniversary. These trying to really relive that lengthy weekend again in 1969 as precisely as potential could wish to tune into Philadelphia’s WXPN 88.5 FM public radio at round, oh, 5:07 p.m. EST on Thursday, August 15th. Thats when the station will start airing fully uncut audio of the unique Woodstock from begin to end on the precise time it really occurred.
Dubbed “Woodstock – As It Occurred – 50 Years On”, the distinctive “as when you have been there” replay of the competition will embrace all 32 artist performances that went down on the farm in Upstate New York 5 many years in the past. Utilizing content material from Rhino Leisure’s new Woodstock — Again to the Backyard — The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive field set, the published will function each set break and stage announcement. Sure, even the brown acid warning. The tip outcome shall be a full presentation fully synched with the timing of the unique Woodstock.
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“From the film that got here out in March of 1970, to the quite a few collections of recordings launched over time, there has but to be a full genuine musical account of the live performance till now,” mentioned WXPN Affiliate Common Supervisor for Programming Bruce Warren. “WXPN goes to pay the simplest tribute to the music, the way in which it was initially carried out, at precisely the identical occasions the units have been carried out to present our listeners a really feel for the way it all actually went down.”
For those who’re not within the Philly space, worry not; you’ll be able to nonetheless tune in by way of the WXPN web site. Simply as the true Woodstock did, the published will finish on August 18th.
Broadcast aSchedule:
Thursday, August 15:
5:07 p.m. — Richie Havens
7:10 p.m. — Swami Satchidanadna
7:30 p.m. — Sweetwater
eight:30 p.m. — Bert Sommer
9:20 p.m. — Tim Hardin
10:20 p.m. — Ravi Shankar
11:20 p.m. — Melanie
11:55 p.m. — Arlo Guthrie
Friday, August 16:
12:55 a.m. — Joan Baez
12:30 p.m. — Quill
1:20 p.m. — Nation Joe McDonald
2 p.m. — Santana
three:30 p.m. — John B. Sebastian
four:45 p.m. — The Keef Hartley Band
6 p.m. — The Unimaginable String Band
7:30 p.m. — Canned Warmth
9 p.m. — Mountain
10:30 p.m. — Grateful Useless
Saturday, August 17:
12:30 a.m. — Creedence Clearwater Revival
2 a.m. — Janis Joplin
three:30 a.m. — Sly & The Household Stone
5 a.m. — The Who
eight a.m. — Jefferson Airplane
2 p.m. — Joe Cocker
6:30 p.m. — Nation Joe & The Fish
eight:15 p.m. — Ten Years After
10 p.m. — The Band
Sunday, August 18
12 a.m. — Johnny Winter
1:30 a.m. — Blood, Sweat & Tears
three a.m. — Crosby, Stills, Nash & Younger
6 a.m. — The Butterfield Blues Band
7:30 a.m. — Sha Na Na
9 a.m. — Jimi Hendrix
