Woodstock 50 applies for allow at new, smaller venue with no campgrounds

With barely two months till its scheduled date, Woodstock 50 made new strikes to remain afloat. The pageant has utilized for a brand new website to host the occasion. Plus, its co-owners are in talks with pageant veteran Jason Felts to assist produce Woodstock 50.

Earlier this month, Woodstock 50 organizers revealed they had been taking a look at different venues to host the pageant. It seems they’ve since utilized to host it at Vernon Downs, a plot of land that operates as a “racino,” resort, and horse racing observe in Oneida County, Selection studies. It has hosted music festivals previously, together with two Phish exhibits in 1998, although it doesn’t supply any tenting choices. Which means festival-goers must drive to the situation (it’s a four-hour drive from New York Metropolis) or be bussed in from surrounding tenting websites.

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The potential new website at Vernon Downs can maintain 45,000-50,000 individuals. That’s a serious lower from the earlier location Woodstock 50 was imagined to be held at. Watkins Glen Worldwide raceway, the unique location that pulled out of the pageant earlier this month, holds about 70,000 individuals.

In the meantime, Jason Felts is in talks with Woodstock 50 to assist revive the occasion, although he has but to make a closing resolution. Within the interim, Felts is serving as “a advisor to find out the occasion’s feasibility, due diligence wants, and operational and monetary evaluation,” studies Billboard. Felts is the CEO of Virgin Produced, an leisure department of Virgin Group that produces KAABOO pageant in southern California.

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It appears to be like like Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang’s claims that the pageant would go on after being canceled weren’t in vein. At the very least they gained’t go down and not using a battle, even when it means having Donald Trump’s legal professional at your aspect.

All through all of this, Woodstock has been advertising anniversary field units and particular vinyl collections like nothing is mistaken. Then once more, Woodstock was all the time proud to be considerably of a multitude from its inception.