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Woodstock 50 Officially Off
Variety ^ | 31 July 2019 | Shirley Halperin

Posted on 07/31/2019 6:39:05 PM PDT by zeestephen

Update: A statement officially canceling Woodstock 50 was issued at 11:37am PT and includes a suggestion that the artists donate 10% of their already-paid fees to the charity HeadCount, a non-profit targeting voter registration which has registered nearly 600,000 voters at concerts and via its website...

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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1 posted on 07/31/2019 6:39:05 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen
Sweet! But sucks to be an over-the-hill geriatric hippy.
 
2 posted on 07/31/2019 6:42:08 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (In Italia i fascisti si dividono in due categorie : i fascisti e gli antifascisti. -- Ennio Flaiano)
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To: zeestephen

Sounds like a scam from the start


3 posted on 07/31/2019 6:46:47 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: zeestephen

You mean, we aren’t going to be treated to a week long, pot infested, anti-American geriatric hippie fest? How will I cope???


4 posted on 07/31/2019 6:49:25 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: zeestephen

So a lame concert with over the hill “rockers” in rockers that was also a voter registration drive was cancelled

cry me a river


5 posted on 07/31/2019 6:50:39 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

WoodStock was right for its time. It was a kinda teaparty thingy.

You cannot reproduce that.
I say if you want to start a movement, protest against the dems and the border invasion.

Oh yeah, Cards are gonna smoke the Cubs tonight.


6 posted on 07/31/2019 6:57:10 PM PDT by redshawk (Willie's Whore was bused......oh my...lying pig)
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To: zeestephen

Can’t they find a muddy back 40 of someone’s farm, and let the hipsters roll around in the mud? I mean, if they really want it to be like the original???


7 posted on 07/31/2019 6:58:10 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: zeestephen

They can always go on the disco cruise with KC and the Sunshine Band.


8 posted on 07/31/2019 7:03:05 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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[[[Can’t they find a muddy back 40 of someone’s farm, and let the hipsters roll around in the mud? I mean, if they really want it to be like the original???]]]

Hipsters getting dirty? Outside on that dirt stuff? No A/C? Perish the thought.


9 posted on 07/31/2019 7:04:55 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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To: zeestephen

my older brother was at Woodstock 94. The stories he could tell. That should have ended it but of course in America, when there’s an opportunity to make money, someone just does it. This ain’t it because MOST of the artists today...effing SUCK.


10 posted on 07/31/2019 7:05:23 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtards from our company & did so happily at every election since 2008. I hope all libs die.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They tried. Watkins Glen Raceway was going to be the venue but they couldn’t cough up the cash. Then Vernon Downs and Jeff Gural saw the $$$$$$ and said YES but the town said “take a hike..” last is was the Marjorie Meriwether Post Pavilion and everyone threw up. Story over.


11 posted on 07/31/2019 7:08:10 PM PDT by Shady (One More Time: CO2 is PLANT FOOD! Without it we die. Any questions?)
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To: zeestephen

“Said Michael Lang, co-founder of Woodstock: “We are saddened that a series of unforeseen setbacks has made it impossible to put on the Festival we imagined with the great line-up we had booked and the social engagement we were anticipating.

When we lost the Glen and then Vernon Downs we looked for a way to do some good rather than just cancel. We formed a collaboration with HeadCount to do a smaller event at the Merriweather Pavilion to raise funds for them to get out the vote and for certain NGOs involved in fighting climate change. “

LOL


12 posted on 07/31/2019 7:09:00 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

i agree. And i have have 2 questions - why should they only give away 10% of collected fees? and why should it be suggested they give any to a voter registration group?


13 posted on 07/31/2019 7:13:03 PM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: zeestephen
Saffron and Moonbeam could not be reached for comment, Man...


14 posted on 07/31/2019 7:17:58 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

At least it avoided being a second “Fyre Festival.”

i still go back and read articles on that debacle. The beautiful sound of crying trust-fund hipsters never gets old.


15 posted on 07/31/2019 7:20:16 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: zeestephen

Thank Christ.


16 posted on 07/31/2019 7:20:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: zeestephen

The 60’s still suck.


17 posted on 07/31/2019 7:32:52 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights .........It is the LAW...)
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To: fhayek

Mud, slop, and a lot of young people screwing their minds and bodies on much worse than ‘pot’.

But some of the music was very good. We don’t have popular musicians like many who were there, anymore.


18 posted on 07/31/2019 7:38:46 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: zeestephen

There are plenty of these 1, 2 and 3 day free for alls, all over the country, happening every year. Why do we need another?


19 posted on 07/31/2019 7:41:29 PM PDT by caver
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To: zeestephen

When Miley Cyrus is the headliner of a Woodstock 50 celebration you should know you’re on the wrong track. Really, the whole thing was a joke from the beginning.


20 posted on 07/31/2019 7:48:13 PM PDT by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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