It was 50 years ago when Sha Na Na opened for Jimi Hendrix at a music festival called Woodstock during the summer of 1969 — you might have heard of it. Sha Na Na co-founder and drummer Jocko ...

Check out Pandora's "The Sounds of Woodstock 1969" playlist to listen to the music of the moment. When most classic rock fans think of the original Woodstock festival, held a half-century ago in ...

On Nov. 26, the day before what would have been Jimi Hendrix's 70th birthday, select movie theaters around the globe will show 'Hendrix 70: Live at Woodstock.' This marks the first time the guitar ...

Jimi Hendrix and Woodstock have become synonymous with each other. During the famous 1969 festival, the musician’s set was one of the most memorable performances. However, it almost didn’t happen.

Forty years ago, several hundred thousand people (an exact number will never be known) gathered in Bethel, N.Y., for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Nearly everyone who was anyone in rock—Jefferson ...

In mid-August 1969, an estimated 500,000 people made the trek to Bethel, New York for the Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Starting on a Friday and continuing on through the morning of August 18, the ...

SARASOTA — Every career musician has their first professional gig. For Gerardo Velez, it was his birthday weekend playing alongside Jimi Hendrix to close out Woodstock, the 1969 festival that drew ...

Billy Cox held down low-end at two of rock's all-time dimension-melting gigs: Jimi Hendrix's 1969 Woodstock set and Hendrix's New Year's 1970 concert, the latter released as live album "Band of Gypsys ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

As the rare active rock critic who attended the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair, I spent two weeks in July touring upstate New York with my wife, hoping no one would try to interview me about it. It ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Kristen Forbes Last week saw the commencement of the 2024 Experience Hendrix tour, which ...