Plans to celebrate Woodstock's 50th anniversary are underway and spearheaded by Michael Lang, who helped to organize the original concert held in Sullivan County, N.Y. in August 1969.
Lang is searching for potential partners and different venues to hold the event in 2019, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal. An overseas companion event is also a possibility but no locations or performers have been announced. The concert could spur an annual event with the Woodstock name in the years after the anniversary celebration.
Lang worked with entrepreneurs John Roberts and Joel Rosenman to launch the original festival. Roberts and Rosenman financed the project, which drew 400,000 attendees to Max Yasgur's farm and featured performances by 32 acts over four days, Aug. 15-18, 1969, according to The Associated Press.
Anniversary concerts were also held in 1994 in Saugerties, N.Y. for the 25th anniversary and in 1999 in Rome, N.Y. The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a performing arts pavilion, is located on the original site of the Woodstock concert in Bethel, N.Y.
Woodstock, Land told the Journal, "is the original and most famous festival brand." He continued, "With the prevalence of festivals out there, and all the excitement about them, maybe it's time for that."
Multi-day concert festivals have proliferated across the United States in recent years from Coachella in California to Bonnaroo in Tennessee and the Governors Ball in New York City.
