After helping to create the original 1969 festival, Lang was also behind follow-up events Woodstock '94 and Woodstock '99.
Michael Lang, co-creator of the legendary Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August 1969 that proved to be a generation-defining touchstone, has died. He was 77.
Lang died of complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at Sloan Kettering hospital in New York City, a representative confirmed toA Brooklyn native, Lang dropped out of New York University before heading to the Miami area to organize music events, including the 1968 Miami Pop Festival, which featured Jimi Hendrix.
He later moved to Woodstock, N.Y., where he helped plan the famous festival, which took place from Aug. 15-18 on Max Yasgur’s farm near Bethel, N.Y. The hugely attended event became a signature moment for the counterculture movement and featured such performers as Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Grateful Dead, the Who, Sly and the Family Stone, Joe Cocker and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young..
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