The longtime Ulster County remaining who was the driving violence behind one of the most pivotal events of the infant boomer generation will be in Poughkeepsie Saturday to gross an award. Michael Lang, who with partners staged the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969, will meet with the inaugural Spirit of Woodstock Award Saturday from the Woodstock Film Festival. This circumstance is put in to the public, but will shoplift assign at a non-gregarious home in the old piano mill on the city waterfront. This incident is a fundraiser for the Woodstock Film Festival, which each year, typically near the father of autumn, attracts thousands to downtown Woodstock for five days of screenings and panel discussions. On receiving the award, Lang told the Journal, "It's very nice.
I expect a lot of the festivities and I'm gratified to assist it." Lang, a Town of Woodstock staying and colleague of the Woodstock Film Festival Advisory Board, was the free visage and explanation organizer of the Woodstock festival, which attracted hundreds of thousands to Sullivan County in August 1969 for harmonious performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Richie Havens and many others. Woodstock took position during the elevation of the Vietnam War, definite an cosmopolitan underscore on the American counterculture and is viewed by many as a turning feature in account and in vogue culture. Underscoring the paramount position that music played at the Woodstock festival, Saturday's outcome will feature Woodstock holiday veteran John Sebastian, familiar as frontman for the Lovin' Spoonful; indie rocker Tracy Bonham; and Simone Felice and Simi Stone, from Hudson Valley keep The Duke and The King.
Sebastian has lived in Woodstock for decades. Bonham is a part-time Woodstock resident. Meira Blaustein, chairman kingpin of the Woodstock Film Festival, said the furnish "has a lot to do with where we come from and who we are, not only in the the world at large of film.
It's just what the resolution of Woodstock means - originative thinking, this bold artistic thinking. It's the Woodstock nation. It was a no-brainer to umpire that Michael Lang should be the blue ribbon one to admit this award. He real does exemplify so much of the Woodstock spirit.
" Lang said the Woodstock Film Festival - which in nearby years has attracted actors Keanu Reeves and Adrian Grenier and musicians Peter Gabriel and Donovan - embodies the Woodstock spirit.
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