3.1. Friday, August 15

List of performances and events at Woodstock Festival

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Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival held on a 600 acre (2.4 km�; 240 ha, 0.94 mi�) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Thirty-two acts performed during the sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest moments in popular music history and was listed on Rolling Stone's 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.^[1]

Friday, August 15

The first day officially began at 5:07 p.m. with Richie Havens and featured folk artists.

• Richie Havens
  1. "High Flyin' Bird"
  2. "I Can't Make It Any More"
  3. "With a Little Help from My Friends"
  4. "Strawberry Fields Forever"
  5. "Hey Jude"
  6. "I Had A Woman"
  7. "Handsome Johnny"
  8. "Freedom/Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"
• Swami Satchidananda - gave the invocation for the festival
• Sweetwater
  1. "What's Wrong"
  2. "Motherless Child"
  3. "Look Out"
  4. "For Pete's Sake"
  5. "Day Song"
  6. "Crystal Spider"
  7. "Two Worlds"
  8. "Why Oh Why"
• The Incredible String Band
  1. "Invocation"
  2. "The Letter"
  3. "This Moment"
  4. "When You Find Out Who You Are"
• Bert Sommer
  1. "Jennifer"
  2. "The Road To Travel"
  3. "I Wondered Where You Be"
  4. "She's Gone"
  5. "Things Are Going my Way"
  6. "And When It's Over"
  7. "Jeanette"
  8. "America"
  9. "A Note That Read"
  10. "Smile"
• Tim Hardin, an hour-long set
  1. "If I Were A Carpenter"
  2. "Misty Roses"
• Ravi Shankar, with a 5-song set, played through the rain
  1. "Raga Puriya-Dhanashri/Gat In Sawarital"
  2. "Tabla Solo In Jhaptal"
  3. "Raga Manj Kmahaj"
  4. "Iap Jor"
  5. "Dhun In Kaharwa Tal"
• Melanie
  1. "Tuning My Guitar"
  2. "Johnny Boy"
  3. "Beautiful People"
• Arlo Guthrie--order of set list unknown
  1. "Coming Into Los Angeles"
  2. "Walking Down the Line"
  3. "Story about Moses and the Brownies"
  4. "Amazing Grace"
• Joan Baez- she was six months pregnant at the time
  1. Story about how the Federal Marshals came to take David Harris into custody.
  2. "Joe Hill"
  3. "Sweet Sir Galahad"
  4. "Drugstore Truck Driving Man"
  5. "Sweet Sunny South"
  6. "Warm and Tender Love"
  7. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
  8. "We Shall Overcome"

Baez Source: Arthur Levy, annotator of the expanded editions of the 12 Joan Baez CDs on Vanguard