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Woodstock Will Return This Summer, For Its 50th Anniversary

Will peace, love and music be back? One of the original organizers of the iconic 1969 event is putting together a new three-day festival, which will take place in August in upstate New York.
A plaque marks the site of the original Woodstock festival in Bethel, N.Y.

Fifty years after the original Woodstock Music & Art Fair promised "three days of peace and music," one of its original organizers announced Wednesday that he is putting together Woodstock 50 for this summer. The event will be held

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