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| A small portion of the crowd at Woodstock August 1969 |
In
a 4-day exclusive radio event, WXPN
88.5 FM will present a minute-by-minute replay of the legendary
Woodstock music festival exactly 50 years to the day and hour later.
Beginning
at 5:07 pm ET on Thursday, August 15, WXPN will air this innovative “as if you
were there” broadcast including stage announcements, breaks between artist
sets, and even pauses when bad weather stopped the original concert. The
special programming will end on Monday, August 18th, in sync with
when the festival ended 50 years ago.
The
broadcasting event will incorporate content found in Rhino Entertainment’s
massive new collection, Woodstock - Back
To The Garden - The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive, containing 38
discs and 432 tracks, along with 267 previously unreleased audio tracks.
“From the movie that came
out in March of 1970, to the numerous collections of recordings released over
the years, there has yet to be a full authentic musical account of the concert
until now,”
said Bruce Warren, WXPN Associate General Manager for Programming.
“WXPN is going to pay the most effective
tribute to the music, the way it was originally performed, at exactly the same
times the sets were performed to give our listeners a feel for how it all
really went down.”
Warren
added that WXPN’s epic Woodstock broadcast - which will be broadcast only once,
and not archived - will be complemented by musical trips back to the year 1969
on Thursday, August 15 in WXPN’s weekly #TBT (Throwback Thursday) feature and
on Saturday, August 17 in its weekly 50/50 feature (music from 50 years over 50
weeks, with a specific year featured every Saturday).
Complete
information is available at WXPN [link].
NIELSEN AUDIO JULY 2019
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