Michael Lang: Woodstock 50’s Permit Rules ‘Drawn Up by People Who Didn’t Know Anything About This Business’

  • 📰 RollingStone
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 24 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 13%
  • Publisher: 51%

Business News News

Business Business Latest News,Business Business Headlines

Woodstock 50 is ostensibly 52 days away, even though organizers still don't have a venue or necessary permits. Co-founder Michael Lang tells us why he remains optimistic

“Watkins Glen International terminated the site license for Woodstock pursuant to provisions of the contract,” a rep for the racetrack said in a statement earlier this month. “As such, WGI will not be hosting the Woodstock 50 Festival.”

The next in a series of hurdles for the festival came last week, when state Appellate Court judges court sided with the festival’s original organizer, the Japanese marketing company Dentsu, and said Woodstock 50 was not entitled to receive $18.5 million in funding. That money, once secured in a festival account, had been taken out by Dentsu after the company withdrew from Woodstock 50 in April. Of all the festivals he has planned, Lang calls this “the weirdest one.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Listen to the trolls and millennials. Our generation music ,vinyl,analog outsells digital and garbage you call one will listen to,think of your generation, and it will be forgotten to history as the lost entitled me generation.

Woodstock 50 it's on Fyre!

Just let it fucking die like the ‘60s

Cause he is delusional, this has been dead for months and was a terrible idea after what happened in 1999.

Because baby boomers think they are invincible and will live forever.

Put an end to the madness.

Should we start hitchhiking now?

Because he’s insane.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 483. in BUSİNESS

Business Business Latest News, Business Business Headlines