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Organisers of the increasingly beleaguered looking Woodstock 50 have said they will look to secure a new location for the event after owners of the Watkins Glen International racetrack said they had ‘terminated the site license’ due to ‘provisions of the contract’.
Michael Lang, co-founder of Woodstock, announced at the start of this year that he would be staging his own tribute concert on the legendary’s festival 50th anniversary to rival another planned to take place at the 15,000-seat venue which currently resides on the site of the original event, claiming his would be ‘the only authorized commemoration of the iconic 1969 festival’.
However, since unveiling a line-up back in March which had names such as Jay Z, Miley Cyrus, Chance The Rapper, Robert Plant, Santana, David Crosby and John Fogerty on it, Woodstock 50 has lurched from one crisis to another, this latest setback followed shortly after by the news that the festival’s newest production team, CID Entertainment, had also withdrawn their involvement.
Despite, this in a short statement a Woodstock spokesperson said they are ‘in discussions with another venue to host Woodstock 50’ and insisted tickets will go on sale in the ‘coming weeks’ when they ‘look forward to sharing the new location’.