Woodstock '94, often called the "commercial Woodstock" or "Mudstock", was a music festival

Music festival

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...

 organized to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival

Woodstock Festival

Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969...

 of 1969. It was promoted as "2 More Days of Peace and Music." The famous poster used to promote the first concert was revised to feature two birds perched on a guitar (instead of one).

The concert was scheduled for August 13 and 14 of 1994, but a third day (August 12) was added.

The event took place on a large field in Saugerties, New York

Saugerties (town), New York

Saugerties is a town in Ulster County, New York, USA. The population was 19,482 at the 2000 census. The Town of Saugerties contains the Village of Saugerties. The town is in the northeast corner of Ulster County....

, about 100 miles (160.9 km) north of New York City. The site is only 10 miles (16.1 km) from Woodstock, New York and it was originally proposed as the location for the 1969 concert. Permission to use the property was not granted the first time around, so the first concert was instead held in Sullivan County, much farther from the namesake town of Woodstock.

The crowd at Woodstock '94 was estimated at 350,000. A smaller crowd, estimated at 130,000, attended a competing 'unofficial' but free concert at the site of the original Woodstock Festival in Bethel, NY. In 1994 the weather was similar to that in 1969: rainy. By Saturday much of the entire field had turned into mud. The Bethel festival was produced by Richie Havens, Ken Lauber, Bernard Fox and Gene Perla and all the contributing artists.

The festival was followed by Woodstock 1999

Woodstock 1999

Woodstock 1999, also called Woodstock 99, performed July 22–25, 1999, was the second large-scale music festival that attempted to emulate the original Woodstock Festival of 1969. Like the previous Woodstock festivals it was performed in upstate New York, this time in Rome, New York, around 200...

.

North Stage

• Blues Traveler
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• Candlebox
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• Collective Soul
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• Jackyl
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• James
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• King's X
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• Live
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• Orleans
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• Sheryl Crow
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• Violent Femmes
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South Stage

• 3
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• Del Amitri
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• Futu Futu
• The Goats
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• Huffamoose
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• Lunchmeat
• The Paul Luke Band
• Peacebomb
• Rekk
• Roguish Armament

Ravestock

• Aphex Twin
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• Deee-Lite
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• DJ Spooky
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• Doc Martin
• Frankie Bones
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• Kevin Saunderson
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• Little Louie Vega
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• The Orb
  The Orb
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• Orbital
  Orbital (band)
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• Scotto
• Soul Slinger

North Stage

• Joe Cocker
  Joe Cocker
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• Blind Melon
  Blind Melon
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• Cypress Hill
  Cypress Hill
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• Rollins Band
  Rollins Band
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• Melissa Etheridge
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• Crosby, Stills, & Nash
  Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young)
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   featuring John Sebastian
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• Nine Inch Nails
  Nine Inch Nails
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• Metallica
  Metallica
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• Aerosmith
  Aerosmith
  Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...
  
  

South Stage

• Nenad Bach
  Nenad Bach
  Nenad N. Bach is a recording artist, composer, performer, producer and peace activist.He formed the European chart-topping rock band Vrijeme i Zemlja. His USA single, “Can We Go Higher?” was performed at Woodstock '94, is on the album Pavarotti & Friends Together for the Children of Bosnia, and is...
  
  
• The Cranberries
  The Cranberries
  The Cranberries are an Irish rock band formed in Limerick in 1989 under the name The Cranberry Saw Us, later changed by vocalist Dolores O'Riordan. The band currently consists of O'Riordan, guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan and drummer Fergal Lawler...
  
  
• Zucchero
  Zucchero
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• Youssou N'Dour
  Youssou N'Dour
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• Radiohead
  Radiohead
  Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992...
  
  
• The Band
  The Band
  The Band was an acclaimed and influential roots rock group. The original group consisted of Rick Danko , Garth Hudson , Richard Manuel , and Robbie Robertson , and Levon Helm...
  
   featuring Hot Tuna
  Hot Tuna
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  , Bruce Hornsby
  Bruce Hornsby
  Bruce Randall Hornsby is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter. Known for the spontaneity and creativity of his live performances, Hornsby draws frequently from classical, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Motown, rock, blues, and jam band musical traditions with his songwriting and...
  
  , Roger McGuinn
  Roger McGuinn
  James Roger McGuinn is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist on many of The Byrds' records...
  
  , Rob Wasserman
  Rob Wasserman
  Rob Wasserman is an American bass player, who has played with a wide variety of musicians including David Grisman, Lou Reed, Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia, Bruce Cockburn, Van Morrison, Rickie Lee Jones, Brian Wilson, Elvis Costello, Mark Morris, Aaron Neville, Chris Whitley, Studs Terkel, Pete Seeger,...
  
  , and Bob Weir
  Bob Weir
  Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...
  
  
• Primus
  Primus (band)
  Primus is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, currently composed of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry "Ler" LaLonde and drummer Jay Lane. Primus originally formed in 1984 with Claypool and guitarist Todd Huth, later joined by Lane, though the latter two departed...
  
   featuring Jerry Cantrell
  Jerry Cantrell
  Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the grunge/metal band Alice in Chains, as lead guitarist, backing and co-lead vocalist, and co-lyricist. He performs lead vocals on his solo projects, and is part of Alice in Chains' harmonizing...
  
  
• Salt 'N Pepa

North Stage

• Country Joe McDonald
  Country Joe McDonald
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• Sisters of Glory
  Sisters of Glory
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   featuring Thelma Houston
  Thelma Houston
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  , CeCe Peniston
  CeCe Peniston
  CeCe Peniston is an African American recording artist and former beauty queen. At the beginning of the nineties, she was considered to be one of the most successful dance club artists in the history of the U.S...
  
  , Phoebe Snow
  Phoebe Snow
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  , Mavis Staples
  Mavis Staples
  Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress and civil rights activist who recorded with The Staple Singers, her family's band.-Biography:...
  
  , and Lois Walden
• Arrested Development
• Allman Brothers Band
• Traffic
  Traffic (band)
  Traffic were an English rock band whose members came from the West Midlands. The group formed in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason...
  
  
• Spin Doctors
  Spin Doctors
  Spin Doctors is an American alternative rock band formed in New York City, best known for their early 1990s hits, "Two Princes," and "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong," which peaked the Billboard Hot 100 charts at #7 & #17 respectively....
  
  
• Porno For Pyros
  Porno for Pyros
  Porno for Pyros was an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1992, following the initial break-up of Jane's Addiction...
  
  
• Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan
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• Red Hot Chili Peppers
  Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• Peter Gabriel
  Peter Gabriel
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South Stage

• John Sebastian
  John Sebastian
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   and the J-Band
• Country Joe McDonald
  Country Joe McDonald
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• Gil Scott-Heron
  Gil Scott-Heron
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• WOMAD
  • Xalam
    Xalam (band)
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  • The Justin Trio
  • Geoffrey Oryema
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  • Hassan Hakmoun
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     & Zahar
• Nenad Bach
  Nenad Bach
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• Green Day
  Green Day
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• Paul Rodgers
  Paul Rodgers
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   Rock and Blues Revue featuring Slash
  Slash (musician)
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  , Neal Schon
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  , Andy Fraser
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  , and Jason Bonham
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• Neville Brothers
• Santana
  Santana (band)
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  • Eric Gales
    Eric Gales
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• Jimmy Cliff
  Jimmy Cliff
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  's All Star Reggae Jam featuring Rita Marley
  Rita Marley
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  , Eek A Mouse and Shabba Ranks
  Shabba Ranks
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See also

• Woodstock Festival
  Woodstock Festival
  Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969...
  
   (1969)
• Woodstock '79
  Woodstock '79
  Woodstock '79 was a rock concert that took place at Madison Square Garden, New York City in 1979, the year of the 10th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival....
  
   (1979)
• Woodstock '89
  Woodstock '89
  Woodstock '89 or "The Forgotten Woodstock" was a rock concert that took place in August 1989 on the site of the original Woodstock concert of 1969 as a spontaneous celebration of the event's 20th anniversary....
  
   (1989)
• Woodstock '99
  Woodstock 1999
  Woodstock 1999, also called Woodstock 99, performed July 22–25, 1999, was the second large-scale music festival that attempted to emulate the original Woodstock Festival of 1969. Like the previous Woodstock festivals it was performed in upstate New York, this time in Rome, New York, around 200...
  
  (1999)

External links

• Woodstock Summer of 94 documentary
• Woodstock '94 @ The WELL Notes and messages from festival attendees, generated on-site in 1994.
• Woodstock Museum
• http://www.woodstocknation.org/bethel94.htm
• Saugerties, NY - Town where Woodstock '94 was held