The Woodstock Festival was a three-day concert that involved lots of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll. It was held at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to 18, 1969. During that festival, 32 acts performed outdoors before an audience of a little less than 500,000 people. The acts included Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winter, and Janis Joplin. It is known as a crucial moment in popular music history and the festival is also linked to the larger counterculture generation. This festival synergized a way of life that had been growing through the sixties; antiwar, pro-drugs, individualism, breaking down racial barriers, unconventional sexual practices, and new philosophies. The organizers of the Woodstock Festival were John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld, and Mike Lang. Roberts and Rosenman were looking for a way to use Roberts’ money to invest to earn more money. They placed an ad in The New York Times to look for partners and met Kornfeld and Lang through the ad. Kornfeld and Lang proposed to build a recording studio and a retreat for rock musicians up in Woodstock, New York. The idea turned into creating a rock concert for 50,000 people. Many things went wrong such as the location, contracts, constructions, and their estimation of the people that will come to the rock concert. On Wednesday, August 13, there were already 50,000 people camping near the stage. They had walked right through the gaps in the fence where the gates had not yet been built. There was no way to get the 50,000 people to leave in order to pay for tickets and no time to built the gates to prevent even more people from just walking in. The organizers ended up being forced to make the event a free concert. The news spread and an estimated one million people headed to Bethel, New York. It was estimated that about 500,000 people actually made it to the Woodstock Festival.