Entire Woodstock Music Festival Being Replayed On Philly's WXPN

PHILADELPHIA — Classic rock fans rejoice: you'll be able to hear the entire Woodstock music festival on WXPN exactly 50 years to the date.

In a 4-day exclusive radio event, Philadelphia's public radio station 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. WXPN is also available on Amazon Alexa's TuneIn Live.

Beginning at 5:07 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15, WXPN will present “Woodstock - As It Happened - 50 Years On."

Listeners will be transported to Max Yasgur’s upstate New York farm for four days of music performed by 32 artists, in the 1969 event originally billed as the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair (now known simply as Woodstock), which started at 5:07 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 15 and ended on Monday, Aug. 18.

The unique "as if you were there" broadcast will include all the culture-changing festival’s stage announcements, and even the breaks between artist sets, when bad weather stopped the original concert, to stay in sync with the timing and length of the original event.

It 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 Woodstock broadcast — which will be broadcast only once, and will not be archived — will be complemented by musical trips back to the year 1969 on Thursday, Aug. 15 in WXPN’s weekly Throwback Thursday feature and on Saturday, Aug. 17 in its weekly 50/50 feature (music from 50 years over 50 weeks, with a specific year featured every Saturday).

For more information about WXPN, visit xpn.org.