New Orleans Pop Festival, Louisiana Woodstock, celebrates 50th anniversary

about 6 years in Washington Times

NEW ORLEANS — August, 1969. Thousands of long-haired young people, some nude or nearly so, populate the rural landscape. Janis Joplin, Santana, and the Grateful Dead are among the featured acts and the air is thick with the sound of rock and the smell of marijuana. Woodstock? Nope. Prairieville. Prairieville, ...

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