Woodstock and the Rock Festival

The Bahr Gallery, an art gallery dedicated to vintage, first-edition, psychedelic rock poster art, announced that a new Exhibition, “Woodstock and the Rock Festival,” will be opening at the gallery on June 21 and running through August 31. There will be an opening wine and cheese reception June 21 from 5:30-8:00.

“This summer’s fiftieth anniversary of Woodstock made it easy to choose our next exhibition,” said the exhibit’s curator and gallery owner Ted Bahr. “Our approach is to surround a first-edition Woodstock poster with vintage artworks advertising the other prominent rock festivals from 1967-1973 and with a special emphasis on pieces featuring the most dynamic performer of the era, Jimi Hendrix.”

Highlights include the pre-Woodstock Aquarian poster, a 1967 Monterey Pop, the legendary 1973 Watkins Glen, both 1967 Human Be-In posters, Newport 1969, Rotterdam 1970, and the 1972 John Sinclair Benefit – the only poster ever advertising an appearance by John Lennon, post Beatles. The gallery’s Jimi Hendrix “experience,” includes iconic pieces by Martin Sharp, Gunther Kieser, Gary Grimshaw, Rick Griffin, and Victor Moscoso. Posters for bands who broke out at Woodstock will also be featured including Santana, Joe Cocker, and CSNY.

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