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The 20 Most Iconic Sets at the Legendary 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair

Here are the 20 most iconic performances at Woodstock 1979, featuring sets from Jimi Hendrix, The Who and more legends who graced the festival.

Booked because it, along with Dylan, defined the laid-back, rustic ethos of the actual Woodstock (where the group resided), there were high expectations for The Band’s Sunday night set after Ten Years After, and a lingering sense of disappointment that it ultimately wasn’t all that. Though “Going Home” is what lives on in split-screen glory in the film, the British blues-rock troupe played five other songs during an eclectic hour on stage, showing its ensemble strength beyond Alvin Lee’s lightning-fingered guitar heroics. The first man on, somewhat reluctantly, got Woodstock started with a furious, passionate performance whose highlights — “Handsome Johnny,” covers of The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Hey Jude,” and an iconic medley of “Freedom” and “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” — quickly planted a flag that something special was about to go down in Bethel.

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