Philadelphia radio station WXPN 88.5 will look to fill the enormous gap in scheduled content now left empty throughout the weekend of August 15th-18th, when the now-collapsed Woodstock 50 event was supposed to take place. Announced on Thursday, the terrestrial radio station announced it will broadcast the entire audio from the original Woodstock Music Festival exactly 50 years after it happened, down to the hour.
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The exclusive radio special dubbed, “Woodstock — As It Happened — 50 Years On,” will begin on Thursday, August 15th at precisely 5:07 p.m., the same time when, 50 years prior, Richie Havens kicked off the now-famous festival which sits at the peak of pop culture nostalgia. From there, the themed broadcast will continue throughout the weekend with every performance, set break, and stage announcement factored into the schedule to keep it in sync with the original 1969 run-of-show.
“Over three days, we’ll play newly reconstructed audio archives of each of Woodstock’s 32 performances, from Richie Havens’ opening set to Jimi Hendrix’s closing one and everything in between, in as close to real-time as possible,” the station said in a statement with Thursday’s announcement. “Tune in to hear the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and so many more — just as they sounded in 1969 during the weekend that would shape a generation.”
The station went on to state that the entire marathon of a broadcast is made possible by RHINO‘s massive new Woodstock 50th-anniversary 38-disc, 432 song box set, Woodstock 50 — Back to the Garden — The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive.
Music fans not in the Philadelphia area can still turn on and tune in via the online broadcast via the station’s website. Scroll down for the full weekend schedule for next week’s broadcast. Until then, click here to read up on The New York Times‘ recent interview with The Who’s Roger Daltrey, who admitted that the whole Woodstock experience kind of sucked.
[H/T NME]