Crosby,Stills and Nash…
Sweetwater…Nansi Nevins suffered terrible injuries in a car accident that
basically ended the band. Now, having recovered, she is singing
beautifully and the band is again performing. I saw at Tower
records a recently recorded live performance on CD.
any others???
The Who toured this year, albeit only half the original members are still alive.
Carlos Santana is doing pretty well, though the band as it was configured then is no longer together.
Is Sha Na Na still on the nostalgia tour?
Yes they are. Here’s an article about a recent concert that went bad.
And here’s a web site for the group. (Warning: autoplays music. Idiots.)
Saw CSN&Y about 3 years ago. Great show.
Arlo Guthrie’s still out there. How about Richie Havens?
Here is the list of performers at the original Woodstock: (the comments in parenthesis are not mine, they are from the notes on who actually performed)
Joan Baez
Blood, Sweat and Tears
The Jeff Beck Group (cancelled)
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
The Band
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Canned Heat
Country Joe McDonald & The Fish
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Joe Cocker
Arlo Guthrie
Grateful Dead
Tim Hardin
Jimi Hendrix
Richie Havens
Keef Hartley
The Incredible String Band
Iron Butterfuly (did not appear)
It’s a Beautiful Day (dismissed)
Janis Joplin
The Jefferson Airplane
The Joshua Light Show
Melanie
Mountain
Quill
John Sebastian
Ravi Shankar
Sly and the Family Stone
Bert Sommer
Santana
Sweetwater
Ten Years After
Johnny Winter
The Who
I am not sure if Ravi is still performing, but his daughter Nora seems to be doing well. Grace Slick I think still does a few shows - didn’t I see her on the Today Show not too long ago? Johnny Winter was in Las Vegas a few months back.
I wonder what that means?
Beats me. I just Googled “Woodstock performers” and that was the list that appeared. Does sound sort of odd.
It was raining, so it wasn’t a beautiful day. 
That list does not include Sha-Na-Na (?)
I thought Black Sabbath appeared as well.
I do not believe that Joplin actually performed.
There is footage & recordings of Joplin at Woodstock readily available. She performed “Tell Mama” (an Etta James / R&B staple) and sang at least two numbers with “Snooky” Flowers. At one point, as her band was performing an instrumental break, Joplin rushed across the rain-slicked stage and threw herself (literally!) into Snooky’s arms. The quality of the vidieo I saw is poor, and the set was - by even her most ardent supporters - considered not one of Joplin’s best shows. The fact that it was raining torrentially at the time she performed was a major factor.
I’ve never seen, nor heard anything about Black Sabbath performing at Woodstock. In fact, given that their first record wasn’t released until a year after the festival, it would seem unlikely that they were there.
“I feel stupid and mad. Sha Na Na was at Woodstock for Pete’s sake, why wasn’t anyone interested?”
I think this comment brings a whole new demension to the term “out of touch”.
I think Ravi Shankar is indeed still performing…other than that…
As of a few years ago, Ravi was still making guest appearances with his daughter Anoushka. I do not believe he has in a while, though. Since he is around 84, sitting around and playing at least an hour of alap, followed by an hour of gat and finishing with a 200 bpm jhala finale can’t be expected. But Anoushka, who is around 20, is OK, even though she doesn’t compare with the big boys (Shahid Parvez, Budhadittya Mukherjee, and Imrat and Rais Khan).
Obviously The Dead are still out there, minus Jerry. I hear it’s a pretty good show.
A version of the Incredible String Band with Mike Heron as the only original member is currently touring.
It means thaT the promoters were offered the choice between two “unknown” bands. Santana and IABD. The promoters chose Santana (for the whole story, read Barefoot in Babylon, on how they made the Woodstock festival).
Well, that turned out to be the right choice!
Well, who’s to say it wouldn’t have been It’s A Beautiful Day to make it big, if they’d been the ones with the big exposure at Woodstock?
A related question: Looking at that list, it’s amazing how many fairly big acts were there. Did they get big because they appeared, r id they appear because they were already big?
I wonder if Jeff Beck ever regretted cancelling?
Hard to say- but it’s clear a lot of bands who DID show up regretted coming! It may have become a legendary event, but most of the people who were really there (whether as performers or as spectators) thought Woodstock was a miserable experience.
How many of the Woodstock performers are deceased? I can think of:
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Tim Hardin
Paul Butterfield
Bert Sommer
Keith Moon & John Entwistle of the Who
Rick Danko & Richard Manuel of the Band
Jerry Garcia & Pigpen of the Grateful Dead
Bob Hite & Al Wilson of Canned Heat (not sure if Henry Vestine was still in the band when they played Woodstock; he’s dead too)
Tom Fogerty of CCR
Patty Santos of It’s a Beautiful Day
By my rough count and even rougher memory of 1969, I think fewer than 1/3 of the acts there could be considered “big” (i.e., Top 40 airplay and a nationally recognizable name.) Recall the comment during the Crosby, Stills & Nash set: “This is only our second public gig, and we’re scared shitless!”