Woodstock's 40th anniversary, with some of the same bands at the original New York location, has features the original lacked -- food stands -- organizers said. In 1969, an estimated 400,000 music lovers descended on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, N.Y., for three days of peace, love and music amid heavy rains, announcements of bad drugs floating around, overflowing portable toilets and food shortages. The 4,500 attendees of the 2009 Heroes of Woodstock version Friday through Sunday will sit in plush seats in a covered amphitheater with access to public toilets and concession stands hawking hamburgers and hot dogs, ABCNews.com reported Thursday. Drugs are prohibited at this weekend's show but spokeswoman Amy Jaick allowed that a few concert-goers may have their own little experience at the hillside monument built on the original site, ABCNews.com said. Some of the acts scheduled to perform at the Aug.

LAS VEGAS, May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Fremont Street Experience takes Las Vegas back 40 years this summer with the "Summer of '69: Vegas or Bust" festival and concert series beginning Memorial Day weekend. To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/fremontstreetexperience/38551/ (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090526/NY22672 ) The celebration offers tourists and residents a summer full of free concerts by major iconic bands from 1969, including The Guess Who, Blood Sweat & Tears, Rare Earth, Janis Joplin's Original Band Big Brother & The Holding Company, The Grass Roots, Jefferson Starship, The 5th Dimension, Canned Heat and Three Dog Night. Fremont Street Experience will transform itself for the 40th anniversary of 1969 by taking visitors back to the legendary year.

LAS VEGAS, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Fremont Street Experience takes Las Vegas back 40 years this summer with the "Summer of '69: Vegas or Bust" festival and concert series beginning Memorial Day weekend.

On August 15, it will be thirty-nine years ago to the day that some half-million people gathered in upstate New York for a three-day festival featuring some of the greatest rock 'n' roll performers of all time.

IT LOOKS like Ouseburn is the place to be, with the Ouseburn Festival reaching its 12th year. On Sunday night, The Cluny, at the Byker Bridge end of the burn, has a visit from arguably the hottest blues band of the moment when Watermelon Slim & the Workers set up shop.