Vries singer-songwriter Harry Loco was approached from America to campaign for the replacement of the Woodstock monument in the town of Bethel. “It features artists and producers that have disappeared.”
For more than a year, American poet and writer Patrick Colucci (74) has been trying to find a way A new plate petition Get the names of the four missing artists and four producers on the monument. Colucci was a spectator at the world famous festival in 1969.
Trente-based musician Harry Loco has maintained contacts over the years with Americans involved in Woodstock, including Colucci. He himself performed three times at the reunion concerts.
Important
“I know how important it is for people around Woodstock to get all the names,” Loco said. “It’s an essential part of history.”
The digital move is not yet successful. The counter has more than 1100 support reports. “There must be more. It was certainly a long time ago and many of the 400,000 visitors to the festival are elderly and do not or rarely use the Internet.
Names missing from the Woodstock memorial include the band Quill, The Keefe Hartley Band, singer-songwriter Bert Sommer, country singer Tim Hardin, producers Artie Kornfeld, Michael Long, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman, and Woodstock property owner Max Yaskur. .
The monument was established in 1984. “By those with money,” says Logo. “They decided who could be in it and who couldn’t be in it. But that doesn’t do justice to the history of Woodstock.”
