At the Woodstock Festival

1970 live album by Ravi Shankar

At the Woodstock Festival

Live album by

Ravi Shankar

Released| 1970
Recorded| 15 August 1969
Venue| Max Yasgur's dairy farm, Bethel, NY
Genre| Indian classical music
Length| 41:23
Label| World Pacific
Producer| Richard Bock

At the Woodstock Festival is a live album by Indian classical musician Ravi Shankar that was released in 1970 on World Pacific Records.[1] It was recorded on 15 August 1969, during the first day of the Woodstock Festival in upstate New York. Shankar's set took place during a downpour and he later expressed his dissatisfaction with the event due to the prevalence of drugs among the crowd.[2]

Having performed at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, Woodstock was the last rock festival Shankar played, as he subsequently distanced himself from the 1960s hippie movement.[3][4] He said he felt the music was only "incidental" to the party atmosphere and likened the vast rain-soaked crowd to "the water buffaloes you see in India, submerged in the mud".[5]

The album includes an eight-minute tabla solo played by Alla Rakha. At the Woodstock Festival was issued on CD in 1991 by BGO Records.[6]

## Track listing

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Side one

1. "Raga Puriya–Dhanashri/Gat in Sawarital" (11 Beats) (adapted by Ravi Shankar) – 11:04
2. "Tabla Solo in Jhaptal" (10 Beats 2-3-2-3) (adapted by Alla Rakha) – 8:48

Side two

1. "Raga Manj Khamaj" (Alap, Jor, Dhun in Kaharwa Tal (8 Beats), Medium and Fast Gat in Teental (16 Beats)) (adapted by Shankar) – 21:31

"Raga Puriya–Dhanashri/Gat in Sawarital" was in fact a studio recording. The live version performed at Woodstock was released for the first time in 2009, on the six-CD box set Woodstock 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm.[7]

## Personnel

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* Ravi Shankar – sitar
* Alla Rakha – tabla
* Maya Kulkarni – tambura
* Richard Bock – producer
* Eddie Kramer – engineer

## References

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1. ^ Thompson, Dave (2017). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide (9th edn). Iola, WI: Krause Publications. p. 614\. ISBN 978-1-4402-4776-7.
2. ^ "Ravi Shankar". woodstock.com. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
3. ^ Shankar, Ravi (1999). Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar. New York, NY: Welcome Rain. pp. 211–12. ISBN 1-56649-104-5.
4. ^ Lavezzoli, Peter (2006). The Dawn of Indian Music in the West. New York, NY: Continuum. p. 181\. ISBN 0-8264-2819-3.
5. ^ Shankar, Ravi (1999). Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar. New York, NY: Welcome Rain. p. 211. ISBN 1-56649-104-5.
6. ^ "Ravi Shankar At the Woodstock Festival". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
7. ^ "Woodstock – 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm". Rhino.com. Retrieved 21 July 2017.

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Ravi Shankar

Studio albums|

* Three Ragas
* The Sounds of India
* India's Master Musician
* Improvisations
* In London
* Ragas & Talas
* Portrait of Genius
* Sound of the Sitar
* A Morning Raga/An Evening Raga
* In New York
* Ravi Shankar's Festival from India
* Joi Bangla (EP)
* Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra
* Shankar Family & Friends
* Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India
* Tana Mana
* Chants of India
* The Living Room Sessions Part 1

Collaborations|

* West Meets East (with Yehudi Menuhin)
* West Meets East, Volume 2 (with Yehudi Menuhin)
* Passages (with Philip Glass)

Live albums|

* India's Most Distinguished Musician in Concert
* In San Francisco
* Live: Ravi Shankar at the Monterey International Pop Festival
* At the Woodstock Festival
* In Concert 1972 (with Ali Akbar Khan)
* Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000

Film scores|

* Neecha Nagar
* Pather Panchali
* Aparajito
* Kabuliwala
* A Chairy Tale
* The Flute and the Arrow
* Parash Pathar
* The World of Apu
* Anuradha
* Alice in Wonderland
* Chappaqua
* Charly
* Raga
* Transmigration Macabre
* Meera
* Gandhi
* Genesis

Box sets|

* Ravi Shankar: In Celebration
* Collaborations (with George Harrison)

Books|

* My Music, My Life
* Raga Mala

Related|

| Articles|

* Discography
* Asian Music Circle
* The Concert for Bangladesh
* Concert for George
* East Meets West Music
* "I Am Missing You"
* Kinnara School of Music
* Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India
* Sitar in popular music
* 1974 North American tour

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Guest appearances|

* The Concert for Bangladesh
* "Ride Rajbun"

People|

* Annapurna Devi (first wife)
* Shubhendra Shankar (son)
* Norah Jones (daughter)
* Anoushka Shankar (daughter)
* John Barham
* Richard Bock
* Kamala Chakravarty
* Shambhu Das
* George Harrison
* Ali Akbar Khan
* Allauddin Khan
* Zubin Mehta
* Yehudi Menuhin
* Alla Rakha
* Harihar Rao
* Satyajit Ray
* Lakshmi Shankar

Films|

* Monterey Pop
* Raga
* The Concert for Bangladesh (film)
* Concert for George (film)
* George Harrison: Living in the Material World

Opera|

* Sukanya

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Woodstock Festival

List of performances and events

Founders|

* Artie Kornfeld
* Michael Lang
* John P. Roberts
* Joel Rosenman
* Max Yasgur

Performers|

| August 15, 1969|

* Richie Havens
* Swami Satchidananda
* Sweetwater
* Bert Sommer
* Tim Hardin
* Ravi Shankar
* Melanie
* Arlo Guthrie
* Joan Baez

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August 16, 1969|

* Quill
* Country Joe McDonald
* Santana
* John Sebastian
* Keef Hartley
* The Incredible String Band
* Canned Heat
* Mountain
* Grateful Dead

August 17, 1969|

* Creedence Clearwater Revival
* Janis Joplin
* Sly and the Family Stone
* The Who
* Jefferson Airplane
* Joe Cocker and The Grease Band
* Country Joe and the Fish
* Ten Years After
* The Band

August 18, 1969|

* Blood, Sweat & Tears
* Johnny and Edgar Winter
* Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
* Paul Butterfield Blues Band
* Sha Na Na
* Jimi Hendrix

Media|

* Woodstock Nation (1969 Abbie Hoffman book)
* Woodstock (1970 film)
* Making Woodstock (1974 book)
* My Generation (2000 film)
* The Road to Woodstock (2009 book)
* Taking Woodstock (2007 book)
* 2009 film
* Woodstock Revisited (2009 film)
* Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage (2021 film)
* Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 (2022 miniseries)

Songs|

* "Woodstock"
* "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"

Recordings|

* At the Woodstock Festival (1970)
* Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More (1970)
* Woodstock Two (1971)
* The Best of Woodstock (1994)
* Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music (1994)
* Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix) (1994)
* Woodstock Diary (1994)
* Woodstock 94 (1994)
* Live at Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix) (1999)
* Woodstock 1999 (1999)
* The Woodstock Experience (2009)
* Woodstock 40 Years On: Back To Yasgur's Farm (2009)
* Live at Woodstock (Joe Cocker) (2009)
* Woodstock 1994 (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (2016)
* Woodstock 1994 (Green Day) (2019)
* Woodstock – Back to the Garden: 50th Anniversary Collection (2019)
* Woodstock – Back to the Garden: 50th Anniversary Experience (2019)
* Woodstock – Back to the Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive (2019)
* Live at Woodstock (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (2019)

Revivals|

* Woodstock '79
* Woodstock Reunion 1979
* Woodstock '89
* Woodstock '94
* Woodstock '99
* Heroes of Woodstock Tour
* Woodstock 50 (canceled)

Related|

* Woodstock Nation
* Woodstock Sound-Outs
* Chip Monck (festival master of ceremonies)
* Arnold Skolnick
* Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
* Hog Farm Collective
* Wavy Gravy
* Bethel, New York
* Woodstock, New York

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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