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If Woodstock 50 Happens, It Won't Be A Festival And It Won't Be In New York

The music festival has been slowly unraveling since April, but might have found a new lease on life.
Carlos Santana is still expected to perform at Woodstock 50 ... if it happens at all.

Woodstock 50, the music festival intended as a celebration of the era-defining 1969 concert, has instead spent months unravelling in public. Now, if it takes place at all, the festival won't take place in the same area of upstate New York as the original Woodstock. In fact, it won't take place in New York at all, or even

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