Happy birthday, Karen! Or should I say, Happy Birthday on August 15th! Karen got to celebrate her 18th birthday at the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Festival. Karen, along with a number of camp counselors from Camp St. Vincent de Paul’s in Monticello, New York, hopped on a bus and travelled as far as they could to Woodstock, before traffic refused to let them go further.
Hear about Karen’s journey to and from Woodstock, along with how her musical pallet was broadened by performances by Richie Havens, Sweetwater, and Ravi Shankar to name a few. Karen also tackles the perception that Woodstock has to the public, and shares her view on how Woodstock went down.