New Jazz venue in Bethel (site of Woodstock)

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`Magical place' once housed Woodstock fest

ASHANTE INFANTRY, Toronto Star - Jul. 25, 2006.

Now home for jazz festival and upscale crowd

Bethel, N.Y.—Grey hair and polo shirts have replaced bare feet and tie-dye at the site of the seminal rock concert of the 1960s, but the rain hasn't gone away.

Gloomy skies and torrential downpours marred the inaugural jazz festival at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts — newly erected on the grounds of the 1969 Woodstock Festival — but there was none of the mud dancing or skinny dipping of yore.

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