The world’s largest free festival, with more 500,000 attending all squeezed together on a dairy farm in northern New York State, is coming to Salisbury.

Award-winning theatre company ‘Something Underground’ is bringing their latest, open air stage show, The Spirit of Woodstock, to the Rifles Museum, Salisbury, on July 29-30.

In 1969, at the time of Woodstock, another pandemic, the H3N2 (“Hong Kong”) virus was circling the planet. But this show isn’t about that, at all!

It’s about the incredible era that surrounded the “mother of all free festivals”…. the politics, conflicts, music, protests, moon landings, civil rights movement, adverts, anti-war protesters, women’s liberators, drugs, music, musicians and the personalities covering more than two wild, interactive and immersive hours.

In ‘The Spirit of Woodstock’, Jonathan Brown brings 65 characters in lightning-fast succession. The whole thing is imbued with the soundscape of the time, but was incubated in the 2020 lockdown, and is to be re-released.

The whole show, with picnics, wrapped up in tie-dye, and ready to be taken back to a time that was happening, golden and groovy.

Tickets: limited and best bought in advance: £14 for individual tickets with group discounts available.

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