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Fyre Festival
Fyre Festival, the 2017 failed luxury music festival in the Exumas, Bahamas, organized by Billy McFarland and Ja Rule to promote Fyre Media; cancelled on day one, led to McFarland's six-year wire-fraud sentence and two 2019 documentaries.
Woodstock
Woodstock, billed as the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, was a 1969 music festival on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, drawing about 450,000 people.
Woodstock '99
Woodstock '99 was a three-day rock festival held July 23-25, 1999 at Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York, planned for 250,000 paying attendees. Extreme heat, $4-5 bottled water, assaults, and a closing-night riot with fires and looting defined it.
Woodstock 50
Woodstock 50 was a planned 50th-anniversary festival announced by Michael Lang for August 16-18, 2019 at Watkins Glen, New York, with Jay-Z and Miley Cyrus booked. It collapsed through the Dentsu funding dispute, permit rejections, and artist withdrawals, and was canceled July 31, 2019.