| At the Woodstock Festival | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Ravi Shankar |
| Cover: | At the Woodstock Festival.jpeg |
| Released: | 1970 |
| Recorded: | 15 August 1969 |
| Venue: | Max Yasgur's dairy farm, Bethel, NY |
| Genre: | Indian classical music |
| Length: | 41:23 |
| Label: | World Pacific |
| Producer: | Richard Bock |
At the Woodstock Festival is a live album by Indian classical musician Ravi Shankar that was released in 1970 on World Pacific Records.[1] It was recorded on 15 August 1969, during the first day of the Woodstock Festival in upstate New York. Shankar's set took place during a downpour and he later expressed his dissatisfaction with the event due to the prevalence of drugs among the crowd.[2]
Having performed at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, Woodstock was the last rock festival Shankar played, as he subsequently distanced himself from the 1960s hippie movement.[3] [4] He said he felt the music was only "incidental" to the party atmosphere and likened the vast rain-soaked crowd to "the water buffaloes you see in India, submerged in the mud".[5]
The album includes an eight-minute tabla solo played by Alla Rakha. At the Woodstock Festival was issued on CD in 1991 by BGO Records.[6]
Side one
Side two
"Raga Puriya–Dhanashri/Gat in Sawarital" was in fact a studio recording. The live version performed at Woodstock was released for the first time in 2009, on the six-CD box set Woodstock 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm.[7]