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Although 10,000 or 20,000 people were expected, over 400,000 attended, most of whom did not pay admission. The highways leading to the concert were jammed with trafficThis article is about Vehicular traffic . For other meanings of "Traffic" see Traffic (disambiguation . Organized traffic Western vehicular traffic is generally organized, flowing in lanes of travel for a particular direction, with interchanges, traffic s as people tried to make it to the concert. The weekendThe weekend is a part of the week lasting one or two days in which most paid workers do not work. This is a time for leisure and recreation, or for religious activities. In Christian countries the weekend typically covers Saturday and Sunday, while in Mus was rainRain is a form of precipitation, as are snow, sleet, hail, and dew. Rain forms when separate drops of water fall to the Earth's surface from clouds. Not all rain reaches the surface, however; some evaporates while falling through dry air, a type of precipy, the facilities were overcrowded, and attendees shared foodFood is any substance normally eaten or drunk by living organisms. The term food also includes liquid drinks. Food is the main source of energy and of nutrition for animals, and is usually of animal or plant origin. The study of food is called food scienc, alcoholic beverageAlcoholic beverages are drinks containing ethanol, popularly called alcohol''. Alcoholic beverages have been widely used since the remote antiquity by many civilizations around the world, as a component of the standard diet, for hygienic reasons, for theis, and drugsRecreational drug use is the use of psychoactive drugs for recreational rather than medical or spiritual purposes, although the distinction is not always clear. Regardless of medical supervision, this label does not apply to the use of drugs for utilitari. However, no violenceViolence is a general term to describe behavior, usually deliberate, that causes or intends to cause injury to people, animals, or non-living objects. Violence is often associated with aggression. There are essentially two kinds of violence: random violen was reported and the fact that attendees were remarkably well behaved was particularly noted. The Woodstock Festival represented the culmination of the countercultureDuring the 1960s the term underground acquired a new meaning in that it referred to members of the so-called counterculture, i. those people who did not necessarily conform to the mainstream of human experience such as e. hippies, Punks, and Mods. Terry A of the 1960s and the high point of the " hippie era".
The festival did not initially make money for the promoters, although, thanks to record sales and proceeds from the highly regarded film of the event, it did eventually become profitable.
There were two deaths and two births at Woodstock.
Woodstock is also the name of the famous documentary film about the concert; the film, directed by Michael Wadleigh and edited by Martin Scorsese, was released in 1970 and won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. The film has since been deemed " culturally significant" by the U.S. Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.