Woodstock and Bert Sommer

Woodstock awareness is in the air. As I type this I can hear music from the 1969 Woodstock concert/cultural phenomenon -- happened forty years ago from today -- drifting through the window from the yard where my daughter and a number of her schoolmates are starting to party. One of the interesting recent re-discoveries from that event is the performance of the late Bert Sommer, a folksinger and member of the Hair cast, who was almost immediately catapulted into -- obscurity, although performing there was an instant ticket to fame for most of the other musicians. Here is Sommer:



And some photos from that event, courtesy of Slate: Today's Pictures: Woodstock: The Acts