The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held during August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgurs dairy farm in Bethel, New York, United States, 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock. The festival was meant to last three days, but bad weather and traffic jams caused many delays and performances were pushed late into the night and early morning. Despite the chaos, the festival attracted more than 400,000 attendees and thirty-two acts performed outdoors despite overcast and sporadic rain. Some of the most famous performers included Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Sly And The Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The festival was originally meant to be a standard ticketed event, but a late change of venue meant that fences and ticket booths weren’t ready for the start of the weekend, leading the organizers to declare it a free festival. Hundreds of thousands of people showed up and made their way onto the site, which was hit by rain and mud and a lack of food and drinking water. Despite the number of people attending the festival, only two people died during the festival. The festival became a landmark moment in rock history and the legend of Woodstock’s “Three Days of Peace and Music” became enshrined in American history.