“Well, I can’t leave here without playing the theme song. Just want to say It’s a thrill to be here, I missed the first one. I wrote a song about it using empathy and kind of projection. The first event was moving to me, in that, my generation, which was given a pocket of liberty like no other generation in a certain way. Did some of the right things for a short time.” “Woodstock” live at A Day in the Garden festival on this day 1998. The festival was held in Bethel, N.Y, on a sloping hillside t

Joni debuted her timeless classic, “Woodstock,” at the Big Sur Folk Festival 55 years ago today. She wouldn’t actually play the song at the Woodstock site until “A Day in the Garden” in 1998. | Joni Mitchell

56 years ago today, Joni sang “Woodstock” for the very first time at the Big Sur Folk Festival. | Joni Mitchell