GALLERY: Muddy fun at Poland's Woodstock festival

Aug 06, 2014 03:30 pm

In August 1969, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place on a dairy farm in Bethel, NY. Over half a million people came to a 600-acre farm to hear 32 acts (leading and emerging performers of the time) play over the course of four days (August 15-18). Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, the Who, Janis Joplin and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were among the line-up. Woodstock is known as one of the greatest happenings of all time and –perhaps- the most pivotal moment in music history. - See more at: http://woodstock.com/about/#sthash.fpYoJ5kw.dpuf

Have a rolling good time... in the mud.

That's what more than 750,000 people did at this year's Woodstock Festival in Poland's Kostrzyn-upon-Odra, near the Polish-German border, NBC News reported.

The Woodstock festival was initiated by Polish journalist and social campaigner Jerzy Owsiak 20 years ago as a way of thanking those who donated to his charity.

It gives medical care to children suffering from kidney diseases.