Woodstock '94

Woodstock '94, often called the "commercial Woodstock" or "Mudstock", was a music festival organized to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival of 1969. It was promoted as "2 More Days of Peace and Music." The famous poster used to promote the first concert was revised to feature two birds perched on a guitar fretboard (instead of one), with the headstock of an electric guitar.

The concert was scheduled for August 13 and 14 of 1994, but a third day (August 12) was added.

The event took place on Snyder's Farm, owned by Kenny and Debbie Synder, in Saugerties, New York, about 100 miles (160 km) north of New York City. The site is only 10 miles (16 km) from Woodstock, New York and it was originally proposed as the location for the 1969 concert. Permission to use the property was not granted the first time around, so the first concert was instead held in Sullivan County, much farther from the namesake town of Woodstock.

The crowd at Woodstock '94 was estimated at 350,000. The size of the crowd was larger than concert organizers had planned for and by the second night many of the event policies were logistically unenforceable. The major issues related to security, when attendees arrived, left or returned to the site, and the official concert food-beverage-vendor policy initially restricting attendees from entering with supplies of food, drinks and above all, alcohol. With the concert site mostly enclosed by simple chain link fences, there was hardly any difficulty for many attendees to enter freely along with carrying beer and other banned items. The security staff, along with the entrance and exit staff, could not continue reasonable monitoring of increasingly vast numbers entering, exiting, inspecting, while at the same time maintaining safety, security and peaceful atmosphere. To the credit of all parties, the massive number of attendees enjoyed the landmark music event without any deliberate conflicts or violence, aside from the overenthusiastic mosh mudpits. A smaller crowd, estimated at 130,000, attended a competing 'unofficial' but free concert at the site of the original Woodstock Festival in Bethel, NY. In 1994 the weather was similar to that in 1969: rainy. By Saturday much of the entire field had turned into mud. The Bethel festival was produced by Richie Havens, Ken Lauber, Bernard Fox and Gene Perla and all the contributing artists.

The festival was followed by Woodstock 1999.