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{{Infobox album
| name = At the Woodstock Festival
| type = live
| artist = [[Ravi Shankar]]
| cover = At the Woodstock Festival.jpeg
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| released = 1970
| recorded = 15 August 1969
| venue = [[Max Yasgur]]'s dairy farm, [[Bethel, New York|Bethel, NY]]
| studio =
| genre = [[Indian classical music]]
| length = 41:23
| label = [[World Pacific Records|World Pacific]]
| producer = [[Richard Bock (producer)|Richard Bock]]
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'''''At the Woodstock Festival''''' is a [[live album]] by Indian classical musician [[Ravi Shankar]] that was released in 1970 on [[World Pacific Records]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Thompson|first=Dave|title=Goldmine Record Album Price Guide ''(9th edn)''|year=2017|publisher=Krause Publications|location=Iola, WI|isbn=978-1-4402-4776-7|page=614}}</ref> It was recorded on 15 August 1969, during the first day of the [[Woodstock Festival]] in upstate New York. Shankar's set took place during a downpour and he later expressed his dissatisfaction with the event due to the prevalence of drugs among the crowd.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.woodstock.com/lineup/ravi-shankar/ |title=Ravi Shankar|publisher=woodstock.com|access-date=21 July 2017}}</ref>

Having performed at the [[Monterey Pop Festival]] in June 1967, Woodstock was the last rock festival Shankar played, as he subsequently distanced himself from the 1960s [[hippie movement]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Ravi|last=Shankar|title=Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar|publisher=Welcome Rain|location=New York, NY|year=1999|isbn=1-56649-104-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ragamalaautobiog00shan/page/211 211–12]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/ragamalaautobiog00shan/page/211}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Lavezzoli|first=Peter|title=The Dawn of Indian Music in the West|publisher=Continuum|location=New York, NY|year=2006|isbn=0-8264-2819-3|page=181}}</ref> He said he felt the music was only "incidental" to the party atmosphere and likened the vast rain-soaked crowd to "the water buffaloes you see in India, submerged in the mud".<ref>{{cite book|first=Ravi|last=Shankar|title=Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar|publisher=Welcome Rain|location=New York, NY|year=1999|isbn=1-56649-104-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/ragamalaautobiog00shan/page/211 211]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/ragamalaautobiog00shan/page/211}}</ref>

The album includes an eight-minute [[tabla]] solo played by [[Alla Rakha]]. ''At the Woodstock Festival'' was issued on CD in 1991 by BGO Records.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/at-the-woodstock-festival-mw0000118881/releases |title=Ravi Shankar ''At the Woodstock Festival''|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=21 July 2017}}</ref>

==Track listing==
'''Side one'''
# "Raga Puriya–Dhanashri/Gat in Sawarital" (11 Beats) (adapted by Ravi Shankar) – 11:04
# "Tabla Solo in Jhaptal" (10 Beats 2-3-2-3) (adapted by Alla Rakha) – 8:48
'''Side two'''
# "Raga Manj Khamaj" (Alap, Jor, Dhun in [[Kaharwa]] Tal (8 Beats), Medium and Fast Gat in Teental (16 Beats)) (adapted by Shankar) – 21:31

"Raga Puriya–Dhanashri/Gat in Sawarital" was in fact a studio recording. The live version performed at Woodstock was released for the first time in 2009, on the six-CD box set ''[[Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm|Woodstock 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://media.rhino.com/press-release/woodstock-40-years-back-yasgurs-farm |title=Woodstock – 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm|publisher=[[Rhino Entertainment|Rhino.com]]|access-date=21 July 2017}}</ref>

[[File:Ravi Shankar.jpg|thumb|130px|left|Shankar performing at the festival beside [[Tanpura|tambura]] player Maya Kulkarni]]
==Personnel==
*[[Ravi Shankar]] – [[sitar]]
*[[Alla Rakha]] – [[tabla]]
*Maya Kulkarni – [[Tanpura|tambura]]
*[[Richard Bock (producer)|Richard Bock]] – producer
*[[Eddie Kramer]] – engineer

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

{{Ravi Shankar}}
{{Woodstock}}

[[Category:1970 live albums]]
[[Category:Ravi Shankar albums]]
[[Category:World Pacific Records live albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Richard Bock (producer)]]
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