The founder of the famous Woodstock festival is considering a 50 year anniversary event in 2019.

Michael Lang, who worked alongside Artie Kornfield to create one of the most influential events of music history in Bethel, New York, back in 1969, is considering this anniversary to celebrate fifty years of culture and music described as “3 Days of Peace & Music”, and bring it back into the modern age.

400,000 young people gathered to a rainy field between august 15-17th 1969 to attend the festival which Rolling Stone Magazine would claim as one of the “50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll”.

Bands such as Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Crosby Stills and Nash and Jimi Hendrix all played to a crowd of counterculture hippies and rockers in opposition to the Vietnam War and President Nixon.

The event itself had its fences cut on the opening night and due to a lack of time to prepare, the organisers had no choice but to allow the waves of music fans into the 600 acre dairy farm. Since then Woodstock has been replicated in 1979, ’89, ’94, ‘99’ and in 2009 with the latter being dubbed “heroes of Woodstock tour” which celebrated the 40th anniversary.

In 1999 a notorious riot broke out during sets of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Limp Bizkit and four people having been raped. Due to the violence Lange has expressed that he “does not believe the failings of 1999 would thwart the future event.

Lang told Rolling Stone that there would not be a 45th anniversary this year, but the 50th should certainly be a possibility.