Critics particularly praised performances by:, and. Reception The festival featured a diverse assortment of acts, and early reviews for many of the acts were positive.
The city of Rome itself, especially the downtown area and the commercial areas adjacent to the festival site, became a major draw for attendees, who patronized its bars, restaurants, and stores and stayed in its hotels and motels for the duration of the concert. Tickets for the event were priced at $150 plus service charges, at the time considered costly for a festival of this type. Woodstock '99 was conceived and executed as a commercial venture with dozens of corporate sponsors, and included the presence of vendor 'malls' and modern accoutrements such as and e-mail stations. These included several alternate stages, a night-time tent, and a film festival (sponsored by the ) held in a former airplane. In addition to two main stages, secondary venues were available. Along with the fence, about 500 Troopers were hired for additional security. They characterized the site as 'defensible,' describing the 12-foot plywood and steel fence intended to keep out those without tickets. Prior to the concert, the promoters of the event were determined to avoid the gate-crashing that had occurred at previous festivals.
Cable network covered the concert extensively and live coverage of the entire weekend was available on. Approximately 400,000 people attended the festival. Like the previous Woodstock festivals, it was held in, this time in (roughly 200 miles (320 km) from the site of the original event). Onstage while playing with ' during Woodstock '99 Genre, Dates July 22–25, 1999 Location(s) Attendance 400,000+ Website Woodstock '99 (also called Woodstock 1999), held between July 22 and 25, 1999, was the second large-scale (after ) that attempted to emulate the original festival of 1969.
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