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Best of Woodstock and Monterey '67: A Back to the Garden Story Concert

Sponsored by Ellen and Doug Weitman

Thursday, October 15, 2026 • 7:30 PM

Celebrating two landmark music festivals of the ’60s: Monterey ’67 kicked off the "Summer of Love" with performances by Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas and the Papas, the Byrds, Ravi Shankar, Jimi Hendrix, and the Grateful Dead. In 1969 more than 400,000 people gathered in Woodstock, New York, for the legendary “Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music” featuring Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Janis Joplin, Santana, and The Who.

Now Back to the Garden bring their signature "story concert" treatment to these legendary moments in music history: note-for-note recreations of the music sprinkled with stories and images of the era that made the ’60s such a magical time.

 

 

Date

Thursday, October 15, 2026 • 7:30 PM

Tickets

$28–$53

Venue

Smothers Theatre

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Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90263

310.506.4522

Open Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 PM,
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