Richie Havens - Freedom at Woodstock 1969 (HD)

Woodstock 1969, Richie Havens was the festivals first performer, he held the crowd for nearly three hours (in part because he was told to perform a lengthy set because many artists were delayed in reaching the festival location), and he was called back for several encores. Having run out of tunes, he improvised a song based on the old spiritual “Motherless Child“ that became “Freedom“. Video of Richie Havens at Glastonbury Festival in England, 2002: