"Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation"
Featured on the August 27th, 2026 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
- From "The Press Room", journalist John Washington discusses the way immigration is currently being handled in his book How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention.
- Hear from a panel of pop culture experts joined some AZPM fans at a live screening of the PBS American Experience episode Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation. Dr. Donald G. Traut is a Professor of Music and teaches Folk Rock Ensemble at the University of Arizona. Matt Rolland is a musician, a past president of the Tucson Folk Festival, and the deputy director at Art State Arizona. Dr. Tyina Steptoe is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Arizona, and the DJ and host of the Saturday afternoon show “Soul Stories” on KXCI 91.3 FM, community radio.
- AZPM listener and member Gene Fisher, who was actually at Woodstock, tells about some of the things he saw and heard back in 1969.
- And Texan Mark McLemore offers a remembrance of one of the great rock and roll drummers, Frank Beard from ZZ Top. Beard died on August 17th, 2026.
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