Mike Lewis Photography/RedfernsLed Zeppelin‘s Robert Plant is part of a wide-ranging new list of artists that are rumored to be playing the Woodstock 50 event this August, marking the 50th anniversary of the original Woodstock festival.
According to Variety, the lineup also will include Grateful Dead spinoff group Dead & Company, Jay-Z, Chance the Rapper, The Black Keys, The Raconteurs, Imagine Dragons, Gary Clark Jr., Cage the Elephant, The Killers, Greta Van Fleet and many others. In addition, the magazine reports that Miley Cyrus, Janelle Monae, Halsey and Brandi Carlile are “finalizing their commitments.”
Dead & Company, Imagine Dragons, The Killers and Chance the Rapper, as well as Santana, also were among the artists that Billboard announced earlier this week were rumored to be participating in the festival. The Grateful Dead and Santana were among the many famous acts that played Woodstock in 1969.
Woodstock 50 will be held August 16-18 in Watkins Glen, New York.
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