Top Acts Confirmed For Woodstock '99

A number of acts have been confirmed for the Woodstock festival to be held July 23-25 at Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, N.Y. Confirmed are Aerosmith, Alanis Morissette, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Bush, Collective Soul, Counting Crows, Creed, DMX, Dave Matthews Band, Everlast, Fatboy Slim, Foo Fighters, Guster, Hole, George Clinton, Ice Cube, Jewel, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Live, Los Lobos, Metallica, moe., Willie Nelson, the Offspring, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rusted Root, Sheryl Crow, Sugar Ray, and the Tragically Hip. Rumored but not confirmed are John Fogerty (who played the original 1969 festival), Marilyn Manson, Guns N' Roses, and the Chemical Brothers. More acts are expected to be added.

This year's event is being produced by Woodstock '99 LLC, a partnership between John Scher's Metropolitan Entertainment Group, Woodstock Ventures' Michael Lang, and Ossie Kilkenny. All three worked on the 1994 Woodstock festival in Saugerties, N.Y., which lost money for its producers, costing close to $40 million.

Passes for all three days of this year's fest will sell for $150, up $15 from 1994's event, and will go on sale April 25. Tickets will not be sold for individual days. MTV will broadcast live from the site, as it did in '94. A pay-per-view airing is also being arranged. A sister festival planned for Austria has been postponed.

--Melinda Newman, L.A