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Placing a Pink Floyd tribute on the grounds where the summer of 1969 reached its peak has a logic to it that few booking decisions can claim. The Machine u2014 the New York-based quartet that has spent nearly four decades methodically extending Pink Floyd’s catalog into the live arena u2014 brings their show to Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on Friday, October 23, at 8:00 PM, playing the same hallowed acreage that once hosted an estimated half million people in the mud.
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About The Machine
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The Machine was founded in 1988 by drummer Tahrah Cohen and the late Joe Pascarell, making them one of the longest-running Pink Floyd tribute acts in the country. The current lineup u2014 Cohen, keyboardist Scott Chasolen, guitarist Ryan Ball, and bassist Chris DeAngelis u2014 logs approximately 60 performances per year and works from a repertoire spanning Pink Floyd’s 16-album catalog. That breadth is the point. This is not a band that plays one or two crowd-pleasers and calls it a night. They perform complete albums in sequence, take audience requests, and have been known to work through an alphabetical set covering every letter of Floyd’s catalog. Rolling Stone has noted their “chilling accuracy,” and Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin has lent the act his endorsement u2014 two credentialing signals worth noting in a genre crowded with approximations.
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Their symphony collaboration ru00e9sumu00e9 is also considerable: performances alongside the Atlanta, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, Charlotte, and San Diego Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Buffalo Philharmonic. For a tribute act based in New York, that trajectory speaks to something more than nostalgia tourism.
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About Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
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Bethel Woods Center for the Arts sits on the original Woodstock festival grounds in Bethel, New York u2014 a 16,000-capacity outdoor amphitheater in the Hudson Valley that carries genuine historical weight with every booking. The venue operates as a nonprofit cultural center and includes an award-winning on-site museum alongside its concert pavilion and event spaces. An outdoor show in late October means jacket weather and night air over the Sullivan County hills u2014 not the worst conditions for music built around the assumption that atmosphere is half the concert.
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Tickets & Show Details
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The Machine performs at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on Friday, October 23, 2026. Showtime is 8:00 PM. Tickets start at 6. Get Tickets
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