Bill Hanley (sound engineer)

Bill Hanley (born 1937)[1] is an American audio engineer and is regarded as the "father of festival sound".

He is most widely known as the sound engineer behind the Woodstock festival in Bethel, New York in August 1969.

"[3] Hanley ran the soundboard for Bob Dylan's controversial "electric" set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

His company also installed a sound system at Bill Graham's Fillmore East.

[4] He was also a part of the large rock Mar Y Sol festival in Puerto Rico in 1972.