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The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival held on a 600-acre (2.4-km 2) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969.Thirty-two acts performed during the sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers.
The Woodstock Playhouse is an American summer stock theater located at 103 Mill Hill Road in Woodstock, New York.Founded in 1938, the not-for profit theater, which is owned by the Pan American Dance Foundation, hosts theatre, music and other presentations throughout the year.
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, [6] [7] 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock.
The outdoor Terrace Stage, near the museum, has space for up to 1,000 people, and the Woodstock Festival Field can accommodate up to 30,000 people. Other venues at the center include 440-seat indoor Event Gallery, the 132-seat Museum Theatre, The Market Sheds event space, and two classrooms.
The Byrdcliffe Theater is a part of the Byrdcliffe Colony, an artist colony in Woodstock founded in 1902 by Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and Jane Byrd McCall. The first production Voice Theatre staged at the Byrdcliffe Theater was a production of Brian Friel's play Lovers. [8]
The first tour starting in 1969 and finishing with three dates in Europe in January 1970, was the first Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young tour. The tour was notable for performing at many of the era's major festivals including their second ever gig, a one-hour show at the Woodstock Festival in the early morning of August 18, 1969, which was a baptism by fire for the group.
“I grew up and still live 20 minutes from Bearsville,” James Felice, who handles vocals, accordion and piano for the band, said in an email. ”I’ve been coming here my whole life.
Bearsville Sound Studio was an independent residential recording studio founded by Albert Grossman in the Bearsville section of Woodstock, New York.From the late 1960s through the early 2000s, the studios were the site of notable recordings by numerous artists including Todd Rundgren, Meat Loaf, Tesla, R.E.M., Jeff Buckley, Dave Matthews Band, Phish and others.