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Woodstock is a town in Ulster County
Ulster County, New York

Ulster County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, USA. It sits in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 177,749....
, New York
New York

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, United States
United States

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. The population was 6,241 at the 2000 census.

The Town of Woodstock is in the northern part of the county. Woodstock is northwest of Kingston
Kingston, New York

Kingston is a city in Ulster County, New York, New York, United States. It is north of New York City and south of Albany, New York along the Hudson River....
, New York
New York

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 and lies within the borders of Catskill Park.

first non-indigenous settler arrived around 1770. The Town of Woodstock was established in 1787. Later, Woodstock contributed some of its territory to form the Towns of Middletown
Middletown, Delaware County, New York

Middletown is a town in Delaware County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 4,051 at the 2000 census.The Town of Middletown is in the southeast part of the county....
 (1789), Windham (1798), Shandaken
Shandaken, New York

Shandaken is a town in Ulster County, New York, New York, United States. United States. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 3,235....
 (1804), and Olive
Olive, New York

Olive is a town in Ulster County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 4,579 at the 2000 census.The Town of Olive is an interior town of Ulster County....
 (1853).

The Arts and Crafts Movement
Arts and Crafts movement

The Arts and Crafts Movement was a United Kingdom, Canada, and United States aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century....
 came to Woodstock around 1902, and, afterwards, Woodstock was always considered an active artist colony in the 19th and early 20th century, including playing host to numerous Hudson River School
Hudson River school

The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century United States art movement by a group of landscape art Paintings, whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism....
 painters.






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Woodstock is a town in Ulster County
Ulster County, New York

Ulster County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, USA. It sits in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 177,749....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The population was 6,241 at the 2000 census.

The Town of Woodstock is in the northern part of the county. Woodstock is northwest of Kingston
Kingston, New York

Kingston is a city in Ulster County, New York, New York, United States. It is north of New York City and south of Albany, New York along the Hudson River....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 and lies within the borders of Catskill Park.

History


The first non-indigenous settler arrived around 1770. The Town of Woodstock was established in 1787. Later, Woodstock contributed some of its territory to form the Towns of Middletown
Middletown, Delaware County, New York

Middletown is a town in Delaware County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 4,051 at the 2000 census.The Town of Middletown is in the southeast part of the county....
 (1789), Windham (1798), Shandaken
Shandaken, New York

Shandaken is a town in Ulster County, New York, New York, United States. United States. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 3,235....
 (1804), and Olive
Olive, New York

Olive is a town in Ulster County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 4,579 at the 2000 census.The Town of Olive is an interior town of Ulster County....
 (1853).

The Arts and Crafts Movement
Arts and Crafts movement

The Arts and Crafts Movement was a United Kingdom, Canada, and United States aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century....
 came to Woodstock around 1902, and, afterwards, Woodstock was always considered an active artist colony in the 19th and early 20th century, including playing host to numerous Hudson River School
Hudson River school

The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century United States art movement by a group of landscape art Paintings, whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism....
 painters. Its reputation as an arts center contributed to the original Woodstock Festival
Woodstock Festival

Woodstock was a music festival, billed as An Aquarian Exposition, held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969....
's organizers planning their concert around the town. Such American painters as E. Charlton Fortune
E. Charlton Fortune

E. Charlton Fortune was a famous California artist within the style of Impressionism. Taught by William Merritt Chase and Arthur Frank Mathews, she achieved international fame for her paintings....
 and Spencer Trask
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 were known to use the Woodstock venue.

The Woodstock Elgin Creamery was established in 1898 at a site now located on the corner of Maple Lane and Deanies Alley.

Woodstock is also home to the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra
Karma Triyana Dharmachakra

Karma Triyana Dharmachakra is a Tibetan Buddhism monastery in Woodstock , New York, NY, USA, which serves as the North American seat of His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu lineage....
 Buddhist monastery.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data....
, the town has a total area of 67.9 square mile
Square mile

The square mile is an Imperial system and US customary system of measure for an area equal to the area of a square of one mile. It should not be confused with miles square, which refers to the number of miles on each side squared....
s (175.8 km²), of which, 67.5 square miles (174.8 km²) of it is land and 0.4 square miles (0.9 km²) of it (0.53%) is water.

The north town line is the border of Greene County
Greene County, New York

Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Its name is in honor of the American Revolutionary War general, Nathanael Greene....
.

Demographics

As of the census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 of 2000, there were 6,241 people, 2,946 households, and 1,626 families residing in the town. The population density
Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
 was 92.5 people per square mile (35.7/km²). There were 3,847 housing units at an average density of 57.0/sq mi (22.0/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 94.25% White, 1.30% Black or African American
Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget , are Self-concept data items in which residents choose the Race in the United States or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin ....
, 0.21% Native American, 1.57% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.79% from other races
Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget , are Self-concept data items in which residents choose the Race in the United States or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin ....
, and 1.87% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.56% of the population.

There were 2,946 households out of which 21.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.2% were married couples
Marriage

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 living together, 7.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 44.8% were non-families. 35.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.10 and the average family size was 2.71.

In the town the population was spread out with 18.0% under the age of 18, 3.7% from 18 to 24, 23.0% from 25 to 44, 38.0% from 45 to 64, and 17.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48 years. For every 100 females there were 94.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.1 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $49,217, and the median income for a family was $65,938. Males had a median income of $41,500 versus $33,672 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income

Per capita income means how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country. This is what each citizen is to receive if the yearly national income is divided equally among everyone....
 for the town was $32,133. About 6.9% of families and 10.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.8% of those under age 18 and 3.9% of those age 65 or over.

Woodstock Music and Art

The town is famous for lending its name to the Woodstock Festival
Woodstock Festival

Woodstock was a music festival, billed as An Aquarian Exposition, held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969....
, actually held at Max Yasgur
Max Yasgur

Max B. Yasgur was an United States farmer, best known as the owner of the dairy in Bethel, New York at which the Woodstock Festival was held between August 15 and August 18, 1969....
's dairy farm 43 miles (76 km) away in Bethel
Bethel, New York

Bethel is a town in Sullivan County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 4,362 at the 2000 census but Bethel experienced tremendous growth between 2001 and 2007....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 in Sullivan County
Sullivan County, New York

Sullivan County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. According to the 2007 estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau, the county's population was 76,303....
.

The 1903 Byrdcliffe
Byrdcliffe Colony

The Byrdcliffe Colony, also called the Byrdliffe Arts Colony or Byrdcliffe Historic District, was founded in 1902 near Woodstock, New York by Jane and Ralph Whitehead and colleagues, Bolton Brown and Hervey White ....
 art colony
Art colony

An art colony or artists' colony is a place where creative practitioners live and interact with one another. Artists are often invited or selected through a formal process, for a residency from a few weeks to over a year....
 is the nation's oldest Arts & Crafts colony. It brought the first artists to Woodstock to teach and produce furniture, metal works, ceramics
Ceramics (art)

Ceramics is the art and science of making objects from inorganic, non-metallic materials by the action of heat. In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean tableware, Work of art and tiles made from clay and other ceramic materials by the process of pottery, so excluding glass and also mosaic, normally made from glass tesserae....
, weaving
Weaving

Weaving is the textile arts in which two distinct sets of yarn, called the Warp and the filling or weft , are interlaced with each other to form a textile....
 and established Woodstock's first painting
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 school. Byrdcliffe forever changed the cultural landscape
Cultural landscape

Cultural Landscapes have been defined by the World Heritage Site as World Heritage Site or properties uniquely "..represent[ing] the combined work of nature and of man.." ....
 of the Town of Woodstock.

In 1916, utopian philosopher and poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 Hervey White built a "music chapel" in the woods. It was the Maverick
Maverick

A maverick is an unbranded range animal, especially a motherless calf. It can also mean a person who thinks independently, a lone dissenter, a non-conformist or rebel....
 Concert Series, the beginning of what is now the oldest, continuous chamber music
Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber....
 festival in America. Composers such as Henry Cowel, John Cage
John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer. A pioneer of Aleatoric music, electronic music and Extended technique, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde and, in the opinion of many, the most influential American composer of the 20th century....
, Robert Starrer and Peter Schickele
Peter Schickele

Johann Peter Schickele is an United States composer, musical educator and parody, best known for his comedy music albums featuring music he wrote as P....
 created works that were premiered there. Today, this hand-built concert hall with perfect acoustics
Acoustics

Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of sound, ultrasound and infrasound . A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician....
, is a multi-starred attraction on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation....
 with world-class musicians playing there from June to September.

The town is home to the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM), one of the oldest artists organizations. The WAAM Permanent Collection features work by important American artists associated with the region, including Milton Avery
Milton Avery

Milton Avery was an United States Modern art Painting. Although born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City....
, George Bellows
George Bellows

George Wesley Bellows was an United States painting, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City. At a young age he was to become "the most acclaimed artist of his generation"....
, Edward Leigh Chase
Edward Leigh Chase

Edward Leigh Chase was an United States Painting and illustrator, and an early member of the Byrdcliffe Colony experiment which gave rise to the art colony at Woodstock, New York....
, Frank Swift Chase
Frank Swift Chase

Frank Swift Chase was an American Post-Impressionist landscape painter and a founder of the Woodstock Artists Association in Woodstock, New York, the art colony at Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the Sarasota School of Art in Florida....
, Marion Greenwood, Philip Guston
Philip Guston

Philip Guston was a notable painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the Abstract Expressionism, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning....
, Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Yasuo Kuniyoshi

was an United States painter, photographer and printmaker born in Okayama, Japan. He migrated to America in 1906, a year later began studying at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design....
, and many others. WAAM founders were John Carlson, Frank Swift Chase
Frank Swift Chase

Frank Swift Chase was an American Post-Impressionist landscape painter and a founder of the Woodstock Artists Association in Woodstock, New York, the art colony at Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the Sarasota School of Art in Florida....
, Andrew Dasburg
Andrew Dasburg

Andrew Michael Dasburg was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism"....
, Carl Lindin, and Henry Lee McFee
Henry Lee McFee

Henry Lee McFee was a pioneer United States cubist painter and a prominent member of the Woodstock artists colony....
. The Art Students League of New York
Art Students League of New York

The Art Students League of New York is an art school located on West 57th Street in New York City. The League has historically been known for its broad appeal to both amateurs and professional artists, and has maintained for over 130 years a tradition of offering reasonably-priced classes on a flexible schedule to accommodate students from a...
's summer school was in Woodstock for nearly fifteen years from 1906 until 1922, and again after the end of World War II
World War II

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 from 1947 until 1979. has been operating since 1980.

The Woodstock Guild, also founded by Byrdcliffe artists in 1939 is now the steward of the 350-acre Byrdcliffe Colony. It is a multicultural organization which sponsors exhibitions, classes, concerts, dance and theatre events and runs the oldest craft shop in Woodstock, the Fleur de Lis Gallery, which features over 60 artists. Byrdcliffe is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a haven for today's artists.

In 1981, the town hosted the Woodstock Jazz Festival
Woodstock Jazz Festival

The Woodstock Jazz Festival was held in 1981 in Woodstock, New York.It was a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Creative Music Studio, founded in 1971 by Karl Berger and Ornette Coleman....
, a celebration of the Creative Music Studio
Creative Music Studio

The Creative Music Studio was a premier study center for contemporary creative music during the 1970s and 1980s, based in Woodstock , New York....
, an organization founded in 1971 by Karl Berger
Karl Berger

Karl Hanns Berger is a musicologist with a PhD in Music Sociology, jazz composer, jazz vibraphonist and jazz piano. Together with Ornette Coleman and Ingrid Sertso he founded the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York....
 and Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman is an United States saxophoneist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
. The show featured Jack Dejohnette
Jack DeJohnette

Jack DeJohnette is an United States jazz drummer, Piano, and composer. DeJohnette was born in Chicago, Illinois, Illinois. Besides the drums, he studied the piano, which he plays on several recordings....
, Chick Corea
Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist, keyboardist, drummer, and composer.He is known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion....
, Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny

Patrick Bruce Metheny is an United States jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects....
, Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton is an American composer, saxophone, clarinettist, flute, piano, and philosopher. He has created a large body of highly complex work....
, Lee Konitz
Lee Konitz

Lee Konitz is an United States jazz composer and alto saxophone born in Chicago, Illinois. Generally considered one of the driving forces of Cool Jazz, Konitz has also performed successfully in bebop and avant-garde settings....
, and Miroslav Vitouš
Miroslav Vitouš

Miroslav Ladislav Vitou?, born 6 December 1947) is a Czechs jazz double bass who was born in Prague. He began the violin at age six, and started playing the piano at age ten, and bass at fourteen....
, among others.

Famous Inhabitants


The town has long been a mecca for artists, musicians, and writers, even before the music festival made the name "Woodstock" famous. The town has a separate "Artist's Cemetery". Film and art festivals attract big names, and hundreds of musicians have come to Woodstock to record. The list below contains the names of significant artists who actually lived (or still currently live) in the town.

Musicians

  • Jimi Hendrix
    Jimi Hendrix

    James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
    - guitarist/singer/songwriter
  • Daevid Allen
    Daevid Allen

    Daevid Allen is an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist best known as co-founder of the psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine and Gong ....
     - Soft Machine/Gong singer/poet
  • John Ashton
    John Ashton

    John Ashton may refer to:* John Ashton , American actor* John Ashton , British musician, songwriter and record producer.* John Ashton , is the Special Representative for Climate Change, for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office...
     - producer/guitarist for The Psychedelic Furs
  • The Band
    The Band

    The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson ; Richard Manuel ; Garth Hudson ; and Rick Danko , and one American, Levon Helm ....
     members: Rick Danko
    Rick Danko

    Richard Clare "Rick" Danko was a Canada musician and singer, best known as a member of The Band....
    , Levon Helm
    Levon Helm

    Mark Lavon Helm , better known as Levon Helm, is an United States rock and roll musician and actor most famous as the drummer for the rock group The Band....
    , Garth Hudson
    Garth Hudson

    Eric Garth Hudson is a Canada musician. As the organ and keyboard instrument for Canada-American Rock music group The Band, he was a principal architect of the group's unique sound....
    , Richard Manuel
    Richard Manuel

    Richard George Manuel was a Canada composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his contributions and membership in The Band....
    , and Robbie Robertson
    Robbie Robertson

    Robbie Robertson is a singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership in The Band. He was ranked 78th in Rolling Stone magazine?s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time....
     - the five shared a house together, where they recorded The Basement Tapes
    The Basement Tapes

    The Basement Tapes is a studio album by Bob Dylan and The Band, released in 1975 by Columbia Records.As Dylan recovered from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in July 1966, he summoned the Band and began to record both new compositions and traditional material with them....
     (with Bob Dylan) and Music from Big Pink
    Music from Big Pink

    Music from Big Pink is the 1968 debut album by rock music band The Band. It features one of their best-known songs, "The Weight."...
    . The house, dubbed "Big Pink" is in neighboring Saugerties
    Saugerties (town), New York

    Saugerties is a town in Ulster County, New York, New York, USA. The population was 19,868 at the 2000 census. The Town of Saugerties contains the Saugerties , New York....
    , though Danko,Manuel,Hudson and Helm all eventually moved to Woodstock.
  • Cyro Baptista
    Cyro Baptista

    File:Cyrobaptista.jpgCyro Baptista is a Brazilian musician, teacher, and recording artist specializing in percussion in the genres of jazz and world music....
     - Brazilian-born percussionist
  • Richard Bell
    Richard Bell (Canadian musician)

    Richard Bell was a Canada musician. Known for his session and live performance work, he is perhaps best remembered as the pianist for Janis Joplin and her Full Tilt Boogie Band and was a keyboardist with The Band during the 1990s....
     - keyboardist
  • Ravi Shankar
    Ravi Shankar

    Pandit Ravi Shankar is a Bengali people Indian sitar player and composer. He is a disciple of Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar gharana of Hindustani classical music....
    - Sitar
    Sitar

    The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument. It uses sympathetic strings along with a long hollow neck and a gourd resonance chamber to produce a very rich sound with complex harmonic resonance....
     Player, Composer
    Composer

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  • David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
    - songwriter, musician, fashion icon
  • Paul Butterfield
    Paul Butterfield

    Paul Butterfield was an United States blues vocalist, harmonica player who gained international recognition in part, as one of the early acts performing during the Summer of Love, in Woodstock, New York....
     - blues musician
  • Imani Coppola
    Imani Coppola

    Imani Francesca Coppola is an United States singer-songwriter and violinist probably best known for her 1997 hit "Legend of a Cowgirl" which sampled the instrumentals from "Sunshine Superman " by Donovan....
     - singer/songwriter/musician (early 2000's)
  • Kal David
    Kal David

    Kal David is an American blues musician famous for his work as a guitarist, singer and songwriter with some of the world's preeminent blues musicians as well as for his work in the early 1970s on Columbia Records....
     - blues musician
  • Jack DeJohnette
    Jack DeJohnette

    Jack DeJohnette is an United States jazz drummer, Piano, and composer. DeJohnette was born in Chicago, Illinois, Illinois. Besides the drums, he studied the piano, which he plays on several recordings....
     - jazz drummer
  • Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
     - country singer/guitarist/songwriter/composer
  • Aïyb Dieng
    Aïyb Dieng

    A?yb Dieng is a Senegalese drummer and percussionist. He has worked and recorded frequently with Bill Laswell.He was born and raised in Senegal....
     - drummer and percussionist
  • Bob Dylan - singer/songwriter, in the late sixties. (He had his infamous motorcycle accident while living here in 1966.)
  • Michael Esposito - lead guitarist with The Blues Magoos (Mercury Records 1960s)
  • Jackson C. Frank
    Jackson C. Frank

    Jackson Carey Frank was an United States folk musician....
     - singer/songwriter
  • John Hall - musician, co-founder of Orleans
    Orleans (band)

    Orleans is an American pop-rock band best known for its hits "Dance With Me " , "Still The One " on the album Waking and Dreaming and "Love Takes Time " ....
  • Jeremy Sunshine - singer, songwriter, musician, poet, actor, born in Woodstock, New York
  • Bill Keith
    Bill Keith

    Bill Keith may refer to:* Bill Keith , banjo player and innovator of the "melodic style" of banjo playing* Bill Keith , painter, photographer and visual poet...
     - banjo player/composer developed melodic or (Keith style
    Keith style

    The Keith style of playing the 5-string banjo emphasizes the melody of the song. Also known as the "Melodic" or "Chromatic style", it was first developed and popularized independently by Bobby Thompson and Bill Keith in the early 1960s....
    ) banjo picking.
  • Steve Knight
    Steve Knight (musician)

    Steve Knight is an United States musician best known as the keyboardist for Mountain , a rock band of the early 1970s.Knight was born in New York to artist parents....
     - keyboardist for Mountain
    Mountain (band)

    Mountain is an United States rock music Band . The band broke up in 1972, reformed two years later, and have since reconvened and resumed performing and recording....
    ; currently a member of the Woodstock Town Board
  • Tony Levin
    Tony Levin

    Tony Levin is an American bass guitarist.Levin is best-known for his work with progressive rock pioneers King Crimson and Peter Gabriel. Has also been a member of Bruford Levin Upper Extremities, Liquid Tension Experiment and leads his own Tony Levin Band....
     - bassist
  • Thelonious Monk
    Thelonious Monk

    Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only three jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epi...
     - jazz musician
  • Harvey Sorgen- drummer
  • Fred Neil
    Fred Neil

    Fred Neil was an American blues and folk music singer and songwriter in the 1960s and early 1970s. He is best remembered for writing the top 40 hits "Candy Man" by Roy Orbison and "Everybody's Talkin'" by Harry Nilsson, as well as the rock standard "The Other Side of This Life", most famously covered by Jefferson Airplane....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Van Morrison
    Van Morrison

    George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
     - singer/songwriter
  • David "Fathead" Newman - jazz musician
  • John Platania
    John Platania

    John Platania is a well-known session musician, guitar player, and record producer.Platania was born in New York?s Mid-Hudson Valley, in Ulster County, near Woodstock , New York....
     - guitarist
  • Bonnie Raitt
    Bonnie Raitt

    Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter who was born in Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, California. Raitt is best known for her songs "Nick of Time ", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneaking Up on You", and the ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me." Raitt is also an avid political activist and has received nine Gra...
     - singer/songwriter
  • Tom Rapp
    Tom Rapp

    Thomas Dale Rapp is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the leader of Pearls Before Swine , the psychedelic folk rock group of the 1960s and 1970s....
     - singer /songwriter, leader of the band Pearls Before Swine
    Pearls Before Swine

    Pearls before swine refers to a quotation from the discourse on holiness, a section of Jesus Christ's Sermon on the Mount, implying that things should not be put in front of people who don't appreciate their value....
  • Matt Flynn
    Matt Flynn (musician)

    Matt Flynn , is currently the drummer of the band Maroon 5. Originally the substitute drummer for the band, he took over after the departure of Ryan Dusick, who left the band due to wrist and shoulder injuries that he received from pitching on his high school baseball team....
     - Drummer for the band Maroon 5
    Maroon 5

    Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band. Formed with only two members at the French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts and expanded in Los Angeles, Maroon 5 has sold over 10 million albums in the United States and nearly 15 million world wide....
  • Mick Ronson
    Mick Ronson

    Mick Ronson was an England guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and record producer. He is most well known for his work with David Bowie from 1970 to 1973, Bowie's glam rock period, including being part of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars band....
     - guitarist
  • Todd Rundgren
    Todd Rundgren

    Todd Harry Rundgren , is an United States musician, singer-songwriter and record producer....
     - singer/songwriter
  • Robert Starer
    Robert Starer

    Robert Starer was an Austrian-born United States composer and pianist.Robert Starer began studying the piano at age 4 and continued his studies at the Vienna State Academy....
     - pianist & composer
  • David Peel
    David Peel

    David Peel is a New York-based musician who first recorded in the late 1960s, with Harold Black, Billy Jo White,Larry Adams and Dean White performing as The Lower East Side Band....
     - member of The Lower East Side Band
  • Keith Strickland
    Keith Strickland

    Keith Strickland is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and one of the founding members of the The B-52's. He was originally the band's drummer, but moved to guitar after the death of guitarist Ricky Wilson in 1985....
     and Kate Pierson
    Kate Pierson

    Catherine Elizabeth Pierson is an United States vocalist and one of the lead singers and founding members of The B-52's. She also played keyboard instrument, guitar and bass for the band....
     of the B-52s
  • Gary Windo
    Gary Windo

    Gary Windo was a jazz tenor saxophonist.He came from a musical family in England and by age six took up drums and accordion, then guitar at 12, and finally saxophone at 17....
     - saxophonist
  • Joe Giardullo - saxophonist
  • Pat Metheny
    Pat Metheny

    Patrick Bruce Metheny is an United States jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects....
     - Grammy award winning guitarist
  • Henry Cowell
    Henry Cowell

    Henry Cowell was an United States composer, music theory, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario. His contribution to the world of music was summed up by Virgil Thomson, writing in the early 1950s:...
     - composer
  • Peter Schikele - composer
  • Fred Hand - guitar
  • Ed Sanders
    Ed Sanders

    Ed Sanders is an United States poet, singer, social activist, environmentalist, author and publisher. He has been called a bridge between the Beat generation and Hippie generations....
    - Poet/Founder of Fugs band
  • Donald McDonald
    Donald McDonald

    Donald McDonald is a former Australian rules footballer and coach....
     - drummer
  • Frank Luther
    Frank Luther

    Frank Luther was an United States country music singer, dance band vocalist, playwright, songwriter and pianist.Born Francis Luther Crow on a farm near Lakin, Kansas, Kansas, forty miles from the Colorado line, he was raised on a farm near Hutchinson, Kansas, where his father, William R....
     - bassist
  • Carlos Santana
    Carlos Santana

    Carlos Augusto Santana Alves is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-American Rock music musician and guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana , which created a highly successful blend of rock music, salsa music, and jazz fusion....
     - guitarist
  • Donald Fagen
    Donald Fagen

    Donald Jay Fagen is an United States musician and songwriter. He is co-founder, lead singer, and the principal songwriter of the jazz-influenced Rock music musical ensemble Steely Dan....
     - co-founder Steely Dan
    Steely Dan

    Steely Dan is an United States jazz-Rock music band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock and roll, funk, rhythm and blues, and Pop music....
  • John Sebastian
    John Sebastian

    John Sebastian is an United States songwriter and harmonica player. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
     - a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful
    The Lovin' Spoonful

    The Lovin' Spoonful is an United States pop rock band of the 1960s, named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. The band's name was inspired by some lines in a song of Mississippi John Hurt called the "Coffee Blues." John Sebastian credits Fritz Richmond for suggesting the name....
  • Jimmy Cobb
    Jimmy Cobb

    Jimmy Cobb is an United States Jazz drumming. He has worked extensively with a wide range of artists, including Dinah Washington, Pearl Bailey, Clark Terry, Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Wynton Kelly, Stan Getz, Wes Montgomery, Gil Evans, Miles Davis, Paul Chambers, Kenny Burrell, J....
     - jazz drummer
  • Happy Traum
    Happy Traum

    Happy Traum is an American folk music who started playing music in the Fifties....
     - folk musician
  • Artie Traum
    Artie Traum

    Artie Traum was a New Age Voice Award-winning guitarist, producer and songwriter. Traum's work appeared on more than 35 albums. He produced and recorded with The Band, Warren Bernhardt, Pat Alger, Tony Levin, John Sebastian, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Eric Anderson, Paul Butterfield, Paul Siebel, Rory Block, James Taylor, Pete Seeger, Da...
     - award-winning guitarist, producer and songwriter
  • Eric Weissberg
    Eric Weissberg

    Eric Weissberg is an United States banjo player, best known for the theme from the movie Deliverance....
     - banjo
    Banjo

    The banjo is a stringed instrument developed by Slavery in the United States Africans in the United States, adapted from several African instruments....
     player, best known for the theme from the movie Deliverance
    Deliverance

    Deliverance is a 1972 in film drama film produced and directed by John Boorman. Principal cast members include Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, Jon Voight, and Ned Beatty in his film debut....
  • Elizabeth Mitchell
    Elizabeth Mitchell

    Elizabeth Mitchell is an United States actor who is currently known for her role as Juliet Burke on American Broadcasting Company hit TV series Lost ....
     - is an American singer, composer, and guitarist for the New York indie band Ida
    Ida (band)

    Ida is an United States indie rock band from New York City. The group formed in Brooklyn in 1992 as the duo of Daniel Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell ....
  • Peter Schickele
    Peter Schickele

    Johann Peter Schickele is an United States composer, musical educator and parody, best known for his comedy music albums featuring music he wrote as P....
     - best known for his comedy music albums featuring music he wrote as P.D.Q. Bach
  • Joey Eppard
    Joey Eppard

    Joey Eppard is a music writer, recording artist, and the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Experimental music/progressive rock band, 3 . He is also the brother of Josh Eppard, the former drummer for both 3 and Coheed and Cambria....
     - Kingston, NY born singer, songwriter, guitarist, bassist - best known for his Woodstock Rock band, 3
    3 (band)

    3, also known as Three, is an United States progressive rock band formed in Woodstock, New York in the early 1990s in music.History...
  • Billy Riker
    Billy Riker

    Billy Riker is the lead guitar player, for the Experimental music/progressive rock band, 3 .In addition to his work with 3, Riker is also involved in a local Improv Rock Band known as MATH ....
     - Port Ewen, NY born guitarist, bassist and keyboard player - best known for Woodstock Rock band, 3
    3 (band)

    3, also known as Three, is an United States progressive rock band formed in Woodstock, New York in the early 1990s in music.History...
  • Gregan Wortman - Greenville, Maine
    Greenville, Maine

    Greenville is a New England town in Piscataquis County, Maine, Maine, United States. The population was 1,623 at the 2000 United States Census. The town is centered around the lower end of Moosehead Lake, the largest body of fresh water in the state....
     native and guitar player performed at the Tinker Street Cafe and other venues and produced his TV show 'Psycho Circus' in Woodstock during a period from May to December 1996. Gregan Wortman premiered the eclectic variety show 'Psycho Circus' in November 1995 in Portland, Maine
    Portland, Maine

    Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Cumberland County, Maine. The city population was 64,249 at the 2000 United States Census....
    .
  • Darryl Jenifer - Bad Brains Bass
  • Libby Titus
    Libby Titus

    Libby Titus is a singer, songwriter, actress and concert producer. Although she released several solo albums in the 1970s and '80s, she is best known as the co-writer, with Eric Kaz, of "Love Has No Pride", a song recorded by many artists including Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt and Jane Monheit....
     - singer, songwriter
  • Chris Brant - guitarist here.
  • Rachael Yamagata
    Rachael Yamagata

    Rachael Yamagata is an United States singer-songwriter and pianist. Born in Arlington, Virginia, Virginia, she is a Japanese American#Cultural profile or fourth-generation Japanese American on her father's side and of Italian and German ancestry on her mother's side....
     - critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter - she wrote the album Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart
    Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart

    Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart is the second full-length album by Rachael Yamagata. It was released on 7 October 2008 via Warner Bros....
     during a nine-months period in Woodstock.


Artists

  • Isaac Abrams - painter / sculptor
  • Alexander Archipenko
    Alexander Archipenko

    Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko was a Ukrainians avant-garde artist, sculptor and graphic artist....
     - sculptor
  • George Ault
    George Ault

    George Copeland Ault was an United States painter. He was loosely grouped with the Precisionism movement and, though influenced by Cubism and Surrealism, his most lasting work is of a realist nature....
     - painter
  • Milton Avery
    Milton Avery

    Milton Avery was an United States Modern art Painting. Although born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City....
     - painter
  • George Bellows
    George Bellows

    George Wesley Bellows was an United States painting, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City. At a young age he was to become "the most acclaimed artist of his generation"....
     - painter
  • Arnold Blanch - painter
  • James Brooks
    James Brooks (painter)

    BiographyJames Brooks was an American muralist, abstract painter and winner of the Logan Medal of the arts. Brooks was a friend of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner on Eastern Long Island....
     - painter
  • Edward Leigh Chase
    Edward Leigh Chase

    Edward Leigh Chase was an United States Painting and illustrator, and an early member of the Byrdcliffe Colony experiment which gave rise to the art colony at Woodstock, New York....
     - painter
  • Frank Swift Chase
    Frank Swift Chase

    Frank Swift Chase was an American Post-Impressionist landscape painter and a founder of the Woodstock Artists Association in Woodstock, New York, the art colony at Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the Sarasota School of Art in Florida....
     - painter
  • Andrew Michael Dasburg - painter
  • Julio de Diego - painter, jeweler
  • Richard Diebenkorn
    Richard Diebenkorn

    Richard Clifford Diebenkorn, Jr. was a well-known 20th century Visual arts of the United States. His early work is associated with Abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
     - painter
  • Harvey Fite
    Harvey Fite

    Harvey Fite was a pioneering American sculptor, Painting and earth artist best known for his monumental land sculpture Opus 40. A teacher, innovator and Woodstock, New York artist of many talents, he was primarily a sculptor of wood and stone....
     - sculptor
  • Milton Glaser
    Milton Glaser

    Milton Glaser is a graphic designer, best known for the I Love New York logo, his "Bob Dylan" poster, the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005, and the "Brooklyn Brewery" logo....
     - graphic designer (creator of the ‘I Love New York
    I Love New York

    The I Love New York logo is a rebus created by Milton Glaser consisting of the capital letter I, followed by a red heart , below which are the capital letters N and Y, set in a rounded slab serif typeface called American Typewriter....
    ’ logo)
  • Mary Frank
    Mary Frank

    Mary Frank is a visual artist known primarily as a sculptor.She has also produced many paintings and works in various other media .Her works are in New York's Whitney Museum, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and many others....
     - painter
  • Philip Guston
    Philip Guston

    Philip Guston was a notable painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the Abstract Expressionism, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning....
     - painter
  • Sam Henderson
    Sam Henderson

    Sam Henderson is an American cartoonist, writer and expert on American comedy history.Henderson attended Boiceville, New York's Onteora High School, graduating in 1987, and the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he graduated in 1991....
     - cartoonist
  • Robert Henri
    Robert Henri

    Robert Henri was an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School in art....
     - painter
  • Eva Hesse
    Eva Hesse

    Eva Hesse , was a Germany United States sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. ...
    - sculptor
  • Richard Humann
    Richard Humann

    Richard Humann is a contemporary conceptual American artist who was born and raised in Stony Point, New York. He is a graduate of the art school at Harriman College in New York....
     - conceptual artist
  • Joel Iskowitz-Master Designer United States Mint
  • Yasuo Kuniyoshi
    Yasuo Kuniyoshi

    was an United States painter, photographer and printmaker born in Okayama, Japan. He migrated to America in 1906, a year later began studying at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design....
     - painter
  • Doris Lee
    Doris Lee

    Doris Emrick Lee was born in Illinois and was an American folk artist who was known for her figurative painting and printmaking. She won the Logan Medal of the arts from the Chicago Art Institute in 1935....
     - painter
  • Ronnie Landfield
    Ronnie Landfield

    Ronnie Landfield is an United States abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction , and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the Andre Emmerich Gallery....
     - painter
  • Elliot Landy - photographer
  • Georges Malkine
    Georges Malkine

    Georges Alexandre Malkine was the only painter to sign the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924; the other signatories were, for the most part, writers....
     - painter
  • Vince Natale - illustrator/artist
  • Jenny Nelson - painter
  • Lyn Ott
    Lyn Ott

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     - painter
  • Anton Refregier
    Anton Refregier

    Anton Refregier was a Russian immigrant painter in the United States.He made the 27 murals in the Rincon Center in San Francisco, CA, which depict the history of California, in the style of the social realism....
     - painter
  • Renee Samuels - painter
  • Eugene Speicher
    Eugene Speicher

    Speicher, Eugene was an United States portrait, landscape, and figurative painter.Speicher was born in Buffalo, New York. He studied there at the Albright Art School; in New York City at the Art Students League of New York and the Henri Art School....
     - painter
  • Roswita Szyszka - painter
  • Bradley Walker Tomlin
    Bradley Walker Tomlin

    Bradley Walker Tomlin belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists. He participated in the famous ??Ninth Street Show.?? According to John I....
     - painter


Writers

  • Robert Duncan
    Robert Duncan (poet)

    Robert Duncan was an American poetry poet and a student of H.D. and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco....
     - poet
  • Alf Evers
    Alf Evers

    Alf Evers , was an American historian who lived in Ulster County, New York for much of his life and wrote lengthy, definitive histories of the Catskill Mountains and Woodstock , New York, serving the latter as town historian....
     - historian & author
  • Paul Hoffman
    Paul Hoffman

    Paul Hoffman is a prominent author and host of the Public Broadcasting System television series Great Minds of Science. He was president and editor in chief of Discover , in a ten-year tenure with that magazine, and served as president and publisher of Encyclopaedia Britannica before returning full-time to writing and consulting...
     - author & TV Host
  • Barney Hoskyns
    Barney Hoskyns

    Barney Hoskyns is a British music critic and editor of the online music journalism archive Rock's Backpages....
     - author & music journalist
  • Howard Koch
    Howard Koch (screenwriter)

    Howard Koch was a United States screenwriter who was Hollywood blacklist by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.Born in New York City, New York, his first accepted screenplay was made into a 1940 film....
     - screenwriter who wrote 1938 radio drama The War of the Worlds
    The War of the Worlds (radio)

    The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the CBS Radio Network radio network....
     and won Academy Award for Casablanca
    Casablanca (film)

    Casablanca is an Cinema of the United States romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre....
  • Sean Lahman
    Sean Lahman

    Sean Lahman is a sports historian, writer, statistician, and archivist. Unlike most sports writers in the post-Bill_James era, Lahman eschewed number crunching and sabermetrics to focus on collecting and publishing raw source material for sports researchers....
     - historian & sportswriter
  • Henry Morton Robinson
    Henry Morton Robinson

    Henry Morton Robinson was an United States novelist, best known for his 1950 in literature novel The Cardinal , detailing the life of Stephen Fermoyle, a young American priest who eventually becomes a Prince of the Church....
     - novelist
  • Ed Sanders
    Ed Sanders

    Ed Sanders is an United States poet, singer, social activist, environmentalist, author and publisher. He has been called a bridge between the Beat generation and Hippie generations....
     - author & publisher
  • Ruth Simpson
    Ruth Simpson

    Ruth Simpson was the founder of the United States' first lesbian community center, an author, and former president of Daughters of Bilitis, New York....
     - author and lesbian
    Lesbian

    File:Lesbian Couple from back holding hands.jpgLesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females....
    /feminist activist
  • Anita Miller Smith
    Anita Miller Smith

    Anita M. Smith was an impressionist and Regionalism Painting most closely associated with Woodstock, New York. In the 1930s Smith became an herbalist, and her venture, Stonecrop Gardens, was one of only five enterprises of like size in the Northeast, serving clients in every one of the 48 contiguous states....
     - historian, painter and herbalist
  • Robert Thurman
    Robert Thurman

    Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman is an influential and prolific American Buddhism writer and academic who has authored, edited or translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism....
     - Buddhist scholar, father of actress Uma Thurman
  • Gail Godwin
    Gail Godwin

    Gail Kathleen Godwin is an United States novelist and short story writer. She has published one non-fiction work, two collections of short stories, and eleven novels, three of which have been nominated for the National Book Award and five of which have made the New York Times Bestseller List....
     - author
  • Heywood Hale Broun
    Heywood Hale Broun

    Heywood Hale Broun In 1940 Broun joined the staff at the New York tabloid PM where he served as a sportswriter. His career was interrupted by World War II in which he served in the United States Army field artillery....
     Author TV commentator
  • David Robison - author
  • Shalom Auslander
    Shalom Auslander

    Shalom Auslander is an United States, Jewish author and essayist, who grew up in the heavily Orthodox Judaism neighborhood of Monsey, New York, where he describes himself as having been "raised like a veal"....
     - author
  • Larry Beinhart
    Larry Beinhart

    Larry Beinhart is an United States author. He is best known as the author of the political and detective novel American Hero , which was adapted for the political-parody film Wag the Dog....
     - author of American Hero, which was adapted for the political-parody film Wag the Dog
    Wag the Dog

    Wag the Dog is a 1997 in film film starring Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman, about a Washington, D.C. Spin who distracts the electorate from a U.S....
  • Jeff Cohen
    Jeff Cohen (media critic)

    Jeff Cohen is the founder of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, a media watchdog group in the US. He was formerly a lawyer for the ACLU and is the co-author of four books that criticize media bias, mainly written with Norman Solomon....
    - media critic
  • Theodore Sturgeon
    Theodore Sturgeon

    Theodore Sturgeon was an United States science fiction author.Though his mainstream success was relatively limited, Sturgeon is now widely recognized as one of the most important and influential science fiction writers of his era....
     - science fiction author


Actors

  • Jennifer Connelly
    Jennifer Connelly

    'Jennifer Lynn Connelly' is an United States film Actor and former child modeling. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager and catapulted to fame on the basis of her appearances in films like Labyrinth and Career Opportunities , she did not receive wide exposure for her work until the 2000 drama R...
     - actress, for several years during her childhood
  • Ethan Hawke
    Ethan Hawke

    Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer and film director. He landed his first feature role in the movie Explorers in 1985 opposite River Phoenix....
     - actor
  • Piper Laurie
    Piper Laurie

    Rosetta Jacobsbetter known as Piper Laurie is an United States actress of stage and screen noted for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks and the film Carrie ....
     - actress
  • Lee Marvin
    Lee Marvin

    Lee Marvin was an United States film actor. Known for his gravelly voice, white hair and 6'2" stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers, and other hard-boiled characters, but after winning a Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual roles in Cat Ballou, he landed more heroic and sympathetic leading roles....
     - actor
  • Sylvia Miles
    Sylvia Miles

    Sylvia Miles is a two-time Academy Award-nominated United States actress.Miles was born Sylvia Reuben Lee in New York City, the daughter of Belle and Reuben Lee, a furniture maker....
     - actress
  • Uma Thurman
    Uma Thurman

    Uma Karuna Thurman Hawke , better known as Uma Thurman, is an American actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedy film and dramas to science fiction film and Action movie Thriller s....
     - actress, for several years during her childhood. Still seen frequently in Woodstock, to visit her parents including Robert Thurman
    Robert Thurman

    Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman is an influential and prolific American Buddhism writer and academic who has authored, edited or translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism....
    .
  • Chevy Chase
    Chevy Chase

    Cornelius Crane ?Chevy? Chase is an United States Emmy Award comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase quickly became a key cast member in the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live, where his Weekend Update skit quickly became a staple of the show....
     - actor


Others

  • John Burroughs
    John Burroughs

    John Burroughs was an United States natural history and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress,...
    , naturalist
  • John Dewey
    John Dewey

    John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and school reform whose thoughts and ideas have been highly influential in the United States and around the world....
    , educator, a founder of the philosophical school of Pragmatism
    Pragmatism

    Pragmatism is the philosophy of considering practical consequences or real effects to be vital components of meaning and truth. Pragmatism is generally considered to have originated in the late nineteenth century with Charles Peirce, who first stated the pragmatic maxim....
    .
  • Albert Grossman
    Albert Grossman

    Albert Bernard Grossman was an entrepreneur and Talent manager in the American folk music scene. He was most famous as the manager of Bob Dylan between 1962 and 1970....
     - manager/producer and founder of Bearsville Records
    Bearsville Records

    Bearsville Records was founded in 1970 in music by Albert Grossman. Artists included Todd Rundgren, Foghat, Halfnelson /Sparks , Bobby Charles, Randy VanWarmer, Paul Butterfield's Better Days, Lazarus, Jesse Winchester, and NRBQ....
    . His Bearsville Recording Studio has attracted hundreds of well known musicians to record in Woodstock.
  • Steven Hager
    Steven Hager

    Steven Hager, a writer, journalist, and counterculture and marijuana activist, was born May 25, 1951, in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, the son of Lowell P....
     - chief editor
    Managing editor

    A managing editor is a senior member of a publication's management team. The title also applies to the evening televised News broadcasting on ABC, CNN, CBS, NBC and the FOX News Channel....
    , High Times
    High Times

    High Times is a New York City-based magazine. The publication strongly advocates the legalization of cannabis . For a brief period, it moved toward an overtly left-wing lifestyle magazine under publisher Richard Stratton, who hired John Mailer, Norman Mailer's youngest son, as executive editor....
     magazine
  • Phil Jackson
    Phil Jackson

    Philip Douglas "Phil" Jackson is a former American professional basketball player and the current Coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Jackson is widely considered one of the greatest coaches in the history of the National Basketball Association ....
     - basketball
    Basketball

    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
     coach
    Coach (sport)

    In sports, a coach or manager is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportsperson....
     and former NBA
    National Basketball Association

    The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
     player
  • Philippe Petit
    Philippe Petit

    Philippe Petit is a France tightrope walking who gained fame for his high-wire walk between the World Trade Center in New York, New York on August 7 1974....
    - famous funambulist, best known for walking a tightrope between the World Trade Center
    World trade center

    The World Trade Centers Association founded in 1970, is a not-for-profit, non-political association dedicated to the establishment and effective operation of World Trade Centers as instruments for trade expansion representing 316 members in 91 countries....
     twin towers.
  • Josephine McKim
    Josephine McKim

    Josephine Eveline McKim was an United States swimmer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and 1932 Summer Olympics.In the 1928 Olympics she won the bronze medal in the 400 m freestyle event....
     Chalmers - Olympic swimmer, a medal winner in the 1928 and 1932 summer Olympics and an actress, and the sister-in law of artist Philip Guston
    Philip Guston

    Philip Guston was a notable painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the Abstract Expressionism, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning....
    .


Local communities and landmarks

  • Artists Cemetery - A cemetery for Woodstock artists and luminaries on Rock City Road.
  • Ashokan Reservoir
    Ashokan Reservoir

    The Ashokan Reservoir is a reservoir in Ulster County, New York, New York, USA. The reservoir is in the eastern end of the Catskill Park, and is one of several reservoirs created to provide the City of New York with water....
     - A New York City reservoir under which lies nine lost towns.
  • Bearsville
    Bearsville, New York

    Bearsville is a community in Ulster County, New York, United States. Centerville is located along New York State Route 212, within Catskill State Park and just to the west of Woodstock, New York....
     - A hamlet at the junction of Routes 212
    New York State Route 212

    New York State Route 212 is a state highway located entirely within Ulster County, New York. It runs from the interior of the Catskill Park to the west bank of the Hudson River, providing a key interchange with the New York State Thruway along the way....
     and 45, west of Woodstock village.
  • Byrdcliffe - Site of the original art colony
    Art colony

    An art colony or artists' colony is a place where creative practitioners live and interact with one another. Artists are often invited or selected through a formal process, for a residency from a few weeks to over a year....
     near the junction of Routes 212 and County Road 33, northwest of Woodstock village along Rock City Road.
  • Cooper Lake
    Cooper Lake

    Cooper Lake refers to:*Cooper Lake , USA*Cooper Lake , USA*Cooper Lake State Park, Texas, USA*Cooper Lake, Colorado, USA ...
     - Kingston
    Kingston, New York

    Kingston is a city in Ulster County, New York, New York, United States. It is north of New York City and south of Albany, New York along the Hudson River....
     reservoir located south of Lake Hill and Shady.
  • Daisy
    Daisy

    Daisy may refer to:...
     - A hamlet east of Woodstock village near the east town line. Currently the site of a municipal road works gravel dump/parking lot. Due southeast of Overlook Mountain, Daisy is the Woodstock hamlet with the most documented stone cairns, mounds and other possibly ancient sites within 10 minutes walking distance. Many of those are threatened by development.
  • Church On The Mount (Woodstock) http://www.myspace.com/churchonthemount
  • Echo Lake
    Echo Lake (disambiguation)

    Echo Lake may refer to:Canada* Echo Lake , a lake in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada* Echo Lake Provincial Park, in British Columbia...
     - A mountain lake within the Indian Head Wilderness of the Catskill Mountains.
  • Meads (Woodstock) - A meadow north of Woodstock village, site of the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra
    Karma Triyana Dharmachakra

    Karma Triyana Dharmachakra is a Tibetan Buddhism monastery in Woodstock , New York, NY, USA, which serves as the North American seat of His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu lineage....
     Tibetan Buddhist monastery
    Monastery

    Monastery , a term derived from the Greek language word ???ast?????, neut. of ???ast????? - monasterios denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of Monk, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in Cenobium or alone ....
     and entrance to the Devil's Path
    Devil's Path (Catskills)

    The Devil's Path is the name of a mountain range and Devil's Path in the Greene County, New York portion of New York's Catskill Mountains. The mountains commonly considered to be part of the Devil's Path are, from west to east, West Kill Mountain, Hunter Mountain , Plateau Mountain , Sugarloaf Mountain , Twin Mountain , and Indian Head Moun...
    .
  • Montoma - A hamlet south of Woodstock near the town line with the Town of Hurley
    Hurley (town), New York

    Hurley is a town in Ulster County, New York, New York, USA. The population was 6,564 at the 2000 census.The Town of Hurley is in the northeast part of the county, west of the Kingston, New York....
    .
  • Mount Tobias - A mountain in the central part of the town.
  • Ohayo Mountain - A mountain to the east, between the Ashokan Reservoir and Woodstock village
  • Overlook Mountain - A mountain to the northeast, on the slope of which Woodstock is situated.
  • - Woodstock's online community and global Internet radio channel
  • Shady
    Shady, New York

    Shady is a hamlet in Ulster County, New York, New York, United States. It is part of the town of Woodstock , New York and lies on New York State Route 212....
     - A hamlet north of Byrdcliffe on Route 212.
  • Willow - A hamlet in the northwest part of the town on Route 212.
  • Wittenberg - A hamlet at the junction of Routes 40
    New York State Route 40

    New York State Route 40 is a state route in New York state, running from New York State Route 7 at Troy, New York north to New York State Route 22 at Granville, New York....
     and 45
    New York State Route 45

    New York State Route 45 is a north?south state highway in central Rockland County, New York. NY 45 spans from Chestnut Ridge at the New Jersey-New York border, where it becomes County Route 73 in Bergen County, New Jersey, to U.S....
    , southwest of Bearsville.
  • Woodstock
    Woodstock (CDP), New York

    Woodstock is a hamlet in Ulster County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 2,187 at the 2000 census.The community of Woodstock is in eastern part of the Woodstock, New York and is northeast of Kingston, New York....
     - The village of Woodstock and the principal center of local service for the town.
  • Zena - A hamlet east of Woodstock village in the southeast part of the town.


See also

  • Art colony
    Art colony

    An art colony or artists' colony is a place where creative practitioners live and interact with one another. Artists are often invited or selected through a formal process, for a residency from a few weeks to over a year....
  • Byrdcliffe Colony
    Byrdcliffe Colony

    The Byrdcliffe Colony, also called the Byrdliffe Arts Colony or Byrdcliffe Historic District, was founded in 1902 near Woodstock, New York by Jane and Ralph Whitehead and colleagues, Bolton Brown and Hervey White ....


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