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Woodstock


Wood·stock

W0213600 (wo͝od′stŏk′) An unincorporated community of southeast New York south-southwest of Albany. In 1969, it was the scheduled site of an eponymous rock music festival that was actually held in Bethel, New York, a small town to its southwest.

Woodstock

(ˈwʊdstɒk) n (Placename) a town in New York State, the site of a large rock festival in August 1969. Pop: 6253 (2003 est)

Wood•stock

(ˈwʊdˌstɒk)

n. a rock music festival held in August 1969 near Bethel, a village in SE New York: orig. to have been held near Woodstock, a town in SE New York.

Woodstock


Woodstock.

1 City (1990 pop. 14,353) seat of McHenry co., NE Ill.; inc. 1845. In a grain and dairying area, the city has food processing and produces paper products, medical equipment, machinery, and chemicals.

2 Town (1990 pop. 1,870), Ulster co., SE N.Y., in an area of fruit and dairy farms, at the foothills of the Catskill Mts. The Woodstock Guild manages an artists' colony there (Byrdcliffe, opened 1903) and sponsors exhibits. The Art Students League of New York also had a summer school in the town (1906–22, 1947–79); an art school is now there.

Woodstock gave its name to the most famous of the music festivals of the 1960s and 70s, actually held (Aug., 1969) near Bethel, N.Y., c.45 mi (70 km) to the southwest. The name Woodstock has since signified the 1960s heyday of rock music and the youth counterculture movement. In Aug., 1994, a 25th-anniversary Woodstock concert was held in Saugerties, N.Y., c.7 mi (11 km) east of Woodstock.


Woodstock,

city (1991 pop. 30,075), S Ont., Canada, SW of Hamilton. It is an industrial center with diversified manufactures such as electric generators, fire engines, reed organs, auto parts, and textiles. The surrounding country has mixed farming, dairying, and stock raising.

Woodstock

300,000 rock music fans attended this festival held near Bethel, N.Y. (August 16, 1969). [Am. Music Hist.: EB, X: 741]See: Festival, Music

Woodstock

a town in New York State, the site of a large rock festival in August 1969. Pop.: 6253 (2003 est.)
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