n.
in full Woodstock Music and Art Fair
Rock music festival held near Bethel, N.Y., U.S. (its site was to have been the nearby town of Woodstock), on Aug.
1517, 1969. It attracted about 450,000 young rock fans and featured performers such as the Grateful Dead , Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix , the Who, and Janis Joplin . The festival, the participants of which exhibited extraordinary good feeling in the face of rain and organizational chaos, marked the high point of U.S. youth counterculture in the 1960s. It was documented in the film Woodstock (1970). The festival was revived with mixed success on its 25th and 30th anniversaries.