Wood ‧ stock /ˈwʊdstɒk $ -stɑːk/ BrE AmE
a music ↑ festival , held over three days in 1969 near the town of Woodstock in New York State, where about 500,000 young people went to see ↑ rock , ↑ pop , and ↑ folk singers and bands, such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, and The Who. It is remembered especially for the ↑ hippie s who attended it, and is seen as a very typical example of the hippie ↑ culture .