Woodstock

[wood-stok]

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noun

a town in northeastern Illinois.
a rock music festival held in August of 1969 in Bethel, N.Y., a town near Woodstock, N.Y.

Woodstock

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noun

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

Woodstock

A village in New York state, where some 400,000 young people assembled in 1969 for a rock music festival.

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The size of the crowd and the prevalence of hippie dress and customs led to use of the term Woodstock nation to indicate the youth counterculture of the late 1960s.

The term Woodstock is now used loosely to mean a large, impromptu gathering.

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Pairing a distinct jam-band sensibility with wide-ranging tastes in pop, electronic, hip-hop and rock, these loose-vibed, meticulously curated events built on the legacies of shows like Woodstock and Lollapalooza to become cultural fixtures in the newly ascendant U.S. festival scene of the 2000s.

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Stone, whose real name was Sylvester Stewart, grew up singing gospel with his siblings, and went on to play the Woodstock music festival in 1969.

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The group achieved perhaps their greatest renown in August 1969, when they landed a prestigious second-day gig at the Woodstock music festival, playing after Janis Joplin and before the Who.

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“The delirium peaked during Sly & the Family Stone’s set,” journalist Ellen Sander wrote in the liner notes of the 2019 box set “Woodstock — Back to the Garden: The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive.”

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The band moved to L.A. not long after Woodstock, and quickly found trouble.

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