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Famous Musicians
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.
- Jimi Hendrix- guitarist/singer/songwriter
- Daevid Allen - Soft Machine/Gong singer/poet
- John Ashton - producer/guitarist for The Psychedelic Furs
- The Band members: Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, and Robbie Robertson - the five shared a house together, where they recorded The Basement Tapes (with Bob Dylan) and Music from Big Pink. The house, dubbed "Big Pink" is in neighboring Saugerties, though Danko,Manuel,Hudson and Helm all eventually moved to Woodstock.
- Cyro Baptista - Brazilian-born percussionist
- Richard Bell - keyboardist
- Ravi Shankar- Sitar Player, Composer
- David Bowie- songwriter, musician, fashion icon
- Paul Butterfield - blues musician
- Imani Coppola - singer/songwriter/musician (early 2000's)
- Kal David - blues musician
- Jack DeJohnette - jazz drummer
- Johnny Cash - country singer/guitarist/songwriter/composer
- Aïyb Dieng - 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 - singer/songwriter
- John Hall - musician, co-founder of Orleans
- Jeremy Sunshine - singer, songwriter, musician, poet, actor, born in Woodstock, New York
- Bill Keith - banjo player/composer developed melodic or (Keith style) banjo picking.
- Steve Knight - keyboardist for Mountain; currently a member of the Woodstock Town Board
- Tony Levin - bassist
- Thelonious Monk - jazz musician
- Harvey Sorgen- drummer
- Fred Neil - singer/songwriter
- Van Morrison - singer/songwriter
- David "Fathead" Newman - jazz musician
- John Platania - guitarist
- Bonnie Raitt - singer/songwriter
- Tom Rapp - singer /songwriter, leader of the band Pearls Before Swine
- Matt Flynn - Drummer for the band Maroon 5
- Mick Ronson - guitarist
- Todd Rundgren - singer/songwriter
- Robert Starer - pianist & composer
- David Peel - member of The Lower East Side Band
- Keith Strickland and Kate Pierson of the B-52s
- Gary Windo - saxophonist
- Joe Giardullo - saxophonist
- Pat Metheny - Grammy award winning guitarist
- Henry Cowell - composer
- Peter Schikele - composer
- Fred Hand - guitar
- Ed Sanders- Poet/Founder of Fugs band
- Donald McDonald - drummer
- Frank Luther - bassist
- Carlos Santana - guitarist
- Donald Fagen - co-founder Steely Dan
- John Sebastian - a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful
- Jimmy Cobb - jazz drummer
- Happy Traum - folk musician
- Artie Traum - award-winning guitarist, producer and songwriter
- Eric Weissberg - banjo player, best known for the theme from the movie Deliverance
- Elizabeth Mitchell - is an American singer, composer, and guitarist for the New York indie band Ida
- Peter Schickele - best known for his comedy music albums featuring music he wrote as P.D.Q. Bach
- Joey Eppard - Kingston, NY born singer, songwriter, guitarist, bassist - best known for his Woodstock Rock band, 3
- Billy Riker - Port Ewen, NY born guitarist, bassist and keyboard player - best known for Woodstock Rock band, 3
- Gregan Wortman - Greenville, Maine 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.
- Darryl Jenifer - Bad Brains Bass
- Libby Titus - singer, songwriter
- Chris Brant - guitarist here.
- Rachael Yamagata - critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter - she wrote the album Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart during a nine-months period in Woodstock.
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