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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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