Woodstock (2006 population 35,480) is a city and the county seat of Oxford County in Southern Ontario, Canada.
TheWoodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, theWoodstock Festivalor simplyWoodstock—was a music festival attracting an audience of over 400,000 people, scheduled over three days on a dairy farm inNew York statefrom August 15 to 17, 1969, but ultimately ran four days long, ending August 18, 1969.
Billed as "AnAquarianExposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", it was held atMax Yasgur's 600-acre (240ha; 0.94sqmi) dairy farm inthe Catskillsnear thehamletofWhite Lakein thetownofBethel.Bethel, inSullivan County, is 43 miles (69km) southwest of the town ofWoodstock, New York, in adjoiningUlster County.
