List of people from Woodstock, New York

This is a list of notable people who are associated with the town of Woodstock, New York, United States. They may not have been born there or live there presently, or may be deceased.

Musicians

Daevid Allen – singer and guitarist of The Soft Machine and Gong - He was Australian!!!!!
John Ashton – producer and guitarist for The Psychedelic Furs - Forest Gate, London, England
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 wrote several songs for Music from Big Pink. The house, dubbed "Big Pink" is in neighboring Saugerties, though Danko, Manuel, Hudson and Helm all eventually moved to Woodstock. Danko and Helm are both buried in the Woodstock Cemetery on Rock City Road.
Cyro Baptista – Brazilian-born percussionist
Richard Bell – keyboardist
Karl Berger – jazz educator, vibraphonist, founder Creative Music Studio
Carla Bley – jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader^{[W 1]}
David Bowie – songwriter, musician, actor, fashion icon^{[W 2]}
Harvey Brooks - Bassist, Producer, Songwriter, composer
Gabriel Butterfield – blues musician/drummer; son of the late Paul Butterfield
Paul Butterfield – blues musician
Johnny Cash – country singer, guitarist, songwriter, composer - Cash was from Arkansas!!!!
Cindy Cashdollar – dobro, five-time Grammy Award winner
Jimmy Cobb – jazz drummer
Imani Coppola – singer, songwriter, musician (early 2000s)^{[W 3]}
Henry Cowell – composer ^{[W 4]}
Marshall Crenshaw – musician, songwriter, resident from 1987–2004 ^{[W 5]}
Karen Dalton – singer
Kal David – blues musician
Jack DeJohnette – jazz drummer ^{[W 6]}
Robbie Dupree – singer-songwriter ^{[W 7]}
Bob Dylan – singer-songwriter, lived in Woodstock 1965–1972; had his infamous motorcycle accident in Bearsville in 1966^{[W 8]}
Joey Eppard – Kingston, New York-born singer, songwriter, guitarist, bassist; best known for his Kingston Rock band, 3 ^{[W 9]}
Michael Esposito – lead guitarist with the Blues Magoos (Mercury Records 1960s)^{[W 10]}
Donald Fagen – co-founder Steely Dan^{[W 11]}
Jackson C. Frank – folk singer
Matt Flynn – drummer for the band Maroon 5
Jackson C. Frank – singer-songwriter
Paul Green – founder of the Paul Green School of Rock Music (now School of Rock)
Jeff Greene - Singer-songwriter, guitarist, Aurora Records.
John Hall – musician, co-founder of Orleans
Jimi Hendrix – guitarist, singer, songwriter ^{[citation needed]}
John Herald – bluegrass singer, songwriter Greenbriar Boys ^{[W 12]}
Darryl Jenifer – Bad Brains Bass
Bill Keith – banjo player, composer; developed melodic or Keith style banjo picking^{[W 13]}
Steve Knight – keyboardist for Mountain
Francisco D Brugal – bassist
Tony Levin – bassist
Frank Luther – bassist
John Martyn – singer-songwriter^{[W 14]}
John Medeski – keyboardist and composer for Medeski, Martin & Wood ^{[citation needed]}
Pat Metheny – Grammy Award-winning guitarist ^{[citation needed]}
Elizabeth Mitchell – singer, composer, guitarist for indie band Ida ^{[W 15]}
Thelonious Monk – jazz musician
Tim Moore – singer-songwriter
Van Morrison – singer-songwriter
Fred Neil – singer-songwriter
Carl Newman aka A.C. Newman – lead singer, guitarist, songwriter of The New Pornographers
David "Fathead" Newman – jazz musician
Pauline Oliveros – pioneering accordionist and composer
Graham Parker – singer-songwriter
David Peel – member of The Lower East Side Band
Kate Pierson – singer, songwriter, The B-52's
John Platania – guitarist Van Morrison
Vasant Rai – sarod player, composer
Bonnie Raitt – singer-songwriter
Tom Rapp – singer-songwriter, leader of the band Pearls Before Swine
Billy Riker – guitarist, bassist and keyboard player, best known for Kingston Rock band, 3
Mick Ronson – guitarist, producer arranger with David Bowie
Todd Rundgren – singer-songwriter
Ed Sanders – poet, founder of Fugs band
Carlos Santana – guitarist
Peter Schickele – composer, best known for music he wrote as P.D.Q. Bach
Max Schneider – Rags, Nickelodeon's How To Rock; singer and songwriter
John Sebastian – singer, a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful
Ravi Shankar – sitar player, composer
Robert Starer – pianist and composer
Keith Strickland – composer, guitarist and founding member of The B-52s
Libby Titus – singer, songwriter
Michael Todd – bassist for Coheed and Cambria^{[W 2]}
Artie Traum – award-winning guitarist, producer and songwriter
Happy Traum – folk musician
David Van Tieghem – composer, percussionist
Gene Ween – a founding member of the band Ween^[1]
Jim Weider – telecaster guitarist, member of The Band
Eric Weissberg – banjo player, best known for theme from movie Deliverance
Gary Windo – saxophonist
Yehudi Wyner – composer, musical director of The Turnau Opera
Rachael Yamagata – singer-songwriter; wrote the album Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart during a nine-month period in Woodstock

Artists

Isaac Abrams – painter, sculptor^[2]^[3]
Alexander Archipenko – sculptor
George Ault – painter
Milton Avery – painter
Rosemary Beck- painter^{[citation needed]}
George Bellows – painter
Arnold Blanch – painter ^{[W 16]}
James Brooks – painter
Edward Leigh Chase – painter
Frank Swift Chase – painter
Bruce Currie – painter^[4]
Andrew Michael Dasburg – painter
Julio de Diego – painter, jeweler^[5]
Richard Diebenkorn – painter
Michael Fellerman - sculptor
Harvey Fite – sculptor
Mary Frank – painter
Milton Glaser – graphic designer (creator of the ‘I Love New York’ logo)
Marion Greenwood – painter, muralist^[6]
Philip Guston – painter
Sam Henderson – cartoonist
Robert Henri – painter
Eva Hesse – sculptor
Susan Horner – graphic designer, magazine art director
Richard Humann – conceptual artist
Heather Hutchison - painter ^{[citation needed]}
Joel Iskowitz – Master Designer, United States Mint
Mark Thomas Kanter - painter
Sy Kattelson – photographer
Yasuo Kuniyoshi – painter, sculptor
Jacques Kupfermann – painter ^{[citation needed]}
Ronnie Landfield – painter
Elliot Landy – photographer
Doris Lee – painter
Eugene Ludins – painter and art teacher
Ethel Magafan – painter
Norm Magnusson – painter, sculptor, photographer, political artist
Georges Malkine – painter
Fletcher Martin – painter
Paul McMahon – conceptual artist, musician^[7]
Paul Meltsner – painter
Jenny Nelson – painter
Pia Oste-Alexander – painter^[8]
Lyn Ott – painter
Anton Refregier – painter
Randall Schmit – painter
Judson Smith - painter
Eugene Speicher – painter
Bradley Walker Tomlin – painter
Rob Wade - graphic designer/painter

Writers

Shalom Auslander – author
Larry Beinhart – author of American Hero, which was adapted for the political-parody film Wag the Dog
Heywood Hale Broun – author and TV commentator
Hob Broun – author^[9]
Joseph Campbell – author, mythologist
Jeff Cohen – media critic
Hart Crane – poet
Robert Duncan – poet
Alf Evers – historian and author
Gail Godwin – author
Carey Harrison – novelist, dramatist
Paul Hoffman – science author and TV host
Barney Hoskyns – author and music journalist
Howard Koch – screenwriter who wrote 1938 radio drama The War of the Worlds and won Academy Award for Casablanca
Sean Lahman – historian and sportswriter
Henry Morton Robinson – novelist
David Robison – author
Ed Sanders – author and publisher
Ruth Simpson – author and lesbian/feminist activist
Anita Miller Smith – historian, painter and herbalist
Clark Strand – non-fiction spiritual writer
Theodore Sturgeon – science-fiction author
Robert Thurman – Buddhist scholar, author; father of actress Uma Thurman
Eli Waldron – short story writer, novelist, poet, journalist, artist
Walter Weyl – leader of the Progressive movement

Film directors

Leon Gast – director of When We Were Kings^{[W 17]}
David McDonald – writer and director of the films Woodstock Can't Get There From Here and Woodstock Revisited
Sarah Pirozek – director of Free Tibet

Actors and theater people

Marianne Appel (1913-1988), artist
Gaston Bell (1877-1963) – stage and silent screen actor; retired to Woodstock; first director the Woodstock Community Players^[10]
Jennifer Connelly (1970 - ) – Oscar-winning actress, lived in Woodstock for several years during her childhood
Brad Dourif (1950 - ) – Oscar-nominated actor, lived in Woodstock in the 1970s and 80s
Ethan Hawke (1970 - ) – Oscar-nominated actor, lived just outside Woodstock with then-wife Uma Thurman^[11]
Piper Laurie (1932 - ) – Oscar-nominated actress, lived in Woodstock in the 1970s
Lee Marvin (1924-1987) – Oscar-winning actor, lived in Woodstock periodically throughout his life
Sylvia Miles (1932 - ) – Oscar-nominated actress
Estelle Parsons (1927 - ) – Oscar-winning actress, appeared in summer stock productions in Woodstock during the 1960s
Max Schneider (1992 - ) – actor, singer, songwriter
Uma Thurman (1970 - ) – Oscar-nominated actress, lived in Woodstock during her childhood; daughter of resident Robert Thurman;^{[W 2]} returned with former husband Ethan Hawke^[11]

Others

Betty Ballantine and Ian Ballantine - founders of Bantam Books and Ballantine Books; after the 1970s, were independent publishers; said to have started the paperback book industry in America
John Burroughs - naturalist
Josephine McKim Chalmers - swimmer, medalist in 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics; actress; sister-in law of artist Philip Guston
George Cowan - recording and mixing engineer
John Dewey - educator, a founder of the philosophical school of Pragmatism
Albert Grossman - manager, producer and founder of Bearsville Records; his studio has attracted hundreds of musicians to record in Woodstock^{[W 2]}
Steven Hager - chief editor, High Times magazine
Phil Jackson - NBA basketball coach and player, general manager of New York Knicks
Philippe Petit - funambulist, known for walking a tightrope between the World Trade Center twin towers
John Steup - co-founder and Vice President of CD Baby 1998–2006
Kathleen de Vere Taylor - suffragist and stockbroker

David Bowie during the Heathen Tour
Bob Dylan at the Azkena Rock Festival in 2010
Jimi Hendrix on Dutch television
Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse, 1947
Andrew Dasburg during the 1940s
Lyn Ott in his Woodstock studio in 1964
Cary Harrison in 2006

Cary Harrison in 2006
Jennifer Aniston at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008
Chevy Chase at the Academy Awards, 1990
Uma Thurman at a Cannes press conference in 2001

References

References for notability

^ "Coming Clean With Gene Ween: Ween's Former Frontman Talks Sobriety and Miley Cyrus". newsweek.com. 2014-05-14. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
^ McCormick, Carlo. "DREAM WEAVER". artnet.com.
^ Murphy, Meghan. "Economic slump hits local artists". Times Herald-Record.
^ "Woodstock Artist Bruce Currie". Catskill Mountain Foundation.
^ "Exhibition of modern hand made jewelery opens at museum of modern art". The Museum of Modern Art. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
^ "Keith Sheridan Fine Prints – Marion Greenwood". Retrieved February 3, 2012.
^ "PAUL MCMAHON: REALLY UNDERSTAND THE REAL REALITY". LA Record.
^ "ART REVIEWS; Gems, Indoors And Out". The New York Times. July 27, 2003. {{cite news}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
^ Kakutani, Michiko (August 7, 1985). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES". The New York Times.
^ Community Players Formed at Woodstock - Kingston Daily Freeman (Kingston, New York) Wednesday, November 06, 1935; pg. 7
^ ^a ^b "Press Stories." The Rural Connection

References establishing association with Woodstock

^ Michel, Karen. "A Traditional Jazz Christmas, An Unlikely Source". NPR. Retrieved April 15, 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Lee, Denny (February 27, 2004). "HAVENS; Woodstock Rocks On, but the Beat Is Quieter". New York Times. Retrieved April 15, 2011.
^ "List of Famous Musicians maintained by the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce". Woodstock Chamber of Commerce.
^ "THE PHILHARMONIA TRIO" (PDF). Retrieved April 15, 2011.
^ Landers, Rick. "Marshall Crenshaw Interview: Hollywood Rock and Roller". Guitar International. Retrieved April 15, 2011.
^ Kohlhasse, Bill (June 15, 1990). "DeJohnette & Co. He's Outdone Himself by Teaming Up With Hancock, Metheny and Holland". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
^ Spears, Steve. "'Steal Away' crooner Robbie Dupree performs in Largo Aug. 28". St Petersburg Times. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
^ Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, pp. 267.
^ Barry, John W (September 9, 2005). "Secret's out 'bout 3". The Poughkeepsie Journal. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
^ Tomcho, Sandy. "Music briefs: Esposito benefit, "The Face of Breast Cancer," Ronan Tynan". Times Herald Record. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
^ Noik, Sherry. "Welcome back to Woodstock". Retrieved July 15, 2011.
^ Rockwell, John (May 19, 1978). "Music: John Herald". New York Times. Retrieved July 15, 2011.
^ Revikn, Andrew C (July 16, 1995). "Dueling Banjos on a Grand Scale: Rival Festivals". New York Times. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
^ "John's Diary 1960s and 1970s". Retrieved October 31, 2011.
^ Atikson, Brian T. "Making music is family affair for Elizabeth Mitchell". Retrieved October 31, 2011.
^ http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/searchimages/images/item_1975.htm
^ Staff. "Woodstock resident Leon Gast wins Sundance award". Daily Freeman (Kingston). Retrieved July 15, 2011.

[16] "Coming Clean With Gene Ween: Ween's Former Frontman Talks Sobriety and Miley Cyrus". newsweek.com. 2014-05-14. Retrieved 2014-05-14.

[17] McCormick, Carlo. "DREAM WEAVER". artnet.com.

[18] Murphy, Meghan. "Economic slump hits local artists". Times Herald-Record.

[20] "Woodstock Artist Bruce Currie". Catskill Mountain Foundation.

[21] "Exhibition of modern hand made jewelery opens at museum of modern art". The Museum of Modern Art. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)

[22] "Keith Sheridan Fine Prints – Marion Greenwood". Retrieved February 3, 2012.

[23] "PAUL MCMAHON: REALLY UNDERSTAND THE REAL REALITY". LA Record.

[24] "ART REVIEWS; Gems, Indoors And Out". The New York Times. July 27, 2003. {{cite news}}: |first= missing |last= (help)

[25] Kakutani, Michiko (August 7, 1985). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES". The New York Times.

[27] Community Players Formed at Woodstock - Kingston Daily Freeman (Kingston, New York) Wednesday, November 06, 1935; pg. 7

[:0-28] "Press Stories." The Rural Connection

[1] Michel, Karen. "A Traditional Jazz Christmas, An Unlikely Source". NPR. Retrieved April 15, 2011.

[NYT1-2] Lee, Denny (February 27, 2004). "HAVENS; Woodstock Rocks On, but the Beat Is Quieter". New York Times. Retrieved April 15, 2011.

[CC-3] "List of Famous Musicians maintained by the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce". Woodstock Chamber of Commerce.

[4] "THE PHILHARMONIA TRIO" (PDF). Retrieved April 15, 2011.

[5] Landers, Rick. "Marshall Crenshaw Interview: Hollywood Rock and Roller". Guitar International. Retrieved April 15, 2011.

[6] Kohlhasse, Bill (June 15, 1990). "DeJohnette & Co. He's Outdone Himself by Teaming Up With Hancock, Metheny and Holland". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 17, 2011.

[7] Spears, Steve. "'Steal Away' crooner Robbie Dupree performs in Largo Aug. 28". St Petersburg Times. Retrieved April 17, 2011.

[shades267-8] Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited, pp. 267.

[9] Barry, John W (September 9, 2005). "Secret's out 'bout 3". The Poughkeepsie Journal. Retrieved April 17, 2011.

[10] Tomcho, Sandy. "Music briefs: Esposito benefit, "The Face of Breast Cancer," Ronan Tynan". Times Herald Record. Retrieved April 17, 2011.

[11] Noik, Sherry. "Welcome back to Woodstock". Retrieved July 15, 2011.

[12] Rockwell, John (May 19, 1978). "Music: John Herald". New York Times. Retrieved July 15, 2011.

[13] Revikn, Andrew C (July 16, 1995). "Dueling Banjos on a Grand Scale: Rival Festivals". New York Times. Retrieved October 31, 2011.

[14] "John's Diary 1960s and 1970s". Retrieved October 31, 2011.

[15] Atikson, Brian T. "Making music is family affair for Elizabeth Mitchell". Retrieved October 31, 2011.

[19] ttp://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/searchimages/images/item_1975.htm

[26] Staff. "Woodstock resident Leon Gast wins Sundance award". Daily Freeman (Kingston). Retrieved July 15, 2011.

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