Woodstock Playhouse will host the first ever Woodstock Fingerstyle Guitar Festival for 3 consecutive days. There will be Afternoon Concerts, Evening Concerts, Morning Workshops, a Competition and exhibits of many types of guitar related products. Attendees can expect to see 20 performances by nationally and internationally recognized artists. Workshops where players will gain valuable insights into playing styles, techniques, and much more. The competition is for players of all ages and expects to get emerging artist from across the country and winners will be awarded valuable prizes and opportunities. This Festival promises to be a very special experience for guitarists, student guitarist, guitar enthusiasts, and music lovers of all genres. Check out www.WoodStockFingerStyle.com for all event and performance details…

3-Day Pass includes entry and tickets to all Workshops, Competitions, Afternoon Concerts, Vendor Exhibits and Evening Concerts on August 28, 29 and 30th.

During the late 1950s and into the 60s, the Woodstock Playhouse directors instituted Saturday morning children's productions & concerts as well as midnight concerts featuring such artists as Tom Paxton, Peter Yarrow, Tim Hardin, Pete Seeger, Happy and Artie Traum, Billy Faire, and Jack Elliot. The Band, including Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Jaime Robbie Robertson, would record their album Stage Fright at the Woodstock Playhouse with Todd Rundgren serving as sound engineer. As the 1960s evolved and Woodstock found itself at the center of a cultural revolution, the Playhouse was host to the final concert in a series of performances known as the Sound-Outs in 1968. Produced by John “Jocko” Moffitt and generally perceived as a precursor concert to the Woodstock Festival held in Bethel a year later, the Playhouse concert featured Richie Havens, with additional performances by Jerry Moore, Don Preston, Major Wiley and Bunky and Jake. 

Throughout the 60s and 70s, legendary musicians and bands played at the Woodstock Playhouse, including Arlo Guthrie, Van Morrison, Orleans, Full Moon, Sonia Malkine, John Hammond, Holy Moses, Dave Van Ronk, Levon and The Band, The Montgomeries, Geoff and Maria Muldaur, Jim Rooney and Bill Keith, and after the burning and rebuilding of the Woodstock Playhouse: Leon Russell, Cindy Cashdollar, Jacke DeJohnette, Sonny Rollins, Peter Yarrow, Bethany and Rufus Cappadocia, John Sebastian, Natalie Merchant, Larry Campbell, David Bromberg, Richie Havens, Noel Paul Stookey, The Indigo Girls, Leon Russell, Well Strung, all of the amazing Headliners at the annual String Sampler Concert, and so many more. 

Additionally, the Woodstock Playhouse, established in 1938 by a member of one of Woodstock's Oldest Families, became a central hub for the launching of major careers on Broadway and in film and television, as it continues to do today.