Jimi Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Hendrix is considered one of the greatest and most influential guitarists in rock music history. After initial success in England, he achieved worldwide fame following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival before his death in 1970, at the age of 27. A self-taught guitarist, …

Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. She is a soprano with a three-octave vocal range and a distinctively rapid vibrato. Many of her songs are topical and deal with social issues.

Richie Havens (born January 21 1941 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American folk singer and guitarist. Havens is perhaps best known for his intense rhythmic guitar style, soulful covers of pop and folk songs and his opening performance at the Woodstock Festival; all the more remarkable for the absence of most of his upper teeth. Havens uses open D tuning on the guitar. By fretting all strings it produces a major chord on any position on the neck of the guitar.

"Country" Joe McDonald (born Joseph McDonald, on January 1, 1942 in Washington, DC) was the leader and lead singer of the 1960s rock & roll group Country Joe and the Fish. He started his career busking on Berkeley, California's famous Telegraph Avenue in the early 1960's. McDonald still lives in Berkeley. Country Joe has recorded 33 albums and has written hundreds of songs over a career spanning 40 years.

Barry "The Fish" Melton (born June 14, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York City) was the co-founder (1965) and original lead guitarist of Country Joe and The Fish. Barry appears on all the Country Joe and The Fish recordings and he also wrote some of the songs that the band recorded. He appeared in the films made at Monterey Pop and Woodstock, and also appeared as an outlaw in the neo-Western film, 'Zachariah,' and other films in which Country Joe and the Fish appear.

Michael Lang (born December 11, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York) is a musical concert promoter, producer and artistic manager who is best known as the co-creator of the Woodstock Music & Art Festival in 1969.

Tim Hardin was a United States folk musician and composer who was a part of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene and performer at the Woodstock Festival. Hardin was born in Eugene, Oregon. He dropped out of high school at age 18 to join the Marine Corps. After his discharge he moved to New York City in 1961, where he briefly attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Eddie Kramer is an audio engineer and producer who has worked with Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, AC/DC, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Peter Frampton, Curtis Mayfield, Santana, Anthrax, Carly Simon and Robin Trower.

Michael Wadleigh (born September 24, 1941) is an American movie director and cinematographer renowned for his groundbreaking documentary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. A native of Akron, Ohio, Wadleigh entered films in his early 20s as a cinematographer on independently-produced low-budget films "David Holtzman's Diary" and "I Call First" (both 1967) and "My Girlfriend's Wedding" (1969).

Gregg Rolie (born June 17, 1947 in Seattle, Washington) is an American keyboardist, organist, and singer, who is one of the founding members of the bands Santana, Journey, The Storm, and Abraxas Pool, as well as his current Gregg Rolie Band. He is also known to have played with a group called William Penn and his Pals, circa 1965, playing at least one high school dance at Serra High School in San Mateo, California.

Leo Lyons (born David William Lyons, 30 November 1943, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England) was the bassist of the British late 1960s to 70s rock group "Ten Years After". He first played with lead guitarist Alvin Lee in "The Jaybirds". In 1967 there was a name change to "Ten Years After". With this group, Lyons played at major rock festivals including Woodstock in 1969 and the Isle of White Festival on 29 August 1970.

Keef Hartley (born March 8, 1944 in Preston, England) is a British musician. Hartley's career began as a replacement to Ringo Starr as a drummer for Rory Storm and the Hurricanes,a popular Liverpool band. Hartley then played and recorded with The Artwoods and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, before forming his own band shortly afterwards, The Keef Hartley Band. The Keef Hartley Band mixed elements of Jazz, Blues, …

Chick Churchill (born 2 January 1946) was the keyboard player of the British late 1960s to 70s rock group "Ten Years After". Michael George Churchill was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England. He began playing the piano at age 6 and studied classical music until 15. He became interested in blues and rock music, joined his first band "Sons of Adam" in Nottingham. Churchill met Alvin Lee of The Jaybirds.

Ric Lee (born 20 October 1945 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England) was the drummer of the British late 1960s to 70s rock group "Ten Years After". He played drums and percussion at school, where he was a founded member of his first band, "The Falcons". He was also a drummer for "Ricky Storm and The Mansfields", the last he was persuaded to leave in August, 1965. Soon he took over drumming duties for "The Jaybirds", …

Marty Balin (born Martyn Jerel Buchwald, January 30 1942, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American musician. He is best known as the lead singer and founder of Jefferson Airplane, the pioneering psychedelic rock band from San Francisco. Balin was a featured vocalist for Jefferson Airplane during the late 1960s, concurrent with the band's most popular era. He appeared with the group during their performance at Woodstock in 1969, …

Juma Sultan is a percussionist. He performed at Woodstock in Jimi Hendrix's band, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows and on the Dick Cavett show and at a special show in Harlem, New York several weeks later. He was interviewed extensively for the documentary film, "Jimi Hendrix". Also recorded with Archie Shepp.

Joel Rosenman (1942 -), A.B. Princeton '63, J.D. Yale '66, is one of four people responsible for producing the Woodstock Festival in 1969. Rosenman developed the idea for the three-day concert after looking at a recording studio proposal brought forward by Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld. Together with partner John Roberts, the four designed the event and dealt with the subsequent aftermath.

Elliot Landy (born in 1942) is a photographer best known for his iconic photographs of rock musicians. He was the official photographer at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. His photographs appeared on the cover of magazaines such as Rolling Stone, Life, and the Saturday Evening Post. Landy's portraits appeared on the cover of many of the best known albums of the era, including classics such as Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline, Van Morrison's Moondance, …

Henry McCullough (born 21 July 1943) is a guitarist, who has played guitar in such bands as Spooky Tooth, Paul McCartney's Wings, and The Grease Band. Born in Portstewart, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Henry McCullough is a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, and is the only Irishman to play the Woodstock Festival (backing Joe Cocker). He turns up in many different places as sideman or a performer in his own right.

Jocko, now starting his fourth decade with Sha Na Na, was the first to walk onstage “greased and ready to rock 'n' roll” in 1969. That same year, the drummer was the youngest performer at the Woodstock Festival. He holds the distinction of performing in both the most successful music documentary ever ("Woodstock") and the most successful film musical ever ("Grease").

Sam Yasgur is the son of Max Yasgur. Sam played a crucial but little known part in American music history by convincing his father Max to allow the Woodstock Music & Art Festival to be held on the family's 600 acre (2.4 km²) dairy farm land in Bethel, NY, circa August 1969.

Buzzy Feiten grew up in Centerport, New York and graduated from Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York, in 1966. Buzzy jouned the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 1969, playing such famous gigs as the Atlantic City Pop Festival and the legandary Woodstock Festival. Following his tenure with Butterfield, he became a session musician, recording with the likes of Bob Dylan and the Rascals.

Howard "Buzz" Feiten is an American session musician guitarist. He grew up in Centerport, New York and graduated from Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York, in 1966. As Buzzy, he joined the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 1969, playing such famous gigs as the Atlantic City Pop Festival and the legendary Woodstock Festival. He is a session guitar player who once played with Mr Mister.

Michael Hunt (born May 10, 1970) is an American artist conceived at the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York and born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Michael Hunt is a self-taught artist with no formal art education. Hunt's works of paintings and sculptures are known as "Cosmic American Art" - an outsider hybrid of Pop & Folk Art - which explore the limits and myths of the American Dream.

Jerry Merrick is an American singer-songwriter. His songs have been recorded by Richie Havens, B.J. Thomas, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Susan Tedeschi. "Rolling Stone" has called Merrick's song, "Follow" a "Sixties folk epic." It was first recorded by Richie Havens for his major label debut, "Mixed Bag". Havens also perfomed the song in well-known concert appearances at Woodstock, the Newport Folk Festival and at Carnegie Hall.

Muruga Booker (also known as Steve Booker, Muruga, and Maruga) is an American born drummer, recording artist, and artist of Serbian decent.

Jo Jo Laine (July 13, 1953-October 29, 2006) was an American singer, model and actress who gained notoriety as a rock groupie to some of the most familiar names of the Woodstock era, including Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. She had a longer relationship with Rod Stewart, but her only (brief) marriage was to Denny Laine of The Moody Blues and Wings. Born Joanne Patri (some sources give LaPatrie) in Boston, …

Douglas Forsythe Rye (Born November 6, 1950 in Westchester, New York) is a Los Angeles-based voice actor who has done Narration for such notable companies as Bank of America, The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, NBC, The Playboy Channel, Qwest, Carl's Jr. and DaimlerChrysler. Rye has been acting since he was a child, he beat out Christopher Reeve for a role in a summer production at The Lawrenceville School, during his four years there.

James Se-hwang Kim is a guitar player born on November 16, 1971 in Seoul, South Korea. His mother, Kim Jeonghee, a classically trained guitarist, encouraged Kim's musical talents. In fourth grade, after watching a video of the Woodstock Festival, Kim was inspired to learn the guitar. Kim's father, a diplomat, was stationed in the United States for much of Kim's youth. Kim lived in Washington D.C. from the age of four until age 12, when he moved back to Korea.

Nenad Bach is a recording artist, composer, and performer who has recorded for Sony, Polygram and many other labels. Two of his albums reached No. 1 in Europe, and to date he has sold over one million records. In addition, he has performed all over the world with a wide range of artists, including Luciano Pavarotti, Bono & The Edge (U2), Brian Eno, Indigo Girls, Richie Havens, Garth Hudson & Rick Danko (The Band), Vince Welnick (Grateful Dead), Martin Sheen, Michael York, John Malkovich, …

André Weinfeld was born in Paris, France. After receiving a Master Degree in Psychology, Philosophy and French Literature at the Sorbonne University, he graduated Cum Laude from the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques (IDHEC), the internationally renowned French Film School. After numerous collaborations, first as a Film Camera Operator and then as a Cinematographer, to several "French New Wave" short and full-length feature films, …