WoodStock- August 15 16 17, 1969 The Woodstock Festival was a three-day concert (which rolled into a fourth day) The Woodstock Music Festival of 1969 has become an icon of the 1960s hippie counterculture.The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". Held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills. Thirty-two acts performed outdoors for 500,000 concert-goers ~ These moments changed the history of Rock and Roll.