Sticker shows the original Woodstock poster .. The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival, billed as an aquarian exposition,with 3 days of peace and music .. It was held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm in the Catskills, near the hamlet of White Lake, in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to 18, 1969 .. Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, in adjoining ulster county .. during the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors before an audience of 400,000 young people .. it's widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, and is widely considered to be the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation .. Rolling Stone magazine, listed it as one of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll..