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Festival 2024 Lineup

Second Annual Festival · August 9–11 · The Year of Krishna Das

The second Woodstock Community Festival of Awakening expanded to three full days, with events across town and 1,100 people at Bearsville Park for Krishna Das. The Music Walk lined the streets of Woodstock with dozens of musicians playing live into the night air. Read the Festival story →

Full 2024 Lineup

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Friday, August 9

Opening: Ceremony at Andy Lee Field

4:00 – 5:15 PM (pre-Festival)
Sparrow on the Green
Woodstock Village Green
The poet & artist Sparrow will manage information about the Festival & its environs, including advice on paths to the Opening Ceremony, evening events & the rest of your life.
5:30 – 7:00 PM
Community Awakening Opening in Ceremony, Song & Dance
Andy Lee Field (moved to Woodstock Community Center due to weather)
Activating the Festival in ceremony, song, dance and wishes.
  • Evan Pritchard: Evocation of the elements and Medicine Wheel
  • Radharani: Heart-Centered Chants and Song-Prayers
  • Guy Beider: Gong Meditation for the Awakening Festival
  • Tara Samadhi: Invocation in Song, Mantra and Silence
  • Rev. Matthew Wright: Sufi Dance
  • Yogmata-Ji: Himalayan Wisdom Song
  • Nidhi Adhiya-Huba & Kimber Truitt: Wishing Bell
7:00 PM
Awakening Community Meal
Woodstock Community Center
8:00 – 9:00 PM
Kundalini Cosmic Sound Bath & Light Immersion with Jennifer Drue
Mountainview Studio
8:00 PM
Ecstatic Dance with Avinash
Woodstock Community Center
10:00 – 11:00 PM
Fireside Jam with Paul McMahon
ESKFF Nest

Saturday, August 10

Bearsville: Krishna Das · Music Walk · Night Sessions

5:45 AM
Sunrise Chanting & Singing within Sacred Sound Chamber
Lenny’s Bee Happy Farm, 395 Wittenberg Road
9:30 – 10:30 AM
Qi Gong with Celeste Graves
Mothership Gallery
10:30 AM – Noon
Cosmic Bliss Trinity of Healing
Mothership Gallery
Kellie Walsh, Tomer Hagay & DJ Morgana: breathwork, meditation techniques, light language, sound, and music.
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Exploring the Strange New Universe: Quantum Physics & Spiritual Consciousness
First Church of Christ, Scientist, 85 Tinker Street
Bob Berman—astronomy editor of the Old Farmers Almanac, author of 12 popular books, host of Strange Universe on NPR—on the most amazing astronomy discoveries of the past 30 years, followed by conversation on quantum physics and spiritual concepts.
12:00 – 6:00 PM
Sacred Chant / Kirtan Festival
Bearsville Park
  • 12:00 PM — Mirabai Moon and Band (Steve Gorn, Matt Tavisha Fass, Ganesh Michael Fiber, Avinash, Angela Hassan)
  • 1:00 PM — Arundhati
  • 2:00 PM — Spirit Brothers (Ned Leavitt, Joseph Jastrab, Steve Gorn, Avinash)
  • 3:00 – 6:00 PM — Krishna Das, Nina Rao, Arjun & more (Krishna Das on harmonium, Arjun on tabla, Nina Rao on harmonium, Noah Hoffeld on cello, Steve Gorn on woodwinds)
12:30 – 4:30 PM
Awakening Talks & One Non-Talk
Bearsville
  • 12:30 PM — Yogmata Keiko Aikawa (Yogmata-Ji): “An Introduction to Himalayan Wisdom”—the first non-Indian Siddha Master
  • 1:45 PM — Robert Thurman: “What is Awakening?”—the founder of Tibet House/Menla
  • 3:15 PM — Elliott Landy: Sharing Stillness—renowned Woodstock photographer transmits spiritual energy in deep quiet. No words. No mantras. You sit and receive.
12:00 – 6:00 PM
Movement by the Stream
Bearsville Park · curated by Michael Raphael
  • Shakti Yoga with Anika Fisher
  • Qi Gong with Corrine Mol
  • Euphoria Yoga with Corrine Gervai
  • Kundalini Yoga with Owen Powell
  • Meditation Movement with Guy Beider
  • Qi Gong with Paul Blum
12:15 – 4:15 PM
Children’s Yoga
Bearsville Park · curated by Emma Leigh
  • All-Ages Yoga with Devin Schepetin
  • Movement for Union with Annika Fisher
  • Giggles and Ganesha with Emma Leigh
  • Krystal Kids with Nidhi Adhiya-Huba
  • Eco-Yoga for Kids with Mateo
12:00 – 6:00 PM
Healing Garden Market
Bearsville Park
40+ wellness vendors offering acupuncture, aromatherapy, astrology and more.
1:00 & 3:00 PM
Awakening Walks
Bearsville Nature Trail
Hosted by the Catskill Mountain Sangha Group. Walking Meditations in the tradition of Thích Nhât Hành.
6:30 – 8:00 PM
Shivastan Awakening Books & Poetry Garden Party
Shivastan Poetry Ashram
Hosted by Shiv Mirabito with poets, mystics, sages and artists from across the Hudson Valley. All attendees invited to perform.
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Woodstock Music Walk
Tinker Street, all across town · by donation
Organized by Paul McMahon. Musicians in 20 locations walking from west to east.
  • Juan Romo at Alba’s
  • Holly Spaulding at Narnia
  • Gus Mancini & Flash at 120 Tinker St
  • Joe Bones on Tinker St
  • Robin the Hammer at the Station
  • Misty Mountain Ramblers at Happylife
  • Gilles Malkine at WAAM
  • Dancing Lady Laura & Falcon Krauss at Jean Turmo
  • Ever Peacock at Bread Alone
  • Anna Womack & Bruce Balmer at Castaways
  • The Lonesome Greeters at Catskill Mountain Pizza
  • & many more
7:00 – 8:15 PM
Kundalini Community Activation and Sound Bath
Mothership Gallery
With Hari Kaur & Jennifer Drue.
8:00 PM
Chogyi Lama & Guests Live
Tinker Street Cinema
Join Chogyi Lama for this Hendrix transmission. Bonus: Jimi Hendrix in session at Tinker Street Cinema on August 10, 1969—55 years ago to the day!
8:15 PM
Solo Jazz Concert with Master Pianist Dave Frank
Mothership Gallery
Renowned solo pianist and jazz educator, Associate Professor of Piano at Berklee College of Music 1987–2006.
8:30 – 9:30 PM
Forbidden Lovers
Mountainview Studio
A duo fusing western pop productions and hip-hop by Infinity, and enchanting vocal expression of Halo.
10:00 PM – 1:00 AM
Cacao Ceremony, Late Night Kirtan & Sound Medicine
ESKFF Nest
Cacao Ceremony with Marely. Kirtan with Mirabai Moon. Sound medicine journey with Joseph Schmidlin & Michael Jay.

Sunday, August 11

Awakening Solos · Closing · Drum Circle

5:45 AM
Sunrise Chanting & Singing
Sacred Sound Chamber, Lenny’s Bee Happy Farm
10:30 – 11:30 AM
Lingdro Dechen Rolmo
Mothership Gallery · donation
A special Tibetan ritual dance for peace, received in meditative vision by Mipham Rinpoche. Directed by Lin Lerner, PhD, who learned this sacred dance cycle in 1974–75 in a refugee camp in Odissa, India.
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Sunday Sound Journey with Emma Leigh
Sage Academy of Sound · sliding scale
SoundHealing journey with gongs, crystal & Himalayan bowls, crystal pyramids, and voice.
Noon – 3:00 PM
Awakening Solos + The Caterpillar’s Dream
Andy Lee Field · donation
Awakening Solos: a series of three-to-five minute, single-person enactments of words, performance and music.
  • Mikhail Horowitz, Paul McMahon, Abbe Sue Graber, Sparrow, Bruce Milner, Michael Platsky, Linda Montano, Sara Hale Rude, Rev. Matthew Wright, Eva Bublick, Phillip Levine, Tad Wise, Marian Tortorella, Vladimir Nahitchevansky, Timothy Liu, Rennie Cantine, Khenpo Karma Tenkyong, Rev. Andrew McCarron, K Prevallet, Bruce Weber, Charles Stein, Nan Tepper, Robin “The Hammer” Ludwig, Mike Dubois, Sam Truitt, Sue Wilens, Rev. Matthew Morse & more
  • The Caterpillar’s Dream: an original musical for children of all ages, created and performed by the Drama Club of the Northeast Center for Rehabilitation and Brain Injury, directed by Robert Garrido
3:00 PM
Wish Vocation & Parade to the Green
Andy Lee Field → Woodstock Village Green
Reading collective community wishes, followed by the Woodstock Community Drum Circle on the Village Green.