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A Family Music & Arts Festival
Saturday, August 22, 2026
 

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Get ready for a day of peace, love, and play! We are thrilled to announce our inaugural Kidstock, designed to share the legendary magic of Woodstock with the next generation of festival-goers.

On Saturday, Aug 22, beginning at 11 AM, Bethel Woods transforms into a vibrant playground for our youngest visitors. Catch world-class family entertainment on the Horizon Stage, featuring the hilarious Story Pirates, the mesmerizing Bubble Dad, and the visual wonders of Arm-of-the-Sea Puppet Theater. Plus, dance along to your favorite hits with The Rock and Roll Playhouse and the Bethel Woods Rock Camp Ambassadors!

Beyond the stage, the Great Lawn and Market Sheds will come alive with creative activities, hands-on games, and shared family moments. The celebration culminates in an epic finale at the Pavilion with a high-energy performance by The Ninja Kidz.

Meet the Kidstock 2026 Performers!

Ninja Kidz Live!

Pavilion Stage Headliners  - 6:00 PM

It's time to enter the multi-verse. The Ninja Kidz are leaping out of your screens and into your city with Ninja Kidz Live: Infinite Possibilities. The fate of the universe hangs in the balance as impostors threaten to infiltrate a stage near you. Join for the first-ever Ninja Kidz live action adventure filled with audience participation, physical challenges, games, and epic battles. What happens when two worlds collide? The audience holds the key to shaping how each adventure unfolds with an infinite number of possible outcomes. Get ready to laugh, cheer, and determine destiny, one choice at a time.

 

Rock and Roll Playhouse

HORIZON STAGE - 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM

Performing songs created by the most iconic musicians in rock history, The Rock and Roll Playhouse band offers its core audience of families with children aged 1-7, games, movement, stories, and most importantly, an opportunity to rock out. It allows parents to enjoy the music they love while little fans are encouraged to explore their creativity and have fun!

Arm of the Sea Puppet Theater

HORIZON STAGE - 11:00 AM

Handmade, locally-sourced Mask & Puppet Theater rooted in NY’s Hudson River Valley, Arm-of-the-Sea fuses visual storytelling with live music in original works of mask and puppet theater. Founded in 1982 by Marlena Marallo and Patrick Wadden, the company channels the evocative power of the arts as a force for insight & community uplift.  Much of their work explores relations between humans and the life-support networks of this blue-ocean planet.‍

The Story Pirates Live

HORIZON STAGE - 1:00 PM

Story Pirates is an award-winning media company that provides hilarious and inspiring entertainment for audiences of all ages.  With more than 85 million downloads, the Story Pirates Podcast takes stories submitted by kids and turns them into sketch comedy and songs with help from celebrity guests like Kristen Bell, John Oliver, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles, Seth Meyers, Bowen Yang, and more. Story Pirates has also produced the Looney Tunes podcast and co-created Game On, a sports podcast for families, with Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media. In addition to podcasts, Story Pirates has released three critically acclaimed middle-grade books and five award-winning albums. In partnership with Story Pirates Changemakers, their non-profit arm that brings life-changing arts and literacy tools to under-resourced schools and communities, Story Pirates produces the PBS show Story Pirates Presents: SPTV.

Maxwell Kofi Donkor

HORIZON STAGE - 3:30 PM

Kofi has been drumming and performing internationally for over 30 years. He directs the African drum and dance ensemble Sankofa. He uses African culture in assemblies, lectures, performances, drum circles, and traditional African Ananse (spider) stories to promote diversity in all cultures: in schools, communities, conferences, as well as festivals.

BubbleDad

Throughout the Day on the Great Lawn

BubbleDad creates a magical bubble-scape with bubbles of all shapes and sizes. BubbleDad is all about DIY. He loves to interact with the kids and encourages them to experiment with bubbles on their own. Through bubbly magic tricks, BubbleDad covers the science of how bubbles are formed as well as basic geometry concepts (2D vs 3D shapes, circles/spheres.)


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