Six Rock City Road in Woodstock, New York is home to an independently owned music retailer built by a husband and wife team, Jennifer and Jeff Harrigfeld, around a shared love of instruments, gear, and above all vinyl. Woodstock Music Shop stocks a wide range of instruments, music accessories, percussion equipment, and electronics, but the collection the shop is best known for locally is its vinyl selection, which runs past ten thousand records spanning classic rock, indie, jazz, hip hop, and folk. That scale of inventory, paired with a location in a town whose very name is shorthand for American music history, has made the shop something of a pilgrimage stop for collectors passing through the Hudson Valley.
Beyond retail, the shop offers practical services that keep working musicians coming back: on site repairs for guitar setup and electronics, plus arrangements for off site repair work when a job is too complex to handle in house. Jeff, an accomplished music engineer who can reportedly pick up almost any instrument and play it, handles much of the technical side, while Jenn brings a background in costume design and theater to the shop’s creative projects, including handcrafted vinyl record art produced with staff artist Veronica Fannin. The team is rounded out by Andrew Horvitz, a sociology professor and former radio DJ who first crossed paths with Jeff on the air, Bobby Weiss, a musician and production manager at Rock Academy who has placed among the shop’s Record Store Day line veterans several years running, and Eric Squindo, a working musician handling much of the shop’s record pricing.
Record Store Day itself is a meaningful date on the shop’s calendar, and Woodstock Music Shop treats the annual event, and the broader culture of independently owned record stores it celebrates, as core to its identity rather than a once a year promotion. The shop’s own blog traces the holiday’s history and its impact on small shops like this one, reflecting a staff that clearly sees itself as part of a larger movement toward supporting physical media and local retail in an era dominated by streaming.
Woodstock Music Shop keeps a split schedule built around both weekday errands and weekend visitors, open Monday through Thursday from 12:30pm to 4pm and Friday through Sunday from 11am to 6pm, hours that favor the town’s heavier weekend foot traffic from day trippers and tourists exploring Woodstock’s shops and galleries. Whether a customer is chasing a specific pressing, needs a guitar setup before a gig, or simply wants to spend an afternoon flipping through crates in a town built on musical legacy, the shop’s staff of working musicians and lifelong collectors is built to make that visit worthwhile. Woodstock Music Shop is the town’s independently owned home for vinyl, instruments, and gear, run by people who play, fix, and sell music for a living.
