Arthur Lawrence Kornfeld (born 1942) is an American musician, record producer, and music executive.
[4] Kornfeld was born in 1942 into a Jewish lower-middle-class family in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
[5][6] In his early teens, when his family had moved to North Carolina, he got a job at the Charlotte Coliseum selling soda pop so he could catch acts such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and Fats Domino.
[7] He later attended Adelphi College and American University where he would further his music career.
[9] In 1969, Kornfeld left Capitol Records to co-create The Woodstock Music & Arts Festival, with Michael Lang .