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What To Do: First Look Summer
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First Look: What To Do: With the Kids this summer
 Our new Kids' Events Guide has 45 summer what to dos for families in & around our towns. There's carnivals and boat rides, a plane ride, a circus, car races and lots of fireworks! We take you to the farm, on the river, and to a nearby island. For your first look at What To Do: With the Kids this summer - read more here.
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Sneak Peek: Caramoor Summer Music Festival  Joshua Bell, Patty LuPone, Roseanne Cash, Pat Metheny and Bruce Hornsby are some of the headliners this summer at Caramoor. There's a Jazz Festival, an American Roots Festival, opera, symphonic and chamber music, and dance evenings featuring music from Africa, Scotland and the Balkans. Find our complete Caramoor calendar of over 30 events right here.
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What To Do: In and Around Town
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Memorial Day at Lime Rock Park
 For stock car racing at its best go to Lime Rock Park. The Memorial Day season opener features fast Camaros, Porsches, and Mustangs in their Grand Sport Race. And quick, agile Hondas, VWs, and Mazdas in their Street Tuner Race. Plus, a world debut of Electric Vehicle Sports Racers. Read more.
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Memorial Day Farm Fest
 Celebrate Westchester farming with Hilltop Hanover Farm. Hilltop is a working crop farm and environmental education center in Yorktown Heights. Their Spring Farm Fest features a plant sale, farm stand, kids' events, tours, hiking, food and more!
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Meet the Baby Animals at Muscoot Farm
 This annual spring event is a must to-do for kids and baby animal lovers of all ages. Get up close and personal with Muscoot Farm's new arrivals, like this Dorset lamb. Plus pigs, chickens, goats, horses, cows, donkeys and more. Visit their Farmer's Market and their historic buildings. Including the 1880 main house, the dairy barn, blacksmith shop, root cellar, wagon shed, milk house and our favorite, the ice house. Sun, 5/25: 10am-4pm. (Rt. 100, Somers) More kids events.
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Mary Poppins at Westchester Broadway Theatre
 Rain is in the forecast for Saturday. If you need an indoor option for the kids (or just the two of you) you can see the Broadway play Mary Poppins in Elmsford. Mary Poppins received 7 Tony nominations on Broadway. You can see it here with lunch or dinner. Dinner theatre on Saturday and a lunch and dinner performance on Sunday. It opened on May 8 and runs through July 27. For more what to dos this week and beyond check out our events calendars on whattododigital.com)
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Rocky Hills Open Days
 The Garden Conservancy's Open Days program offers the public a sneak peek of private gardens in our area. This week you can see Rocky Hills, the gardens of Wiliam and Henriette Suhr in Mt. Kisco. The most prominent garden in our area, Rocky Hills features 50 years of plantings across 13 acres of natural habitat. Read more here.
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BRLA Memorial Day Pace & Luncheon
 The Bedford Riding Lanes Association's Memorial Day Pace and Luncheon at John Jay Homestead in Katonah is open to the public. They ride in the morning and start chowing down on a steak and chicken BBQ by noon. Tour the grounds and the historic buildings while you are there.(Photo courtesy of Kathy Mathew Photography.) Read more.
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Farmers Markets Open in Chappaqua & Pleasantville
 The Pleasantville Farmers Market opens this weekend - just in time for Memorial Day entertaining. The Chappaqua Farmers market returned to its outdoor location at the train station last weekend. The Mt. Kisco Farmers Market is open year-round and the Muscoot Farm Farmer's market opened on Mother's Day. Check out our guide to local Farmers' Markets here.
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Ottmar Leibert at The Ridgefield Playhouse
 The five-time Grammy Award nominated acoustic guitarist, Ottmar Leibert perofrms with his band Luna Negra at the Ridgefield Playhouse this weekend. Leibert has released 25 albums and has 38 platinum distinctions around the world. He made his start playing hotels and restaurants in Santa Fe and within one year he was opening for Miles Davis. More spring music here. |
The Fox On The Fairway at WPPAC
 Ken Ludwig's (the same playwright who gave us (Lend Me A Tenor, and Moon Over Buffalo) The Fox On The Fairway is a tribute to the Great English farces of the 1920s and 1930s. Think of it as the Marx Brothers on a golf course. You can see it at the White Plains Performing Arts Center this week. Read more about this and more local theatre, dance and comedy in & around our towns in our Guide to the Performing Arts right here.
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Where To Shop: Sponsored Blocks
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A (delicious) Rose for Memorial Day from Lake Garda 
From Lake Garda in Italy comes this week's Wine Geek's Wine of the Week: The San Giovanni 'Il Chiaretto'! Bone dry and dark salmon in color, this refreshing rose shows notes of fresh watermelon, cherry and raspberry with subtle hints of cranberry and rose hips. Delicious! Normally $18.99, with this week's discount it's only $16.14 a bottle! Buy it by the case case and get an even deeper 20% discount. Please use Discount Code ROSEGEEK to purchase. Through Sun, 5/25. (Wine Geeks, 559 Main St., Armonk; 914.273.9463. www.winegeeksarmonk.com
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What To Do: With the Kids
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NEW: LIGHTSCAPES from Historic Hudson Valley
 This new event, from the creators of The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze, is a night-time garden fantasy of sculpture, light, sound and special effects. It's a glowing garden of flowers and floating fairies with a giant praying mantis, a maze and a crawl through caterpillar. With thousands of state of the art illuminations at Van Cortland Manor. Fri-Sat in May. Read more.
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Summer Camp Guide
Check out our guide to over 200 area day camps. Search categories for All Around Camps, Sports, Art, Dance, Music and Theatre, Martial Arts, Nature and Specialty Camps. Or search by keyword like chess, computers, filmmaking. Read More. (Photo courtesy of Breezemont Day Camp.)
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Coming Up: In & Around Town
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June Music Calendar  The spring music season comes to a crescendo with local action that includes Lucinda Williams and Barbara Cook in Tarrytown. (That's a study in contrasts.) Jonny Lang, Blue Oyster Cult, and Cash Is King (Johnny Cash tribute band) play The Ridgefield Playhouse. Hot Tuna and Leon Russell share a bill at The Capitol Theatre where you can also see Taj Mahal with The Blind Boys of Alabama, and the Beatles tribute band The Fab Faux. The Westchester Philharmonic end their season with a program of Ligeti, Mendelssohn and Brahms at Purchase College and more music here.
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Two chances to see Art Garfunkel nearby
Now you can see An Intimate Evening with Art Garfunkel at The Paramount Hudson Valley in Peekskill or at The White Plains Performing Arts Center. Both coming up in early June. Read more about this and more local music In & Around Armonk, Bedford & Chappaqua in our Spring Music Guide here. |
Bring Out Your Dead  Phil Lesh and Friends return to Port Chester's Capitol Theatre for their final area appearance until Fall on 5/28. Most often played songs on their 2014 tour are: Slipknot!, Viola Lee Blues, Fire On the Mountain, and Playin' In the Band. More music.
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The THE BAND Band
What else would you call a cover band for The Band? The THE BAND Band plays The Emelin Theatre in Mamaroneck on Sat, 6/7. (Oh, you don't know the shape they're in!) Listen to them here and check out our guide to Spring Music here.
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Luv! in Croton Falls
 Quinn Cassevale stars in Murray Schisgal's (Tootsie) 1964 hit comedy Luv! The play gave new meaning to the Henny Youngman punchline, "Take my wife, please." When Milt Manville saves his college buddy from jumping off a bridge he comes up with the idea to have him marry his wife so he can run off with his new girlfriend. The play, that won 3 Tony Awards, and takes a page from the Neil Simon canon pokes fun at the La Dolce Vita world of the early 1960s. It opens at The Schoolhouse Theatre on 5/29 and runs through June. More local performing arts here.
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Stayin Alive 5K and Fun Run in Armonk
 This new event is organized by the newly formed non-profit Stayin Alive whose mission it is to raise funds for North Castle First Responders. It features a 5K run followed by a fun run for kids. Start point is Armonk's Windmill Club. Lovely. Sat, 5/31: 8am. (The Windmill Club, 10 Maple Way Armonk) More on this and to register click here.
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The Armonk Players Play On
 The Armonk Player's take on Rick Abbott's comedy about a community theatre group's trials (without tribulations) of producing an ill-advised script, Murder Most Foul, from one of it's members.
Play On! presents Murder Most Foul in rehearsal, in dress rehearsal and then as an opening night production. It changes every step of the way ... but it doesn't get any better. Directed by Mark Pierce. Fri-Sun, 6/7-14. More on this and more local theatre here.
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 White Plains Art Fest
The 52nd White Plains Outdoors Art Festival is a juried show of one-of-a-kind jewelry, crafts and artwork. This free event offers food and a children's art work-shop. Proceeds help provide scholarships to White Plains HS seniors pursuing a college degree in fine arts. More on this and more local events here
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One Twenty One Restaurant Reopens with Jean Georges Protege
North Salem's One Twenty One Restaurant reopened on May 7, after a 4 week renovation, with a
new sleek, modern sensibility and new chef, Beck Bolender, whose New American menu with Asian influences can be traced to his experience as sous chef at Jean Georges in NYC. More. |
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