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What To Do: In and Around Town
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What are you doing the Fourth of July?
 There's Fireworks at the Kensico Dam, Playland, Caramoor and on the Long Island Sound. There's music from Patty LuPone, The Beach Boys, The Rascals and The Lovin' Spoonful, and there's a pirate adventure at Philipsburg Manor. And more. |
Music for the Fourth and beyond ... 
"If everybody had an ocean, Across the USA, Then everybody'd be surfiing, Like Califor-n-i-a." The Beach Boys are joined by Felix Cavaliere's Rascals and The Lovin' Spoonful at Jones Beach Theater on Sat, 7/5. More Independence Day weekend music includes Patty LuPone, Sybarite 5, and Pops, Patriots & Fireworks at Caramoor. The Ridgefield Playhouse is your best bet for popular music with John Hiattt and Robert Cray on 7/3 and Natalie Merchant on 7/6. Our Summer Music Calendar lists 96 concerts In & Around Town & Beyond.
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Special Fireworks sail on the Schooner Soundwaters
 The Schooner Soundwaters offers public sails for the summer. There are family sails that offer hands-on environmental education activities for kids 5 and up during the day. And sunset sails that are perfect for packing a dinner and your favorite quaff in the evening. There are even two special fireworks sails for Independence Day on July 3 and 5. Read more about the Schooner Soundwaters and more outdoor activities for families on our What To Do: Kids Events calendar right here. |
Independence Day Weekend at Caramoor
 Caramoor's Pop, Patriots and Fireworks celebrates the Fourth with Broadway star Ryan Silverman and the Westchester Symphonic Winds in a program of Sousa, Tchaikovsky and show tunes. Patti LuPone brings her new show Faraway Places to Caramoor on 7/5. Chamber group Sybarite 5 takes on Mozart and Radiohead on 7/3 and Jeffrey Kahane and the St. Luke's Chamber Orchestra perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring on 7/6. Read more. |
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John Jay Independence Day Fair
 George Washington will read the Declaration of Independence at the John Jay Independence Day Fair - for those of you who think that history still has a place in a Fourth of July celebration. Okay so it won't actually be George Washington. It will be some Friend of John Jay dressed up like George Washington but it will be the real Declaration of Independence. Plus, colonial games, hay rides, sheep herding, blacksmith demonstrations, horses, live music, a bake sale and more colonial era activities. More fun on the Fourth here. |
Natalie Merchant, John Hiatt & Robert Cray
 10,000 Maniacs alum Natalie Merchant's tour to support her new album, Natalie Merchant, kicks off this week. This is her sixth solo album and her first in 13 years. You can see her at the Ridgefield Playhouse on 7/6, the Tarrytown Music Hall on 7/19 and at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on 7/20. John Hiatt and Robert Cray will also perform in Ridgefield on Thurs, 7/3. You can find more music this week and the rest of the summer right here. |
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Where To Shop: Sponsored Blocks
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Chill this one for the 4th!  This week's wine of the week is the Cairnbrae Sauvignon Blanc 2012 from Marlborough. This classic New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc shows notes of grapefruit and lemon perfumed with subtle aromas of passion fruit and boxwood. Fun fact: They are next door neighbors to the famed Cloudy Bay (and just a third of the price!) Normally fourteen bucks with this week's discount it's only $11.89 a bottle. If you buy it by the case, the deal is even better at a 20% discount off the original price. Use discount code KIWIGEEK to purchase. Through Sun, 7/6. (Wine Geeks, 559 Main St., Armonk, 914.273.9463;
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What To Do: Summer Survival Checklist
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WTD's Summer Survival Checklist
 What To Do's Summer Survival Checklist offers local news and practical tips on how to survive the summer for townies, culture vultures, foodies and locavores. Find out how to get home delivery from vendors at your favorite farmers market, sun tips from the American Cancer Society, the real cost of speeding your way to the Hamtons or the Cape ... and much more. |
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What To Do: With the Kids
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Pirates of the Hudson at Philipsburg Manor
 It's always pirate season when you're a kid. Historic Hudson Valley's Pirates of the Hudson fest on Saturday July 5 at Sleepy Hollow's Philipsburg Manor offers interactive pirate theater and lots of swashbuckling face time and seadog activities for the kids. Yo ho ho. More Kids' Stuff here. |
Summer Circus in Stamford
 The National Circus Project brings its cast of jugglers, acrobats, aerialists, hula hoop artists and clowns to Stamford's Palace Theatre in July. More what to dos with the kids include a pirate adventure on Sheffield Island, Bedford's annual Movie in the Park, Westmoreland Sanctuary's Shakespeare Fest and the Putnam County 4H Fair. Read more. |
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Coming Up: In & Around Town
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What are you doing the rest of the summer?
 Our newly designed What To Do: In & Around Town guides offer over 100 hundred events yet to come for summer. Everything from comedian/ventriloquist Jeff Dunham to family events for the kids, museums, theatre and comedy and more. Summer Events, kids stuff, music, theatre, museums. |
What To Do: Summer Events: special foodie alert!
 A Taste of Westchester comes to our towns in July and August with three special cooking classes and tasting events from Westchester Community College. Including a shish-kebab fest at DeCiccos Family Market in Armonk, a pig roast at Peter Pratt's Inn in Yorktown, and a grilling class at Chappaqua's Crabtree's Kittle House. Find out more about these tasty evenings and the 19th annual Bounty on the Hudson here.
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Chappaqua Sale Saturdays
Saturdays in July means bargains in Chappaqua. Three town- wide events, sponsored by the Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber of Commerce, offer free samples, steep discounts and special offers from local merchants up and down Greeley Ave. and beyond. Sat, 7/9, 16 & 23. More summer events. |
Crosby Stills & Nash
 Crosby Stills & Nash play NYC's Beacon Theater 7/8-9 & 11. Other July musical highlights include Aerosmith, O.A.R. and Phillip Phillips, Peter Frampton, James Taylor, Lady Antebellum and Wiz Khalifa at Jones Beach; Katie Perry at the Barclays Center; Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and Gogol Bordello at The Capitol Theater; Procol Harum, and The Tubes in Ridgefield; and lots more summer music at Caramoor and in Armonk, Bedford & Chappaqua, More summer music here. |
Summer Concert Series in Chappaqua
 Breezemont Day Camp's Summer Concert Series sponsored by the Chappaqua-Millwood Chamber of Commerce offers four outdoor music concerts at the gazebo on Recreation Field every Wednesday in July at 7pm. The series kicks off on 7/9 with Chappaqua's Got Talent featuring local bands Natterjack Toad, Music in Chappaqua, Lagond Honors Band and The Velcrows. On 7/16 the Chappaqua Orchestra performs summer classics with guest clarinetist Eric Drucker. The Don Dupont Big Band remembers the big band music of the 40s on 7/23. And Chappaqua's own Bruce Springsteen tribute band, Tramps Like Us finishes up on 7/30. More local summer music. |
Summer Concerts at Wampus Brook Park
 The Small Town Theatre Company presents Summer Concerts in Armonk's Wampus Brook Park. The lineup includes the blues and rock band Dynamite Di and Destriuction on 7/12; Broadway favorites from The Hager Trio on 7/26; the a capella groups Chances Are and Our Town on 8/9; and the NYC jazz group The Swingaroos will perform golden oldies from Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw and Tommy Dorsey on 8/26. More details on more summer events here. |
Pleasantville Music Festival
 The Pleasantville Music Festival offers 13 folk acts and a kids area with face painting, music and games. This family friendly "Woodstock in Westchester" attracts top roots festival performers. 2014's headliners include Ian Hunter & The Rant Band, and Amy Helm & The Handsome Stranger. Ian Hunter, the former frontman for Mott the Hoople is best known for his solo hit "Cleveland Rocks". Amy Helm (Levon Helm's daughter) is a past member of The Levon Helm Band, and Ollabelle. For a complete list of acts & more summer music click here. |
Ann Hampton Callaway and sister Liz at HSC Gala at NCPL
 Jazz headliner and Tony Award nominee for her role in the Broadway musical Swing!, Ann Hampton Callaway will join her Broadway star sister Liz at the Hudson Stage Company's gala at Whippoorwill Hall in Armonk on July 13. The Hudson Stage Company, formerly hosted at PACE University, will take up residence at Whippoorwill Hall at the North Castle Public Library. Their first production will debut in October and they will kick off with their gala evening called Home Show that will include a cocktail reception at Restaurant North. Read all about it. |
David Grisman Sextet at Caramoor
 There's more great roots music at Caramoor this month as the David Grisman Sextet takes the stage at the Venetian Theatre on 7/25. For a complete list of Caramoor Summer Festival Events read more here. |
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