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What To Do: Fall Events ... right on time
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74 Fall Events now up on whattododigital.com
Our Fall Events Calendar is now live on whattododigital.com. You will find over 74 ways to celebrate the fall with Country Fairs and Harvest Festivals, Kids Events, The Great Outdoors, Antiques & Art & Craft Fairs, Mixed Bag and Where To Celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving. From the Armonk Outdoor Art Show to the Chappaqua Children's Book Fair, from Bedford's new Oktoberfest to a Harvest Festival with Mario Batali at the New York Botanical Gardens ... start filling out your fall social calendar right here.
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What To Do: In and Around Town
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Summer Music: Rod Stewart, Santana, Jimmy Buffett  There's lots more summer music coming up including Rod Stewart & Santana, and Jimmy Buffett at Jones Beach. Plus Arcade Fire, Travis Tritt, Steely Dan, Kenny Wayne Shepard, Loudon Wainwright III, and Cher on our summer music guide. |
Sunset Swing Dance Party at Lyndhurst Mansion Lyndhurst Mansion's Sunset Jazz series continues this week with a swing dance party with the 16 piece Big Band. These picnic friendly events are held on Lyndhurst's bowling alley hill Thursdays through 8/28. For full summer lineup read here. |
Armonk's Bernie Williams at Paramount Hudson Valley  Armonk resident and Yankees' great Bernie Williams first album, The Journey Within, reached #3 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Chart. His second album, Moving Forward, featuring Bruce Springsteen, Jon Secada, and Dave Koz debuted as Billboard's #2 Contemporary Jazz album, spawned two Billboard #1 singles, "Go For It", and "Ritmo de Otono", and was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Album in 2009. Fri, 8/22: 8pm. (Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill) Read more & more music. |
Our Town at Wampus Brook Park in Armonk  The Small Town Theatre Company's Summer Concerts in Wampus Brook Park concludes with a performance from The Swingaroos, a NYC jazz group that plays Swing inspired originals and the real golden oldies from Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw. This six piece jazz band featuring lead singer Kimberly Hawkey and band (clarinet, trombone, bass, banjo and washboard) has performed at Birdland, Under St. Marks Theatre and Caramoor. Sat, 8/23: 8pm. (Wampus Brook Park, Armonk) More summer music. |
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Where To Shop: Sponsored Blocks
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Westchester MMA Fit teams up with Chappaqua Rec  Chappaqua Recreation is now offering smart priced martial arts programs through Westchester Mixed Martial Arts & Fitness. The 8 week programs that begin the third week of September include their Tiny Dragons (ages 3-5), Little Champs (ages 5-7) and their Youth program (ages 8-13). Take your first step towards a black belt by signing up with the North Castle Recreation Department. Westchester Mixed Martial Arts & Fitness offers kids martial arts programs and a wide range of mixed martial arts, cardio kickboxing and KOGA Fitness classes for adults in their 8,000 square foot facility in Mt. Kisco. www.westchestermmafit.com |
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What To Do: With the Kids
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Kids After School Programs for Fall  Camp season is over. so get out those checkbooks (again) because its time to go shopping for Kids' After School Program for Fall. What To Do's Kids' Programs Guide offers over 100 local suppliers of kids school year activities including, sports, fitness, art, music, theater and dance, martial arts, tutoring and enrichment, aquatics and much more. Check out What To Do"s Kids Programs Guide here. |
Lime Rock Park Historic Festival  The east coast's premier vintage racing and concours event. Three days of on-track racing. More than 300 cars and drivers, racing everything from pre-WWI racers to the best competition machines from the 1920s to the 1970s. How cool is that? Thurs-Mon, 8/28-9/1: check schedule. (60 White Hollow Rd., Lakeville CT) More Kids stuff. |
CORNucopia at Philipsburg Manor  This novel corn festival offers a bounty of corn-centric delicacies, demonstrations and hands-on, corn-related activities. Kids play games like Konk-a-Crow and Ring-a Cob in the CORNival area. There are corn-shucking races, a mini maize-maze, and crafts - make a cornhusk doll. Plus bluegrass and folk music and English country dancing in the barn. For those with the corn munchies there's cornbread, corn salsa and chips, corn chili, popcorn and sweet corn ice cream. Sat-Mon, 8/30-9/1: 10am-5pm. (381 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow) More Kids Stuff. |
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Coming Up: In & Around Town
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Wednesday Night Cinema at NCPL  LIU Professor Valerie Franco presents Boy, the 2012 coming of age comedy from Taika Waititi. Set in rural New Zealand in 1984 when Michael Jackson's Thriller was all the rage, Boy, who has taught himself to dance like Michael Jackson, longs for the day of his father's return who he fantasizes as a war hero and close relation of the Michael Jackson. When his father returns (from a 7 year jail term for robbery) Boy is forced to confront the reality of his dad's life - and his dim prospects of ever meeting the King of Pop. Wed, 8/27: 7pm. (North Castle Public Library.) |
Jazz at Lasdon Park  Lasdon Park's Music in the Park series concludes with the jazz ensemble Jon Doty & Friends. Bring a blanket or a chair. Beer, wine, hot dogs, pretzels, ice cream and other snacks for sale. Sponsored by the Friends of Lasdon. Gates open at 5:30. Tour the park, take the historic tree walk, check out the Chinese Garden and the Memorial Garden. Fri, 8/22: 6:30pm. (Lasdon Park, 2610 Amawalk, Rt. 35, Katonah; www.lasdonpark.org) |
Oysters, Pirates, a Ferris Wheel, and Joan Jett
The Norwalk Seaport Associations' annual Oyster Festival offers an arts and crafts show, harbor cruises, a Pirates Coast Adventure, a New England Village, a Kids Cove with storytellers, puppet shows and a circus, an international food court, musical entertainment including Joan Jett and the Blackhearts on Saturday night and ... OYSTERS, OYSTERS, OYSTERS. Including, a celebrity Oyster Slurp Off on Saturday. Fri-Sun, 9/5-7: check times. (Norwalk Veterans Park, 42 Seaview Ave., Norwalk) Read more. |
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Coming Up: Performing Arts Center 2014-15
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Branford Marsalis kicks off PAC season in September  NEA Jazz Master, Grammy-winner and Tony Award-nominee, Branford Marsalis kicks off PAC's 2014-15 season with an evening of saxophone jazz on Sat, 9/27. Marsalis received initial acclaim playing with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and brother Wynton's quintet. He has performed with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and Sonny Rollins. More jazz on PAC's schedule includes The Preservation Hall Jazz Band with R&B master Allen Toussaint, whose songs have been covered by The Rolling Stones, Jerry Garcia, Glen Campbell, Ernie K. Doe and Leo Dorsey. More PAC music here. |
Patti LuPone, Natalie Merchant & Suzanne Vega  The ladies sing at PAC this season with top stars from cabaret, pop and indie-folk. LuPone brings her latest show, Lady With The Torch, to the PAC stage featuring songs of Harol Arlen, Jule Styne, Cole Porter and the Gershwin's. 10,000 Maniacs front-gal Natalie Merchant performs songs from her new album, Natalie Merchant, with the Purchase Symphony Orchestra. And Suzanne Vega brings her new-wavey folk repertoire ("Luka" and "Tom's Diner") to PAC in November. See our complete PAC calendar from September through May right here. |
Bela Flek and the Knights at PAC  Virtuoso banjo player Béla Fleck has won 15 Grammies with The Flecktones and in collaborations with Asleep At The Wheel, Joshua Bell, Chick Corea, and the West African singer Oumou Sangare. At PAC he joins The Knights, whose chamber music fuses baroque, jazz, pop and indie rock. There's more classical crossover from Edgar Meyer who has played with Béla Flek, Joshua Bell, and James Taylor. And Black Violin, whose family concerts are "2 parts classical, 2 parts pop and a dash of hip-hop. Full PAC calendar here |
David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre at PAC  The Walnut Street Theatre's production of David Mamet's "love letter to the theatre," A Life In The Theatre, headlines PAC's 2014-15 Theatre Series. The series includes: Martha Clarke's Cheri, an inter-disciplinary work starring Amy Irving, ABT principal dancer Herman Cornejo, and prima ballerina Allessandra Ferri; and Basetrack, a multi-disciplinary performance piece based on the work of Afghan War embedded journalist Teru Kuwayama. Read more. |
Thank God for Jokes  Mike Birbiglia's 2007 award-winning comedy album My Secret Public Journal Live became an award winning off-Broadway show and movie. He brings his new show Thank God for Jokes to PAC in October. In the show Birbiglia argues with strangers and hosts an awards show for angry celebrities. There's more laughs at PAC in October when NPR humorist, New Yorker contributor, and best-selling author David Sedaris brings his self-deprecating humor about his Greek heritage, growing up in North Carolina, drug use and obsessive behaviors to the PAC stage. More on this and more PAC right here. |
Paul Taylor Dance Company headlines PAC's Dance Series  The Paul Taylor Dance Company headlines PAC's 2014-15 Dance Series. PAC's Dance Series will also feature the Suzanne Farrell Ballet. Farrell who was a principal dancer for George Ballanchine is the keeper of the flame for Ballanchine's works including his Swan Lake which they will perform at PAC. Plus the modern dance troupe Rioult Dance NY. Check out these events and the full PAC 2014-15 calendar here. |
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