The Pound Ridge Harvest Festival ROCKS with the Spin Doctors, contests, games, BBQ, a craft beer tent for adults and a root beer tent for kids. More on this and more Fall Festivals here.

This one's under the big tent on Bedford Green and the festivities include craft beers, wine and scotch tastings, live music, hearty food, and the impeccable charm and grace that is Bedford Village. More on this and more Country Fairs & Fall Festivals.

The annual An Evening in Good Taste To End Childhood Hunger benefit supports the Food Bank for Westchester. Sample gourmet delights and specialty cocktails from Westchester's finest chefs. This year's participating restaurants include Moderne Barn, Beascakes, Cafe of Love, Crabtree's Kittle House, Mt. Kisco Seafood and Sam's of Gedney Way.  Last year the Food Bank raised over $200,000 to help fight hunger in Westchester. This event will benefit their Kids Café and Backpack programs. Thurs, 10/16: 6-9pm. (1133 Westchester Ave., White Plains)  More on this and more Fall Benefits.

The God Game from The Hudson Stage Company, North Castle Library's newest Artist-In-Residence continues this week. This new play from Suzanne Bradbeer taps into the spirit of the political season when the game of politics becomes a "God game" for a vice-presidential candidate. The play will run for eight performances. For more about The Hudson Stage Company's big move to Armonk click here. For more on The God Game and our full Theatre, Dance & Comedy Fall listings click here.

ArtsWestchester's 2012 Arts Organization of the Year, The Taconic Opera performs fully staged operas with supertitles, full orchestras and singers who have performed at the Met or the New York Opera. Here they take on Giuseppe Verdi's comedic opera Falstaff adapted from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. Sat-Sun, 10/18-19 at the Yorktown Stage.

The third installment of the Aldrich's 50th Anniversary exhibition includes part two of Standing in the Shadows of Love: The Aldrich Collection 1964-1974 - an exhibition of works from Richard Artschwager, Eva Hesse, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin and Richard Serra opens this week. Plus contemporary artists whose work reflects the art and culture of the 1960s & 70s. Read more.

Saturday night comedy: Amy Schumer, Comedy Central's fastest rising star performs stand up at the Capitol Theatre. Inside Amy Schumer, was Comedy Central's top rated new show of 2013. Her Comedy Central special, Mostly Sex Stuff, was the network's second-highest rated special in 2012. She has guest-starred on Curb Your Enthusiasm and 30 Rock, Kathleen Madigan plays The Ridgefield Playhouse. 

More Fall Comedy here.

This week in music: Martin Sexton is in Tarrytown on Friday night. The bluegrass Crowe Brothers are at the Emelin. On Saturday Kansas plays The Paramount Hudson Valley. On Sunday you can hear The Westchester Philharmonic in Purchase, The Stamford Symphony at The Palace, Rufus Wainwright is at The Ridgefield Playhouse, Black Violin is at PAC, REBEL Ensemble for Baroque Music is at The Bedford Presbyterian Church. More music here.

Susan Lawrence Gourmet Foods' Farm Table Chef's Dinners prepared by Chef Mark Kramer are like a pop-up restaurant experience right in the confines of their own storefront in Chappaqua. On October 18 he will serve a five-course farm table dinner and sommelier wine tasting featuring signature dishes, seasonal inspirations and the local bounty of the Hudson Valley. Full menu here.

Tony Award-nominee John Tartaglia's interactive black-light puppet show is a magical undersea adventure. Tank, 

Bubbles & Dorsel are BFFs (best fish friends) with a treasure map who sing and dance on a journey of discovery. Tartaglia starred in the musical Avenue Q, appeared on Broadway in Shrek The Musical, and created and starred in The Playhouse Disney series Johnny and the Sprites. Sat, 10/18: 2pm. More Kids Stuff Here.

Dance to live music, watch a blacksmithing demonstration, make origami, visit the antique cars, try your hand at a variety of farm games, decorate a sugar pumpkin, visit the Farmers Market, take a hayride to the farm's back fields and more! Sun, 10/19. (Muscoot Farm, Rt. 100, Somers; More Fall Events Here.

Games, rides, entertainment and amusements before and after the Ragamuffin Parade. March with the Blue Crew Marching Band, the Dixie Dandies Band and the Music Makers After the parade there's more entertainment at the train station. Visit the Friendly Witches, walk the "plank" at the Pirates' Den and morel. Sun, 10/19: Carnival: 12pm. Parade; 3:30pm. (Chappaqua Train Station; More on this and more Halloween Events.

Lasdon Park's annual train show takes on an alien theme with over 300 feet of track with model trains chugging along past building and desserts filled with aliens, flying saucers, and secret laboratories. More on this and 25 more Halloween Events here.

Fairies, gnomes & magical creatures at Westmoreland Sanctuary this week. The Enchanted Forest Festival offers magical trail tours, fairy tales, games, food & fun from 2-5pm. And Spooky Trail tours, spooky tales and a marshmallow roast from 6-9pm. With entertainment & craft projects. This week there's serious Boo-Fests at The Haunt at Rocky Ledge in North White Plains, Rye Playland, the Bronx Zoo, Philipsburg Manor, Lake Compounce, and Jay Ghouls' House of Curiosities at Lyndhurst Mansion. Read more.

"Pumpkin Art" takes center stage at Van Cortland Manor with over 5,000 hand-carved, illuminated pumpkins at The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze. You can see more master pumpkin sculptors work at The Haunted Pumpkin Garden at the New York Botanical Garden and at Boo at the Zoo at the Bronx Zoo. With musical entertainment from the Broadway cast of Cinderella. Read more.

Jazz meets R&B when Allen Toussaint joins the famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band for an evening of music from New Orleans' French Quarter. Some of the artists who have had hits covering Toussaint's songs include Glen Campbell ("Southern Nights"), Leo Dorsey ("Working in the Coalmine"), Ernie K. Doe ("Mother-in Law"), The Rolling Stones ("Fortune Teller") and Jerry Garcia ("I'll Take a Melody"). Fri, 10/24: 8pm. (Performing Arts Center, Purchase More PAC.

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, directed by Wu Han and David Finkel, recently announced a three-year residency at Purchase College. They will play 3 concerts this year at PAC beginning Sat, 10/25. CMS regularly appears at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, the annual Baroque and Winter Music Festivals at Alice Tully Hall and each December they perform Bach's Brandenburg Concertos at Lincoln Center - an event The New York Times calls "a New York holiday staple." A real coup for Purchase College and PAC. Sat, 10/25: 5pm. More PAC.