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What To Do: In & Around Town This Week
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The Armonk Players present A Midsummer Night's Dream  The Armonk Players set William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in modern times offering an imaginative take on the Bard's popular comedy and lots of surprises. Opening on Sat, 12/6 at Whippoorwill Hall. More winter theatre, dance & comedy.
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Blood Sweat & Tears' Lew Soloff at The Harvey School
 An evening of jazz, starring Grammy Award-winning Lew Soloff, former Blood, Sweat and Tears trumpeter and accompanist for the likes of Gil Evans, Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand. Lew performs with an all-star band featuring acclaimed saxophonist/singer Grace Kelly, Victor Lewis, drums, David Budway, piano, Essiet Essiet, bass and Ron Affif, guitar. Sat, 12/13: 8pm. (Lasdon Theater, The Walker Center for the Arts, The Harvey School, 260 Jay St., Katonah; www.harveyschool.org) |
Edgar Meyer at PAC: From Yo Yo Ma to James Taylor
 This gifted crossover artist has carved out a unique niche in musical genres from classical to blue grass, new grass and jazz. He has composed a double-bass concerto, performed Bach's cello suites unaccompanied on double-bass, and collaborated with Joshua Bell, Bela Flek and James Taylor. His work with Yo Yo Ma on Appalachian Journey won a Grammy for Best Classical Crossover Album. More PAC |
Winter Wonderland at Kensico Dam & a whole lot more  Winter Wonderland at Kensico Dam Plaza Park continues this week with ice skating, holiday music, a choreographed light show, food, crafts and more entertainment. Read about this new event from Westchester County Parks and 83 more Holiday Events.
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Where To See: The NutcrackerThe Westchester Ballet Company's production of The Nutcracker at the County Center runs from 12/19-21. You can also see the Connecticut Ballet's Nutcracker at the Stamford Palace, a Colonial Nutcracker at Paramount Hudson Valley, Max & Ruby in The Nutcracker Suite at The Tarrytown Music Hall and George Balanchine's The Nutcracker at Lincoln Center. There's seven Nutcrackers - all shapes and sizes right here.
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Darlene Love, Aimee Mann, Mannheim Steamroller & more  Darlene Love brings her Holiday Show to Tarrytown on Thurs, 12/11. Bedford Chamber Concerts presents Handel's Water Music and Corelli's Christmas Concerto on Wed, 12/10. There's more holiday music coming with the Aimee Mann Christmas Show, Mannheim Steamroller, The Vienna Boys Choir, Trans Siberian Orchestra, A Celtic Christmas, the Rob Mathes Holiday Concert at PAC and the Westchester Phil's Winter Pops! with Broadway stars Christine Ebersol, Santino Fontana and Laura Osnes. More Holiday Music here.
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Where To Shop: Sponsored Blocks
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A Great Value for your Holiday Entertaining  This week's Wine Geeks Wine of the Week is the Le Roc Des Anges 'Effet Papillon' from the Cotes Du Roussillon of southern France. This elegant white shows round notes of juicy peach and Asian pear with nuances of honeysuckle, citrus and lime zest. It's sure to brighten up your holiday gathering. Normally it's already a steal at fourteen bucks, but with this week's discount it's only $11.89 a bottle! Buy it by the case and receive an even deeper 20% discount off of the original price! Use discount code FRANCOGEEK to purchase.Thru Sun, 12/14. (Wine Geeks, 559 Main St., Armonk, 914.273.9463) www.winegeeksarmonk.com
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Big Savings at LOL Kids Armonk's Holiday Sale
 Is this little number from Poppy England to die for - or what? Pick it up and much more on all fall/winter clothes at 15-30% off at LOL Kids Armonk's Holiday Sale! There's even better savings on outerwear - like OMG 40% right now! If your little fashionistas are looking ahead to spring? Check out LOL Kids Sample Sale on springwear from Fun & Fun and Gaudi Italia all at wholesale prices! (LOL) New owner Julia Rozenfeld of Chappaqua has big plans to expand upstairs to stock more "little Fashion big Style" for boys and girls, newborn to 14, from Silvian Heach, Sarabanda, Miss Blumarine, Ki6, iDo, Monnalisa, Spitfire, and Aston Martin. LOLKIDSARMONK.com |
Have you downloaded this App yet? You will ...
 If you haven't downloaded the new Castle Cab App - you will. Castle Cab, the new mobile-device based taxicab service serving North Castle and surrounding communities with on-demand service and advanced reservations has a motto: Ride Castle = Freedom. So why would a suburban community like Armonk, Bedford or Chappaqua need a cab service? We offer up 29 liberating reasons ... and a new game you can play at home to add to our list. Have fun. Read more. |
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What To Do: With the Kids
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Rosenthal JCC Hanukah Celebration & more local kids stuff
 Rosenthal JCC's Jewish Drum Tales is an interactive musical experience using traditional drum-circles, musical instruments and songs to tell the story of Hanukkah. Everyone gets an African drum and becomes part of the storytelling. Enjoy ricotta latkes with blackberry jam - made fresh. Make a Hanukkah craft to take home. More local Holiday Events this week: Christmas at Muscoot Farm on Sunday, Breakfast with Frosty and Friends and Build a Gingerbread House at the Bedford Hills Community House on Saturday, Holiday Tea Musicales at Caramoor from Wed-Friday and over 90 Holiday Events, and music on our Holiday Calendar. Check it out and Happy Hanukah, Merry Christmas. Holiday Kids Stuff |
Circus Minimus in Croton Falls
 There's an entire circus in Kevin O'Keefe's suitcase. A circus tent, a band, circus lights and a host of zany characters. But the most important performers emerge from the audience, making for a unique and light-hearted collaboration for the whole family. Sat, 12/13. (The Schoolhouse Theatre, Croton Falls. More kids theatre. |
A Christmas Carol ... two ways 
Jonathan Kruk's adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol at Sleepy Hollow's Old Dutch Church is a Historic Hudson Valley tradition. His 60 minute performance of Ebenezer Scrooge's night-long journey into Christmas past, present and future with the ghost of Jacob Marley is performed with musical accompaniment. Sat-Sun, 12/6-21. At Lyndhurst, Michael Muldoon recreates this holiday tale from Dickens' original texts. The performance travels through the mansion meeting spirits in different rooms along the way. Read more.
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Windsynch Holiday Sampler at Caramoor
 Winners of the Sylvia Ann Hewlett Adventurous Artist Prize, Windsynch bring a fresh twist to chamber music with upbeat arrangements of well-known songs from Prokofiev, Copland, holiday faves from The Nutcracker to "The Christmas Song" and "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer." Sat, 12/13: 8pm. More Holiday Events. |
Holiday Trains at Lasdon Park, NYBG, Stamford & more  Lasdon Park's second annual Holiday Train Show kicks off this week. See Metro North trains travel up the Harlem lie to Katonah. Santa will be there. There's more Holiday Trains at the County Center, the New York Botanical Garden, a billion LEGO blocks worth of trains at the Stamford Museum, and The Polar Express in IMAX at the Norwalk Aquarium on right here.
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The Little Mermaid at WPPAC  Based on the Disney animated film, The Little Mermaid, tells the story of Ariel, a beautiful young mermaid who longs to live in the world above. With a score by eight-time Academy Award winner, Alan Menken, that includes the hit songs "Under the Sea", "Kiss the Girl" and "Part of Your World". 12 performances from Fri, 12/19-Sun 1/4: at the White Plains Performing Arts Center. More Kids Stuff here.
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Our Winter Music Guide is up!
 Our Winter Music Guide is now live. We list 95 concerts from December to March around town and beyond. Including, Smokey Robinson, Elton John, The Temptations & The Four Tops, Marshall Tucker Band and Phil Lesh & Friends in December. Plus, a first look at 2015 shows featuring Dave Mason and Madeline Peyroux in Tarrytown, Houston Person in Croton Falls, the Chappaqua Orchestra, Bedford Chamber Concerts, Fleetwood Mac, Jack White, The B52s, Bela Flek and a whole lot more. |
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Gedeon Luke and The People at The Haven
Lagond Music School's Spotlight Series continues with Memphis soul band Gedeon Luke and The People - think Sly Stone and Curtis Mayfield. The band recently shared the lineup with Robert Plant on the BBC2 show Later ...With Jools Holland. Read More. |
Musica Sacra: Handel's Messiah at PAC
 No need to go all the way to Carnegie Hall this holiday season, the Concert Hall at PAC will reverberate with the sound of Handel's Messiah and its Hallelujah Chorus. Musica Sacra, acclaimed for their performances of the great choral masters sets the standard by which all other Messiahs are judged. Sat, 12/20: 2pm. (Performing Arts Center, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; More Holiday Music |
Rob Mathes Holiday Concert at PAC
 Rob and his All-Star band's annual celebration offers an evening of original tunes and holiday classics. A Grammy-nominee, Mathes has worked with virtually every big name in the music industry including Bono, Tony Bennett, Sting, and Bruce Springsteen. Fri-Sat, 12/19-20: 8pm. (Performing Arts Center, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; More Holiday Music and Events |
Westchester Phil's Winter Pops! with Broadway Stars
 Ted Sperling conducts the Westchester Phil and Broadway stars Christine Ebersol (42nd Street), Frozen's Santino Fontana and Laura Osnes (South Pacific) through the Frank Loesser Songbook. Loesser wrote music and lyrics for Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. His song book includes the hits "Heart and Soul", "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve", and "Baby, It's Cold Outside." Sun, 12/21: 3pm. (Performing Arts Center, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; More Holiday Music |
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