There’s a nip in the air, and nights are nearing freezing round the Adirondack area, however the fall season isn’t able to pack up simply but. Several Adirondack-area cities have a slew of festivals and events scheduled for this Columbus Day weekend, together with the Flaming Leaves Festival in Lake Placid, Oktoberfest in Lake George, Penfield Homestead Museum’s Applefolkfest, and more. Be certain to take a look at this 12 months’s Adirondack Loon Celebration, a Chris Kowanko and Syd Straw live performance at Lake Flower Landing in Saranac Lake, a efficiency by Quadro Nuevo and Tim Collins at the Strand Center for the Arts Theater in Plattsburgh, and the Twenty fifth anniversary celebration of John Brown Lives!
Lake George’s Oktoberfest and Fall Festival is about for Friday – Sunday, Oct. 11-13:
All are invited to collect this Columbus Day Weekend on Canada Street throughout from Shepard Park for this 12 months’s Oktoberfest and Fall Festival in Lake George. The coronary heart of Lake George shall be reworked into a Bavarian-style avenue honest for this occasion.
Lake George web site photograph.
Oktoberfest highlights:
- Nonstop German and polka music
- Traditional dancers
- Adirondack Brewery Beer Garden
- Local artisan distributors
- Carnival rides
- Bratwurst
- Crafts
- Dancing
- Knackwurst
- Keg tossing
- Weisswurst
- Potato pancakes
- Stein hoisting
- Local wine
- Dancing rooster
- Fall foliage
- And more.
Schedule of Events:
Friday (5-10 p.m.) Get your free Oktoberfest hat.
- 6 to 10 p.m. — Fritz’s Polka Band at the Bier Tent Stage
Saturday (midday to 10 p.m.)
- 11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. (TBD) at the Bier Tent Stage
- 1 p.m. Stein Hoisting ‘MASSKRUGSTEMMEN’
- 2:30 p.m. Keg Toss
- 3 – 6 p.m. (TBD) at Bier Tent Stage
- 5:30 p.m. ROLL OUT THE BARREL – ‘O’zapft is! – “It’s tapped!”
- 6 – 10 p.m. Tonys Polka Band at the Bier Tent Stage
Sunday (midday to five p.m.)
- 12 – 5 p.m. (TBD) at the Bier Tent Stage
Everyone is welcome to hitch — younger and outdated!
- Ed Schank – Traveling Accordion
Take a have a look at some of the distributors which are anticipated!
- Dyes by Harvest
- Right from the Hive
- The Ruff Road Pet Accessories
- Alaturco Gyro LLC
- Arizona Box Furniture
- Nature’s Images by Brad Wanik
- Muddy Trail Jerky Co
- Mosall’s Grove
- Life Solution
- Wittenberg Carvers
- Stunads Italian Ice
- Carrie’s Creative Crafting Corner
- Hudson Harmony || inc
- Cohns Candle Bar
- Soldier Solutions LLC
- Freyja-LUXE
*Most distributors are cash-only.
Festival Dates and Times:
- Friday, October 11 | 5 pm to 10 pm
- Saturday, October 12 | 12 pm to 10 pm
- Sunday, October 13 | 12 pm to five pm
Flaming Leaves Festival set for Oct. 12 and 13 in Lake Placid:
All are welcome to collect for this 12 months’s Flaming Leaves Festival scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 12 and 13 in Lake Placid. The pageant was named to the checklist of 13 Best Festivals in Ski Country, as featured in Ski Magazine, owned by Outside Magazine. Highlights of the pageant embody, a selection of native shade, reside music, crafts, meals and beer distributors and actions for the entire household, all with one of the premier ski leaping events of the season, the USA Nordic National Championships.
Lake Placid web site photograph.
For youngsters and households to get pleasure from, there shall be a barrel prepare that loops round the venue, a bounce fortress, and enjoyable actions like head-to-head steadiness video games with a bounce joust and sumo fits in a 10×10 ring. Arts and crafts can even be on hand, together with designing leaf crowns, fall tree finger portray, and coloring. Every morning, from 9:30-10:30 a.m., youngsters can be a part of a spray leaf tie-dye session. For those that get pleasure from a bit of magic, Loon Works shall be performing on stage Saturday and Sunday.
Adults may have the alternative to unwind at Paint and Sip periods held on the second ground of the Intervales Lodge, the place they’ll be guided by way of portray a fall or ski leaping scene. Wine shall be out there, although these beneath 21 can even take part—simply with out the wristband.
As for the fundamental occasion, over 50 athletes from the US, Canada, and Norway will compete in the Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined National Championships, together with Team USA and native star Tate Frantz.
View the 2024 schedule of events and buy tickets here.
Chris Kowanko and Syd Straw to carry out at Lake Flower Landing in Saranac Lake on Saturday, Oct. 12:
On Saturday, Oct. 12 at 8 p.m. at Lake Flower Landing in Saranac Lake, NY, Chris Kowanko will open for indie-rock legend Syd Straw. Both performers have had brushes with mainstream success. On Syd’s first go to to the Adirondacks from southern Vermont, she shall be accompanied by guitarist Don Piper, her accompanist for more than 20 years.
Syd Straw started singing backup for Pat Benatar, then took her distinctive and highly effective voice to the indie/various scene. She joined the ever-evolving line-up of the Golden Palominos in the mid Eighties, showing on their second and third albums, alongside Jack Bruce (Cream), Bernie Worrell (Parliament Funkadelic), Michael Stipe (REM), Richard Thompson, and T-Bone Burnett. She debuted her solo album, Surprise, in 1987, touchdown her appearances on MTV’s Unplugged, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Late Night with David Letterman. Her wildly numerous collaborations and cameos embody performing with Ricky Lee Jones, Rosanne Cash, Wilco, Los Lobos, Loudon Wainwright, Linda Thompson, Dave Alvin, Marc Ribot, Al Green, Sun Ra, Daniel Lanois, and Brian Eno. Syd additionally acted in TV exhibits The Adventures of Pete & Pete and the unique Tales of the City.
Chris Kowanko. Photo Credit: Lake Placid News.
Chris’s second album, Spell, was produced by Steve Fisk, who produced many distinguished Northwest bands, like Nirvana, and Soundgarden. Spell options pop songs that steadiness coronary heart, humor, and scrumptious stick-in-the-ear melodies. Chris moved to Upper Jay, NY, in the early 2000’s, and shaped Monsterbuck, an electrical trio with the Renderer brothers, Scott and Byron. Monsterbuck put ahead a relaxed vibe as the de facto house-band for the Recovery Lounge, now referred to as Upper Jay Arts Center (UJAC). Back in the day, Esquire journal recognized Monsterbuck as “one of the top five unsigned bands on MySpace.” Their tune, Arto Monaco: The Land of Make Believers, immortalizes the native landmark throughout the river from UJAC which was swept away by floods. Monsterbuck disbanded when Byron left the area. Scott stayed and earned a devoted cult-like following as creative director of Recovery Lounge/UJAC, an esteemed efficiency house in the North Country. Scott will be a part of Chris at Lake Flower Landing on drums.
Syd Straw. Provided photograph.
The attraction of seeing Syd Straw in individual consists of her quit-wit, heat and means to attach with audiences. She’ll be performing a catalog of unique songs and covers. There’s actual potential for collaboration with these charismatic performers. $15 Advance, $20 at-the-door. For tickets e-mail [email protected]. Lake Flower Landing is ADA accessible. 421 Lake Flower Ave, in Saranac Lake, NY.
This mission is made potential with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the help of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts.
John Brown Lives! turns 25: Historians, artists, scuba divers & group rejoice:
Photo supplied by Martha Swan, Founder and Executive Director, John Brown Lives!
Westport, NY — John Brown Lives! (JBL!) dates its founding twenty-five years in the past to October 16, 1999, when Oswald Sykes, a former hospital administrator from the Capital Region, gave a presentation at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site on the English slave ship, the Henrietta Marie, grounding the group’s mission in reckoning with the nation’s foundational historical past of slavery. The two-day launch of JBL!’s Twenty fifth-anniversary will start with a fall harvest reception at the John Brown Farm on Saturday, October 12, from 3-5pm, and proceed Sunday, Oct. 12, from 1-3pm, at Adirondack Community Church with a ebook speak and signing of Tiya Miles’s new launch, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People.
Memorial on the Ocean Floor
The Henrietta Marie sank in the waters close to Florida after leaving almost 200 folks to be enslaved in Jamaica. The vessel lay undetected on the ocean ground for 300 years. Avid scuba divers, Mr. Sykes and his spouse Marion have been instrumental in the efforts of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers to memorialize the many thousands and thousands of African ladies, males and youngsters who perished on the transatlantic crossing and those that survived and have been offered into bondage in the so-called New World. Mr. Sykes designed an underwater memorial to honor them and was one of a group of black scuba divers who positioned it at the website of the shipwreck in 1993. He designed the monument and wrote the inscription, which learn: “Speak her name and gently touch the
souls of our ancestors.”
The gathering on October 12 can be a possibility to welcome historian Tiya Miles and sculptor Wesley Wofford, each who shall be visiting the John Brown Farm for the first time, and to spiral by way of a voting rights historical past of the United States with artist Ren Davidson Seward and stroll the “Before She Was Harriet” StoryWalk® about Harriet Tubman put in at the website, due to the Lake Placid Public Library. Children’s librarian Karen Armstrong is coordinating artwork actions for kids and households and refreshments shall be served in the higher barn.
Harriet Tubman in History and Art
Wofford’s “Beacon of Hope” statue of Harriet Tubman has been a highly effective and emotive presence at the John Brown Farm since July and the focus of many JBL! packages this season. It shall be de-installed on October 16 and moved to Niagara Falls. Miles is an American historian and the writer of eight books, together with 4 prize-winning histories about race and slavery in the American previous. Her newest work, Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People, was printed this 12 months. Miles publishes essays and opinions in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, and different media retailers, and she has consulted with colleagues at historic websites and museums on representations of slavery, African
American materials tradition, and the Black-Indigenous intertwined previous.
Her work has been supported by a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is at the moment the Michael Garvey Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University.
Doors to her ebook speak and signing at Adirondack Community Church throughout from the Lake Placid Post Office, at 12:45pm. In appreciation of lecturers, John Brown Lives! will give a free, signed copy of “Night Flyer” to the first three educators who stroll in the door.
The weekend events are free, open to all and made potential with help from North Elba LEAF, Stewart’s/Dake Family Foundation, Humanities New York, SUNY-ESF’s Timbuctoo Institute, Crowne Plaza Lake Placid, Lake Champlain Basin Program, an angel donor, and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
For more data go to www.johnbrownlives.org or e-mail [email protected].
The Penfield Museum’s Applefolkfest returns on Sunday, Oct. 13 from 10 a.m. to three p.m.:
Highlights of this free occasion embody:
- Crafters & Artisans
- Produce
- Local Authors
- Flea Market Finds
- Live music by the Loose Monkeys
- Food – chili, sizzling canines, hamburgers, sausages, nachos, popcorn
- Drinks & Apple Dessert Bake Sale
- Free Homestead Tours
- Adirondack Gift Shop
The Penfield Homestead Museum is positioned at 703 Creek Road in Crown Point.
Hill and Hollow Music presents Tim Collins efficiency together with his Favorite Band from Germany on Sunday, Oct. 13 at the Strand Center for the Arts Theater in Plattsburgh:
Vibes virtuoso Tim Collins enjoys a thriving profession performing jazz all through Europe. The Plattsburgh native has been residing in Munich for more than a decade, however he loves returning to the North Country to go to household and mates and to play music. A Tim Collins live performance is all the time a extremely anticipated occasion. Tim is returning to the States and bringing one of his favourite ensembles with whom he ceaselessly collaborates and tours-Quadro Nuevo. After taking part in collectively for a few years, the instrumental artists of Quadro Nuevo and Tim Collins have joyfully developed their very own distinct magical music style someplace between Jazz and World Music.
Tim & Quadro silhouette. Provided photograph.
Tim Collins and Quadro Nuevo will carry out reside in live performance on Sunday, Oct. 13 at 3 p.m. at the Strand Center for the Arts Theater in Plattsburgh, NY. Advance tickets at a number of worth factors can be found on-line at strandcenter.org/theatre-events. Advance tickets might also be bought in individual at the field workplace throughout common enterprise hours at the Strand Center for the Arts positioned at 23 Brinkerhoff Street. For additional data phone 518-293-7613, e-mail [email protected] or go to hillandhollowmusic.org
About the artists:
Tim Collins has been referred to as a “world-class vibes player” (CJSR Canada), “a distinctive vibraphone voice” (Radio One Australia), a “musician of fire” (Washington Post) and “nothing less than exemplary” (Downbeat). His music has been described as “thoughtful, probing composition” (Downbeat), “universal and vibrant” (Blogcritics.org) and “stunning sophisticated jazz” (PBS Australia). Tim at the moment teaches at the Neue Jazzschool München-Pasing and the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (Vienna). Tim’s fifth album “For Good People” was launched in February 2023 by GLM Music, and options Matthias Bublath on Hammond Organ and Christian Lettner on drums. His earlier 4 albums: “Uncertainty,” “Castles and Hilltops,” “Fade,” and “Valcour” have acquired widespread essential acclaim. Just a few of the famend jazz musicians with whom Tim has toured, carried out and recorded embody John Ellis, John Hollenbeck, Ralph Alessi, Marty Ehrlich, Jody Redhage, Nasheet Waits, Hector Martignon, George Porter Jr., Ben Monder, Donny McCaslin, Joel Frahm, Ingrid Jensen, Aaron Parks, Antonio Sanchez, Aaron Goldberg, Will Vinson, Danny Grissett, Mike Moreno and Charlie Hunter.
Tim Collins. Provided photograph.
The melodies of outdated Europe and the Mediterranean spirit of “la dolce vita” have all the time been defining options of Quadro Nuevo’s artwork. Think French valse, Balkan swing, Aegean delusion melodies, Neapolitan hit songs, Arabesques, tangos-songs radiating joyful shade with oriental grooves, Brazilian taste and daredevil improvisations. These melodies inform of the vagabond life, of experiences and encounters on the nice journey of Life, of small coincidences and grand moments, of tenderness and wild temperament pushed between the winds of east and west, caught between consuming craving and joyful achievement, between the bitter and the candy.
From the tranquility of Upper Bavaria, the street has led them over the Alps, traversing Europe from Denmark to the Balkans and to the Ukraine. Quadro Nuevo has been touring the globe since 1996 giving over 3500 concert events in locations as faraway as Sidney, Montreal, Ottawa, Kuala Lumpur, Istanbul, New York, New Orleans, Mexico City, Peking, Seoul, Singapore, Tunis and Tel Aviv.
Tim & Quadro. Provided photograph.
The Quartet’s venues are as numerous as the roots of their music and usually are not restricted to live performance halls and festivals. Quadro Nuevo’s ardent virtuosi are simply as a lot at house busking on the piazzas of southern Europe, engaging audiences to bop to their music as a night-time tango band, as they're in jazz golf equipment and areas as well-known as New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Quadro Nuevo’s CD’s have acquired the German Jazz Award, climbed into the Top Ten of the Jazz and World Music charts, and have been awarded the coveted European Phono Award in Paris. The Echo, the German Phono Academy’s highest distinction, was introduced to Quadro Nuevo in the class “Jazz/World Music, Best Live Act” in each 2010 and 2011. The artists of Quadro Nuevo: reedist Mulo Francel, accordionist Andreas Hinterseher and bassist D. D. Lowka.
Adirondack Loon Celebration set for Paul Smith’s College VIC on Sunday, Oct. 13:
Gary Lee releases a loon after it has been captured and banded. Provided photograph.
Saranac Lake, NY –The Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation (ACLC) invitations everybody to rejoice Common Loons, an icon of the Adirondacks and the North Country, at the Paul Smith’s College VIC (8023 NYS Rte. 30) from 1 to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13 . This family-friendly occasion will characteristic loon-related actions all through the day, together with a guided paddle with ACLC analysis biologists, youngsters’s actions, a loon calling contest, a particular visitor presentation by Adirondack loon naturalist Gary Lee, a silent public sale and raffle for a Hornbeck canoe, and more.
For more particulars, click on right here.
Photo at prime: Wikimedia Commons photograph.
