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The Hotel Café Festival at Belleayre Mountain on Saturday August 4, from 5 PM on, is the first outdoor event presented by the famed Los Angeles singer/songwriter venue, The Hotel Café. Featuring a full day and night with 14 artists, including Rachael Yamagata
and the Cary Brothers, pictured, proceeds are going to Friends Of Snuffy, a volunteer organization aimed at improving the lives of pets and stray animals through education programs...
Thursday 8/2
10:00 AM - 4:00 AM Ulster County Fair Senior Day - seniors free BJ Thomas & Billy Joe Royal, truck pull, Libertyville Road, New Paltz 255-1380 or www.UlsterCountyFair.com
6:00 PM The Real Islam; Peace Beyond Politics, Woodstock Sufi Center, 33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock 679-7215
8:00 PM Phoenix Fabrik by award-winning playwright Daniel Alexander Jones. Roxbury Arts Group, Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury 607-326 7908
Friday 8/3
5:00 PM Bird-On-A-Cliff’s Shakespeare Festival presents The Merry Wives of Windsor. Comeau Property. Woodstock www.birdonacliff.org
7:00 PM Phoenicia Phirst Phriday; featured performers and open mic; refreshments; The Arts Upstairs; 60 Main Street, Phoenicia; 688-2142
8:00 PM Phoenix Fabrik by award-winning playwright Daniel Alexander Jones. Roxbury Arts Group, Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury 607-326 7908
Saturday 8/4
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Hudson Valley Mommies Yard Sale! Highland Rail Trail parking lot, New Paltz Road Emily@hudsonvalleymommies.com
10:00 AM - 12:00 AM Ulster County Fair Exile, Gymkhana, Midway rides, Libertyville Road, New Paltz 255-1380 or www.UlsterCountyFair.com
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM HITS Kids Day! With pony rides, face painting, crafts, games and loads of fun. Saugerties 246-88331
10:30 AM Origami Foldfest! with Anita Barbour. For children, teens and adults. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin Street, Kingston 331-0507 ext. 7
11:00 AM Steve Charney & Harry, Magician Ventriloquist, Woodstock Playhouse, intersection of routes 212 and 375 679-4101
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM Tannersville Crazy Race and Festival. Race begin at 2 p.m., with line up at 1:30 p.m. at the J Tree, and Awakened Heart Cafe. Tannersville To enter call, 518-589-5765
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. 35 Van Wagner Road off Rte 212, Willow 679-5955 or www.WoodstockSanctuary.org
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM Meet the Artist with Ellie Steffen. Woodstock Artist Association and Museum, 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock 679-2198 ext 104
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM Steamboat Days - A Slice of History! Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston 338-0071 or visit www.hrmm.org
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Fleischmanns Celebrates Alfredo Santos. Art, et etcetera, 1164 Main Street, Fleischmanns 254-4998
3:00 – 4:00 PM Pine Hill Senior Social at the Community Center on Main Street.
4:00 PM Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at the outdoor Little Globe stage on the grounds of the Ashokan Farm and Theatre in West Shokan, Rain Site: American Legion Hall, Mt. Road, Shokan
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Chicken Bar-B-Que! All proceeds to benefit the Olive First Aid Unit, at Davis Park, West Shokan
4:30- PM – 7:30 PM Big Indian-Oliverea Fire Department & Ladies Auxiliary’s 46th Annual Chicken & Rib BBQ… Fire House, Big Indian. 254-9962
5:00 PM CMF’s New Doctorow Center’s ribbon cutting ceremony, open house, reception and tour of the Pleshakov Piano Museum, with an evening performance and more activities on Sunday. Main Street, Hunter…518-263-2063
5:00 PM Bird-On-A-Cliff’s Shakespeare Festival presents The Merry Wives of Windsor. Comeau Property. Woodstock www.birdonacliff.org
5:00 PM - 11:00 PM Hotel Cafe at Belleayre. Featuring hoprdes of young singer/songwriters at Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount. 800- 942-6904, ext. 344 or www.belleayremusic.org.
5:00-8:00 PM First Saturday Art Receptions; held throughout Kingston in various galleries; 331-0331; www.askforarts.org
5:00 PM Opening Reception: The Seasons by artist Gregory Amenoff; Kleinert/James Arts Center; Woodstock 679-2079; www.woodsockguild.
6:00 PM Tokyo String Quartet. All Beethoven Program. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock 679-8217 or www.maverickconcerts.org
6:30 PM Live Gospel Recording. Featuring Wilborn Temple Gospel Ensemble, Albany, NY; Growth in Christ Community Choir, Long Island, NY; Shiloh Baptist Mass Choir, Hudson, NY SUNY New Paltz Lecture Centre Room 100 518-965-5846
7:30 PM Benefit Concert for Norm Wennet. A folksinger for over 40 years. The Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker St., Woodstock
8:00 PM Phoenix Fabrik by award-winning playwright Daniel Alexander Jones. Roxbury Arts Group, Vega Mountain Road, Roxbury 607-326 7908
8:00 PM John Gorka. Rosendale Café, Main Street 658-9048
8:00 PM Tommy Femia as Judy Garland. Woodstock Playhouse 679-4101
8:30 PM - 2:00 AM Freestyle Frolic Outdoor Summer Dance, Center for Symbolic Studies, 310 River Road Ext., Tillson 658-8319 or www.freestylefrolic.org
Sunday 8/5
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Lecture & Workshop: Spirits & Masks. Bring your own lunch. Urth Arts, Samsonville 657-5701 or www.urtharts.com
1 1:00 AM - 1:00 PM Intro Lecture on Honeybees and Organic Beekeeping. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Cottekill 255-6113 or www.HoneybeeLives.org
11:00 AM The Feast of Our Lady of the Snow. A special liturgy followed by a reception after Mass will begin a series of year long events to commemorate the 175th anniversary of St Mary of the Snow parish. Saugerties 246-0941
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. 35 Van Wagner Road off Rte 212, Willow 679-5955 or www.WoodstockSanctuary.org
2:00 PM Shandaken Democratic Caucus at Glenbrook Park, Route 42 and 28, Shandaken. Be there!
3:00 PM Discussion and Book Signing with the Author, Joel Kovel, The Golden Notebook. 29 Tinker St. Woodstock
4:00 PM Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at the outdoor Little Globe stage on the grounds of the Ashokan Farm and Theatre in West Shokan, Rain Site: American Legion Hall, Mt. Road, Shokan
4:00 PM Season Kickoff Benefit Party & Incognito Encore. Woodstock Fringe, Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock 810-0123
4:00 PM Concert on the Creek: First Sunday Songwriter’s Circle. featuring Dorraine Scofield, Chris Walsh, and The Virginia Wolves. Gallo Park Stage on the Rondout, Kingston 679-8585
5:00 – 7:00 PM Uncle Rock at the American General Store, 4075 rte. 28A
West Shokan, NY 657-7762
5:00 PM Bird-On-A-Cliff’s Shakespeare Festival presents The Merry Wives of Windsor. Comeau Property. Woodstock www.birdonacliff.org
6:00 PM Maverick Concert: Saint Lawrence String Quartet. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock 679-8217 or e-mail maverickmuse@aol.com
Monday 8/6
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Workshop: Masks & Puppets. Bring your own lunch. Urth Arts, Samsonville 657-5701 or www.urtharts.com
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM Auditions: Missoula Children’s Theater presents The Wizard of Oz. Registration at 3pm, auditions at 3:30pm. Needed: Children ages 7 to19. Final decisions announced at 5:30pm. Woodstock Playhouse, intersection of routes 212 and 375, Woodstock 679-4101
7:00 PM Earthkeeping Circle Meeting. United Methodist Church, Route 28, Shokan Email: schaef@hvc.rr.com.
7:00 PM Monday Night Open Mic - Poetry/Prose/Performance: Wendy Klein (creative non-fiction) & Brent Robison (short story). The Colony Café, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock 679-5342
Tuesday 8/7
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Separation & Divorce Group for Women. Kingston Library, 55 Franklin Street, Kingston. 679-2235 or askerica@aol.com
Wednesday 8/8
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Financial Aid Workshop. Ulster County Community College, Vanderlyn Hall Student Lounge, Stone Ridge 1-800-724-0833 ext. 5058
5:00 PM Shandaken Women’s Network Outdoor Potluck & Barbeque plus Fitness Arts at the home of Mindy Pickard in Woodstock. Reservations by August 6th 688-7057 or reservations@shandakenwomen.net.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM The 2007 Kingston Children’s Concert. T.R. Gallo Park, Kingston 255 3580 or jasclinton@aol.com
Thursday 8/9
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Financial Aid Workshop. Ulster County Community College, Vanderlyn Hall Student Lounge, Stone Ridge 1-800-724-0833 ext. 5058
6:00 PM Dan Millamn, author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior Bearsville Theater; 679-8652 or www.bearsvilletheater.com
8:30 PM Rhonda Vincent & the Rage. Bearsville Theater, 291 Tinker Street, Woodstock 679-4406
Friday 8/10
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Workshop: Outdoor Pageantry. Urth Arts, Samsonville, 657-5701 or www.urtharts.com
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM Integrated Energy Therapy Training (Hands on energy clearing & healing) Phoenicia Healing Arts Center, 688-2323 or www.skyshealings.com
5:00 PM Bird-On-A-Cliff’s Shakespeare Festival presents The Merry Wives of Windsor. Comeau Property. Woodstock www.birdonacliff.org
5:00 PM Princes of Serendip. Woodstock Fringe, Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock 810-0123
8:00 PM Abdullah Ibrahim. Belleayre Mountain Ski Center, Highmount. (800) 942-6904, ext. 344 or www.belleayremusic.org
Saturday 8/11
8:00 AM-4:00 PM Car Show; East Strand, Kingston; 331-7517; www.ci.kingston.ny.us
9:00 AM-:00 PM. August Archery Tournament and Barbecue Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM Integrated Energy Therapy Training (Hands on energy clearing & healing) Phoenicia Healing Arts Center, 688-2323 or www.skyshealings.com
11:00 AM and 2:00 PM Missoula Children’s Theatre presents “The Wizard Of Oz”; Woodstock Playhouse; performances at; 679-4101; www.woodstockplayhouse.org
11:00 AM Young People’s Concert; Maverick Concerts; Woodstock; 679-8217; www.maverickconcerts.org
12:00 noon-dusk Hudson Valley Subterranean Poetry Fest; A.J. Snyder Estate; Route 213, Rosendale; 658-9900; www.centuryhouse.org
2:00 PM Maraleen Manos-Jones, on “Spirit of Butterflies – Myth, Magic and Garden Tips” Skene Memorial Library, Fleischmanns. 254-4581.
5:00 PM – 7:00PM Paint The Stream opening reception, Phoenicia Park Gazebo, Route 214 and Main Street, Phoenicia.
5:00-7:00 PM “Children of Darfur,” photographs by Photojournalist Ron Haviv; East Village Collective, Woodstock
6:00 PM Performance by Livia Sohn, violinst, and Natalie Zhu, pianist; Maverick Concerts; Woodstock; 679-8217; www.maverickconcerts.org
7:30 PM March of Champions Senior Drum and Bugle Competition; Deitz Stadium, Kingston; 338-4813
8:00 PM Performance by Grammy Award winning jazz vocalist singer Dianne Reeves; Belleayre Music Festival; Highmount; 800-942-6904; www.belleayremusic.org
8:00 PM Southern Week Open Dance: Cajun, square and contra with live music; Ashokan Fiddle and Dance; Ashokan Field Campus, Olivebridge; 246-2121; www.askokan.org
Sunday 8/12
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM Integrated Energy Therapy Training (Hands on energy clearing & healing) Phoenicia Healing Arts Center, 688-2323 or www.skyshealings.com
12 noon – 2:00 PM Teen Murder Mystery Dinner Prep Session for performance on August 19. At the Pine Hill Community Center.
3:00 PM Performance by the Shanghai Quartet; Maverick Concerts; Woodstock; 679-8217; www.maverickconcerts.org
Tuesday 8/14
7:30 PM Art Slide Lecture by Shelly Thorstensen, Ellen Kucera, Chris Petrone, Ann Kalmbach; Burroughs Hall, SUNY Ulster; Stone Ridge; 658-9133; www.wsworkshop.org
