ALMANAC WEEKLY
A miscellany of Hudson Valley art, adventure and ideas | Calendar & Classifieds | Issue 33 | Aug. 16 – 23
DUTCHESS C O U N T Y FA I R The 173-year-old tradition continues in Rhinebeck, August 21-26
DION OGUST | ALMANAC WEEKLY
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MUSIC Dirt Farmer Festival in Accord to feature Jackson Browne & more on Sunday. This one-day concert assembles some of Levon Helm’s collaborators (and admirers), many of whom are familiar with Hudson Valley music via the long tenure of the Rambles.
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Why did Monty Python’s John Cleese choose a small community theater in what was once the Borscht Belt to host the US premiere of his adaptation of an obscure 19th-century French farce by a prominent 19thcentury French farceur, Georges Feydeau?
The Van Gogh-karts will roll once again on Sunday afternoon, August 19, at the 23rd anniversary of the Kingston Artist Soapbox Derby. The first gravity vehicle will launch at noon, and the last…well, that depends on how well things roll this year.
Each year at the Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park in Saugerties, Arm-of-the-Sea Theater presents an Esopus Creek Puppet Suite, which illuminates some aspect of local history. It features giant puppets in a series of tall tales inspired by Saugerties’ colorful past.
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