A day of Irish culture on the Peekskill riverfront: live music from Shilelagh Law, The Amadans and Phineas and the Lonely Leaves, Irish food and drink, a beer garden, Celtic craft vendors, Gaelic football and hurling demonstrations, step dancers and kids' activities.
Four hundred artists, sixty open doors, three Kingston neighborhoods. Grab a paper map uptown and buy one small thing you'll have to explain at home.
The cider house turns ten with live music, food trucks, a mini vendor market (12–5 PM), cider donuts, apple picking, tours and apple pie eating contests at 2 and 4 PM.
Sweet Clover Farm revives its Woodstock Festival tradition: eight hours of Woodstock-era music and style at the farm, home of the Spirits Lab distillery and tasting room.
Craft beer, five bands and a raffle on Beacon's Main Street. Free to get in. Every pour helps Mid Hudson Animal Aid's cats.
More than 7,000 hand-carved jack o'lanterns at Van Cortlandt Manor, running evenings through Nov 8. Advance tickets only.
Three nights of blues guitar in the Woodstock barn that is home to the Midnight Ramble. Shows at 8pm Friday through Sunday.
Windham's Saturday market on Main Street: local growers and makers, with live music each week.
Hunter's lead-in to winter: a ski swap, food truck and Tap Bar, and SkyRide lift rides over early fall color.
The 36th Kiwanis-run garlic harvest festival: a garlic marketplace, a food alley of garlic dishes, and a full weekend in Saugerties.
Apple and pumpkin picking, wagon rides and a corn maze, with live music beside the Treasury Cider Bar.
An annual benefit concert on addiction and isolation, now at Bearsville, with Gail Ann Dorsey, Jim Weider and Mike Farris.
