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| Market Calendar Events | November 08, 2009 |
PROCTORS Robb Alley: The Anonymous Fig Leafs, featuring Rick Sacchetti Guitar & Vocals, Chris Gockley Guitar & Vocals, Arya Chowdhury Bass, Matthew Juk Mandolin Education Center: Tim Barker and friends. Bring your guitar, violin, mando, banjo, bass and play and sing along with Tim and friends. Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: League of Women Voters, Environmental Committee | | November 15, 2009 |
PROCTORS Classical and New Age Guitar Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Jay Street Studios – local artist lead special projects and art activities. Every 3rd Sunday. Community Table: Waggin' Tails Pet Rescue | | November 22, 2009 | PROCTORS Guitar, Banjo, Uke, Folk and Peace Songs. Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: Youth Build | | November 29, 2009 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Hillfolk -- Nancy Crowther and Brenda Fisher Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | December 06, 2009 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Original homegrown music from Upstate NY. For song samples and more, visit J. Peter Yakel & Flood Road at: www.myspace.com/floodroad
Education Center: Old Time Fiddle Jam, led by Terri Lukacko. Bring your fiddle, guitar, banjo or uke to play along. All levels welcome. This is an open level jam - and you are encouraged to play along! Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | December 13, 2009 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Tim Barker and friends. Bring your guitar, violin, mando, banjo, bass and play and sing along with Tim and friends. Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | December 20, 2009 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | December 27, 2009 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | January 03, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | January 10, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | January 17, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | January 24, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Running the River, a four-piece acoustic band whose unique blend of classic country, rock, folk, Irish, blues and fiddle tunes provides entertainment for everyone. Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | January 31, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | February 07, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | February 14, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | February 21, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Running the River, a four-piece acoustic band whose unique blend of classic country, rock, folk, Irish, blues and fiddle tunes provides entertainment for everyone. Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | February 28, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | March 07, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | March 14, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Running the River, a four-piece acoustic band whose unique blend of classic country, rock, folk, Irish, blues and fiddle tunes provides entertainment for everyone. Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | March 21, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | March 28, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | April 04, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | April 11, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Two Bits String Band, folk, acoustic, roots music Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | April 18, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | April 25, 2010 | PROCTORS Robb Alley: Education Center: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | | ARCHIVE OF SCHENECTADY GREENMARKET EVENTS | | November 2, 2008 | Winter Market Opens! Location: Proctors Arcade Market Hours: 10am - 2pm Live Music: Robb Alley Stage: Eric Marczak, Ethnic Traditional Flute Music followed by Alex DiCicco, Piano Education Center Jam Session: Old Time Fiddle Jam, led by Terri Lukacko. Bring your fiddle, guitar, banjo or uke to play along. All levels welcome. This is an open level jam - and you are encouraged to play along! Your Local Expert: Executive Chef Andrew Ottati of The Hollywood Brown Derby, Albany. Please join us for a lesson in the kitchen from Chef Ottatti, who will draw from a selection of the wonderfully fresh local produce available at our market and demonstrate exciting ways to prepare it. Children's Activities: Eat Well Play Hard, Cornell Cooperative Extension Community Table: Stockade-athon | | November 09, 2008 | Live Music: Robb Alley Stage: Catherine Norr, Guitar, Folk Songs, Blues, Pop, Country and Originals. Education Center Jam Session: Tim Barker, Join us for a Beatles sing-along. Bring your guitar!Your Local Expert: Holistic Health Counselor Tamara Flanders of Your Body Awake!, Saratoga. Please join us for a demonstration of just how easy it is to make great, simple and healthy food. Tamara is a Holistic Health Counselor who is an advocate of eating local and seasonal foods as an important factor in natural wellness. She teaches a variety of cooking, health and wellness classes, including a course on Holiday Survial Training. Children's Activities: eat local, play local, Schenectady Greenmarket | | November 16, 2008 | Live Music: Robb Alley Stage: Ron Gordon, Banjo, Uke, Guitar, Old Time Music Education Center Jam Session: Terri Roben, Guitar, Banjo, Uke, Children's Sing-Along Your Local Expert: Chef Marc Renson of Ambition Cafe, Schenectady. Marc is a graduate of Schenectady County Community College and is co-owner of Ambition Cafe on Jay Street. He also the author of soon-to-be-published "Is the Coffee Fresh?" So you want to own a restaurant: Life from the other side of the counter. Please join Marc for some local food cooking demonstrations. Children's Activities: Children's Sing-Along with Terri Roben and eat local, play local, Schenectady Greenmarket | | November 23, 2008 | Live Music: Robb Alley Stage: Eric Marczak, Traditional Ethnic Flute Music followed by Eric Erkkinen, Blues and Folk Guitar. Eric Marczak is well known for playing a variety of traditional flutes in different styles and Eric Erikkinen is a master blues guitarist. This Sunday Eric and Eric will join forces and bring us on a tour from Celtic traditionals, to Native American flute and a little bit of Mississippee blues. Join us on this journey form Ireland to the Delta. Education Center Jam Session: Tim Barker, Acoustic-funk-folk-sing along - BRING YOUR GUITAR and join our jam circle. Very encouraging and enthusiastic, Tim is well known for his song leadership abilities. He can make anoyone feel comfortable to jump in on the fun. Your Local Expert: Chef JoAnn Sifo of Chez Daisie, Schenectady. Stop by and learn how to make crepes from our own local expert right here in Downtown Schenectady. Children's Activities: Scotia-Glenville Children's Museum The Scotia-Glenville Children's Museum offers unique educational and cultural opportunities to residents of New York's Capital Region. They are an all traveling museum without walls that travels to communities within a 50 mile radius of their administrative office. Community Table: Musical Tools for Schenectady Schools, Schenectady Friends of Music Come donate your extra musical instruments! | November 30, 2008 | Live Music: Education Center Jam Session: Your Local Expert: Matt Sharp of Urban Garden Catering Come down and watch as Urban Garden challenges the palettes and sensibilities of the "western diet" in the spirit of a sustainable localized economy. You will love this new local caterer! Children's Activities: eat local, play local, Schenectady IB Program | | December 07, 2008 | Live Music: Robb Alley Stage: Terri Roben, Guitar, Banjo, Uke, Folk and Peace Songs. Education Center Jam Session: Old Time Fiddle Jam, Old Time Jam Session led by Terri Lukacko: bring your guitar, banjo, fiddle, bass, any string acoustic instrument and share in a round of Old Time tunes. All levels welcome. This is an open level jam - and you are encouraged to play along! Your Local Expert: Richard Genest of Moon & River Cafe Richard Genest is chef and owner for the Moon & River Cafe in Schenectady's Stockade. Over the past thirty years, he has owned and operated a number of restaurants in New York offering a selection of healthy, delicious foods. Children's Activities: eat local, play local, Schenectady IB Program | | December 14, 2008 | Live Music: Robb Alley Stage: Bill Ackerbauer, The Bentwood Rockers, Guitar, Harmonica, Mandolin, Banjo, Fiddle followed by Harry George Pellegrin, Classical and New Age Guitar Education Center Jam Session: Tim Barker, Acoustic-funk-folk-sing along - BRING YOUR GUITAR and join our jam circle. Very encouraging and enthusiastic, Tim is well known for his song leadership abilities. He can make anoyone feel comfortable to jump in on the fun. Your Local Expert: Holistic Health Counselor Tamara Flanders of Your Body Awake!, Saratoga. Tamara is a Holistic Health Counselor who just published a cookbook entitled Farm Fed: Hearty, healthy feasts from the Winter Farmers' Market. So, come try a samle of a recipe, pick up your book, and enjoy our wonderful farmers' market! Children's Activities: eat local, play local, Schenectady IB Program | | December 21, 2008 | Live Music: Education Center Jam Session: Special guest, piano player Paul Cronin Your Local Expert: Go Green - Simple Things We Can All Do To Make The Earth A Better Place To Live Children's Activities: eat local, play local, Schenectady IB Program | | December 28, 2008 | Live Music: Education Center Jam Session: Your Local Expert: Go Green - Simple Things We Can All Do To Make The Earth A Better Place To Live Children's Activities: eat local, play local, Schenectady IB Program Community Table: | | | Live Music: Education Center Jam Session: Old Time Fiddle Jam, Old Time Jam Session led by Terri Lukacko: bring your guitar, banjo, fiddle, bass, any string acoustic instrument and share in a round of Old Time tunes. All levels welcome. This is an open level jam - and you are encouraged to play along! Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: eat local, play local, Schenectady IB Program Community Table: | January 11, 2009 | Live Music: Robb Alley Stage: Cavanaugh & Kavanaugh will perform original songs and tunes on guitars, mandolin, fiddle, mountain dulcimer, banjo. Education Center Jam Session: Play and Sing-along with Tim Barker and friends. Acoustic folk and bluegrass. Bring your guitar, bass or fiddle, join the circle. Very encouraging and enthusiastic, Tim is well known for his song leadership abilities. He can make anyone feel comfortable so jump in on the fun. Your Local Expert: Shammi Waheed of Taj Mahal Come down and watch as Shammi Waheed, new chef and owner for Taj Mahal, demonstrates how to prepare some authentic Indian cuisine. You will love this new local restaurant! Children's Activities: eat local, play local, Schenectady IB Program Community Table: | | January 25, 2009 | Live Music: Education Center Jam Session: Children's Sing-A-Long with Terri Roben, Guitar, Banjo, Uke. Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: eat local, play local, Schenectady IB Program Community Table: | | January 25, 2009 | Live Music: John Kirk and Trish Miller. This versatile folk duo from Saratoga County, New York plays old-time music with twin fiddles, banjo, guitar, mandolin and bass. Dance is a regular part of their show, from step-dance to limber-jack and hambone. Education Center Jam Session: Enjoy outstanding hot fiddle and piano music with Colin McCoy and Alan Thomson. Colin McCoy, (multi-instrumentalist) plays for local contra, swing and other dance events. Colin plays a variety of fiddle styles: jazz, western swing, blues, honk-tonk, hoedown and ragtime. He's also been known pull out a saw and bow a few tunes, from time to time. Alan Thomson (Keyboardist/band leader) plays for local dance events: contras, swing dances, Blues, waltzes. Your Local Expert: Shammi Waheed of Taj Mahal Come down and watch as Shammi Waheed, new chef and owner for Taj Mahal, demonstrates how to prepare some authentic Indian cuisine. You will love this new local restaurant! Children's Activities: Union College Chemistry Club Please stop by the Children's Activities table with you children or by yourself and learn how chemistry can be fun. Community Table 1: Dance Flurry Festival and the Dance Flurry Organization Community Table 2: Electrifying Change will be sponsoring a Food Drive. They are looking for: BABY FOOD, DIAPERS, WIPES, ETC.; TOILETRIES: SHAMPOO, SOAP, SHAVING SUPPLIES, TOOTHPASTE, BRUSHES ETC.(THINGS THAT CANNOT BE PURCHASED WITH FOOD STAMPS); CANNED FOODS FOR CHILDREN SUCH AS TUNA FISH AND SPAGHETTI; PEANUT BUTTER, CASH DONATIONS. ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE SCHENECTADY INNER CITY MISSION FOOD PANTRY. DONATIONS OF FOOD FROM SCHENECTADY GREENMARKET ARE ALSO WELCOME.
| | February 01, 2009 | Live Music: Robb Alley Stage: Running the River, a four-piece acoustic band whose unique blend of classic country, rock, folk, Irish, blues and fiddle tunes provides entertainment for everyone. Education Center Jam Session: Old Time Fiddle Jam, led by Terri Lukacko. Bring your fiddle, guitar, banjo or uke to play along. All levels welcome. This is an open level jam - and you are encouraged to play along! Your Local Expert: Please join us for a pre-Valentine's Day demonstration of how to make chocolate from Schenectady's own Uncle Sam's Candy Children's Activities: Community Table: | | February 08, 2009 | Live Music: Robb Alley Stage: Terri Roben, Guitar, Banjo, Uke, Folk and Peace Songs. Education Center Jam Session: Tim Barker, Acoustic-funk-folk-sing along - BRING YOUR GUITAR and join our jam circle. Very encouraging and enthusiastic, Tim is well known for his song leadership abilities. He can make anyone feel comfortable so jump in on the fun. Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: Schenectady County Healthy Neighborhoods Program | | February 15, 2009 | Live Music: Education Center Jam Session: Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region | | February 22, 2009 | Live Music: Children's Activities: Eat Well Play Hard, Cornell Cooperative Extension | | | Live Music: Robb Alley Stage: "2Late", Vicki Gayle and Mike Short, Music just gets better with age! www.2lateonline.com Education Center Jam Session: Old Time Fiddle Jam, Old Time Jam Session led by Terri Lukacko: bring your guitar, banjo, fiddle, bass, any string acoustic instrument and share in a round of Old Time tunes. All levels welcome. This is an open level jam - and you are encouraged to play along! Your Local Expert: Roots & Wisdom will have a demonstration about getting your garden started. Stop by the table and learn about starting plants from seed, composting, and more. Or just bring your vegetable garden questions! Children's Activities: Jerrine Williams of the Boys and Girls' Club PROMISES Mentoring Program will lead children in making their own books about "What would you plant if you had a garden?" Community Table: Mont Pleasant Boys & Girls Club | | March 08, 2009 | Live Music: Education Center Jam Session: Tim Barker, Acoustic-funk-folk-sing along - BRING YOUR GUITAR and join our jam circle. Very encouraging and enthusiastic, Tim is well known for his song leadership abilities. He can make anyone feel comfortable so jump in on the fun. Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Girl Scout Council Community Table: | | March 15, 2009 | Live Music: Education Center Jam Session: Terri Roben, Guitar, Banjo, Uke, Children's Sing-Along Your Local Expert: Mark Pelkey and Eric Marczak of Mohawk Valley Guitars will demonstrate the art of making custom instruments and performing vintage restorations. Children's Activities: eat local, play local, Schenectady IB Program Community Table: | | March 22, 2009 | Live Music: Robb Alley Stage: Running the River, a four-piece acoustic band whose unique blend of classic country, rock, folk, Irish, blues and fiddle tunes provides entertainment for everyone. Education Center Jam Session: Your Local Expert: Margaret Lazzeri is a Master Gardener and will be at the market from 10-12 to help answer your garden questions and provide information about the Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Progarm. From 12-2, meet Kerry Mendez of Perennially Yours and learn about perennial gardening in the Northeast. Bring your garden questions and get ready for spring and summer garden projects! Schenectada Roundtable: Todd Fabrozzi of the Capital District Regional Planning Commisssion presents The Challenges of Sprawl and Smart Growth in the Capital Region Children's Activities: eat local, play local, Schenectady IB Program Community Table: The Schenectady Symphony Orchestra will be at the market and will collect food for the Regional Food Bank. | | | Live Music: Robb Alley Stage: Steve Scarlata, guitar and vocals followed by Alex DiCicco on piano from 12:30 - 2:00 Education Center Jam Session: Old Time Fiddle Jam, Old Time Jam Session led by Terri Lukacko: bring your guitar, banjo, fiddle, bass, any string acoustic instrument and share in a round of Old Time tunes. All levels welcome. This is an open level jam - and you are encouraged to play along! Your Local Expert: New York Folklore Society presents Petro Dzyuba - Come to the market for an early Easter celebration and join us for a demonstration of traditional Russian Easter (Pascha) egg decorating customs. Petro is a master of Iconography and has studied all over the world. His studio is now based in Troy, NY. Children's Activities: Union College Ozone House will be at the market with face painting activities. Schenectady County Bicentennial Events at the Market Bicentennial Event Table: Come to the tables near the ticket windows at Proctors, and see all that the Schenectady County Historical Society and the Mabee Farm have to offer during this Bicentennial Year. Each month of the year includes special programs. Pat Barrot will be present from 10 - 2 o'clock to answer questions about the exhibit of information that she and SCHS curator Kate Weller have created for us. Special Event: Schenectady County Historical Society and Mabee Farm presents Circuit Spinsters. The Circuit Spinsters will bring their spinning wheels and wool, and create yarn before our eyes. Children will be allowed to help make the yarn. The Spinsters love to travel to fairs and events, and gossip as they spin. | April 12, 2009 | Yes, the Market is OPEN! Easter Bunny to Lay Eggs at Schenectady Greenmarket! Come to Proctors and hunt for Easter Eggs. Live Music: Robb Alley Stage: Education Center Jam Session: Tim Barker, Acoustic-funk-folk-sing along - BRING YOUR GUITAR and join our jam circle. Very encouraging and enthusiastic, Tim is well known for his song leadership abilities. He can make anyone feel comfortable so jump in on the fun. Children's Activities: Union College Chemistry Club Please stop by the Children's Activities table with you children or by yourself and learn how chemistry can be fun. Community Table: | | April 19, 2009 
Celebrate Schenectady County's Bicentennial! | Live Music: Robb Alley Stage: TuneFolk, a duo consisting of Sue and Jim Mead, who will play traditional, Old-Time, Celtic and some original tunes and songs Education Center Jam Session: Terri Roben, Guitar, Banjo, Uke, Children's Sing-Along Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Schenectady Greenmarket Volunteers Community Table: Crop Walk Crop Hunger Walks are ecumenical, interfaith, community events. Undesignated funds help support the worldwide programs of Church World Service. In partnership, CWS supports self-help development, meets emergency needs, and helps address the root causes of poverty and powerlessness. 25% of the dollars raised by local walkers will be returned to our community to support programs that provide food to needy individuals. Schenectady County Bicentennial Events at the Market Special Event: "From Sheep to Shawl." Pam Bucci, will bring wool sheared from her sheep, card it, spin it, knit it, and display knitted articles of clothing. Schenectada Round Table: "Henry Hudson was Right After All", a round-table discussion led by Alan Cross, who will explain the China trade that was happening in the New York region soon after Hudson's voyage and on into the present. Alan Cross is a true student of local history - and is fascinated by and full of information about the interchange between New York State and China since the time of Henry Hudson's voyage in the Half Moon. Come to the table by the window in the Muddy Cup at noon, and enjoy learning little known facts about our area. "Henry Hudson was Right After All" is the topic of the day for this round-table discussion. | | | Live Music: Robb Alley Stage: Singer-songer writer from Canada, Jack Harlan. Lyrical firestorms, foot stomp celebrations, redemption ballads from a velvet sea of emotion. Johnny Cash and Nick Drake in a blender. Education Center Jam Session: Lisa Russo. Instruments for young children. Lots of interactive songs and movement. Lisa Russo is a local children's musician. With guitar in hand and lots of hands-on instruments for children to use, Lisa will engage the youngest of children in a fun-filled musical adventure. Your Local Expert: John Mishanec of Cornell Cooperative Extension John works with commercial vegetable growers, covering half the state. He helps vegetable growers reduce or eliminate pesticides and increase profitability. Along with Schenectady County Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners, he will be doing soil tests and advising on techniques home gardeners can employ to reduce insect and disease pest problems in the garden. If you would like a soil test, take 4-6 samples of soil from your garden. Soil should be taken from the root zone, 3-4 inches below the soil surface. Mix the samples together and allow the soil to dry. Then bring about a cups worth of soil for the actual sample. Only about a tablespoon of soil is actually used in the soil test. Children's Activities: ECOS, the Environmental Clearinghouse of Schenectady will host the children's activities for a special Earth Day Celebration! Community Table: ReTree Schenectady Schenectady County Bicentennial Events at the Market Special Event: "The Onrust," a Round-table and slide presentation by Don Rittner, Schenectady County and City Historian. His schooner is expected to take part in the flotilla celebrating the Hudson Quadricentennial and the local volunteers who helped build the boat over the last year and a half. | | May 03, 2009 Celebrate Schenectady County's Bicentennial! 
| GRAND OPENING OF THE OUTDOOR MARKET! AROUND CITY HALL, 10-2 Live Music: Running the River, a four-piece acoustic band whose unique blend of classic country, rock, folk, Irish, blues and fiddle tunes provides entertainment for everyone. Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Union College Ozone House will be at the market with face painting activities. Community Table: Schenectady County Bicentennial Committee Special Opening Day Events 11:00 Ribbon Cutting: Mayor Stratton will join Schenectady Greenmarket as we cut the ribbon to celebrate the opening of our first summer market. Please join us for this special occasion. 11:15 and 12:45: Welcome Summer! Pokingbrook Morris Dancers will help us celebrate the coming of May and the opening of the outdoor market. Pokingbrook Morris Dancers have been performing traditional English morris dances since 1974. The Cotswold dances that will be shown at Schenectady Greenmarket are typical of those springtime displays that historically served to celebrate the awakening of the Earth and to earn a few pennies for the dancers. Schenectady County Bicentennial Events at the Market Special Event: John Ackner, Blacksmith. John will demonstrate blacksmithing, and have a display of historic blacksmithing products from 10-2. Buy Local Bash at Proctors Capital District Local First (CDLF) is hosting a Buy Local Bash at Proctors. | | May 10, 2009 | CITY HALL Live Music: 11-1, Whoa Nelly - Peggy Pearl, Tim Barker and Karen Gilpin present an acoustic-funk-folk-sing along - BRING YOUR GUITAR and join our jam circle. Very encouraging and enthusiastic, Tim is well known for his song leadership abilities. He can make anyone feel comfortable so jump in on the fun. Your Local Expert: Holistic Health Counselor Tamara Flanders of Your Body Awake!, Saratoga. Please join us for a demonstration of just how easy it is to make great, simple and healthy food. Tamara is a Holistic Health Counselor who is an advocate of eating local and seasonal foods as an important factor in natural wellness. She teaches a variety of cooking, health and wellness classes, including a course on Holiday Survial Training. Children's Activities: Schenectady Greenmarket Volunteers Community Table: | | May 17, 2009 | CITY HALL Live Music: Trilogy performs a wide ranging repertoire of standards from country and swing to folk and Broadway. Patricia Kernan (flute and clarinet), Tom Smith(acoustic guitar) and Kevin Aldrich (acoustic bass) create a unique
sound with original arrangements. Children's Activities: Community Table 1: Friends of the Pine Bush for the Albany Pine Bush Discovery Cennter Community Table 1: The GE Realty Plot Association House and Garden Tour | | May 24, 2009 | CITY HALL Live Music: Shelving Rock w/ Stephen Iachetta and T. Breeze VerDant, "Folk with a Rock and Roll Heart" Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: Forever Home Greyhound Adoptions | | May 31, 2009 Celebrate Schenectady County's Bicentennial! | CITY HALL Your Local Expert: Beverley Cornelius works with reed, black ash, and sweet grass to form baskets in the Shaker and the Native American traditions. A native of Schenectady county, she began learning to make baskets 12 years ago, and has studied with teachers all over the world.
Basket making was an important skill during the early 1800s in Schenectady County : Baskets were used as containers for food and other storage, for agricultural work. Native Americans made "burden baskets," and carriers of various sorts, including those for carrying a papoose! Children's Activities: Community Table: | | | CITY HALL Live Music: Running the River, a four-piece acoustic band whose unique blend of classic country, rock, folk, Irish, blues and fiddle tunes provides entertainment for everyone. Your Local Expert:Children's Activities: Community Table: Animal Protective Foundation, Scotia | | June 14, 2009 | CITY HALL Children's Activities: Community Table: The Celtic Faire Committee. The Celtic Faire will be held on June 19th, 2009 on the Jay Street Martketplace. | | June 21, 2009 | CITY HALL Your Local Expert:Children's Activities: Community Table: | | June 28, 2009 | CITY HALL Your Local Expert: Free Blood Pressure Screenings from Local NursesChildren's Activities: Community Table: Junior League of Schenectady and Saratoga Counties | | July 05, 2009 | CITY HALL Live Music: Running the River, a four-piece acoustic band whose unique blend of classic country, rock, folk, Irish, blues and fiddle tunes provides entertainment for everyone. Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: | | July 12, 2009 | CITY HALL Children's Activities: Community Table: Capital District Community Gardens | | July 19, 2009 | CITY HALL Your Local Expert: Community Energy Children's Activities: Community Table: ECOS - Environmental Clearinghouse of Schenectady | | July 26, 2009 | CITY HALL Children's Activities: John Mishanec of Cornell Cooperative Extension John works with commercial vegetable growers, covering half the state. He helps vegetable growers reduce or eliminate pesticides and increase profitability. Bring photos or samples of your garden insects and diseased plants and he will help you identify them and recommend some solutions for dealing with them. Community Table: The American Sewing Guild, Albany Chapter | | August 2, 2009 | CITY HALL Your Local Expert: Roots & Wisdom Come learn about growing and eating local food with Schenectady's impressive team of own urban farmers! Children's Activities: Community Table: Electrifying Change | | August 9, 2009 | CITY HALL Live Music: We have two music events this Sunday so put your dancing shoes on! Brad Peak, Guitar Your Local Expert: We will have two local experts doing cooking demonstrations this weekend, so get ready for some good local cooking! Christopher Allen Tanner, a culinary instructor at Schenectady County Community College and Chef de Cuisine of the SPAC Patron’s Club, has worked in and ran kitchens at Walt Disney World, Vermont, New Orleans, New York, and Yosemite, CA. He is a Certified Executive Chef and Approved Culinary Judge with the American Culinary Federation as well as a Certified Hospitality Educator. Check out his blog! Holistic Health Counselor Tamara Flanders of Your Body Awake!, Saratoga will be doing all kinds of delicious demonstrations in cooking with local greens. She is an avid local food supporter and is always excited to share her ideas with others. Children's Activities: Community Table: Forever Home Greyhound Adoptions | | August 16, 2009 | CITY HALL Children's Activities: Community Table: Senior Whole Health | | August 23, 2009 | CITY HALL Live Music: TuneFolk, a duo consisting of Sue and Jim Mead, who will play traditional, Old-Time, Celtic and some original tunes and songs, followed by Sue and Jim Mead Your Local Expert: Christopher Allen Tanner, a culinary instructor at Schenectady County Community College and Chef de Cuisine of the SPAC Patron’s Club, has worked in and ran kitchens at Walt Disney World, Vermont, New Orleans, New York, and Yosemite, CA. He is a Certified Executive Chef and Approved Culinary Judge with the American Culinary Federation as well as a Certified Hospitality Educator. Check out his blog! Children's Activities: Community Table: AARP | | August 30, 2009 | CITY HALL Live Music: "2Late", Vicki Gayle and Mike Short, Music just gets better with age! Your Local Expert: Community Table: Northeastern New York Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure Community Table: Albany AIDSWalk Community Table: Northeastern New York Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure 5K Run/Family Walk at the Empire State Plaza | | September 6, 2009 | CITY HALL Children's Activities: Community Table: Forever Home Greyhound Adoptions | | September 13, 2009 | CITY HALL Live Music: Mariaville Cattle Company Band Come check out some fabulous guitar, fiddle and banjo from some of our own vendors! They came in 4th out of 785 bands at the Gretch 125th Guitar Greats! Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: 2009 Hunger Awareness Event for Schenectady County, presented by the Salvation Army | | September 20, 2009 | CITY HALL Live Music: Shelving Rock, Stephen Iachetta, the "Shaker Fiddler" joins together with T. Breeze VerDant, the "Folker with a rock and roll heart." Your Local Expert: Holistic Health Counselor Tamara Flanders of Your Body Awake!, Saratoga will be doing all kinds of delicious demonstrations in cooking with local greens. She is an avid local food supporter and is always excited to share her ideas with others. Children's Activities: Community Table: ECOS - Environmental Clearinghouse of Schenectady | | September 27, 2009 | CITY HALL Live Music: Running the River, a four-piece acoustic band whose unique blend of classic country, rock, folk, Irish, blues and fiddle tunes provides entertainment for everyone. Your Local Expert: You get to be our local expert when you vote for your favorite pumpkin and help Cornell University in their pumpkin market research to help growers choose popular disease-resistant pumpkins that can reduce the need for pesticide use. Children's Activities: Community Table: 2009 Hunger Awareness Event for Schenectady County, presented by the Salvation Army | | October 04, 2009 | CITY HALL October 4th is Student Day! Please join us in welcoming new students from Union College and Schenectady Community College to Downtown Schenectady and while you're at the market, enjoy a fun array of activities sponsored by different groups from these two local colleges. Live Music: A mix of a cappella groups and singers from Union College Your Local Expert: Octopus's Garden (Union College) Children's Activities: Author Nancy Castaldo will be hosting children's activities from 10-11. She is author of Keeping our Earth Green: Over 100 Hands-On Ways to Help Save the Earth Community Table: 360.org - Day of Climate Action | | October 11, 2009 | October 11th is New York Potato Day at the Market! CITY HALL Your Local Expert: Chef Marc Renson of Ambition Cafe' will demonstrate ways to cook with New York potatoes. Special Event: Native American Basket Weaving | | October 18, 2009 | CITY HALL Live Music: The Anonymous Fig Leafs, featuring Rick Sacchetti Guitar & Vocals, Chris Gockley Guitar & Vocals, Arya Chowdhury Bass, Matthew Juk Mandolin Your Local Expert: Children's Activities: Community Table: Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corporation (DSIC) | | October 25, 2009 | CITY HALL Live Music: Running the River, a four-piece acoustic band whose unique blend of classic country, rock, folk, Irish, blues and fiddle tunes provides entertainment for everyone. Your Local Expert: Meet the Emus from Cooper's Ark - they will be at the market right next to his stall! Children's Activities: Community Table: Special Event: Vendor Costume Contest - Come to the market for some Halloween fun and vote for the best vendor costume! | | November 01, 2009 | Schenectady Greenmarket returns to Proctors! *Don't forget to turn your clocks back one hour. PROCTORS Robb Alley: Running the River, a four-piece acoustic band whose unique blend of classic country, rock, folk, Irish, blues and fiddle tunes provides entertainment for everyone. Education Center: Old Time Fiddle Jam, led by Terri Lukacko. Bring your fiddle, guitar, banjo or uke to play along. All levels welcome. This is an open level jam - and you are encouraged to play along! Children's Activities: Community Table: Parsons Child and Family Center - this November as we celebrate National Adoption Month we would like to draw attention to the fact that there are many older children in foster care that have been freed for adoption and are simply waiting for a safe, loving and permanent home. The need for families to step forward is great, the rewards are endless. We will be available to answer your questions about foster care and adoption. | | |
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