What To Do This Weekend

What To Do This Weekend:  Here’s 28 things to do this weekend for townies, culture-vultures, foodies and road warriors!

Local! Pleasantville Farmer’s Market opens on April 1: Pleasantville’s outdoor market returns from its winter home at the Pleasantville Middle School for its regular Saturday run from April 1 through November 18. See our Farmer’s Market Guide for more information. Sat, 4/1-11/18: 8:30am-1pm. ((Memorial Plaza off Manville Rd., Pleasantville)

Local! Picturing Love, Katonah Museum of Art, Tues-Sun, 3/19: 6/25: This new photography exhibition features fifty works from a range of periods and genres depicting romantic love, friendship and parental love for their child. The photographs take a look back at the history of this subject from early days to contemporary art. (134 Jay St., Rt. 22, Katonah; www.katonahmuseum.org)

Street Smart: Photographs of New York City, 1945-1980, Bruce Museum – Tues-Sun, 2/18-6/4: 10am-5pm. This exhibition features 30 photographs, from the museum’s permanent collection, provides a glimpse of street life in the city during the post-war period. Including works by Larry Fink, Herman Leonard, Leon Levinstein, John Shearer, and Garry Winogrand. (1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT;  www.brucemuseum.org)

From the Streets: An Exhibition of Urban Art, ArtsWestchester – Tues-Sat, 4/11-7/15: Anchored by large-scale mural commissions by some of the best-known American urban artists, From the Streets follows graffiti’s stylistic evolution from its genesis as a 1980s youth subculture in the Bronx to its rising prominence in the global art scene. Mixed-media installations, murals and works on canvas highlight the mastery and diverse practices of today’s street artists. (31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains; www.artswestchester.org)

Wyeth Wonderland – Hudson River Museum – Wed-Sun: 12-5pm through May 14. Inspired by the same Pennsylvania landscapes and people as Andrew Wyeth, French photographer Joséphine Douet pairs her works in a side-by-side homage with 12 of the painter’s drawings and watercolors. Some of the comparisons in this “photographer in a painter’s footsteps” exhibition are direct. Others reflect the aesthetic synergy she draws from his works. Pictured here: Rubber Ivy, 2015. (511 Warburton Rd., Yonkers; www.hrm.org)

Local! 6th Annual Run for the Hills, Bedford Hills – Sat, 4/22: 8:30am: Meet at the Bedford Hills Metro North Train Station for the Bedford Hills Neighborhood Association’s 5K Run for the Hills. (48 Depot Plaza, Bedford Hills; www.bhna10507.com)

Local! Spring Boutique in Mt. Kisco – Sat, 4/22: 10am-4pm: The Mt. Kisco Lions Club will hold a new Spring Boutique at The Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester. Shop for custom stationary, jewelry. knit goods, scarves and men’s, women’s and kid’s clothing and accessories and health and beauty products. From J.Mclaughlin, Lularoe, Miki Bijoux and more. (351 E. Main St., Mt. Kisco; www.mtkiscolionsclub/facebook)

Local! Bedford Arbor Day Celebration – Sat, 4/22: 9am: Town Supervisor Chris Burdick, the Town Board, Bedford Tree Advisory Board chairman Jeff Carpenter and members of the Tree Advisory Board invite town residents to join in a tree planting ceremony. Site TBA on the Town website and in press releases. (www.bedfordny.gov)

Local! Antique Appraisal Day at Horace Greeley House – Sat, 4/22: 11am-3:30pm: Stop by the New Castle Historical Society’s Horace Greeley House with you antique treasures for an Antiques Roadshow-style appraisal from Rago Arts and Auction Center in this benefit for NCHS. Rago Arts and Auction Center specialists appear frequentyly on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow. Appraisers on hand include a generalist and specialists in jewelry, fine art and silver. Roadshow regular Sebastian Clarke will talk about his life on the (antiques) road from 10-11am. (100 King St., Chappaqua; www.newcastlehs.org)

Local! 32nd Leatherman’s Loop, Ward Pound Ridge Reservation – Sun, 4/23: 9am: The course for this 10k trail race is “well within the capabilities of almost anyone curiously self-motivated – whether or not you’re just a weekend warrior or a dyed-in-the-wool mountain maniac. It’s got a mind all its own, with a foot-boggling array of barriers strategically placed so as to impede forward progress of the swift and sure-footed kind.” (Rt. 121, Cross River;  www.leathermansloop.org)

PepsiCo Sculpture Gardens Reopen – Sat-Sun: 10am-4pm through 10/31: The Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at PepsiCo’s World Headquarters in Purchase re-opened on April 1 after being closed to the public for four years. The Gardens features 45 pieces of large-scale outdoor pieces from some of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century. Including Henry Moore and Alexander Calder. Plus over 6,000 trees from 38 species, lawns, a Koi pond, fountains and formal gardens with topiary, hedges and thousands of flowering bulbs.The sculptures surround the seven building complex that were designed by Edward Durrell Stone and built at the time on a 168-acre campus. Read more.

Local! Frank Shiner –Chappaqua’s “Soul Man” Concert for ChapPac: 4/22: 8pm: Straight off a sold-out show at NYC’s Cutting Room, Chappaqua’s Frank Shiner performs songs from his new album Lonely Town, Lonely Street at this benefit for the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center. In reviewing the album, Soulmusic.com called it a “A tour de force collection of twelve songs from legendary Blue-eyed soul writers.” The album features Shiner’s re-interpretations of Brooke Benton’s “Rainy Night in Georgia”, The Rascals “How Can I Be Sure” and Hall and Oates’s “She’s Gone”. 480 Bedford Rd., Chappaqua; www.frankshiner.com)

Local! Dan Armstrong Double Bass, Chappaqua Orchestra – Sun, 4/23: 3pm. A long-standing member of the Chicago Symphony, Dan will be joined by members of the Chappaqua Orchestra Chamber Players in Schubert’s famed “Trout” Quintet and other works. (Chappaqua Library Auditorium
195 S. Greeley Ave., Chappaqua; www.chappaquaorchestra.org)

Taconic Opera’s Annual Chamber Concert – Mt. Kisco – Sat, 4/22: 4pm: The Taconic Opera, a local not-for-profit opera company currently in its 19th season, presents its annual Chamber Concert. The performance features violinist Hahnsol Kim the winner of its November Young Virtuosi competition. The program includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 2; Violin Concerto No. 3 and Gustav Holst’s St. Paul’s Suite. (Presbyterian Church of Mt. Kisco, 1605 Millwood Road, Mt. Kisco; www.taconic opera.org)

Fei Fei Dong (piano), Performing Arts Center – Sun, 4/23: 3pm: The Plains Dealer praised Fei Fei Dong for her ”bountiful gifts and passionate immersion into the music she touches.” She is a winner of the 2014 CAG Victor Elmaleh Competition and a top six finalist at the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. She continues to build a reputation for her poetic interpretations, charming audiences with her “winning stage presence.” (Dallas Morning News). (Recital Hall, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; www.artscenter.org)

Local! Pamela Frank & Christian Tetzlaff, Caramoor – Sun, 4/23: 3pm: Two violin virtuosos come together in Caramoor’s intimate and historic Rosen House Music Room. Ms. Frank has appeared with a multitude of famous orchestras from the New York to the Vienna Philharmonic and has collaborated with Yo Yo Ma. Tetzlaff, a 2010 Carnegie Hall Perspectives artist has  performed with the London Symphony and at The Mostly Mozart Festival. Tickets range from $10 to $55. (149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah; www.caramoor.org)

Local! Pictures at an Exhibition, Mackenzie Melemed, The Sanctuary Series – Sun, 4/23: 4pm. At just 22 years-old, Mackenzie Melemed has already performed over 600 concerts, been praised as an “excellent young pianist” by The New York Times and has been featured twice on PBS’s program From the Top. Here he performs works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Mender and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. (South Salem Presbyterian Church, 111 Spring Street, S. Salem; www.thesanctuaryseries.org)

Local! Along a Desert Highway, Music From Copland House, Mt. Kisco – Sun, 4/23: 3pm. Featuring works inspired by the grandeur of the American West. Including Red River, which “traces the journey of the Colorado River to its various destinations in the Southwest, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, the California desert,” with recorded sounds from the region and Native American Portraits by David Amram based on the music of the Cheyenne, Zuni, and Seneca-Cayuga nations. (Copland House at Merestead, 455 Byram Lake Road, Mt. Kisco; www.coplandhouse.org)

Keller Williams’ Grateful Grass, Capitol Theatre – Thurs, 4/20: 8pm. Loose interpretations of Grateful Dead songs done in a psychedelic improvisational bluegrass style. “WARNING: If you like your Grateful Dead songs performed in their original way, or if you prefer traditional bluegrass, this is not the project for you. If you like singing along to Dead songs in that song’s normal tempo but dancing double time to the music, this is definitely your jam.” (149 Westchester Ave., Port Chester: www.thecapitoltheatre.com)

Rufus Wainwright, Tarrytown Music Hall – Thurs, 4/20: 8pm. Elton John called him “the greatest songwriter on the planet.”  We like his “Cigarettes and Chocolate”.  The son Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, Rufus swings in the worlds of rock, opera and theater. His Grammy nominated Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall captured his celebrated Judy Garland tribute performance at the London Palladium in 2007. (13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)

Del and Dawg, Ridgefield Playhouse – Fri, 4/21: 8pm. Del McCoury and David Grisman celebrate their 50 year-old bluegrass friendship that began when they met at the first show they ever played with the legendary Bill Monroe.  (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)

Charlie Daniels Band, Paramount Hudson Valley – Sat, 4/22: 8pm. The Grammy Award-winning country music star, Charlie Daniels returns to Peekskill with his signature Southern sounds and songs such as “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”, “The South’s Gonna Do It Again”, and “Long Haired Country Boy”. (1008 Brown St., Peekskill; www.paramounthudsonvalley.com)

Loretta Lynn, Tarrytown Music Hall – Sat, 4/22: 8pm. This coal miner’s daughter was married at the age of 13 and went on to become the most awarded country singer of all time. A four-time Grammy-winner with ten No. 1 albums and 16 No. 1 songs she was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Aard in 2010. “Cause you ain’t woman enough to take my man …” (13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)

Mama Mia, Westchester Broadway Theatre – Thurs, 3/23- Sun, 6/25: Based on the songs of the Swedish pop group ABBA, Mama Mia, is set on the Greek island of Kalokairi. A 20 year old woman named Sophie wants to have a traditional wedding and hopes her father will walk her down the aisle, but there’s one problem: she has no idea who her father is! With help from her mother’s journal, she narrows the possibilities down to three men, and hilarity ensues as they all claim her as their child! Featuring the  ABBA hits “Dancing Queen”, “Thank You for the Music”, and, of course, “Mamma Mia!”. (One Broadway Plaza, Elmsford; www.broadwaytheatre.com)

Local! The Mask of the Jaguar King, Schoolhouse Theatre, Croton Falls – Thurs-Sun, 4/6-9, 4/13-16 & 4/20-23: The Schoolhouse Theatre presents Stuart Warmfish’s The Mask of the Jaguar King, a story reminiscent of the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The story, set in the Guatemalan rain forest in 1933 follows Sophia, an archaeologist, working to unlock the mystery of a Mayan ruin. Part ghost story, the play uses indigenous and original sound landscapes with live musicians. (3 Owens Rd., North Salem; www.schoolhousetheatre.org)

Baah! Sheep to Shawl, Phillipsburg Manor – Sat-Sun, 4/22-23: 10am-5pm: Watch sheep (and alpacas) get shorn by hand just like in the 18th century. Scottish border collies herd sheep and corral ducks. Yes, ducks. Costumed interpreters demonstrate wool dyeing, spinning & weaving and storyteller Jonathan Kruk entertains. (381 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow; www.hudsonvalley.org)

The Little Mermaid, Tarrytown Music Hall – Sun, 4/23: 2pm: Following a sell-out tour of China, the UK’s children’s theatre The Panto

Company presents an original adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s story of the young girl who believes there is a better life for her out of the water. With original and contemporary chart songs. (13 Main St., Tarrytown; www.tarrytownmusichall.org)

The Song of Mulan, Ridgefield Playhouse – Sun, 4/23: 11am & 2pm: The Virginia Repertory Theatre presents a theatrical production of the noble Chinese folk tale about Mulan, an extraordinary heroine who takes the place of her ailing father when he is drafted into Khan’s army. (80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield, CT; www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org)

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