Get Yours Before They’re Gone! SARATOGA SPRINGS – Twenty years in the making, Hattie’s Mardi Gras will have it’s final edition next Saturday, January 12, at 6 pm at the Canfield Casino. If you want to attend (and why wouldn’t you?) you better hurry, as less than 100 admissions remain, and there will be...
At 25, The Nutcracker Returns Home
Saratoga City Ballet’s 25th Anniversary Performance of The Nutcracker at The Egg Celebrate the holidays with the whole family and join Saratoga City Ballet for its spectacular 25th Anniversary full production of The Nutcracker, with Artistic Director Beth Fecteau. Beth Fecteau’s choreography and production of Nutcracker premiered in 1996 at the Historic Cohoes Music...
The Magical Power of History
The Saratoga Springs History Museum’s Holiday Gala – Friday, December 7 SARATOGA SPRINGS – Before entering the Casino, I pause. As I always do… ,,, and take photos like these. The Spirit of Life, on this night a long angle, semi-imprisoned by wintry branches. Sometimes, they are taken under more hospitable outdoor evenings… But...
Christmas Doings at HMT
A CHRISTMAS STORY Opens at Home Made Theater Home Made Theater celebrates the holiday season with Philip Grecian’s adaptation of Jean Shepherd’s A CHRISTMAS STORY. The show runs weekends December 7th through the 16th at the Spa Little Theater in the Saratoga Spa State Park. This year, there’s a gift that Ralphie wants more...
NMD’s The School of the Arts presents The Nutcracker
SARATOGA SPRINGS– One of the most anticipated events of the holiday season, the Lewis A. Swyer School of the Arts at the National Museum of Dance will present its Fifth Annual production of The Nutcracker, Act II, Kingdom of the Sweets on Saturday, December 8. Seventy students age six to eighteen from the School...
SPAC Presents 4th Grade Dance Recital with Students from the Charlton Heights Elementary School
SARATOGA SPRINGS – As part of its deepening commitment to youth arts education, Saratoga Performing Arts Center has once again brought its public school dance residency to the Ballston Spa Central School District. Since September 25, 4th grade students at the Charlton Heights Elementary School – 100 students – have been participating in weekly...
The Gang’s All (Gonna Be) Here!
SPAC’s 2019 “Sneak Peek” of the Classical Season New York City Ballet Residency to Feature Story Ballet Coppélia The Philadelphia Orchestra to Perform with Wynton Marsalis in his Swing Symphony, Side-by-Side with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for First-Ever SPAC Appearance Yannick Nézet-Séguin returns to SPAC for two weeks; will conduct season finale...
Breaking News: ‘Snow’ Helps Flower and Fruit Grow!
Just Under $40,000 Raised at Annual Snow Ball SARATOGA SPRINGS – The Snow Ball – an annual tradition hosted by The Flower and Fruit Mission to benefit maternity unit and women’s health services at Saratoga Hospital, was held at the Canfield Casino on Saturday evening, December 1. “I am happy to report the Event...
The Giving Circle Compassion Awards
SARATOGA SPRINGS – There’s more to read on the link below, but I think this sentence summarizes the sentiment perfectly: The Giving Circle Compassion Award recognizes that even the simplest act of kindness can have the greatest impact on the quality of life for the underserved and downtrodden. This award encourages selfless acts and...
“The Soundtrack of New Orleans” is Coming Thursday
Grammy-winning Rebirth Brass Band Stopping at Putnam Place as Part of 35th Anniversary Tour “This is a band that I’ve been dreaming about seeing in Saratoga for over 10 years.” When Promoter Jarrett Hartstone, who both brings and pays to see more music than just about anyone I know, makes a statement like that,...