Adirondack Life – September 2019

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S

eptember is the end of

the busiest tourist sea-

son in the Adirondacks,

but it’s also when some of the

biggest music festivals of the

year happen.

Labor Day weekend, the Adi-

rondack Independence Mu sic

Festival (www.adkmusicfest

.com) brings an eclectic mix of

touring bands to two stages in

Lake George’s Charles R. Wood

Festival Commons. Performers

at the two-day event, in its fifth

year, include the Ryan Mont-

bleau Band, psychedelic funk-

sters Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

and tribute-band mash-up Pink

Talking Fish.

After a decade-long run in

Sar anac Lake, the HoboFest

train has left the station, mak-

ing way for Northern Current

(www.northerncurrentadk

.org), a free, daylong music

fes tival in Riverside Park, Sep-

tember 1. Burlington singer Kat

Wright headlines a lineup of

reggae, Latin dance and more.

Billed as “a weekend of

mu sic, experience and com-

munity,” the Otis Mountain

Get Down (www.otismountain

.com) celebrates summer’s end

with a genre-bending lineup

and camping in the woods at a

small ski hill in Elizabethtown,

September 6–8.

September 14, John Brown

Lives! brings its fourth annu-

al Blues at Timbuctoo to John

Brown Farm State Historic Site,

in Lake Placid. Find more infor-

mation on the social-justice

group’s Facebook page.

Finally, the sounds of jazz

take over Shepard Park during

Lake George Jazz Weekend

(www.lakegeorgearts.org/event

/jazz-weekend), September 14–

15, with everything from the

bayou brass of John Ellis &

Double-Wide to the flamenco-

jazz of Chano Domínguez Piano

Ibérico to Chilean vocalist-gui-

tarist Camila Meza and The

Nectar Orchestra—all for free.

Northern

Lights

The Ryan Mont bleau

Band performs at

the Adirondack

Independence Music

Festival in Lake

George over Labor

Day Weekend.

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