Adirondack Life – September 2019

(Dana P.) #1

September + October 2019 ADIRONDACK LIFE 11


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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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