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Downtown Schenectady features more than 40 shops that offer unique gifts & clothing, practical items for your home, personal necessities, and more. Come browse our many options!
Browse our shops, restaurants, services, lodging, attractions, transportation & parking.
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Weekly market with 70+ vendors who produce everything they sell.
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Music & Entertainment
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See St. Patrick's Day Specials in Box at Right
Alyssa Yeager
March 11, 6:30pm
Joel Fisher
March 10, 7pm
Nite Train
March 11, 9pm
Good Time Charlies
March 12, 9pm
Rob Flemming
March 10, 6-9pm
Under the Den
March 11, 10pm-2am
DJ Yosh
March 12, 10pm-2am
Annual Jameson Pairing Dinner -
Call for reservations
March 10, 6-10pm
Kegs & Eggs and Block Party
March 12, 8am/5pm - See above
Patrick Sharrow
March 16, 7pm
SCCC Jazz
Showcase
March 9, 7:30pm
Celebrating 20 Years!
20% off all margaritas
March 9, All Day- All Night
Annual Block Party
March 12, 4pm - See above
Carla Metz & Larry Acunto
March 10, 7-10pm
Pete Van Keuren & Lew Petteys
March 11, 7-10pm
Check Out All of
Downtown Schenectady's
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The Downtown Dish
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This week we have a fun St. Patrick's Day recipe that the kids can help make...and eat!
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College Corner
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| Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Downtown |
Looking for ways to celebrate St. Paddy's Day? Look no further than Downtown Schenectady! Here is a sampling of what our businesses have to offer over the weekend and on the day itself:
Cafe NOLA: 3/17, 6pm - Corned beef & cabbage dinner, green beer & live music with Patrick's Fiddle.
Canvas, Corks & Forks; 3/17, 6pm - Your choice of painting classes of Celtic Tree or Beer Sign, craft draft & sangrias, Mac n' cheese bar included.
Centre Street Pub:
3/12, 9am
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1st Annual Kegs and Eggs party with live music at 9am. 3/17 - Corned beef dinner & sliders all day. Live music with Mike Thomas.
Grog Shoppe: 3/17 - Corned beef & cabbage all day w/drink specials.
Katie O'Byrne's
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3/12, 8am
- Kegs & Eggs! Breakfast buffet and drink specials.
5pm
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Block Party
: Live music with Twenty Ninety-Six (2096) & Grand Central Station.
Manhattan Exchange:
3/17 -
Corned beef & cabbage dinner, Guinness stout cake with Bailey's Irish Cream icing. Green beer.
Pinhead Susan's:
3/12, 4pm
- Block Party with Get Up Jack & Big Radio, corned beef & cabbage.
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| Measure For Measure |
 March 11-13 & 16-20
Schenectady Civic Players
The Duke of Vienna announces that he has been called away from the city and that he is leaving Lord Angelo to rule in his place with full authority. He disguises himself as a friar and observes the moral decay of his citizens. The play deals with issues of justice, morality, and mercy and their relationships to virtue and sin.
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| Hair |
 March 11-13 & 17-20
Schenectady Light Opera Company
The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical tells the story of the "tribe," a group of politically active, long-haired hippies of the "Age of Aquarius" living a bohemian life in New York City and fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War. Claude, his good friend Berger, their roommate Sheila, and their friends struggle to balance their young lives, loves, and the sexual revolution with their rebellion against the war and their conservative parents and society.
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| 8th Annual Capital Region Wine Festival |
March 12, 1pm
Proctors
Sample a wide variety of exceptional red, white, and sparkling wines. If you're devoted to experiencing new tastes, you'll adore this affair! Accompanied by an array of other temptations to enhance your experience. To make the afternoon complete, sample delights from local restaurants and attend the irresistible live auction at 4pm.
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On The Stage
Mainstage - Featuring Rakim with special performances by Kool G Rap, Brand Nubian, Nice & Smooth, and Lil Mo. Join us as we reminisce about the Golden Age of Hip Hop.
Mopco Real Life - March 11, 8pm
Education Center - Features interviews with local celebrities, interspersed with improvised responses by the company.
Mainstage - A once-in-a-lifetime event with the legendary actress and Academy Award®-winner. Synonymous with grace, beauty, and artistry, the Oscar-winning actress will captivate the audience with an intimate onstage conversation and Q&A.
On The Screen
The Revenant - March 10 & 13
GE Theatre - Inspired by true events, this Academy Award winning movie for Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) captures the extraordinary power o
f the human spirit to endure.
GE Theatre - Presented by ICFS: The biggest, most monstrous, atomic breathing event of the year is back! GIGANTIC double feature of two Godzilla classics.
Apollo 13 - March 14, 1:30, 4:15 & 7pm 
GE Theatre - "Houston, we have a problem." The Apollo 13 mission was thought routine until these five words pierced the immense void of space. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts fight a desperate battle to survive.
The Big Short - March 15-16
GE Theatre - The all-too-true story of the mid-2000s financial collapse is viewed here through the lens of a handful of unorthodox money men.
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March 10, 5:30 - 8:30pm
The Van Dyck, 237 Union Street
7th Annual Karaoke Contest: $25 entry fee includes food, fun, silent auction & celebrity judges. Cash prizes & trophies awarded,
March 12, 2pm
32 Washington Avenue
Vote Here! Vote Now!
Exhibit opening with special guest Jamie Floyd. Dialogue & debate: Why your voice counts.
March 13, 3:30-5:30pm
131-133 Jay Street
Local certified Soul Collage Facilitator,Judith Prest from Spirit Wind Studio, will share her love of Intuitive Card Making process using art & soul to bring to light your inner desires. RSVP by March 11.
American Association of University Women [AAUW]
March 16, 6:30pm
McChesney Room - Central Library
"Bioethics Issues and Dilemmas" Presented by Gwendolyn E. Bondi. This presentation will bring to light some of the bioethical issues including genetics, organ transplants, fetus tissue, stem cells, and dilemmas we hear about in the news.
Emmanuel Friedens Church
March 13 & 20
218 Nott Terrace
March, 13, 15, 20 & April 3, 17, 24, 5-8pm
31 N. Jay Street
No better way to wind down your weekend. Enjoy delicious and authentic Italian food along with the smooth sounds of Jazz.
Through March 19
You are invited to participate in The
2016 Lenten Photo Show. For each of the five weeks during Lent, a different theme has been chosen. During each of these weeks, FUMC will be accepting 1-3 photos taken by participants that reflect the weekly themes, which are:
March 6-12: JOY
March 13-19: NEW
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Museum Hours: Mon-Sat: 9am-5pm, Sun: 12-5pm
Through May 1
Escape winter's chill and discover hundreds of brilliantly colored native butterflies at miSci's indoor butterfly house, flying about (and possibly landing on you!) as miSci
re-creates their habitat - the edge of an open field with flowers and trees. Be sure to stop at the chrysalis chamber to see the butterflies as they emerge.
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| Schenectady County Public Library Notes |
 Central Library
99 Clinton Street
Monday - Thursday: 9am - 8pm
Friday - Saturday: 9am - 5pm
Sunday: 1 - 5pm
March 10, 6:30pm
McChesney Room
Coming of Age in the Greenwich Village Folk Revival and Woodstock Scene: With colorful anecdotes and incisive memories.
March 13, 2:30pm
McChesney Room
Janice Walz & Malcolm Kogut: Sing-along
600 Union Street
Throughout March: Large print & biographies: half price.
All proceeds support Schenectady County Public Library
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