2016 Hudson Valley Garlic Festival

It's that time of year again the 28th Annual Hudson Valley Garlic Festival takes place this weekend, October 1st and 2nd, at Cantine Park in Saugerties, NY. This is the biggest and best garlic festival on the East Coast. The festival draws 50,000 lovers of the Stinking Rose from all over the country and features 55 garlic farmers, many excellent purveyors of gourmet festival food, a number of carefully selected craft vendors, four stages of music, a theater company, and a roving puppeteer. The Homegrown String Band™ will be performing three sets of high energy neo-traditional acoustic American music, each day on the Pavilion Stage. This year we will be sharing the stage with Medieval music performers, Bells & Motley. Other performers include Acoustic jazz by Sundad, songsters Mark Rust, Rich Bala and Ian Flannigan, Acoustic rock and blues by Annie and the Hedonists, Bluegrass and acoustic roots music by the Bondville Boys, The Arm of the Sea Theater, and One World Puppetry.

Directions to the Festival

Music & More at the 2014 Hudson Valley Garlic Festival

Once again it's time for the Hudson Valley Garlic Festival. This festival, in honor of "The Stinking Rose," is one of the biggest food festivals in the country attracting over 50,000 visitors each year. The festival features great food, music, and crafts. The big event, which has been taking place on the last weekend of September since 1989, will be happening on Saturday and Sunday, September 27th and 28th, at Cantine Park in Saugerties, NY. There will be eight musical acts, plus puppets, dancers, and a theater troop performing throughout the weekend on 5 stages. This year, The Homegrown String Band will be sharing the Pavilion Stage with our old friend, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Mark Rust. We will be performing 3 sets each day of the festival.

Other acts appearing include:

Annie & the Hedonists
Captain Squeeze & the Zydeco Moshers
Mike + Ruthy
Sundad
Passero
NY Country
One World Puppetry
Morris Dancers
Arm of the Sea Theater

The Hudson Valley Garlic Festival

Saturday September 27th 10 AM - 6 PM

Sunday September 28th 10 AM - 5 PM

 Cantine Park, Saugerties, NY

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2010 Hudson Valley Garlic Festival

This weekend we will be doing six sets, three each on Saturday and Sunday, at The Hudson Valley Garlic Festival. We (The Homegrown String Band) look forward to this festival all year! Everything about it (music, food, crafts) is first rate. It is also very professionally run by a great group of enthusiastic  garlic lovers. This year I'm planning on getting enough seed garlic for about a hundred plants. Last year I planted sixty and it looks like we will run out of the stinking rose around Christmas. If you are a garlic lover who has never made the pilgrimage to the HVGF you really owe it to yourself to make the trip. Tens of thousands of people will be enjoying everything garlic; from salsas and pestos to chocolate covered garlic and garlic flavored ice cream! We will be appearing on the Pavilion stage; alternating sets with the talented singer song writer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Rust. I expect we'll see our old friend Bruce the soundman again, too!

The Hudson Valley Garlic Festival

September 25 & 26,  2010

Cantine Field, Saugerties NY

Photo by Rick Jackofsky