Upcoming Events.
The Grange scheduling calendar shows all activities, including private events and hall rentals. To submit a proposed event for consideration, click here and fill out the form.
In person at Grange Hall! All are welcome to perform - music, stories, skits, readings, poetry, dance, songs, etc. Or you can just come to relax and be entertained. This is a great venue for both beginning and veteran performers. This event is Free.
Browse for those treasures you’ve been looking for — kitchenware, household goods, art, linens, accessories, small furniture, gifts — and delicious baked goods too! Or clean out your closet now & donate unused items to give them a new life!
Drop off times at the Grange for donated items: Saturday, April 27, 9-10am; Wednesday, May 8, 1-2pm; or by appointment. Space available for vendor tables. Please contact Roberta at roberta.roll@gmail.com or 518-329-0384.
Accepted Flea Market Items: kitchenware, household goods, art, linens, accessories, small furniture, gifts. No CDs, DVDs or books. Items MUST be in good condition. Worn out or unusable items will not be accepted.
Guidelines for Baked Goods: All types of baked goods are needed. Please bring your items packaged in the following way if possible: Cookies: 6 cookies per bag; Brownies/Bars: 2 per bag OR 4 per bag; Muffins, Scones and Cupcakes: bring on a plate or in a tin, or package individually; Sheet cakes: bring whole in a container, already cut; Whole pies and cakes, uncut, are also welcome.
This monthly members' meeting conducts the business of the Grange and its committees, inducts new members, and sets priorities for the future. Open to all members, and those who have previously applied for membership. This meeting will be in-person at Grange hall. Look for an email from the Secretary regarding online participation.
Audrey Ludemann (née Noyes), Harry Hussey, Mark Lebow & Greg Smith bring their range of acoustic styles from traditional to “psychedelic folk” to the Grange. Noyes & the Boyes evolved from a musicians’ “collective” that has been performing and recording in Southwest Connecticut since 1971, with periodic performances at Copake Grange during the past four years. The show will feature originals and covers of other artists’ songs including material from the band’s past studio albums. Tickets $15 at the door, or pay what you can.
Everyone's welcome to join in for an afternoon of creative music making - just for fun, join the jam! Bring an instrument, bring a song, bring your singing voice, and join with others in our music jam. For more info, contact Lenny Barham at lennybarham@gmail.com This event is free; donations are welcome.
Our famous annual Plant Sale is back - rain or shine here at the Copake Grange! Welcome Spring by coming to check out our perennials, annuals, herbs, ground covers, shrubs, and more. If you have items to contribute, contact us at copakegrangeplantsale@gmail.com and deliver them the day before between 10am and 1pm. Make sure to get there early - it always sells out!
This monthly members' meeting conducts the business of the Grange and its committees, inducts new members, and sets priorities for the future. Open to all members, and those who have previously applied for membership. This meeting will be in-person at Grange hall. Look for an email from the Secretary regarding online participation.
The talented woodwind trio L’Arema Ensemble — Diane Lipartito (bassoon), Joseph Rutkowski (clarinet), Pamela Sklar (flute) — presents an eclectic program ranging from classical to Broadway, including works composed by Mozart, Ibert, Joplin, Giovanni Mayr, Gershwin, Bernstein and others. There will be a 15 minute intermission, and a reception with the artists following the performance. This performance is made possible in part by Stewarts Shops. Tickets $15 at the door, or pay what you can.
Copake Grange 935 and the Roeliff Jansen Community Library celebrate National Poetry Month with this in person event at Grange Hall. Bring poems of your own to read, or a poem by one of your favorite poets. Or, just tune in to listen and be inspired and delighted by the magic and power of poetry. Readers do not need to sign up in advance. For more info, email roberta.roll@gmail.com. Free.
Everyone's welcome to join in for an afternoon of creative music making - just for fun, join the jam! Bring an instrument, bring a song, bring your singing voice, and join with others in our music jam. For more info, contact Lenny Barham at lennybarham@gmail.com This event is free; donations are welcome.
The Copake Conservation Advisory Committee, Friends of Taconic State Park, and Copake Grange present a special Earth Day presentation: “Planet vs. Plastics.” Find out about the amount of plastics circulating throughout the world, their impact on the environment, and solutions proposed to deal with this. Learn about the risks to our health and our planet caused by plastics, and be empowered to take positive steps towards becoming part of the solution. Speakers James Sullivan and Deb Weltch of the organization “Beyond Plastics” will make an informative presentation you should hear. This event is Free.
Celebrate Earth Day and help us keep Copake beautiful! We’re organizing to pick up litter along roads in Copake hamlet, Copake Falls, Craryville and Copake Lake. Meet us at the Grange Hall at 9am, and we will provide trash bags. Bring your own gloves and sturdy shoes. You may drop off your collection by noon at the dumpster at Town Hall, 230 Mountain View Rd. or, if the dumpster is full, bring it to the Copake Park dumpster or the transfer station. Take photos of you and your trash and send them to copakegrange@gmail.com Need more info? Contact Peggy Lewis at 914-475-5162 or plewispok@gmail.com
Vocalist Ilana Meredith, piano and accordion accompanist Joe Rutkowski, and local Historian Jim Mackin invite you to explore the music of Tin Pan Alley at this wonderful cabaret evening. Learn more about composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, Joseph Augustine Wade and more, while enjoying some of the tunes that will always capture our hearts! There will be a 15 minute intermission, and reception following the show. This performance is sponsored in part by Stewarts Shops and the Ackerman Foundation. Tickets $15 at the door, or pay what you can.
The April monthly meeting will begin early at 8:30 am with a breakfast celebration to welcome the many new members who have joined the Grange in 2023 and year to date 2024, as well as those who have applied to join but not been inducted. Full breakfast will be available buffet-style. Afterward there will be a short regular monthly meeting.
In conjunction with the meeting, the Community Service Committee is spearheading a Giving Day. When members come to the meeting they may bring donations for the Roe Jan Food Pantry. The Pantry has requested that the Grange collect personal hygiene products as well as flour, salt and pepper shakers (not filled), bread crumbs and cooking oils. Also, members may contribute cash, loose change, checks for the milk can collection, which goes to fund supplies that are needed for the emergency supply closet at the Taconic Hills School. For more info, contact Liz Fenamore (917) 539-2009.
Get on your feet and celebrate the arrival of Spring with our Spring Awakening Dance Party. We’ll be playing all your favorite dance tracks. In fact, you can help us choose the music! Tell us your favorites - from pop to disco, house to bounce, bebop, hip-hop, k-pop, what-not! Submit your playlist suggestions here, and we’ll do the locomotion with you. $5 suggested donation. Refreshments available.
SORRY - NO TICKETS LEFT! Written and directed by local playwright Carl Ritchie, producing artistic director of Taconic Stage Company, the play “Your Town” kicks off Copake’s Bicentennial celebration and features local talent as well as professional actors. It is inspired by the famous play “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder, as well as the actual minutes of Copake’s own first town meeting in April 1824. Performances are Friday, April 5 at 7pm, Saturday, April 6 at 2pm and 7pm, Sunday, April 7 at 2pm at Copake Grange.
Programming Note: Our April Open Mic Night is cancelled so that the Grange can present “Your Town - A Copake Bicentennial Play”. See the listing in the Events section. Open Mic Night will return as usual on the first Friday in May.
The Two of Us Productions presents A Shayna Maidel, the Obie and Outer Critics Circle award winning drama by Barbara Lebow. A “Shayna Maidel”, Yiddish meaning “pretty girl,” tells the story of the reunion of two sisters after World War II, one having survived the Nazi concentration camps. A Shayna Maidel is a memory play in that it is set in three times: when Mordechai Weiss is born in 1876, when his two daughters (Rose White and Lusia Weiss Pechenik) are reunited in New York City during the present (1946), and when Lusia has flashbacks of her life in Poland immediately before and after the Holocaust.
Tickets: $15 for seniors, $20 for adults, at the door, or call 518-329-6293 or online at www.thetwoofusproductions.org
Performance times: Friday & Saturday - 3/22 and 3/23 at 7:30PM Sunday - 3/24 at 3:00 PM
Everyone's welcome to join in for an afternoon of creative music making - just for fun, join the jam! Bring an instrument, bring a song, bring your singing voice, and join with others in our music jam. For more info, contact Lenny Barham at lennybarham@gmail.com This event is free; donations are welcome.
Nashville native, ukulele player & songwriter Charissa Hoffman returns to the Grange, with her intricate jazz arrangements, and heart wrenching alt-folk originals. Influenced by artists ranging from Amanda Palmer to Joni Mitchell to Béla Fleck; she creates dreamy, ethereal worlds for her listeners. Tickets $15 at the door, or pay what you can. Learn more at charissahoffman.com or call 617-894-3538.
This monthly members' meeting conducts the business of the Grange and its committees, inducts new members, and sets priorities for the future. Open to all members, and those who have previously applied for membership. This meeting will be in-person at Grange hall. Look for an email from the Secretary regarding online participation.
In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, the Grange Classic Film series presents "The Quiet Man", a 1952 romantic comedy-drama directed and produced by John Ford, starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Barry Fitzgerald.
After accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, boxer Sean Thornton leaves America and returns to his native Ireland, hoping to buy his family's homestead and live in peace. Instead, he falls in love with a fiery redhead, whose angry and spiteful brother tries to block the marriage.
The film features Winston Hoch's lush photography of the Irish countryside and won the Academy Award for Best Director and for Best Cinemotography. Classic Film Series organizer, Lenny Barham, will provide commentary and insights. Stay after the movie for dinner: soup, salad, bread and dessert. Movie admission is by donation. Dinner is $10.
The Copake Conservation Advisory Committee and Copake Grange present a talk on invasive species. Learn about the emerald ash borer, the hemlock woolly adelgid, Japanese barberry, bittersweet and many other invasive species and what to do about them. Speakers include Colleen Lutz, assistant biologist with NY Natural Heritage Program; and Samantha Schultz, Terrestrial Invasive Species Coordinator with the DEC’s Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management. Everyone is welcome to this free talk. Q & A and refreshments afterward. This event is free.
Matthew Pirrone, President of the East Chatham Grange, will be here to conduct a Pomona Grange Meeting. Members of the Subordinate Grange, Copake Grange 935, are invited to attend. It will be an opportunity to share ideas with our County Grange, find out more about what the Grange does on the State and National levels, and to discover and participate in our wider Grange community. Legislative proposals focused on topics related to rural and agricultural lifestyles and preservation of farms and farmland will be discussed. Lunch is provided and a $5 donation is suggested.
In person at Grange Hall! All are welcome to perform - music, stories, skits, readings, poetry, dance, songs, etc. Or you can just come to relax and be entertained. This is a great venue for both beginning and veteran performers. This event is Free.
An evening of music from the best musicians in the Roe Jan area — from bluegrass to rock, four bands will get you smiling and your feet tapping. Come hear Home on the Grange (featuring Jamie Purinton & friends); Lake Foundation (Joe Joe, Tom Lake, Marc Boat, Slink Near Lake & Brian HVAC); Michael "Chops" LaConte (of Tommy Stinson's Cowboys in the Campfire & Unfinish'd Bizness); Blind Owls (featuring Lou, RJ & WhyMan of the fabulous group Weeeds). Made possible in part by Stewart’s Shops & The Ackerman Foundation, Inc. Tickets $15 at the door (or pay what you can).
This monthly members' meeting conducts the business of the Grange and its committees, inducts new members, and sets priorities for the future. Open to all members, and those who have previously applied for membership. This meeting will be in-person at Grange hall. Look for an email from the Secretary regarding online participation.
The Copake Quintet — Connie Lopez (vocals), Steve Turowski (drums), Debbi Conti (keyboard), Jeff Wurster (bass), Steve Sanborn (winds) and Nike Vanderhoofen (trombone) — bring the American Songbook, Latin & Bossa Nova tunes plus classic rock to Copake Grange. This group of experienced musicians from around the Hudson Valley celebrates the classic format of drum, piano, bass and melody to share with their audiences the pleasure of live acoustic music in a relaxed and friendly setting. Made possible in part by Stewart’s Shops & The Ackerman Foundation, Inc. Tickets $15 at the door (or pay what you can).
In person at Grange Hall! All are welcome to perform - music, stories, skits, readings, poetry, dance, songs, etc. Or you can just come to relax and be entertained. This is a great venue for both beginning and veteran performers. This event is Free.
RESCHEDULED DUE TO WEATHER. Now set for Sat Jan 27 at 5 PM. Spice it up! And stay warm at our chili cook-off night. Tastings, judges and prizes for best chili. Enter your own, or just come and enjoy. To enter, bring your chili to the Grange by 4:45pm to set up. Please bring it in a crockpot if you have one, and label your chili with a title and ingredients listing. Free entry. All chili for sale to eat in or take out. Contact copakegrange@gmail.com for more info.
In commemoration of Martin Luther King Day, see this 1967 mystery drama which was nominated for 7 Academy Awards. Watch the trailer here. When a wealthy visitor to a small Mississippi town is found murdered, suspicion quickly centers on a black Philadelphia police detective (Sidney Poitier) who is just passing through. The white police chief (Rod Steiger) soon learns that Poitier's character is an expert homicide detective and enlists him to help solve the case. Lee Grant and Warren Oates round out the cast, with music by Quincy Jones. Classic Film Series organizer, Lenny Barham, will provide commentary and insights. Stay after the movie for dinner: soup, salad, bread and dessert. Movie admission is by donation. Dinner is $10.
This monthly members' meeting conducts the business of the Grange and its committees, inducts new members, and sets priorities for the future. Open to all members, and those who have previously applied for membership. This meeting will be in-person at Grange hall. Look for an email from the Secretary regarding online participation.
In person at Grange Hall! All are welcome to perform - music, stories, skits, readings, poetry, dance, songs, etc. Or you can just come to relax and be entertained. This is a great venue for both beginning and veteran performers. This event is Free.
This monthly members' meeting conducts the business of the Grange and its committees, inducts new members, and sets priorities for the future. Open to all members, and those who have previously applied for membership. This meeting will be in-person at Grange hall. Look for an email from the Secretary regarding online participation.
Come tap your feet and enjoy classic bluegrass, country, and old-time fiddle tunes from the local fun-loving Roe Jan Bluegrass Band. The band features accomplished pickers and singers on guitar, dobro, banjo, mandolin, bass and fiddle who’ve been entertaining local audiences for over a decade. The band is known for having a great time playing, and you’ll have a great time listening and dancing! Sponsored by Stewart’s Shops and the Ackerman Foundation. Tickets $15 at the door, or pay what you can.
You’re invited to stop by the Grange to share good cheer with your friends and neighbors, and enjoy hot cider, treats, live music and more. There will be crafts for young and old. In keeping with the holiday spirit, we encourage you to bring a donation for the Roe Jan Food Pantry or the Taconic Hills School emergency fund. You can find a list of encouraged donation items here. This event is Free.
In person at Grange Hall! All are welcome to perform - music, stories, skits, readings, poetry, dance, songs, etc. Or you can just come to relax and be entertained. This is a great venue for both beginning and veteran performers. This event is Free.
