When you go to the Lilac Festival this weekend, think about the master gardener who planted the namesake attractions in Highland Park.
Lilac Festival
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Rochester’s Lilac Festival will return in 2022 with three-weekend format
The dates for the 2022 Rochester Lilac Festival have been announced: May 6-8, May 12-15, and May 19-22.
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Mixed messaging confuses organizers about whether to hold events
With Park Avenue and Corn Hill festivals canceled for 2020, some say there are inconsistent and confusing messages on what is and isn’t safe.
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Calendar preview: Spring screening
While we wait for spring, check out this week’s virtual cultural offerings includes gardens tours to theater, poetry readings, and concerts.
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‘Authentic’ is a fine word for The Wood Brothers
Oliver Wood’s voice has a Levon Helm quality to it, a plaintive howl, and the songs fit that rural landscape. As does the groove laid down by Chris Wood on his upright bass and percussionist Jano Rix.
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The best fest time of year
Inside our annual Festival Preview Guide, CITY rounds-up the dates and details of all of those festivals, which we hope will be useful in planning your summer
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Rust never sleeps
Rusted Root has played Rochester almost annually since the early 90’s, and is about to play the Lilac Festival for the fifth time in a row. Why do Rochesterians like this band so much? Ah yes, spring is in the air, and here comes another Lilac Festival to kick off the Rochester festival season, pumping […]
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Festival Preview Guide: Take your pick
The spring and summer always brings a little something for everyone. For almost 18 weeks, the Greater Rochester Area will host festival after festival. If you’re bored over the next few months, that’s on you. Rochesterians will have every reason to get out into the sun, from celebrating Highland Park in bloom (the Lilac Festival) […]
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Festival City
It’s that splendid time of year when the Flower City transforms into Festival City. The 2017 festival lineup is as diverse as ever and expands beyond Rochester to Livingston, Ontario, and Wayne Counties. The fests offer celebrations of flowers, glorious food, booze, cuddly animals, music, art, pirates, and more. Below is a quick guide to […]
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Lilac Festival announces part of 2017 headliners
Thursday afternoon, amidst the stainless plumbing and tanks full of beer in its various stages at the Genesee Brew House, Lilac Festival Producer Jeff Springut announced eight of this year’s Lilac Fest headliners. The 2017 Lilac Festival runs May 12 through May 21 at Highland Park. Admission is free. Appearing on the Sahlen’s Center Stage […]
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Harp attack
I wouldn’t call it so much a smirk but more of an all-knowing impish smile that always seems pasted on Charlie Musselwhite’s mug. And between gregarious grins, the legendary bluesman still blows away at the electric harmonica — the Mississippi saxophone, the tin sandwich. Whatever you want to call it, Musslewhite is one of its […]
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Roses & Revolutions
Band names can often be misleading and superfluous. And a lot of time is spent in creating a moniker, a title that frequently has nothing to do with the band that puts it on like an ill-fitting turtleneck. But when Tinted Image abandoned its name for Roses & Revolutions, it made perfect sense. Here is […]
