Stay Put This Weekend: SeptemberFest, Sports and Broadswords

Thinking about heading into the city Saturday and Sunday? Don't—because this weekend, city folk are coming to Nyack.

With the start of high school sports, several charity events and the much-anticipated SeptemberFest, going anywhere other than downtown this weekend would be a bungle. Here's what's happening:

Friday

• Piermont's famed Turning Point Cafe is putting on more music this evening—stop in for a tune and a bite between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. (Turning Point helped organize Labor Day's American Roots Festival).

Saturday

• Nyack High School varsity sports are kicking off (I didn't realize the pun until after I typed it, honest) Saturday afternoon with a home varsity girls soccer game. Cheer on our athletes at 3 p.m.

• Early risers: turn out and support local rowers from the River Rowing Association who are participating in the grueling 25K. They'll be rowing from Memorial Park to the George Washington Bridge.
• Eating buckets of crab and supporting charity generally don't go hand in hand, but this year's Friends' Annual Crab Fest begs to differ. For $20 you'll get a day (noon to 5 p.m.) of eats and music at Piermont's 95 Ferry Rd. They'll be an opening ceremony honoring 9/11 victims.
• I once had a Nyacker tell me the only reason he'd cross the congested, expensive, dangerous Tappan Zee Bridge to Tarrytown would to be to see a Led Zeppelin cover band. This Saturday, he's crossing the bridge.
• If you don't mind a short hike, travel up to Spring Valley to see Nyack High School's varsity football team in action.

Sunday

• SeptemberFest.
• Community-minded residents are running 10 miles to raise funds for the volunteer fire departments. Want to run/cheer? Click here for details, and here to learn about two local, veteran runners.
• Grace Episcopal Church is hosting a world-class 9/11 memorial—the Concert for Remembrance—Sunday evening. Read more about the spectacle here.
• As always, Sunday marks Piermont's weekly farmers' market. Don't know what to get? Try the fresh vegetables.
• If you've been waiting years for an excuse to get buzzed on mead, don a tunic and be ejected from a blacksmith for drunkenly swinging around a broadsword, it's your lucky month. The New York Renaissance Fair has arrived in Tuxedo.