Ithaca Festival

Ithaca Festival is the premier music and arts festival of its kind in the region. Over 30,000 people come through the festival over the course of four days. For performers, artists, community groups, green businesses, and everything in between, this is the place to showcase talent or get the word out. It is a lively weekend full of entertainment, community information and delicious food. This is the event of the summer and you won't want to miss it!

Olde-Tyme Rhubarb Festival & Classic Car Cruise-In

June 2 (12-4pm) – 

Step back in time and join us as we celebrate the rhubarb harvest season with rhubarb pies, rhubarb chili and other rhubarb treats, hots & hamburgers, live music, frozen wine slushies and wine!  Antique & classic cars of days gone by on display. Fee for food and wine.  Classic car owners can register their car for free, no judging.  Space is limited, pre-registration required.

Fairport Canal Days Festival

The Fairport Canal Days festival is one of the premier annual Arts and Crafts festivals in the Northeast, attracting nearly a quarter-million visitors each year.

One Day Hike of the Finger Lakes Trail

The Finger Lakes Trail Conference is proud to present our 50^th Anniversary One Day Hike of the Finger Lakes Trail, on National Trails Day, June, 2, 2012.

You are invited to come join the collective effort to ensure the entire 562 miles is hiked during our One Day End to End Hike of the Finger Lakes Trail. Please join us as a hike leader, or sign up to participate in a group hike.

National Trails Day

50th Anniversary End to End Hike on the Finger Lakes Trail.  There will be 75 simultaneous hikes on the main trail.
Patches will be awarded to those who sign up in advance and participate.
There is a sign up and contact information on the website:
www.fingerlakestrail.org or contact the FLTC Service Center at 585-658-9320.

Olde-Tyme Rhubarb Festival & Classic Car Cruise-In at Montezuma Winery

Step back in time with Montezuma Winery & Hidden Marsh Distillery on Saturday, June 2^nd from Noon-4pm as we celebrate the rhubarb harvest season with our Olde-Tyme Rhubarb Festival & Classic Car Cruise-In. Visitors will enjoy rhubarb specialties, while sampling some of the most unique fruit, grape and honey wines and spirits in the Finger Lakes.

Refreshments include hots and hamburgers, rhubarb pie, rhubarb crisp, rhubarb chili, frozen wine slushies and of course wine!  Purchase locally grown fresh rhubarb.  The Cayuga Lake Creamery will be serving up their home-made ice cream and rhubarb wine sorbet. 

If you’re looking for some rhubarb fun, play to win at the rhubarb stalk throw or enter the hula hoop contest. Take a stroll down memory lane viewing some of the classic cars of the “good old days” on display.  Classic car owners can register their car for free, no judging.  Space is limited, pre-registration required by May 30^th.

Classic rock on the Montezuma stage by the band Inside Out.  If you like The Beatles, Stones, Doors, Lovin’ Spoonful, Moody Blues, The Monkees, Tom Petty then you'll like this band.  All are invited to join us for a fun-filled day of food, music, rhubarb and wine! Fee for food.

For more information, contact Montezuma Winery & Hidden Marsh Distillery at 315-568-8190 or email us at info@montezumawinery.com.  Montezuma Winery is located at 2981 Auburn Rd (corners of Rt. 89 and 5/20) in Seneca Falls, NY 13148.

2012 Keuka Lake Triathlon

Ths Red Cross of Yates County event brings in over 1000 athletes, and their families.  Check with  Keukalaketri.com

for updates.

Wegmans Rochester LPGA Championship

The world's best women golfers participate in this second major of the season at Locus Hill Country Club.

Smokin' Summer Kickoff

This event celebrates the rarely considered combination of grilled and summertime foods, with delicious wine! Start your summer season off with this fun-filled wine and food pairing weekend, enjoying a self-guided tour around Seneca Lake. Regular tickets purchased in advance are $30 per person. Click here for more information.

Smokin' Summer Kickoff on the Seneca Lake Wine Trail

This inaugural event celebrates the rarely considered combination of grilled and summertime foods, with delicious wine! Start your summer season off with this fun-filled wine and food pairing weekend, enjoying a self-guided tour around Seneca Lake. Regular tickets purchased in advance are $30 per person. 

Barbecue at the Wineries on the Keuka Lake Wine Trail

Taste delicious barbecue and grilled foods, this year prepared creatively with the award-winning flavors of Dinosaur Bar-B-Que sauces, rubs, and marinades.

From Riesling to Cabernet Franc, join us for the 11th year of this popular event and have fun exploring how well wine can pair with mouth-watering barbecue and summer side dishes.  Early summer is a beautiful time to visit Keuka Lake and enjoy each of our wineries’ own spectacular views.

Weekend ticket $25 per person, Sunday Only ticket $19 per person

The Keuka Arts Festival

The Keuka Arts Festival is a fine art and skilled craft show to be held annually at the Penn Yan Boat Launch along the Keuka Lake Outlet Trail, only a few blocks from downtown Penn Yan.

The event is free and will feature live entertainment and activities for families.

Grilling for Dad: A Farm to Table Wine & Cooking Adventure

MONTHLY  WINE SERIES EVENT - LET'S GET COOKING: A FARM TO TABLE WINE & COOKING ADVENTURE

Let's Get Cooking: A Farm-to-Table Wine & Cooking Adventure is an intimate, one-of-a-kind culinary wine tour, where you will immerse yourself in the bounty of the Finger Lakes and create your own Finger Lakes meal from the ground up!

This tour features:

*Winemaker tank and barrel sampling at either Sheldrake Point Vineyards or Red New Winery.

*Farm experience such as cheese-making tour and cheese tasting at Lively Run Goat Dairy, where you will sample varieties of French-style Chevre, Mediterranean-styled Feta, and their unique Cayuga Blue.

*Three-hour cooking class and meal experience with regional celebrity chef Samantha Buyskes, of Simply Red Events, where you will prepare, demonstrate and enjoy a regionally inspired three-course meal featuring the cheese and wines experienced earlier in the tour.  

Each month will feature a different cooking class theme:

Time:    10:00 am - 4:30 pm

Tours depart from Ithaca (From La Tourelle Resort and Spa)

Tour Price:

$135 per person (includes all tasting and cooking class fees).  Gratuity not included.

Tour and accommodation packages with La Tourelle Resort and Spa are available.  (See packages listing on fingerlakes.org)

To Confirm:

call 607-233-4818 

visit: http://www.experiencefingerlakes.com/exp_cookingseries.html

email: info@experiencefingerlakes.com

Bristol Fun Day Celebration

Sonnenberg Roses & Rosés

6-8PM.  Featuring wine and food pairings in Sonnenberg's historic Rose Garden, Blue & White Garden, Belvedere, and Mansion.  Plus, live music and silent auction!
$25pp advance, $45 per couple advance. Purchase your tickets online.  $30pp or $60 couples at the door.  $25 per Sonnenberg members or $45 per Sonnenberg member couple at the door. 

FLT 50th Anniversary Weekend @ Keuka College

FLT 50th Anniversary Weekend at Keuka College.  Information and registration materials on the website:  www.fingerlakestrail.org

Strawberry Festival 5K Run & Kids' 1 Mile Fun Run

Montezuma Winery Farmers Market & Free Music Fridays

Montezuma Winery Farmers Market & Free Music Fridays

June 15-Aug. 31 from 3-7pm

Visit our outdoor farmer's market on Fridays and purchase local NY grown or produced products; corn, squash, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, strawberries, blueberries, flowers, perennials, ice cream, baked goods, cheese, crafts and wine tasting.  Free Music Fridays from 5-7pm every Friday with live music, chicken & pork BBQ and wine by the glass.

Owego 32nd Annual Strawberry Festival

Friday night, 5:30-10:30 pm June 15 and on Saturday, June 16, 9:00-5:00 pm.

Third Annual Winestock NY 2012

The Third Annual Winestock NY 2012 will be held Saturday, June 16 at the Three Brothers Winery and Estates on Lerch Road near Geneva from noon too 6 p.m.  Come and support your New York wineries and New York foods.  More than a dozen wineries, fresh from their landslide success of NY Drinks NY in New York City, will be pouring.  An afternoon of live music and food set next to the manicured vineyards at Three Brothers.  For ticket information go to:  http://winestock2012.eventbrite.com/

9th Annual Wildflowers & Wine

June 17 (11am-4pm) –

Bring Dad out this Father’s Day and enjoy learning about wildflowers, grasslands and the creatures of the Montezuma Wetlands Complex that need them.  Montezuma Winery & the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge will partner for this family, fun-filled event.

Start the day with an early bird guided nature walk with the Friends of Montezuma Wetlands Complex from

9-10:30 a.m. on a portion of the refuge. Reservations Required.  All other event activities will be held at Montezuma Winery from 11am-4pm (free admission).  Activities include scheduled bus tours of the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, wildlife displays, interactive kids’ activities, petting zoo, chainsaw carving, art & craft vendors plus live music. 

Refreshments include a mouthwatering chicken BBQ, kettle corn, home-made ice cream by the Cayuga Lake Creamery and of course wine!  Fee for food and wine by the glass.  Don’t forget to sample our award winning wines and be the first to taste our limited edition wine bottled especially for this event.  A portion of the sales of the wine will be donated to the Friends of the Montezuma Wetlands Complex to continue conservation projects.

Sonnenberg Sixth Annual Father's Day Car & Motorcycle Cruise

$10pp, $9AAA/60+, $5 13-17 YOA, College, or Military w/proper ID, Free to 12 & Under. Sign up to showcase your wheels!

Rochester Jazz Festival

The diversity of 18 venues, all located within walking distance in and around Rochester’s east end cultural district, ranges from elegant concert halls to intimate clubs to vibrant outdoor stages. Each offers a comfortable setting in which to appreciate and savor the many genres of creative improvised music, all under the auspices of jazz.

Montezuma Winery Farmers Market & Free Music Fridays

Montezuma Winery Farmers Market & Free Music Fridays

June 15-Aug. 31 from 3-7pm

Visit our outdoor farmer's market on Fridays and purchase local NY grown or produced products; corn, squash, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, strawberries, blueberries, flowers, perennials, ice cream, baked goods, cheese, crafts and wine tasting.  Free Music Fridays from 5-7pm every Friday with live music, chicken & pork BBQ and wine by the glass.

Barbecue at the Wineries on the Keuka Lake Wine Trail

Taste delicious barbecue and grilled foods, this year prepared creatively with the award-winning flavors of Dinosaur Bar-B-Que sauces, rubs, and marinades.

From Riesling to Cabernet Franc, join us for the 11th year of this popular event and have fun exploring how well wine can pair with mouth-watering barbecue and summer side dishes.  Early summer is a beautiful time to visit Keuka Lake and enjoy each of our wineries’ own spectacular views.

Weekend ticket $25 per person, Sunday Only ticket $19 per person

Cobblestone Farm Winery's Eighth Annual Cherry Festival

Location:    Cobblestone Farm Winery & Vineyard, 5102 State Route 89, Cayuga Lake Wine Trail, Romulus, New York 14541

Date/Time:  June 23 & 24, 2012, 9:30am to 6:00pm 

Description:  Enjoy sweet and sour cherry picking, wine, the Beverly Animal Shelter activity tent, the Seneca County 4H petting zoo/ carnival game corner, music by THE WORKS on Saturday (6/23) and by THE SARAH HORNER BAND on Sunday (6/24), hay rides, a finger licking BBQ, scrumptious ice cream, artisan cheese, delicious fresh-baked goods,  and arts & crafts vendors, offering such treasures as jewelry, soaps, candles, pottery, woodcrafts, fashion,  and garden items.

Admission:   Free 

Phone:          315-549-8797

Website:    www.cobblestonefarmwinery.com

E-Mail:       cobblestonefarm@rochester.rr.com

Sonnenberg Strawberry Festival

In the Belvedere; 2 PM-4 PM.  Details TBA

Watkins Glen - Sahlen's Six Hours

Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen

Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen

Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen

June 29-July 1

Continental Tire 150 TBA

Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen  Sunday, July 1 11 a.m.

GRAND-AM Sportsman Showcase Challenge TBA

Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen returns to Watkins Glen International on a new date in 2012, June 29-July 1. The GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge takes to the twists and turns of this historic road course during this weekend dedicated to the love of sports car racing. It is the first time the date has changed for the famed endurance race since moving to the first weekend of June in 2006.

The world’s best sports cars and drivers take on one of the nation’s most storied and challenging road courses as part of GRAND-AM’s North American Endurance Championship presented VISITFLORIDA.com. Watch the Daytona Prototypes and GT cars battle side-by-side in this six-hour endurance thrilled race on Sunday following Saturday’s Continental Tire 150.

Kids and Teens 18 and under FREE while admission for the weekend begins at $30 with Sunday ONLY tickets available starting at $25. To purchase tickets please call 866.461.7223 or visit Watkins Glen International’s official website.

Fulkerson Winery Pig Roast BBQ

Event: Fulkerson Winery Pig Roast BBQ

Location: Fulkerson Winery, 5576 State Route 14, Dundee, NY 14837

Date/Time: Friday, June 29^th, 6-9pm

Description:  Join Fulkerson Winery for wine, food, and music at our summer barbeque. Enjoy music by the popular band Agonal Rhythm, while you savor the delicious barbeque-style spread by Colby’s Catering, which will be available for purchase. Of course, Fulkerson wines will be flowing, available for purchase by the bottle. Non-alcoholic beverages will also be available. No coolers please.

Admission: FREE. Food and wine available for purchase.

Phone: (607) 243-7883

Email: advertising@fulkersonwinery.com

Montezuma Winery Farmers Market & Free Music Fridays

Montezuma Winery Farmers Market & Free Music Fridays

June 15-Aug. 31 from 3-7pm

Visit our outdoor farmer's market on Fridays and purchase local NY grown or produced products; corn, squash, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, strawberries, blueberries, flowers, perennials, ice cream, baked goods, cheese, crafts and wine tasting.  Free Music Fridays from 5-7pm every Friday with live music, chicken & pork BBQ and wine by the glass.

Paradise Party at Swedish Hill Winery

Come check out the newest event at Swedish Hill Winery! Bring your flip flops as Swedish Hill goes Hawaiian for the day!  We will also be featuring LIVE MUSIC from the Castle Street Band!! For more information you can contact Lindsay Case at (607) 403-0029 or visit www.SwedishHill.com.