Annual Al Fresco Dinner
We look forward to welcoming you to our annual Al Fresco Dinner on the evening of July 18th!
Enjoy fresh-local foods, a specially curated silent auction in our newly renovated Carriage Barn, performances by Mettawee Theatre Company and David Cuite’s Jazz Trio, plus so much more!
Ticket sales have ended.
Washington County Band on the Courthouse Lawn
FREE EVENT! We look forward to welcoming the Washington County Band back to the Courthouse Lawn this summer!
Community Coffee Hour
Community Coffee Hour at the Courthouse
Join us on Tuesday, August 11th for our monthly coffee hour at the Historic Salem Courthouse Community Center! This is an informal time to connect with neighbors and the community.
COFFEE WILL BE PROVIDED, but feel free to bring your preferred beverage if you'd like. In an effort to reduce waste, please bring a mug if you’re able!
Have questions? Send an email to: office@salemcourthouse.org . Otherwise, we’ll see you there!
2nd Annual Family Fall Festival
Save the date!
FREE ENTRY!
We will be joined by Savory Pig Food Truck, Casa Reyes Food Truck & Adirondack Brewery.
This year, we will welcome Reese Fulmer & The Carriage House Band for a live performance!
“unexpected in the best way”
The Carriage House Band is a versatile indie-folk/americana ensemble that features regulars Chris Carey (drums), James Gascoyne (bass), Dylan Perrillo (bass), Jimi Woodul (guitar), Chris Bloniarz (octave mandolin), Connor Dunn (saxophone), and JP Hubbs (keyboard) in a variety of lineup combinations.
Reese and his band have become one of the fastest-rising roots music groups in upstate NY with expansive albums highlighting a reputation for compelling performances. With its rotating cast of talented players, a broad and dynamic body of work, and a refusal to set anything in stone, Carriage House Band shows are always fresh, full of joy, and hard to describe. Think Wilco with hints of Prine and Zappa: "smart, emotionally tuned arrangements and a stage presence that balanced earnestness with unpredictability. Their live performance thrives in the liminal space between genres folk, Americana, jazz and the result is a sound that’s complex without being convoluted." (NYSMusic)
Live in the Courtroom: Helen Gillet
Live in our Historic Courtroom, we’re excited to welcome back Helen Gillet!
Taking the cello on a joy ride through jazz, funk, electronic, folk, punk, rock, original song and french chanson, Helen Gillet is a true Whirling Dervish of the cello and voice.
Helen Gillet is a world renowned musician, composer, cellist, bilingual singer (Belgian French & English), improviser and looping artist. Her prolific career has won her awards of Offbeat Best of the Beat, Gambit Big Easy Awards, featured artist at New Orleans Jazz Museum and has been nominated three times, most recently in 2023, as a rising star in Downbeat Magazine's Critics Poll and is recipient of The Doris Duke Artists Award.
BIO:
Born in Belgium, she also grew up in Singapore, Chicago and Wisconsin before moving to New Orleans in 2002. Gillet has a Master's degree in classical cello performance. She also studied with North Indian Hindustani cellist Nancy Lesh which sparked her lifelong pursuit in improvisation and Jazz. After moving to New Orleans, Gillet quickly flourished into one of the most unique, talented, and beloved artists in the Crescent City. As trumpeter Michael Ray (Cool and the Gang, Sun Ra) noted after playing together at a late night jam session at a local coffee shop in 2004, "Helen, you've got big ears."
Helen Gillet now tours worldwide with her solo performance which is known for its enigmatic quality, improvisational versatility and a true mastery of live looping technology. She’s known for her eclectic palette – which includes avant-garde jazz, French chansons, funk, alternative rock, and the bohemian flair of the Velvet Underground.
Gillet has performed at a wide array of venues all over the world including The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Festival International (Lafayette, LA), Copenhagen Jazz Festival and Hindsgavl Festival in Denmark, Nikodemuskirche Festival in Berlin, Mirano Oltre Festival in Italy, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and MONA Mofo festival in Hobart, Tasmania and Darwin Music Festival in Australia and opened up for Jeff Tweedy with her solo performance at Lincoln Center in NYC.
She has recorded and performed with a wide array of musicians including Jason Marsalis, Kid Koala, Dr. John, Steve Earle, Marianne Faithful, Psychedelic Furs, Bill Summers, Cassandra Wilson, Soul Asylum, Kidd Jordan, Nels Cline, Nikki Glaspie, Johnny Vidacovich etc. and toured Canada and North America with Iron & Wine to name a few.
www.helengillet.com / https://www.instagram.com/helengillet/ / https://helengillet.bandcamp.com/
Salem's 1st Annual Car Show
We’re excited to announce the first annual Salem Car Show on October 10th!
Join us on the Historic Salem Courthouse Campus for what’s sure to be a fun-filled, family-friendly day featuring awesome vehicles, local vendors, live music, delicious food trucks, and more!
Whether you’re a car enthusiast or simply looking for a great community event, this is one you won’t want to miss. Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more details!
Community Coffee Hour
Community Coffee Hour at the Courthouse
Join us on Tuesday, July 14th for our monthly coffee hour at the Historic Salem Courthouse Community Center! This is an informal time to connect with neighbors and the community.
COFFEE WILL BE PROVIDED, but feel free to bring your preferred beverage if you'd like. In an effort to reduce waste, please bring a mug if you’re able!
Have questions? Send an email to: office@salemcourthouse.org . Otherwise, we’ll see you there!
Salem's 4th of July Celebrations
Activities begin in town @ 2:30p, Parade starts @ 4p, Celebration at the Courthouse immediately following!
Great Hall Gallery- Open Hours
Join artist Mari Barboza on Friday evening for another chance to view her fantastic show: “Light in Motion: a Tour Around the Rainbow”
Bike Day!
Last year was such a success— we look forward to hosting the 2nd Annual Salem Bike Day at the HSC Community Center on the afternoon of June 27th! Bring your bike and get tuned up for summer!
Keep an eye on our website for more updates!
Great Hall Gallery Opening: Mari Barboza's "Light in Motion: a Tour Around the Rainbow"
Local Artist, Mari Barboza Presents:
“Light in Motion: a Tour Around the Rainbow”
Mari’s photographs will be showcased in the Great Hall Gallery and we’re celebrating with an opening reception on Friday, June 12th at 5:30pm. Light bites and refreshments will be provided.
Silent Movie w/Instrumental Music: Swooping Shapes
We are excited to welcome Swooping Shapes to our Historic Courtroom! They’ll create instrumental magic to enhance a silent film—join us on this journey!
Swooping Shapes
The music of Puerto Rican guitarist and composer Federico Balducci can be described as a mixture of classical and ambient music with unusually intricate harmonies. Federico Balducci has a Bachelor’s Degree in Film Scoring from the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Currently, Federico mostly works on film scores for short films and documentaries.
Brian Dewan is a musician and visual artist who engages in filmstrip making and instrument building. He writes songs and collects songs from earlier generations.
Elizabeth Karp is a musician who combines analog and digital instrumentation, tape collage, field recordings, and percussion to perform sound collage music. Elizabeth is also a visual artist and co-curator of Moonbow, a performance series held at The Shaker Heritage Site.
Historic Salem Courthouse Community Center’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Community Coffee Hour
Community Coffee Hour at the Courthouse
Join us on Tuesday, June 9th for our monthly coffee hour at the Historic Salem Courthouse Community Center! This is an informal time to connect with neighbors and the community.
COFFEE WILL BE PROVIDED, but feel free to bring your preferred beverage if you'd like. In an effort to reduce waste, please bring a mug if you’re able!
Have questions? Send an email to: office@salemcourthouse.org . Otherwise, we’ll see you there!
Live in the Courtroom: Attercop Attercop
Live in the Courtroom: Attercop Attercop— doors open @ 6:30p, show @7p
Joining them is Ben Seretan!
Attercop Attercop is a Rhode Island based collaboration between percussionist Gus Martin (Tiny Hawks, WaxSun, Barrens) and guitarist Jeremy Ferris (Cla-ras) (Jeremy is a Salem Native!) Their sprawling, loosely improvised cycle of songs evoke natural forces at play - tidal phases, blizzards, the spinning of a spider's web - influenced by free jazz, drone metal, minimalism, and British & American folk music.
Ben Seretan (Hudson Valley, NY) is a singer-songwriter with a beautiful ambient streak. His most recent recording, "Sunbeam of No Illusion," a collaboration with John Thayer, was named best new ambient music by Bandcamp, featuring "Fender Rhodes loops, modular squiggles, sliding swells, and creaky white noise."
Intergenerational Concert Series: Reese Fulmer
FREE Intergenerational Concert Series hosted with Caffe Lena on the Road—senior community members are welcome to join us at 12p for lunch, followed by a show in our Great Hall. Students from Salem Central School will join us for everyone to enjoy the show experience together.
Reese Fulmer (the man behind orchestrating our wonderful Intergenerational Concert Series these last two years) is coming to Salem, this time to perform! We’re so excited to welcome him to our Great Hall again!
First cutting his teeth in the music business as a manager of the iconic Saratoga Springs listening room Caffe Lena, Reese Fulmer has established himself both as a talented songwriter with an uncommon depth of language and a bandleader unafraid of taking risks and carving a new path between genres. In his acoustic duo sets, his sound recalls the early days of Folk legends like John Prine or Gordon Lightfoot blended with new generation songwriters like Gregory Alan Isakov or Iron & Wine. "An award winning songwriter with a poet’s sensibility rich with great storytelling, imagery and a healthy dose of irony", you can sit with his songs and discover an authentic and unassuming philosophy about the world.
Salem Community Foundation Potluck Dinner
Due to weather, the potluck will be held at the White Church!
Intergenerational Concert Series: Jenna Nicholls
FREE Intergenerational Concert Series hosted with Caffe Lena on the Road—senior community members are welcome to join us at 12p for lunch, followed by a show in our Great Hall. Students from Salem Central School will join us for everyone to enjoy the show experience together.
Intergenerational Concert Series: Abigail Lapell
FREE Intergenerational Concert Series hosted with Caffe Lena on the Road—senior community members are welcome to join us at 12p for lunch, followed by a show in our Great Hall. Students from Salem Central School will join us for everyone to enjoy the show experience together.
Community Coffee Hour
Community Coffee Hour at the Courthouse
Join us on Tuesday, May 12th for our monthly coffee hour at the Historic Salem Courthouse Community Center! This is an informal time to connect with neighbors and the community.
COFFEE WILL BE PROVIDED, but feel free to bring your preferred beverage if you'd like. In an effort to reduce waste, please bring a mug if you’re able!
Have questions? Send an email to: office@salemcourthouse.org . Otherwise, we’ll see you there!
LIVE! Folklife Concert Series: Windborne
Doors open @ 6:30p, Show begins @ 7:00p
Join us for a LIVE! Free Folklife Concert Series and join us in welcoming Windborne to Salem!
Old songs, bold harmony.
For more information, click here!
Live! Folklife Concerts are hosted, produced, and funded by the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, offered free to the public thanks to grant funding from the New York State Council on the Arts supported by the Governor's Office and the New York State Legislature.
Great Hall Gallery: A Senior Photography Showcase
We hope you’ll join us in welcoming this year’s Salem Washington Academy’s senior artists!
Their photographs will be showcased in the Great Hall Gallery and we’re celebrating with an opening reception on May 8th at 5:30pm. Light bites and refreshments will be provided.
Stay after for a FREE! Folklife Concert in the Historic Courtroom- Windborne will be performing at 7pm.
CANCELLED: Needle Felting w/Holly & Vine Farm
THIS PROGRAM IS CANCELLED.
Celebrate Spring by needle felting this adorable duck using wool from Holly & Vine Farm! Rebecca and Mitchell, along with their two daughters, raise sheep in Jackson and create beautiful, farm-grown wool.
In this hands-on class, Rebecca will guide you step by step through the process of making your very own felted duck. She discovered needle felting through 4-H after many unsuccessful attempts at knitting and has spent years experimenting and developing fun, approachable felted designs.
No experience is necessary to participate!
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Click here to register now!
Earth Day Program- Movie in the Historic Courtroom
Our final event in our Earth Day series: Movie in the Courtroom from 5-6:30pm
A powerful look at one man’s lifetime witnessing the wonders of nature—and the urgent call to protect our planet before it’s too late.
Email for title & more details: office@salemcourthouse.org
LIVE! Folklife Concert Series: The Wolff Sisters
Doors open @ 6:30p, Show begins @ 7:00p
Join us for a LIVE! Free Folklife Concert Series and join us in welcoming The Wolff Sisters to Salem!
Americana storytelling rooted in rock.
To learn more, click here!
Live! Folklife Concerts are hosted, produced, and funded by the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, offered free to the public thanks to grant funding from the New York State Council on the Arts supported by the Governor's Office and the New York State Legislature.
Earth Day Program w/Trish Safner
Join us in the Courthouse Community Garden while community gardener Trish Safner shares her interpretation of Coleman's "Self Fed Farm".
FREE Program!
From Trish:
My interpretation of the Self-Fed Farm by Eliot Coleman
Please join me in the Courthouse Community Growing Garden as I apply these principles of organic growing on a garden scale. Eliot Coleman has been my mentor for nearly 2 decades on a journey to grow food for myself and others to maintain health. His latest book, The “Self-Fed Farm and Garden” has inspired me to further enhance soil fertility without the use of inputs and rely on cover crops and natural
processes to do the work.
Let’s have a discussion and I will share how this works and why I am so excited to put this into practice this season. Let’s feed the soil together!
Earth Day Program w/Adirondack Worm Farm
Join us for an Earth Day presentation with Bill Richmond of Adirondack Worm Farm! Sunday, April 19th @ 3pm— and yes, he’s bringing some of his worms! He’ll tell us all about his process and the benefits it has for our environment. There will be time for your questions, too!
Bill Richmond, owner and chief worm wrangler at Adirondack Worm Farm, has been working with red wiggler composting worms since 2017. Over the years, we have managed millions of red wiggler worms. In 2019, the company began offering a commercial curbside composting service, and has composted more than 250 tons of food scraps at its DEC-permitted composting facility in Washington County, NY. The company serves residential, commercial, educational and non-profit organizations, and provides regular reports to customers on the environmental benefits of diverting nearly a third of material they previously considered “garbage”.
Hebron-Salem Repair Cafe
Bring your broken items…and our volunteers will do their best to fix them! FREE OF CHARGE.
LIVE! Folklife Concert: Paper Wings
Doors open @ 6:30p, Show begins @ 7:00p
Join us for a LIVE! Free Folklife Concert Series and join us in welcoming Paper Wings to Salem!
Pastoral folk songs, spellbinding harmonies.
Live! Folklife Concerts are hosted, produced, and funded by the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, offered free to the public thanks to grant funding from the New York State Council on the Arts supported by the Governor's Office and the New York State Legislature.
Yoga and Fiber Wellness Workshop
Free event- Registration is Required
Join Comfort Food Community and Squash Villa Farm for a Yoga + Fiber Wellness Workshop! For this free yoga class and nutrition demonstration, participants will be guided by Himanee Gupta of Squash Villa Farm in a gentle and invigorating yoga lesson, followed by a presentation on the health benefits of fiber by Comfort Food Community. We will share samples of a nutritious recipe using Squash Villa Farm cornmeal and other local produce! The yoga class is suitable for all levels, no prior experience necessary. A limited number of yoga mats will be provided.
**Stick around for a FREE Folklife Concert Series performance by Paper Wings starting at 7pm!**
Community Coffee Hour
Community Coffee Hour at the Courthouse
Join us on Tuesday, April 14th for our monthly coffee hour at the Historic Salem Courthouse Community Center! This is an informal time to connect with neighbors and the community.
COFFEE WILL BE PROVIDED, but feel free to bring your preferred beverage if you'd like. In an effort to reduce waste, please bring a mug if you’re able!
Have questions? Send an email to: office@salemcourthouse.org . Otherwise, we’ll see you there!
LIVE! Folklife Concert Series: É.T.É
Doors open @ 6:30p, Show begins @ 7:00p
LIVE! Folklife Concert Series in our Historic Courtroom: Join us in welcoming É.T.É to Salem!
Quebecois trad with new vitality.
To learn more: etemusiquetrad.ca/en
Live! Folklife Concerts are hosted, produced, and funded by the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, offered free to the public thanks to grant funding from the New York State Council on the Arts supported by the Governor's Office and the New York State Legislature.
April Fool's Race
45th Annual April Fool’s Race
Run in scenic and historic Salem, N.Y. Numerous prizes and fun for all--expert or novice runners and walkers. The scenic runs begin and end at Salem Washington Academy.
Discounted registrations available through March 20th. Click here to download the registration form or register online by clicking here.
Interested in sponsoring this year’s race? Click here to learn more or reach out to office@salemcourthouse.org
Movies in the Courtroom
FREE! Movie in the Courtroom
Join us Sunday, March 29th for the fan favorite that’ll have everyone singing and dancing in their seat (rated PG) movie matinee at 3pm!
LIVE! Folklife Concert Series: Tim O'Shea & Friends
Doors open @ 6:30p, Show begins @ 7:00p
Join us for a LIVE! Free Folklife Concert Series and join us in welcoming Tim O’Shea & Friends to Salem!
An Irish Spring Hooley with Padraig Timoney, John Nolan, Tim Wechgaeler
For more information, click here!
Live! Folklife Concerts are hosted, produced, and funded by the Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, offered free to the public thanks to grant funding from the New York State Council on the Arts supported by the Governor's Office and the New York State Legislature.
Needle Felting w/Holly & Vine Farm
This workshop is FULL. Registration has ended.
Celebrate Spring by needle felting this adorable bunny using wool from Holly & Vine Farm! Rebecca and Mitchell, along with their two daughters, raise sheep in Jackson and create beautiful, farm-grown wool.
In this hands-on class, Rebecca will guide you step by step through the process of making your very own felted bunny. She discovered needle felting through 4-H after many unsuccessful attempts at knitting and has spent years experimenting and developing fun, approachable felted designs.
No experience is necessary to participate!
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Click here to register now!
Become A Volunteer
Interested in helping the community? Love music, arts, food? Enjoy engaging children and families? Whatever your interest-we have a volunteer opportunity available for you!