2009 Calendar of Events for Clearwater (Dates & Times Are Subject To Change!)   Clearwater Festival, June 20 & 21, Initial Lineup and Tix Purchase   Clearwater Benefit Concert at Madison Square Garden To Celebrate Pete Seeger’s Life & Legacy, May 3   Apr May More   Sailing schedule     Sloop Clubs April Sat 11 Shambhala Coffeehouse for Clearwater 8pm to 10pm An evening of music to benefit the Clearwater organization at the Shambala Yoga Center, 4 South Chestnut Street, Beacon, NY. Interested musicians (all styles) invited to participate. Each act will perform a set of approximately 15 minutes. If you would like to perform please contact the studio at: www.shambhalayogacenter.com Tue 21 An Exciting evening with Dr. James Hansen Beacon Sloop Club Environmental Education Series Beacon High School Auditorium, Beacon, NY 7pm An Event Not to Be Missed! Dr. James Hansen: world-renowned, outspoken authority on global warming, Columbia professor and NASA scientist making a rare appearance in Beacon, NY. Free Enjoy Live Music from, Victorio Roland Mousaa (Native American Indian singer/activist), Guy Davis, Tom Chapin, and Pete Seeger. Sponsored by The Beacon Sloop Club www.beaconsloopclub.org 845-542-0721 Flyer Sat 25 Reviving the Fall Kill: Creek Clean Up and Glass Workshop Day The Pavilion at the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, Poughkeepsie, NY 9:30am to 5pm Join the Fall Kill Watershed Committee, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and lots of excited volunteers as they clean garbage and glass out of the Fall Kill Creek. The glass collected will be brought to the Children’s museum to be cleaned and sorted for use by a local artist. The final piece of artwork will be installed at the Children’s Museum. Stop by the Pavilion to observe community artwork in the making, or contact Jennifer Rubbo, Fall Kill Watershed Coordinator (845-454-7673 x114, or jen@clearwater.org) to register to volunteer for the creek Clean Up and Glass Workshop Day. This project is made possible (in part) through a grant from the Dutchess County Arts Council, administrator of public funds through NYSCA’s Decentralization Program and through the support of our sponsors: Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, the Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, M.T. Abraham, M.D., F.A.C.S. Facial Plastic, Reconstructive & Laser Surgery, P.L.L.C., and the DEC Hudson River Estuary Program Sat 11 Christine Lavin, Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse 7:30pm Memorial United Methodist Church, 250 Bryant Ave., White Plains, NY Audience songfest at 6:45pm. Tickets: $25 at door / $20 online / $15 student ID Advance tickets at Brown Paper Tickets More info at: www.walkaboutclearwater.net   May Sun 3 Bike New York 30,000 cyclists ride car-free through New York City as part the largest recreational cycling event in America! More Information Sun 3 Clearwater Benefit Concert at Madison Square Garden To Celebrate Pete Seeger’s Life & Legacy 7pm Madison Square Garden, New York, NY More Information Sat 9 Tom Paxton, Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse 7:30pm Memorial United Methodist Church, 250 Bryant Ave., White Plains, NY Audience songfest at 6:45pm. Tickets: $25 at door / $20 online / $15 student ID Advance tickets at Brown Paper Tickets More info at: www.walkaboutclearwater.net Wed 13 Clearwater Board Meeting 7:15pm Clearwater Office, Poughkeepsie, NY   June Sat 20 Sun 21 Great Hudson River Revival Initial Lineup Announced and Tix on Sale Now! Contemporary blues star Susan Tedeschi, renowned Sixties era troubadour Arlo Guthrie and “newgrass” sensations Old Crow Medicine Show are among the headliners at Clearwater’s 2009 Great Hudson River Revival, which will take place on Saturday and Sunday, June 20 and 21 at Croton Point Park in Croton-on Hudson, NY. This year the Revival will help mark three auspicious occasions: 40th anniversary of the launch of sloop Clearwater 90th birthday celebration and tribute for Pete Seeger 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage up the Hudson River. Tickets for the Revival, which is a fundraiser for Hudson Sloop Clearwater and also the country’s oldest music and environmental festival, are now on sale. Clearwater Festival Volunteers, Sign-Up Now Open Sun 28 New York City’s First Annual Water Festival Free concert and networking event featuring Pete Seeger. At the “Frying Pan”, Pier 66 at West 26th St., New York, NY Noon to Midnight Please contact New York City Friends of Clearwater for more info: www.nycfriendsofclearwater.org/waterfestival.htm   July Thu 9 Clearwater Board Meeting 7:15pm Clearwater Office, Poughkeepsie, NY   October Sun 4 Clearwater Annual Gathering All Day Beacon, NY