Skaneateles Major Yearly Event:Skaneateles Festival
Annual series of classical music performances at Skaneateles, New York began in 1980, initiated in the spring of that year by musician Lindsay Groves and Skaneateles residents Beth Boudreau and Louise Robinson. During August, musical perfomances occured during two weeks in the village's Library Hall. David and Louise Robinson thereafter contributed use their home, Brook Farm, as the Festival's center. There musicians live, eat, rehearse, relax, and perform, enabled by the Robinsons' hospitality. Programs generally have consisted of chamber music and solo performances.