Marketplace & More
From the stage to the marketplace, Hudson River Music Festival delivers an experience packed with creativity, craft, and community.
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Knotty and Nice, Macrame by Meryl was founded in 2019 by Meryl Lipton. Meryl, a fiber artist, enjoyed making macrame wall hangings since the 1970s. Early in 2019 she started experimenting in micro-macrame and it became her passion. Today she creates wearable art jewelry and gifts incorporating gemstones and crystals in her nature inspired jewelry.
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Every summer since 2005, the Pleasantville Music Festival has brought world-famous artists and breaking national acts together with local up-and-comers to an audience of thousands of people in the tri-state area. The Pleasantville Music Festival continues to be known as a must-attend summer event for friends and family, food & drink, a warm positive vibe, and of course, world-class music. Stop by their booth for Festival ticket giveaways!
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Independent Embroidery makes sustainable patchwork clothing, bags, wallets, and home decor items using upcycled and eco friendly materials. They also make embroidered and appliquéd patches, hats & hoodies.
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Native Art, Minerals and Fossils offers geological and educational specimens, that are sanded, shaped and polished. Some are wire wrapped into jewelry using fossil shark teeth, amber, herkimer diamonds, dinosaur bone, meteorites, Amethyst, fluorite, Malachite, Garnet, ruby, aquamarine, crystal quartz and many more. Also check out their sterling silver rings and jewelry.
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Since its founding in 2021, Hudson Valley Books for Humanity has become a centerpiece for downtown Ossining. We offer pre-loved and new books, pre-loved vinyl, and artisan products - all with an eye toward planet-friendly living, social justice, diverse voices, and local interest. The bookstore is not just a store; it is a place of gathering, community-building, and entertainment. Most important, it promotes values and perspectives that propel this community forward.
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Rivertown Thrift is a nonprofit community thrift store in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. We operate out of the James V. Harmon Community Center in the lower level. Down there is a community closet that offers free clothes to folks all year long. Then Rivertown Thrift pops-up the first Saturday of the month, takes clean seasonal clothing and shoe donations from 10am-12pm, sell those clothes directly back from 10am-3pm, and all the money goes to the Hastings Food Pantry. We keep the community closet stocked and clean in exchange to use the space for our fundraising efforts.
Our goal is not only to keep the Hastings Food Pantry funded, but to keep clothes local. The clothes we donate to bins end up getting incinerated, put into landfills, shipped to other countries, and even sold back to American vintage shop owners. The massive environmental impact of not only clothing production but dealing with textile waste cannot be understated.
They promote shopping secondhand ALWAYS and shopping locally. To help this effort they keep clothes affordable. “Cheap” should not come at the cost of exploiting labor. "There are enough clothes to dress the next 8 generations, we NEED to stop buying new clothes."
Through up-cycling efforts they reimagine what it means to take care of and love the clothes we already have. Messages like “everything you need already exists” and “create more than you consume” are some ways they try to bring conversation starters to their booth.
Rivertown Thrift is a small yet mighty project aiming to change the norm of overconsumption, one conversation at a time.
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Den of Wax is a New York-based online vinyl retail site, storefront, and boutique label. The storefront is a high-end record shop focusing on music discovery, while the label gravitates toward genre-defying music. Both the shop and the label cover all types of music from around the world, while staying within the confines of what could be considered "audible art." Found on the racks are thousands of items with intricate packaging, long sold-out variants, hard-to-find records from overseas, deluxe albums, and music from up-and-coming artists. Stop by their booth and say hello! They will have copies of albums from Den of Wax Records, giving people an opportunity to see the intricate details of their packaging and vinyl variants (including sold-out copies of their sand, paint, and liquid filled records)
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Jeneric Bags has been selling handmade quilts, re-usable Tote Bags, Utensil Rolls, and many other high-quality, handmade items at fairs and festivals throughout the Hudson Valley since 2014. In addition to making things that are "pretty and practical", proprietor Jennifer strives to work with as little waste as possible. Tiny scraps of fabric? Sure, they can become art. Small pieces of batting? Don't throw them away. Sew them together, they can become large pieces of batting! Even many of her larger fabrics come from thrift stores, tag sales and estate sales. (When she does have to "buy new", her first choice is to shop local!) Don't throw that fabric away! She will give it a home, and a new life as something someone will use and love
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Better Wheel Workshop is a husband and wife woodworking team. Their signature product, the Woodzie™, is the first fully biodegradable, American made can insulator. It is the sustainable alternative to foam or metal coozies. They purchase most of our wood from a local family-owned logging and mill operation who share their values around sustainability. They also conduct small harvests (sometimes just one tree) on their own land as they expand the mountain bike trails on their property. They have their own mill and solar-powered kiln on-site where they process small batches of timber. In addition to the Woodzie they also make wooden earrings and magnets.
