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CORNWALL—Cornwall Days will be held Aug. 9-11 this year with live music, the Rose Algrant Art Show, family events and a Taste of Cornwall.

Live music is always an element of Cornwall Days, a three-day celebration planned for Aug. 9-11 this year. Photo contributed

Organizers announced several weather-related updates this week.

The family movie night “Toy Story” has been postponed to Thursday, Aug. 15 at 7 p.m. on the lawn at the Trinity Retreat Center, River Rd. in West Cornwall.

Friday’s live music has been moved indoors to The Union, 415 Sharon-Goshen Turnpike in West Cornwall, steps from the covered bridge, with Ava McCoy and Rip Dunes from 5 to 6:45 p.m.

The Algrant show opens Friday afternoon, 2-6 p.m., at Cornwall Consolidated School, and continues Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m. until noon.

Saturday, Wish House hosts the West Cornwall Farmers Market with music by Nick and Carol from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Food4Friends Food Truck will be present and Wish House will hold its annual summer sale. The Co-op Farm Market will be set up on the Village Green on Pine Street from 9 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.

Hughes Memorial Union, 415 Sharon Goshen Turnpike, will hold an open house from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will offer free chair yoga 9 to 9:35 a.m. The Grumbling Gryphons will have a pre-performance theatre workshop at 10 a.m. 

The Cornwall Package Store, 14 Kent Road, is hosting a wine tasting from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and there will be a Plaid Rooster candle giveaways at the Shoppes at Cornwall Bridge, 22 Kent Rd South. Sally Van Doren, 418 Sharon Goshen Turnpike, plans an open studio and summer sale from 2 to 4 p.m. and a Taste of Cornwall, with food and live music by Grain Thief, will be held on the Village Green from 4 to 7 p.m. for a $5 fee, offered by the Cornwall Park and Recreation Commission.

The Sunday events are still planned to be outdoors. The Grumbling Gryphons Family Theater will be on the Wish House Lawn, 11 a.m. until noon and music by Arieh and the Lions from 1 to 2 p.m., will also at the Wish House. If the weather is bad or the ground too wet, the Grumbling Gryphons family theater and Arieh and the Lions will move indoors to The Union. Cornwall Market, 25 Kent Rd. South, will offer live music by Ruby Leftstep from 3 to 5 p.m.

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