2025 SCHEDULE
Hardscrabble Day officially takes place in the center of the Village, but there is so much more community activities spread throughout Red Hook!

Municipal Lot Schedule:
​KidScrabble: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Featuring food trucks, booths of local organizations offering games and activities, a massive Touch-a-Truck display, and multiple "Story Time Reading Circles". Story times are every 20 minutes starting at 10:20 a.m
TeenScrabble: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.​
Come hear the future headliners of Hardscrabble perform during the afternoon, as we feature the incredible teen talent from our local music academies, the Rhinebeck School of Music and Red Hook’s Community Music Space. Closing out the TeenScrabble festivities is Chocolate Jam. Grab some snacks from our food trucks and enjoy - this is not to be missed!​
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Hardscrabble Main Stage and Beer & Cider Tent: 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
We are VERY pleased to announce Lez Zeppelin, the all-female Led Zeppelin tribute band, as our headliner. They will be playing the classic album, Physical Graffiti, in its entirety! The album turns 50 years old this year and is the perfect kickoff to Hardscrabble gearing up for its 50th anniversary next year.
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Supporting Lez Zeppelin, we have Dirty Mae - Award-winning indie folk band known for their New Orleans swagger and unique blend of genres, including bluegrass, blues, Latin, and Americana; Grupo Proyecto Musical M7 - Playing Cumbia, Mexican, and Oaxacan-style music guaranteed to get you dancing; and The Hudson Valley Flyers - Performing honky-tonk music from the classic country recording era. Grab a partner and get ready to boot-scoot and shuffle!
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See the set times below (set times subject to change).

Community Wide Events
​First-Annual
CarScrabble Classic Car Show:
12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Grab your shades, because these rides are bright! Join us at Memorial Park and admire a collection of some of the area’s finest classic cars. Get ready for the smell of the leather and shine from the chrome. At 3:00 p.m., the cars will parade down Broadway towards the Hardscrabble stage for the closing of the TeenScrabble concert.
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Historic Red Hook
Open House Elmendorph:
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Historic Red Hook is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and reflecting on more than two centuries of civic life and community change in Red Hook. Come the Open House at the Elmendorph and enjoy a foodways interpreter cooking and sharing stories about what people ate in the 18th century. The Elmendorph Handspinners Guild will also demonstrate the art of handspinning.
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Retail Vendors:
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Visit the lawns at St Paul's Lutheran Church and St. Christopher's Catholic Church for amazing retail vendors.
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Local Shops and Restaurants:
All day!
Red Hook is full of AMAZING shops and eateries! Stroll through the village and look for that special and/or tasty item…it won’t be hard to find!
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2025 Music Lineup

Lez Zeppelin
8:00 PM
There is no other band like Lez Zeppelin. Since 2004, this all-girl powerhouse quartet has captured the essence, spirit, power and seductiveness of Led Zeppelin both onstage and in the studio becoming a worldwide phenomenon. The band's explosive performances are more of a "channeling" than a tribute. Never interested in impersonation, Lez Zeppelin sets its sights on the art and challenge of a group playing in communion. This has earned them the moniker: She-Incarnation.
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In June, 2013, Jimmy Page attended their show in London and said of the group, “They played the Led Zeppelin music with an extraordinary sensuality and an energy and passion that highlighted their superb musicianship.”
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In 2025, the band will mark the 50th Anniversary of one of the greatest rock albums of all time, Physical Graffiti, with a full scale tour that features the performance of the album in its entirety. We invite you to come and experience the unique brilliance of this music. Rest assured that we will play the notes. But, know that it is the spaces in-between the notes that create the magic...