Experience a transformative moving-meditation with Alyx Braunius. Beginning with meditation and mindful breathing; transitioning into a vinyasa-style practice, which emphasizes a seamless breath-to-movement flow, and concluding with intentional, deeper asanas (postures). Join us to alleviate stress, fostering balance and restoration for the body, mind, and soul through these rejuvenating relaxation practices. Suitable for beginners.

Bring your own mat

$15 suggested donation

Alyx is native of Otsego County, driven by a love for wellness and travel. She spent 5 weeks on a spiritual journey with her husband and immersed herself in the age-old traditions and rituals of yoga on Koh Phangan island in the Gulf of Thailand. Focusing on Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga.

Yoga inspires her to live mindfully, fostering strength, flexibility, fearlessness, and openness on and off the mat. Her classes offer a non-judgmental space for collective growth with love and compassion.

Trainings and Certifications:
Yoga Teacher, One Yoga, Koh Phangan, Thailand 2020
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York 2022

Get ready to impress Mom this Mother’s Day with handmade crêpes from the heart! Join local food enthusiast Teresa DeLaurentis on Saturday, May 3rd from 1–3 PM for a hands-on Crêpe Making Workshop. Whether you’re a seasoned home cook or just starting out, you’ll learn the art of crafting delicate French-style crêpes from scratch — both sweet and savory.

Using top-selling ingredients from our shop, including Bella Cucina’s Dolci Desserts like Meyer Lemon Spread and Dolci Chocolate Hazelnut, plus small-batch antipasti and pestos, you’ll discover delicious ways to fill and fold your creations.

Each participant will leave with a goodie bag of crêpe-making essentials, so you can recreate the magic at home and surprise Mom with a perfect homemade brunch.

All ingredients are provided. Tickets $ 75 per person

Space is limited, so reserve your spot today and celebrate Mother’s Day the French way!

Start your Sunday with intention and balance! Join us for a Hatha Yoga class with Mira. Perfect for all levels, Mira will guide you through gentle poses, deep stretches, and mindful breathing to help you find balance and relaxation. Let’s embrace the peaceful energy of Sunday mornings! Suggested donation $15

All are welcome to this fiber enthusiast, knitting and crocheting group, new knitters included! Bring your fiber projects and get some inspiration from you fellow creatives!

Join us for an afternoon of live music with Evan Jagels playing a solo set on bass!

Evan Jagels is a versatile upright and electric bassist. He has shared the stage with such luminaries as Ray Vega, Gerry Weldon, Stacy Dillard, Antonio Hart, Michael Mossman, Ray Anderson, John Stowell, Chuck Lamb, and four-time Grammy-Award winning cellist Eugene Friesen. Jagels is cofounder and bassist of Duo Extempore, whose curated improvisations draw from classical and jazz virtuosity, weaving together storytelling, local history, architecture, and audience interaction. Along with pianist Nicole Brancato, Duo Extempore explores every shape of music, through film, technology, performance.

Jagels is also cofounder, producer, and artistic directer of the Harmony Garden Concert Series, which features concerts and cultural collaborations with musicians from all over the world.

He has a Masters Degree in Music Performance from the City University of New York, Queens College, where he received the Michael Feinstein Award and has studied bass with Ron Carter, Buster Williams, Nilson Matta, Yoshio Aomori, Tomoya Aomori, and Franz Pillinger. A passionate educator, Jagels has taught for the New York Summer Music Festival, the Oneonta Pop Music Experience, JazzConnect at Flushing Town Hall, SUNY Oneonta, and is currently Lecturer of Music at Hartwick College.

Experience a transformative moving-meditation with Alyx Braunius. Beginning with meditation and mindful breathing; transitioning into a vinyasa-style practice, which emphasizes a seamless breath-to-movement flow, and concluding with intentional, deeper asanas (postures). Join us to alleviate stress, fostering balance and restoration for the body, mind, and soul through these rejuvenating relaxation practices. Suitable for beginners.

Bring your own mat

$15 suggested donation

Alyx is native of Otsego County, driven by a love for wellness and travel. She spent 5 weeks on a spiritual journey with her husband and immersed herself in the age-old traditions and rituals of yoga on Koh Phangan island in the Gulf of Thailand. Focusing on Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga.

Yoga inspires her to live mindfully, fostering strength, flexibility, fearlessness, and openness on and off the mat. Her classes offer a non-judgmental space for collective growth with love and compassion.

Trainings and Certifications:
Yoga Teacher, One Yoga, Koh Phangan, Thailand 2020
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York 2022

Join us this Saturday morning as we welcome Lucinda Eden of Balcom Court, a true artisan when it comes to jams and preserves.

Lucinda will be at The Gatehouse Coffee Shop from 10 AM to 12 PM, offering samples of her beautifully crafted spreads. From classic favorites to unique seasonal blends, her jars are packed with flavor and made with love.

Treat your mom, treat a friend, or treat yourself to an afternoon of poetry, connection, and celebration. Join us at The Gatehouse the day before Mother’s Day for Poems for Spring, Poems for Mom — a cozy gathering of voices, verses, and community.

The first hour will feature local poets reading personal favorites from their collections, hosted by poet and artist Vicki Whicker. Settle in with a coffee and let the words flow — from heartfelt to humorous, reflective to radiant.

The second hour opens the mic to you. We welcome all poets — emerging, seasoned, or somewhere in between — to share their work. Sign up's will be at the event, first come, first to read. Each poet will have up to five minutes to share original work or a meaningful piece.

Come to read, come to listen, come to feel inspired.

We are thrilled to present Erica Bradbury as our May Artist in Residence—a painter, craftswoman, and founder of Species by the Thousands, whose work beautifully blends the intuitive, the spiritual, and the handmade. Please come by to meet her and see her beautiful work Saturday, May 10th, 3-5 pm.

Originally from New England and now living and working in the northwest Catskills, Erica is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in Fine Art. Her meditative paintings and drawings serve as pathways of personal liberation, offering intimate explorations of light, color, and form. In her work, small details become sacred—expressing the relationship between inner and outer worlds and inviting viewers into a quiet space of reflection and connection.

As an artist and musician, Erica’s work has been shown at Pioneer Works, The Clocktower Gallery, Printed Matter, and Roulette. She holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, and her creative voice carries through all aspects of her practice.

Alongside her fine art, Erica is also the founder of Species by the Thousands, a design and craft studio she began in Brooklyn in 2006. Now based in Margaretville, NY, the studio creates handcrafted aromatherapy mists, essential oil roll-ons, soy candles, artisan jewelry, and natural incense blends—all inspired by the healing powers of the natural world and spiritual outsider traditions.

During her residency, Erica will share both her visual art and select offerings from Species by the Thousands.

Start your Sunday with intention and balance! Join us for a Hatha Yoga class with Mira. Perfect for all levels, Mira will guide you through gentle poses, deep stretches, and mindful breathing to help you find balance and relaxation. Let’s embrace the peaceful energy of Sunday mornings! Suggested donation $15

All are welcome to this fiber enthusiast, knitting and crocheting group, new knitters included! Bring your fiber projects and get some inspiration from you fellow creatives!

Maryalice Doherty is a singer/songwriter and hospice music therapist from Beacon, NY. With a nuanced voice holding both tenderness and bite, Maryalice invites the listener to sit and tune in. Her skilled guitarwork shimmers over themes of love, loss, joy, and the beauty of searching. Her work in hospice care and life in the idyllic Hudson Valley, as well as the work of artists like John Prine and Neko Case, continue to shape her musical identity. Maryalice has played throughout New York State at farmers markets, art openings, performance venues, and festivals.

Experience a transformative moving-meditation with Alyx Braunius. Beginning with meditation and mindful breathing; transitioning into a vinyasa-style practice, which emphasizes a seamless breath-to-movement flow, and concluding with intentional, deeper asanas (postures). Join us to alleviate stress, fostering balance and restoration for the body, mind, and soul through these rejuvenating relaxation practices. Suitable for beginners.

Bring your own mat

$15 suggested donation

Alyx is native of Otsego County, driven by a love for wellness and travel. She spent 5 weeks on a spiritual journey with her husband and immersed herself in the age-old traditions and rituals of yoga on Koh Phangan island in the Gulf of Thailand. Focusing on Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga.

Yoga inspires her to live mindfully, fostering strength, flexibility, fearlessness, and openness on and off the mat. Her classes offer a non-judgmental space for collective growth with love and compassion.

Trainings and Certifications:
Yoga Teacher, One Yoga, Koh Phangan, Thailand 2020
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York 2022

Join us at The Gatehouse Coffee Shop for a hands-on felting workshop led by the talented Lindsey Asman. In this class, you'll explore the basics of needle felting and learn how to create a stunning two-dimensional landscape using wool.

What to Expect:

Learn about different types of wool and how to blend colors seamlessly.

Master the use of a felting needle to "paint" with wool.

Enjoy a relaxed and supportive atmosphere where creativity can thrive.

No prior experience is needed, and all materials will be provided. Just bring a photo or a simple idea of a landscape that inspires you and you will leave with a piece of art!

Come for the craft, stay for the community. Spaces are limited, so reserve your spot today!

Start your Sunday with intention and balance! Join us for a Hatha Yoga class with Mira. Perfect for all levels, Mira will guide you through gentle poses, deep stretches, and mindful breathing to help you find balance and relaxation. Let’s embrace the peaceful energy of Sunday mornings! Suggested donation $15

Through her music, Liana Gabel takes seemingly familiar stories, themes, and tropes about being human and transforms them into that which is profoundly unfamiliar and novel, yet warm and comforting. Her observations about the changing landscape of our relationships, the country, the world, clearly inform her work as a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and percussive tap dancer. Be ready, as inspired and encouraged by Pete Seeger, she will get you singing right along.

All are welcome to this fiber enthusiast, knitting and crocheting group, new knitters included! Bring your fiber projects and get some inspiration from you fellow creatives!

Experience a transformative moving-meditation with Alyx Braunius. Beginning with meditation and mindful breathing; transitioning into a vinyasa-style practice, which emphasizes a seamless breath-to-movement flow, and concluding with intentional, deeper asanas (postures). Join us to alleviate stress, fostering balance and restoration for the body, mind, and soul through these rejuvenating relaxation practices. Suitable for beginners.

Bring your own mat

$15 suggested donation

Alyx is native of Otsego County, driven by a love for wellness and travel. She spent 5 weeks on a spiritual journey with her husband and immersed herself in the age-old traditions and rituals of yoga on Koh Phangan island in the Gulf of Thailand. Focusing on Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga.

Yoga inspires her to live mindfully, fostering strength, flexibility, fearlessness, and openness on and off the mat. Her classes offer a non-judgmental space for collective growth with love and compassion.

Trainings and Certifications:
Yoga Teacher, One Yoga, Koh Phangan, Thailand 2020
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York 2022

Since 1997, Robert Sarazin Blake has crisscrossed the world, blending folk, punk, and fearless storytelling. From the critically acclaimed Recitative to his 2025 release Let The Longing Run Wild & Free, Blake brings soul, wit, and politics to the stage.

Don’t miss a rare night with one of America’s great underground troubadours. Expect stories, soul, politics, and poetry—all wrapped in melody. Suggested donation $15.

“Blake being a master of stage presence and completely at ease, he was capable of bringing the crowd to a complete silence. His ability to make a story out of a moment, a moment every audience member is a part of no less, is the one of the best forms of concert entertainment I’ve ever experienced. ”

— Jess, Sunset in the Rearview

Join us for a cozy evening of live music, poetry, comedy, and more, hosted by the one and only Khalil Jade! Performers can sign up when they arrive (first-come, first-served).

Grab a coffee, enjoy the show, or take the stage yourself—see you there!

Start your Sunday with intention and balance! Join us for a Hatha Yoga class with Mira. Perfect for all levels, Mira will guide you through gentle poses, deep stretches, and mindful breathing to help you find balance and relaxation. Let’s embrace the peaceful energy of Sunday mornings! Suggested donation $15

All are welcome to this fiber enthusiast, knitting and crocheting group, new knitters included! Bring your fiber projects and get some inspiration from you fellow creatives!

Join us for an afternoon of heartfelt indie folk with Amber Martin, a singer-songwriter based in Ithaca, NY. With songs that open windows into her thoughts on love, life, and everything in between, Amber brings a voice that is both intimate and expansive.

Her debut album, released in July 2021, was recorded and produced at Yellow Bike Records alongside upstate NY folk favorites like Driftwood and Joe Kollar. Since then, she’s been quietly building a reputation for thoughtful lyrics, warm melodies, and an authentic presence on stage.

Come through, grab a drink, and settle in for an afternoon of music that feels like a conversation with an old friend.

Experience a transformative moving-meditation with Alyx Braunius. Beginning with meditation and mindful breathing; transitioning into a vinyasa-style practice, which emphasizes a seamless breath-to-movement flow, and concluding with intentional, deeper asanas (postures). Join us to alleviate stress, fostering balance and restoration for the body, mind, and soul through these rejuvenating relaxation practices. Suitable for beginners.

Bring your own mat

$15 suggested donation

Alyx is native of Otsego County, driven by a love for wellness and travel. She spent 5 weeks on a spiritual journey with her husband and immersed herself in the age-old traditions and rituals of yoga on Koh Phangan island in the Gulf of Thailand. Focusing on Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga.

Yoga inspires her to live mindfully, fostering strength, flexibility, fearlessness, and openness on and off the mat. Her classes offer a non-judgmental space for collective growth with love and compassion.

Trainings and Certifications:
Yoga Teacher, One Yoga, Koh Phangan, Thailand 2020
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York 2022

Join local community herbalist and farmer AC Stauble-Hill for a Spring Plant Walk with an emphasis on wild medicinal and edible plants and fungi. We will start at the Gatehouse at 1pm to gather and then we will set out for a short walk around town to see what kinds of plants we can find, discussing some along the way. We'll work our way back to the Gatehouse to discuss the plants further in the coffee shop, laying out our plants on the table to go into greater detail about them.

AC will share some of her favorite recipes for delicious spring dishes like a wild greens pesto and parsnip, potato, nettle soup and burdock chips. She'll cover some basics of the lymphatic system and how the abundant spring plants work to wake up our lymphatic systems and digestion. Bring a notebook, pens or pencil, and clear tape if you'd like to start your own botanical plant identification journal.

$25 per person. No one turned away for lack of funds.

More about AC Stauble-Hill:

AC is an herb farmer, herbalist, product maker, educator and podcaster. She has been studying and growing herbs since 2012 and will continue to be a lifelong student of Nature. She's based on a small herb farm and homestead in West Edmeston, NY (about 20 minutes from the Gatehouse), where she grows hundreds of varieties of medicinal herbs, fruits, trees and fungi. Using her homegrown herbs, AC creates small batch, hand-made herbal remedies like skin soothing salve, muscle rub, tinctures, teas and more under the brand, Traveling Herb Farmer which you can check out at TravelingHerbFarmer.com and on Saturdays at the Cooperstown Farmers Market.

AC loves sharing the things she's learned over the years with others, especially in hands on, engaging ways. She teaches classes and hosts interns and is opening the doors to her own herb school, The Actaea Academy this year. Actaea will hold an in-person, nine day retreat in the Adirondacks at the stunning Bark Eater Inn Retreat Center which will cover many essential elements of herbalism and aromatherapy for a Herbal Summer School. The Actaea Institute also offers an online Sunday School held live on-line every Sunday from September 2025 to May 2026. Learn more at Actaea.org. She's the co-host of the Plant Cunning Podcast where she and her partner Isaac Hill interview some of the most interesting and inspiring herbalists, gardeners, astrologers, healers, and occultists of our time. You can listen to it on most podcast apps and You Tube. They also host an in-person conference, The Plant Cunning Conference.

Start your Sunday with intention and balance! Join us for a Hatha Yoga class with Mira. Perfect for all levels, Mira will guide you through gentle poses, deep stretches, and mindful breathing to help you find balance and relaxation. Let’s embrace the peaceful energy of Sunday mornings! Suggested donation $15

Join us for an unforgettable afternoon of live music featuring the enchanting songs of Amanda Rogers!

Rogers, the soulful voice behind the keys, has captivated audiences with her introspective lyrics and haunting melodies for over two decades. Born with an innate musical gift, and now with 13 solo albums in tow, Amanda's unwavering ascent as a singer-songwriter, in the face of adversity, has been a testament to the depth and complexity of the human condition.

In her latest EP album, 52 Hurts, set to release on July 19, 2024, Amanda Rogers delves into the profound emotional landscapes that define our existence. Inspired by the mysterious “52 Hertz Whale”, known as ‘the loneliest creature on Earth’ due to its unique and solitary vocalizations, Amanda draws a parallel to the solitary struggles we all face in our lives.

All are welcome to this fiber enthusiast, knitting and crocheting group, new knitters included! Bring your fiber projects and get some inspiration from you fellow creatives!

Join us for an afternoon of music with Mike Herman at The Gatehouse!

Mike Herman is a North Country Blues musician from Schoharie County in the Northern Catskills. Mike's songs have a real down home, danceable quality to them. His rural tinged lyrics, bouncy melodies and solid fingerpicked guitar, reflects his deep Piedmont Blues influences and the love he has for the Country Blues. Along with tasty guitar lines, the addition of bittersweet vocals round out his songs nicely.

Find Mike on Facebook

And check out this video of Mike performing live

Experience an unforgettable afternoon of music as two extraordinary local musicians come together:

Blake Fleming – Renowned drummer known for his innovative rhythms and dynamic performances and a founding member of the Mars Volta. Evan Jagels – Accomplished bassist whose soulful melodies bring depth and warmth to any stage.

Each artist will perform solo, showcasing their unique style, before coming together to create something truly unique and inspiring. Don’t miss this intimate afternoon musical experience at The Gatehouse Sunday Sessions!

Join us at The Gatehouse Coffee Shop for Sunday Sessions with Blue Stone, a newly formed duo blending folk, blues, rock, and jazz into a captivating musical experience.

Michael McGuane – A singer-songwriter-guitarist whose passion for music began in the late ‘70s, drawing inspiration from legends like The Beatles, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, and Bob Dylan. His rich mix of original compositions and timeless covers offers a heartfelt journey through decades of music.

Steve Eisenberg – A multi-instrumentalist who brings melodies and textures to life with flute, harmonica, bodhrán, jaw harp, and more. Rooted in Traditional Irish Music, he has expanded into blues, folk, country, jazz, and beyond.

Together, Michael’s rhythmic guitar and soulful vocals blend seamlessly with Steve’s harmonies and diverse instrumentation, creating a unique and engaging performance.