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Only about 15 minutes from Albany, NY this could be the perfect wedding barn option for you.
They have fields and fields of beautiful green for your ceremony, a great rustic barn for the reception, and even livestock down the path for endless photo options! Kenny got to play music, and also play with the goats. Now what more could you ask! But seriously it is elegant and rustic at the same time and really worth looking into. Watch the video above to see the layout in our virtual tour form.
This wedding site option is highly recommended for the rustic wedding seeker. Also, check out our pictures from on location below:
Welcome to Indian Ladder Farms
Indian Ladder Wedding Location
Wedding Food Truck Rustic Option
Trendy Food Truck Friendly
Indian Ladder Wedding Cake Time
Outdoor Wedding Blanket Idea
Fun Country Theme Wedding Head Table
Indian Ladder ALtamont NY Wedding Dining Hall in The Barn
Great Altamont Wedding Location
Indian Ladder Altamont NY Wedding Ceremony Site Guests
If you are looking for a fun affordable disc jockey with knowledge of new music as well as the classic hits that everybody loves, we are the DJs for you. Our local Wynantskill office serves customers from down in Center Brunswick, Walmart shoppers on Hoosick Road & New York State Route 7, Eagle Mills by the fire station, over on Route 2, North Greenbush, Haynersville / Haynerville, the old Cooksborough neighborhood in lovely downtown Pittstown, over in Poestenkill, and all over Troy all the time.
“If you are a resident of Wynantskill NY looking for a Wedding DJ, Graduation Party DJ, or Backyard BBQ, and you love Jack’s Drive-in or Villa Valenti Pub, then we are probably the local match for you.”
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As a wedding and party specialist, DJ Kenny Casanova and TheDJservice.com brings Wynantskill, New York:
•Completely Ridiculous & Huge Track Listing Library
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•Professional Gear, state-of-the-art
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•DJ/MC experience since 1996
DJ Kenny Casanova, slightly insane, but always the main Latham NY Wedding DJ
•Voted Capital Region #1 Karaoke DJ
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•Prowrestling Ring Announcer Experience: WWF / WWE
•Sports Broadcasting Experience
•Karaoke & with big big big track library
•Huge Laser Show – Great for Sweet 16 parties & modern weddings!
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•Interactive events, dances, & nifty activities
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CONTACT: Drop us a line at 518-506-3305, or email us at ken@thedjservice.com . Providing affordable fun, DJ experience, and jammin’ music for your special occasion in or around Wynantskill, NY!
POINTS NEAR WYNANTSKILL WE HAVE BROUGHT THE FUN TO INCLUDE: Center Brunswick, Hoosick Road & New York State Route 7, Haynersville / Haynerville, the old Cooksborough neighborhood in Pittstown, Troy and Bennington, Tamarac / Tamarack, Platestown, Eagle Mills, Boyntonville, Millville, Poestenkill Creek, New York State Route 2, Grafton, Williamstown, Cropseyville, New York State Route 351, Quackenkill Creek, East Brunswick (aka Rock Hollow,) Clum’s Corners, Averill Park, West Sand Lake.
(518) 506-3305. Affordable wedding DJ / Mobile disc jockey in Waterford, NY with a complete library of new music & classics. Also – Digital Photography & Lights!
If your Waterford wedding is set to take place at not too far away from, Goat Island, Northside, Peebles Island State Park, Prospect Hill, State Canal Park or Sugarloaf Pond, give us a call! If you are in Waterford New York and need a DJ to play a great mix of all the latest music and all the greatest classics look no more!
As a local wedding reception and wedding ceremony specialist with tons of experience in the industry, DJ Kenny Casanova and TheDJservice.com brings Waterford, New York a great mobile DJ service including:
•200,000 song library
•Wedding Ceremony Services, when at same location
•Music Video Package – The Best in Waterford NY
DJ Kenny Casanova, slightly insane, but always the main Waterford NY Wedding DJ
•Professional Gear Bose L1 Stick & Peavey
•Digital Slideshow Projection
•DJ/MC experience since 1996
•Voted Capital Region #1 Karaoke DJ
•Radio Personality Experience
•Ring Announcer Experience: WWF / WWE
•Sports Broadcasting Experience
•Karaoke & with huge track library
•Huge Laser Show – Great for Sweet 16 parties, and modern weddings!
•Professional Photography “The DJ Cam”
•Interactive events, dances, & activities
•Very affordable prices!!!
VOTED THE #1 CHOICE FOR FUN WEDDING DJs IN WATERFORD NEW YORK
Drop us a line at 518-506-3305, or email us at ken@thedjservice.com. Providing affordable fun, experience, and great music for your special occasion in or around Waterford, NY!
The French-Canadian Trough Dance by Albany NY DJ Kenny Casanova
In an earlier article, I discussed how the tradition of the French-Canadian Ugly sock dance (click here to read) was making a comeback and beginning to flourish once again, throughout Ontario Canada and other French-speaking parts of the country.
Subsequently, this odd sock dance tradition that punishes single siblings for not already being married has bled some into the states. Today, brides and grooms in the Capital Region and specifically Albany and Saratoga Springs, NY who come from our northern neighbors have been working the custom into their wedding planning. Now, another odd Canadian tradition related to the Ugly Wedding Sock Dance is making its way into our wedding halls. This one is called “The Hog Trough Dance.”
The overall philosophy behind The Trough Dance is still the same as the Sock Dance; to punish an unmarried older sibling at a younger sibling’s wedding reception by making them dance in a ridiculous manner for not being married yet. Hoever in the Hog Trough Dance, the sibling dances barefoot in a pig trough or a wash basin, sometimes full of liquid. The idea is that if you are older and still not married, you need to be thrown into the spotlight and peer pressured into tying the knot soon, to avoid the public ridicule at your next brother or sister’s wedding. Because you are not already married, you are indangering the passing down of the family name, and this is punishable by mud.
The French-Canadian Trough DanceFrom my research, I found Ethnologist Jean-Claude Dupont of New Brunswick , showing the earliest written description of the trough dance. He said that, “a musician would play a tune and the single sister had to dance in the muddy pig trough, which had been brought inside special for the event.”
Dupont went on to explain that if the sibling were a male, things would be even worse in a French-Canadian Hog Trough Dance. When it was a bachelor who was being punished for not marrying before his younger sibling, “the brother would actually be made to eat out of the same trough!”
The tradition also sometimes involved dancing in and around a trough filled with food that would be sampled after the dance. Sometimes, a variation with a basin filled with alcohol, a mixture of beer, and hard liquor that the dancer must also drink after the dance.
Hopefully it is just mud.I have learned that updated variations to this tradition that has evolved some in recent years. Early on, legitimate dirty old troughs pulled right off the farm complete with mud, steaming fresh pig droppings (or worse) were in fact used for the dance, in the most extreme cruel and unusual forms of this wedding torture tradition.
You can bet that feet covered in pig droppings would have left some really lasting impressions on guests sitting near the dancer’s piggies after the festivities. This is all the reason more to make sure that you are married before your younger sister.
However, in today’s more politically correct version of The Dreaded French-Canadian Trough Dance, we see a more forgiving version. People spend a lot of money on clothing on the big special day, and not many people will want to cooperate in such a dance knowing that they will get ridiculously dirty. Another issue, is many halls do not want confetti getting around, let alone pig $#!t, so you can imagine what their responses may be to this type of custom.
With the loosening of family constraints, we now see relatives pushing victims into the Trough Dance in a clean trough purchased just for the occasion.
