The Danish Home

04/29/2018

After the Nor'easters, wind storms, and downed trees we are intently focused on Danish Constitution Day Saturday, June 2, and a wonderful program remembering the 75th anniversary of the rescue of Danish Jewry. It is a story worth telling and retelling, and we have a unique program. SAVE THE DATE!

03/18/2018

Last week's Nor'easter took down some trees...mostly softwoods with surface area

06/29/2017

THISTED MEN AND BOYS CHOIR
DANISH HOME
SATURDAY, JULY 1
1065 Quaker Bridge Road East
1:30 P.M.




Thisted Church Choir of Men and Boys (TKDM) (Thisted is on the west coast of Jutland in Denmark) is back to the Croton area for the first time in ten years.

The choir is singing a program of English and American Music of John Rutter, Morten Lauridsen, C.V. Stanford, Vaughan Williams, together with Danish composers Carl Nielsen, Mogens Pedersøn, Svend S. Schultz, Niels W Gade.

Founded in 1982, this choir consists has over thirty boys and young men singers. The choir is known for its very high musical standard.They often perform on radio and television. They will perform at St. Thomas church, Times Square and Bowling Green Park in NYC this tour, as well as the Veteran's Home in Montrose, the Maryknoll Chapel in Ossining and the Danish Home.

05/24/2017

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04/27/2017

We are finalizing plans for Grundlovsdag 2017! Saturday, June 3 from 11AM til 5PM, we feature great music and interesting speakers, complimented by great food and drink!

Ambassador Anne Dorte Riggelsen, Denmark's Consul General to New York, Anne Marie Dalgaard, Secretary General of Danes Worldwide, and Rasmus Thøgersen, Executive Director of the Museum of Danish America will speak.

Kristian Bugge and Morten Alfred Høirup, Bugge and Høirup, will play traditional Danish folk music for us, and teach a class on traditional Danish folk dance. Returning to Denmark from the Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle, WA, they will entertain at the Danish Home!

We'll also see Ellen Lindstrom and the Swedish Meatballs, a fixture at Danish Constitution Day, and the Art Barn is always diverse and interesting.

We finalized the raffle today. If you are not on the mailing list, send an email to [email protected]. Winners came from seven states last year!

03/24/2017

Watch this space, Grundlovsdag 2017 is coming together nicely. We hope to see you Saturday, June 3!

03/24/2017

Wednesday, March 22, the Danish Home and Croton Harmon High School cool-aborated mutual benefit. The Home hosted a 20-member jazz collective from Copenhagen , and the high school has music programs who welcomed the collective for an hour's performance in the school's auditorium. CHHS vice principal Mark Maxam and music teacher Jazz Zantay made the large and loud band right at home. We then removed to the Home, where we served a traditional Danish luncheon, topped off with very un-Danish pumpkin pie, and the group played for our residents in the living room. You can imagine what three rows of brass, piano, bass, electric guitar and singers sounded like- it was fabulous!

03/24/2017

Wednesday, March 22, 2017, a jazz collective of 20 musicians and a soundman came to play at the Home...we waited to see what the weather was forecast before inviting all our friends...

03/24/2017

11/08/2016

SAVE THE DATE. SUNDAY, December 4, 2016, 2-4PM is our annual Open House. We sing Danish and English language Christmas carols, followed by coffee, cocoa, and more a broad variety of traditional Danish Christmas baked goods to share with friends and family. Some people have come for decades, others this will be their first time. All are welcome, and we look forward to seeing you!

10/09/2016

The board of the Danish Home in Croton on Hudson, NY and the Museum of Danish America, Elk Horn, IA, together invite clubs, organizations and businesses in the greater NY Danish-American community to join us Thursday, October 13, from 10AM to 2PM at the Danish Home for a free workshop: “How to get the most out of today’s social media.”
Receive real-life social media training and advice specific to the goals of Danish and Danish-American organizations. Learn how to make an impact online with limited resources and connect with your members and potential members while avoiding pitfalls and wasted time. Workshop includes a real-life collaboration opportunity!
The Home’s board has engaged with the Museum of Danish America to have their media expert, Nicky Christensen, come out to troubleshoot, educate, and guide a reworking of our process and end product.
And we’d like to invite you, as our guest, to benefit from Nicky and the Museum’s expertise! If you think you should have a page and don’t, or a webpage and can’t, or want to push what you do have into the next generation, come join us. You won’t be disappointed or hungry.
The workshop is free and includes lunch. We invite Danish clubs, organizations, and businesses, and if we have 20 guests we’re about right-sized. Please email back to Erik Andersen at [email protected], and we’ll save you a seat (or two).

06/08/2016