This annual all-night spree, free all over the downtown and harbor area, combines outdoor performances, concerts, fairs and fireworks.
The fortress is currently used as a city park, and occasionally hosts festivals, concerts, fairs, and other cultural events.
Planned Runnymede projects listed on the trust's website include the building of a new Magna Carta visitors centre in Runnymede, a pageant, concert, medieval fair, museum exhibitions, street parties and bell ringing.
The band's Live! album, released in 2000, contains a 1974 performance of "Laugh, Laugh" recorded during a concert in Fair Oaks Village near Sacramento, California.
Chloë Hanslip was the feisty soloist in that, while soprano Ailish Tynan sang Grace Williams's hugely demanding concert aria Fairest of Stars, receiving its first outing at the Proms.
Sure, there were free outdoor concerts in fair weather, youth groups through the church, a 99-cent theater the next town over showing movies a few weeks after they premiered, and Atari in friends' basements (and for those less addled with A.D.D., Trivial Pursuit).
The arena is also used for concerts, trade fair and the annual computer party The Gathering.
Flying parking lots will help at big public events like concerts and fairs".
A schedule of concerts, street fairs and festivals is available by calling (518) 434-2032 or visiting www.albanyevents.org.org
But the Giuliani administration contends that a Coney Island stadium, like the one on Staten Island, could be a boon to the community, both as a magnet for new visitors and projects and as a resource for high school and college baseball teams, concerts and fairs.
