Welcome to the Fifth- Annual Festival

Welcome to
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Welcome to the the Fifth Annual
Fiddle and Folk Festival at Benner’s Farm!
We hope this annual event is one you look forward to, and that
it continues to bring outstanding talent back to our area. We
encourage you to pick up that neglected instrument, dust it off
and bring it next year to jam with us. This family event will
bring your children together with musicians, their songs and
instruments and hopefully whet their appetites to make or sing
their own music.
&
Festival
olk
Sunday September 11th 2016, 11 - 7
at Benner’s Farm, E. Setauket, NY
Today’s Schedule
Backporch Shady Grove Jam
Stage
Stage
Hollow
11
5
6
6:30
7
Gerry Reimer, one of our strongest voices in the traditional
music world, proposed reviving this long standing Three Village
Festival. Gerry passed away before she could help produce her
dream. We salute her vision. She was a mainstay for three
of the organizations responsible for today’s Festival: Benner’s
Farm, Homestead Arts, and WUSB radio at Stony Brook
University.
No smoking, spitting or politicking anywhere on the Farm! Please
do not open gates or enter animal pens. Be responsible for your children, the safety of your family and the safety of those around you.
Please wash your hands after feeding or petting animals.
Big
Swing
Kids
Corner
11:30 Jeff Davis
Jamming
Noon & Maria
Fairchild
with
Kids
12:30
Claudia Rusty &
Fun
JacobsBand
1
Company
Feinberg
1:30
with
Brothers
Fiddle
the
2
Steve Workshop
Benner’s
Forbert
2:30 Claudia
with Jeff
Farm
Jacobs
3
Staff
Feinberg Sing
Band
3:30
Brothers Along
4
with Lee
Steve
Ann
4:30
Forbert
5:30
We have tried to keep costs to a minimum, and enjoyment to a
maximum. Talk to our performers, buy their CD’s and support
their artistry. Walk the farm or ride the swing. Play some music
in Jam Hollow, or join the Sing Along. Listen to what happens
when musicians get together! Check out our Kids Corner.
Most of all, enjoy the day.
All Star Jam Session
with Featured Bands!
Contra Dance
With our Fiddle and Folk Band
Benner’s
Farm
Field
Shady
Grove Stage
Jam Hollow
& Sing Along
Solar
Array
Grey Barn
Artists
CDs & Info
G
Greenhouse
Red
Barn
Garden
Little
Store
Admissions
Main
Barn
Audience
Area
Backporch
Stage
Contra Area
Chickens
Goats
Sheep
Shed
Concession
Kids
Corner
Little
House
Bathrooms
North
Performers on the Backporch Stage
Steve Forbert
As a young man from Meridian, Mississippi, Steve Forbert traveled to New
York City and played guitar for spare change in Grand Central Station. He
vaulted to international prominence with a folk-rock hit, “Romeo’s Tune”.
Critics raved about Steve’s poetic lyrics and engaging melodies. “I’ve never
been interested in changing what I do to fit emerging trends,” Forbert observes. “Looking back on it, I was helping to keep a particular American
songwriting tradition alive at a time when it wasn’t in the spotlight.”
Claudia Jacobs
Band
Heartbreaking one moment, rambunctiously disarming the next, Claudia Jacobs
is a rare combination of soulful singer, heartfelt poet and spirited entertainer.
Few performers can fill a stage as completely as Claudia. Part Folk Singer, part
Bluesy Mama, she writes and sings songs about the human experience simply and
honestly, addressing joy, pain, injustice, loneliness and hope with sass and humor.
The Feinberg
Brothers Band
The Feinberg Brothers are among the top, young bluegrass artists in
the North Eastern United States. They grew up with the sounds of bluegrass emanating throughout their house as the area’s best musicians came
to play in their home.By blending their bluegrass roots with a classical
training background, they have delighted audiences with their tight, soulful
harmonies and masterful guitar, fiddles and mandolin playing ever since.
Jeff Davis &
Maria Fairchild
One of the most evocative performers of clawhammer (drop-thumb) banjo in the modern
age, Maria brings subtle sophistication to this ancient technique. . . This is roots music, and
she proves that roots can grow beautiful blooms.Jeff Davis is one of those musicians who
makes everything look easy. He plays superb old-time fiddle, is a master of clawhammer
banjo and just as good on guitar, mandolin or mandocello, without ever striving too hard for
showy licks or empty virtuosity. His singing combines authenticity and art in a rare way.
Fiddle Workshop with Jeff Davis at Jam Hollow
Michael Bogner will emcee and entertain between sets with stories and song.
A little about the organizations that are bringing you the Fiddle and Folk Festival On the Shady Grove Stage:
Homestead Arts...is a not-for-profit organization formed
to raise public interest and increasing awareness in the
homesteading, folklore, and agricultural arts that enrich our cultural heritage. Through
public participation programs, workshops and classes Homestead Arts seeks to bring a
taste of yesterday’s simplicity to today’s complex lifestyle. www.homesteadarts.org
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Benner’s Farm...is a historic, organic, 15-acre homestead, raising animals and produce. Thousands of people participate in the many workshops, festivals and special events held at the farm each year. They
offer summer camps, Mommy and Me classes, birthday parties, school
trips, scout visits, private weddings, and other special events. www.bennersfarm.com
Workshops with our featured artists
At Jam Hollow:
Bring your instruments and jam with
Rusty, Fiddle Workshop with Jeff at 1:30, or
join Lee Ann for an Old Time Sing Along!
Kids Corner:
Featuring Songs and stories with
the Farm Staff, will add to the fun
for children of all ages.
Greater Port Jefferson-North Brookhaven Arts Council...supports artistic activFamily Contra Dance
ity by coordinating its efforts with arts organizations, artists, local municipalities,
Peter Kingsley will be our Caller and
schools, art galleries, theaters and others in the community. It provides extensive
will be joined by Rusty’s Contra Band
services to the community including grant writing and technological support
through an extensive and varied programming schedule. www.gpjac.com
All of this held on an organic, historic working
farm with the biggest swing on the Island, farm
WUSB: 90.1 FM... operated by the State University at Stony Brook, is a
animals, gardens, wildlife, fields and woods.
non-commercial, free form radio station that features a wide variety of
music, talk, and informational programming, as well as broadcasting many
Please, No Pets, or Smoking!
of the Seawolves sports events. WUSB is funded, in part, by listener contributions, so
please listen and contribute. WUSB is also available online. www.wusb.fm
Also sponsored by The Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company
& R & B Quality Electronics
Thanks, to all the volunteers who
have made this Festival possible!
Got Suggestions? Drop them
off at the Grey Barn Please.