Join us for a special AJA Music presentation as The Lost River Fleet makes their debut performance in The Word Barn Meadow this summer.

“Family Game Night” is a unique live show featuring Matt the Electrician and a rotating cast of songwriters from his long-running weekly song game. Set up in the round, these old friends will be swapping stories and sharing songs born from the same playful prompts with radically different results. Expect a mix of heartfelt ballads, silly snippets, clever wordplay, and unexpected musical twists. With plenty of laughter, camaraderie, and the occasional audience participation, Family Game Night celebrates the joy of songwriting and the magic of spontaneous creativity.

The Wolff Sisters - the gritty and raw folk-rock outfit and two-time Boston Music Award winners (Americana Artist of the Year) - bring their electrifying live performance and unique sound to The Word Barn Meadow.

We are excited to introduce a painting workshop for your creative wellness!

This workshop is for tose of you who are ready to connect to your inner peace, while discovering your inner artist. Yes! You have an inner artist and this workshop will help you connect to them.

Learn to practice the "magic" of this monochrome printing process which produces cyan-blue colored prints. It’s a joyously fun day composing, exposing, and developing ‘photographs’ using this alternative printing process invented in the 1800's.

In this workshop, we will discuss the history of Cyanotypes, create bespoke images with solar- ready material using the same chemical mixture Sir John Herschel invented in 1842 for this camera-less printing process. On this day, students will work with both fabric and paper to make lasting photographic imagery. You'll create works from the natural world inspired by Anna Atkins, considered the first female photographer, who created her own cyan prints in 1843, and experiment with composition using 3-d objects

Putting a fresh spin on traditional Celtic music, the NH-based Jordan TW Trio delivers a dynamic show full of lively fiddle tunes, haunting airs and their own spin on classics - all in a special summer Meadow show.

Sway Wild is the artistic collaboration between internationally acclaimed indie folk-rockers Mandy Fer & Dave McGraw.

Known for their heartfelt, genre-blending sound, Satsang merges elements of folk, hip-hop, reggae, and rock, infusing each song with introspective lyrics and a strong message of positivity, spirituality, and social awareness.

Whether you’ve tried suminigashi or not, you’ll want to dive into these very different vats of floating inks!  

This ancient mono-printing process involves floating acrylic pigment on the surface of thickened (“sized”) water to create patterns which can then be transferred onto paper or fabric. We’ll cover the materials and tools and the basics of your set up. We’ll even be making some tools of our own to use in this workshop!

Get ready for one of the hottest rising stars on the national roots music scene.

AJ Lee & Blue Summit are an award-winning, energetic, charming, and technically jaw-dropping band that will knock your socks off and leave you wanting more oh so much more.

Join us for a phenomenal double bill in The Word Barn this summer with Dean Johnson and Erin Rae.

Celebrate Summer with the Silo Series! 

Let’s honor the release of both of these poets’ fourth poetry collections!

Let’s gather around the meadow stage on a warm July evening to hear their words.

The event is free ($5 suggested donation) and we will have drinks for sale at the bar as well as author books for sale. There will be fresh-squeezed lemonade and ice cream available as well!

Please register to save your spot!

Jake Xerxes Fussell is a singer, guitarist, and composer based in Durham, NC. His intuitive creative process often draws from traditional music and archival field recordings - incorporating elements of songs from the past into new work.

He is, according to Ann Powers of NPR, "maybe the leading interpreter of American folk music right now..."  

On February 5, Oscar Grossman suffered a devastating fall while working at a job site through the SST school program. He sustained multiple serious injuries, including a traumatic brain injury, fractured neck, back, and skull, and is now undergoing intensive neurological and physical rehabilitation.

Oscar’s life has been forever changed, but his strength and spirit are guiding us all. He is a true warrior. Our family is incredibly grateful for the outpouring of love and support from our community. With a long road ahead, your continued support means everything.

#TeamOscar

Join us for this special fundraising night with The Midnight Wrens for Oscar Grossman.

Nothing better than the chance to host the Whiskey Treaty Roadshow in The Meadow. Come join in the fun.

Do yourself a favor and listen to Martha Spencer’s latest album, Out In La La Land, and you’ll understand why we are so excited to feature this singer-songwriter, mountain musician and dancer from the Blue Ridge Mountains!

Join us for this fun-filled double bill featuring High Range & Fiddler’s Three!

Dead to the Core is a collective of singer-songwriters and acoustic musicians with a shared love of the Grateful Dead. In intimate concerts, the musicians celebrate the band's music not through note-for-note re-creations but by playing the songs their own way—letting them grow and evolve collaboratively in the true spirit of the Dead.

Celebrating the release of her new album, Expoding Star!, Heather Maloney returns for a special evening in the Word Barn Meadow.

Building on the skills of the previously held cyanotype workshop, this workshop will focus on photographic imagery, using vintage glass negatives I’ve collected in France over the years. 

Students also have an opportunity, before the workshop begins, to create one of their own photos into a negative image that can be printed in cyan. In this workshop, we will also explore toning our prints in a variety of solutions, which will leave us with imagery in multiple color ways. 

Come be part of The Word Barn's monthly jam session that is welcome and open to all levels and all instruments. Fiddler Betsy Green will led the session through a variety of folk and traditional tunes, and give you the chance to share some of your own (if you want).

Joe Pug brings his vividly painted and poetic folk hymns to The Word Barn Meadow for what will be a very special evening. One show only. Do not miss this.

Joe Pug brings his vividly painted and poetic folk hymns to The Word Barn Meadow for what will be a very special evening. One show only. Do not miss this.

Join award-winning poet and songwriter Todd Hearon in The Word Barn Meadow with special guests Big Sweetie

Block Printing is one of the oldest types of printmaking -it's been around for thousands of years.  Come explore this ancient craft...

 Join artist & teacher Molly Meng where you will learn to design and carve your very own "block" for printing on fabric and paper.  We’ll learn about transferring images, designing your own, building repeat patterns.   You'll have a full introduction to the various supplies and tools that can be used in this exciting process and bring home your uniquely designed block to use over and over.

All materials are provided --You may want to bring an apron and your glasses!

Kissing Other PPL is a project about openness to exploration, collaboration, and creativity above technicality.  It finds a trio of accomplished musicians that seeks to unlearn boundaries of perfection and find the best sound for the given song in the given moment.

Jack Symes is a singer-songwriter originally from California. His music is personal and sweet; he tells fabulous stories in song form.

A collage and book making/construction workshop that expands your ideas of both!

Summer is coming to a close, but what a great time to collect our stories and photos, memories of a great year, a fantastic summer;  gather the unique items that pertain to your experiences and us them to create The Concertina Book.  A fantastic way to display your keepsakes: have it standing up to show off your artwork or lay it down and let the pages tell a story in themselves.

Join us for this exceptional chance to experience John Moreland in the intimate setting of The Word Barn Meadow.

One of those do-not-miss concerts of the summer.

Drawing influence from their salt of the earth Midwest ethos The Last Revel’s songs so naturally blend the genres of Folk, Old Time String-Band and Indie Rock to create a sound that echoes the current heartbeat of America.

Chosen by Rolling Stone as one of 25 artists who are the Future of Music, Lizzie No has established herself as one of the most exciting new voices in indie folk music.

Experience rapid fire acoustic guitar, incendiary harmonica, fiercely energized solos, all driven by a thunderous kick drum as Cousin Curtiss makes his debut in The Word Barn Meadow.

Join us for this phenomenal double bill featuring the two singer/songwriters and co-songwriters, Mark Erelli & Dinty Child, as they share The Word Barn stage together.

Matt Heckler is a solo multi-instrumentalist that barely fits into any ordinary musical category. He tends to keep to the darker side of Appalachian mountain music and early bluegrass but listen long enough and you’ll soon be transported to the mountains of EasternEurope or a dimly lit bar in Ireland where they honor those who have passed with a gently swaying a cappella ballad.

Come join for the return of our Environmental Education series and meet some amazing owl and raptor species up close while learning all about them thanks to the wonderful Tailwinds educators.

Traditional Celtic music at its best! With fire-driven instrumentals and songs, haunting ballads and a good dose of humor, the Tannahill Weavers have transformed traditional Scottish material and brought it into the modern world, vitally alive and kicking.

Weaving, one of humans’ oldest crafts, is still “transversing a set of parallel threads at right angles.”  Learning the concepts of the warp and the weft are a particular craft elevated to an art.  As with any media, weaving demands an understanding of the interaction between medium and process which then develops into form.

Learning to cultivate a color sense and design discipline, as well as exploring different shapes and patterns will be covered in this workshop.  Participants will learn the basic concepts while using paper and then will build their own mini-loom to continue weaving with yarn, fabric and objects from nature. A wonderful goal in getting the most out of weaving is accessing a ‘weavers mind’.  

Join James Beard award-winning food journalist and NPR’s Here and Now Resident Chef Kathy Gunst for a full day of writing, prompts, sharing work, and more.

Voice is at the heart of what distinguishes good writing from great writing. How do you find your voice (and not mimic others)? This will be the focus of our workshop. 

Don’t miss the return of Cheryl Wheeler to the stage - all in the special, intimate setting of The Word Barn for two shows!

Don’t miss the return of Cheryl Wheeler to the stage - all in the special, intimate setting of The Word Barn for two shows!

Four-time JUNO (Canada’s Grammy) Award winner, David Francey is a Scottish-born Canadian carpenter-turned-songwriter, who has become known as “one of Canada’s most revered folk poets and singers” (Toronto Star).

More than three decades into his career, singer/songwriter David Wilcox continues to push himself, just as he always has. Wilcox, by so many measures, is a quintessential folk singer, telling stories full of heart, humor, and hope, substance, searching, and style.