RISING APPALACHIA WITH BARIKA
What: A day long, farm-based mini festival, with special guests; food vendors; labyrinth walks; permaculture, wild-crafting, healing arts, yoga, and herbal workshops; and opportunities to connect with various environmental and social justice campaigns.
When: Sunday, August 23. Gates at 3pm. Tickets include camping Sunday night and Yoga class Monday morning.
Where: Willow Crossing Farm. Google Maps: “Willow Crossing Farm”. Beautiful riverside organic venue- an incredible retreat in itself!
Tickets: $25 in advance, includes camping. 12 and under free- family friendly event. $20 Student, Activist, Farmer Discount. $30 Day of Show- discounted tickets must be purchased in advance. Tickets available by paypal to keith@ProspectRock.org, at the Flynn Theatre Box Office (and online or by phone through Flynn) http://www.flynntix.org/see-description/rising-appalachia/Details?perfNo=12713&perfCodeP[...]16R , at Downtown Pizzeria & Pub in Johnson, VT, and The Farm Store in Jeffersonville, VT
More info: www.WillowCrossing.org
Facebook event page (for most up to date details, questions, carpools, camping packing list, and other announcements): https://www.facebook.com/events/1633723003574469/
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Sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith are multi-instrument virtuosos, who grew up in a southern appalachian string band musical tradition and have gone on to create a unique sound blending folk, funk, world music, african polyrhythms, spoken word poetry, and simple, beautiful harmonics.
They are known for headlining music festivals all over the world- but their connections with the Vermont herbalist, organic farming, permaculture, and activist communities brings them to play an intimate show for a few 1000 people on a small family farm in Johnson.
As young buskers, performers, and traveling community activists, they were taken in by legendary Vermont based herbalist and author Rosemary Gladstar and have since embraced medicinal herbalism, and wild plant based supplements- to which they attribute their ability to stay happy, healthy and well adjusted while facing the rigors of the road in an internationally touring musical act. Their most recent hit song ‘Medicine’ is dedicated to Rosemary and other herbalists. (check out the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czkHmjrFCnM)
Slow Music! Their albums are entirely self-produced and self funded- including crowd-sourced, community-based financing. Rising Appalachia advocates a “Slow Music Movement” approach to touring - an effort to promote sustainable touring practices and to be immersed in local communities. “It’s an effort to take the glitz and glam out of the music industry and bring performance back to its roots. A place where musicians are not just part of fast-paced entertainment, but instead influence the cultural shift as troubadours, activists, and catalysts of justice,” explains Leah. The ‘Slow Music Movement’ encourages musicians to try out ‘non-industry standard’ ways of bringing music into the world by “linking to local communities and staying with local friends; pursuing alternative venues for performances and supporting local businesses with farm-to-table hospitality; providing local non-profits at each show a platform to display information; exploring alternative methods of travel including train, bike, low impact vehicles, boat, horse, or simply focusing on regional touring; and encouraging concert goers to take in more than just the catharsis of the music.”
They’ll be joined by Barika, a Burlington based band which plays traditional Malian (from Mali) music, infused with a funk and psychedelic undertones. Their latest album was declared by Seven Days to be “among the finest local albums you'll hear in this, or any other, year. Really.” Horns, drums, bass and keys compliment the N’Goni- an ancient african form of harpsichord, and predecessor to the american banjo. N’goni master Craig is a native Vermonter who spent years studying as a percussionist in Africa and now also plays for the Mike Gordon band.
Willow Crossing Farm is Vermont’s longest running permaculture research site- focused on exploring the connections between food, culture, and ecology. Started in 2000 by Keith Morris, WCF now holds the most diverse collection of tree crops in the northeast, exploring in particular the potential of nuts, fruits, berries, vines, and herbs, to create ‘ecologically regenerative’ and ‘carbon negative’, and flood resilient agricultural systems. The farm serves as a classroom (and Keith is a professor) for the University of Vemont, Sterling College, St. Mikes, Yestermorrow, and other community groups.
All proceeds from this event go directly to the musicians. Any surplus will be devoted to advancing tree crops research, riparian reforestation efforts, and sustainable agriculture/ ecological design education.
www.WillowCrossing.org
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