8AM BREAKFAST: Shaker Village dining hall or use your meal tickets for the SongFarmer buffet (catered by lexington Diner) SONGFARMER STAGE 1820 MEETING HOUSE WEST WASH HOUSE SONGFARMER CELLAR MAP LOCATION: 1 MAP LOCATION: 2 MAP LOCATION: 4 MAP LOCATION: 6 10AM OPEN HOOT: SHAPE NOTE SINGING: WORKSHOP They joy of WORKSHOP: using music Sign up at the stage for It is a wonderful, musical playing with Rik for healing is rewarding ... Music Festival and Member Conference performance slots tradition. In this workshop we Palieri and Raymond and does wonders for your will be re-creating 19th cen - McLain career RobinLee Garber SHAKER VILLAGE, Pleasant Hill, KY tury rural singing that makes 11AM OPEN HOOT: learning to read music easy WORKSHOP playing WORKSHOP Beginning Sign up at the stage for and enjoyable. No experi - with Isaac ukulElE , easy to tune, performance slots ence is necessary... with May, Ruth McLain-Smith easy to play ... with Erich Ron Pen and Raymond McLain Sylvester 12N LUNCH BREAK: Thank you AgCredit, Martin Guitar Company and our wonderful host Shaker Village Shaker Village dining hall, Shaker Village Grill or

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Feel free to sit Musicians, Writers, Poets, Painters, Artists, under a tree, invite new friends around Performers, SongFarmers, Fans, Families to pick, play and and Front Porch Pickers! jam to your hearts content. workshops The are here for a purpose, but The Gathering is really about YOuR music. Have fun! Visit Entrance from SongFarmers.org HWay 68 TIME SONGFARMER STAGE 1820 MEETING HOUSE SEEDLING STAGE WEST WASH HOUSE SONGFARMER JAM-LAND SONGFARMER CELLAR BIG BARN MAP LOCATION: 1 MAP LOCATION: 2 MAP LOCATION: 3 MAP LOCATION: 4 MAP LOCATION: 5 MAP LOCATION: 6 MAP LOCATION: 7

1PM OPEN HOOT: TRADITIONAL SHAKER HOW “FREE” WORKS WORKSHOP Being a Sign up at the stage for SINGING is a beautiful The world of music is chang - “SongFarmer” and the performance slots artform and here’s your ing and we must change amazing opportunities it chance to enjoy it with the with it Michael Johnathon gives musicians Rik Palieri Sara Holroyd Singers 2PM OPEN HOOT: JUG BAND MUSIC WORKSHOP Progressive HARMONY SINGING how Sign up at the stage for explore this amazing old- GuITAR picking with a true to find that right note, it’s performance slots time music with the JUG - master: PAT FLYNN of New easy! Diana Brake and GERNAUT JUG BAND Grass Revival Ruth McLain-Smith 3PM OPEN HOOT: WORKSHOP Traditional SONGFARMER WORKSHOP writing for so - HILLSIDE JAM & SONGFARMER CLUBS: Sign up at the stage for kentucky FIDDlE with KIDS: cial causes - “Get Together” How to start and run one performance slots old-time fiddlers Ron Pen with BANANA , founding PICKING CIRCLE: with Penny Lane Deirsing, and Raymond McLain member of the Youngbloods John Learned and Perry Brake 4PM This is our all-day open This is beautiful setting for OPEN HOOT: SQUARE stage for kids to pick, play, WORKSHOP: the MOuN - EVERYBODY to pick, play, HAMMERED DULCIMER: Sign up at the stage for perform, sing, recite poetry, TAIN DulCIMER is an sing and more. Discover one of the most performance slots DANCE! tell a story and play in front easy, traditional instrument. beautiful instruments imagi - of an audience. Try it with several experi - NO SIGN uP NEEDED just nable. Fritz Schindler enced musicians! come with your instrument, 5PM A real old-time square KIDS: sign up at the and play on a scenic hillside OPEN HOOT: Q & A SESSION: Discuss NYCKELHARPA explore S ONG F ARMERS Sign up at the stage for dance with a band and stage for your perform - the massive changes in devoted to music of all this amazing instrument performance slots caller Randy Wilson. Put ance time ... as many the music world with kinds, bluegrass, old-time, with Doug OInes and on them dancing shoes and times as you can! Michael Johnathon, Art and slow jams. Bronwyn Bird do-si-do till supper time! Menius and Kari Estrin 6PM SUPPER BREAK: SUPPER BREAK: Shaker Village dining hall or use your meal tickets for the SongFarmer dinner SongFarmer dinner at the Big Barn (catered by Ranada West-Riley and lexington Diner) (use your meal tickets) Please pick up, clean up when you’re done! ICE CREAM 7PM BAR-B-Q and a BIG Ol’

WFPA FUNDRAISER: Buy an official “SongFarmers” T-Shirt and support the WFPA Classroom project and BARN the Gathering. Just $20 each at the Registration desk! 8PM HOW THE GATHERING WORKS: DANCE

We have scheduled specific things like workshops and performance stages ... however ... we want you to feel free to put a group together under MUSIC ON STAGE a tree and start your own picking and song circles. We are a community of “front porch” minded artists, and a “front porch” can be anywhere! FOLLOWED BY A PLEASE BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS ... if it’s on the ground, pick it up :) COMMUNITY SONG JAM