

FARMFEST 2011
AUGUST 11-14
NO PETS PLEASE...PRETTY PLEASE....NO PETS...OKAY?
Year number 14!
Farmfest 2011 is bound to be another record breaking year. SO many Michigan musicians are finding sponsors. Get your tickets before June 1st via snail mail. We are still the best bang for your buck when it comes to Michigan festivals. $50 for your weekend pass. This includes camping. $65 if you get them at the gate. Volunteers get in for free. If you come to the gate and want to volunteer, you are required to pay the full amount, work your two 4-hour shifts sometime throughout the weekend...THEN get refunded. Volunteers are welcome to come set up camp on Wednesday. Contact Linda Houle at www.bousada@charter.net
DID WE MENTION PETS? PLEASE NO NO NO PETS ! PLEASE !
Please help us support Michigan artists! YOU (yes YOU) might consider becoming a sponsor. Without our sponsors and our volunteers Farmfest would be a memory. There are many bands without sponsors and we would love to help them keep the music alive. They can't do that if they don't get paid folks. We need you...they need you...we need each other. Please call 989-619-3333. Sponsors receive weekend passes, an ad in the program, listings on this website, back stage access before and after your band's performance AND authority to announce your band prior to playing. It's a sweet gig....consider it.
AND NO PETS....We try really hard to get the NO PETS rule out there, but they come anyway...every year. PLEASE don't bring your pets.
DIRECTIONS TO THE FARM
WARNING - Do not use a GPS system. It will take you over the rivers and through two tracks. Trust us.
From the West - Take all roads to Gaylord, Michigan. Go East on M-32 about 15 miles to Johannesburg....keep going another few miles to Vienna. Turn left (North) onto Meridian Line Road. Travel about four miles to the third road on the right...Roby Road. Turn right (East). The farm is about 1/4 mile down the road.
From the East - Take M-32 to Vienna (about 12 miles beyond Atlanta). Turn right onto Meridian Line Rd. Roby road is the third road on the right about 4 miles. Turn right (East). The farm is down the road a piece. Can't miss it.
FARMFEST - 14th annual
Farmfest is a four-day traditional music festival. Mooosical Magic happens at Farmfest...it's a musician's playground. Gates open on Thursday. Main stage music begins on Friday. Drum Kiva, Fire Circle Jams, Dance Pavilion Events, Parkin' Lot Pickin', Candle Light Labryinth Walk, 2nd Stage Open Mic, Blow-Your-Face-Off Harmonica Contest, Kids-Kids-Kids Stuff!, Workshops, Great Food, Sacred Land.
Till the cows come home! ...(and there ain't no cows folks)
Admission to Farmfest 2011 - $65 per person suggested for full event but not required. Daily fee which is $25.00 (Ages 12 and under admission free.) This is the best deal for Michigan Festivals 2011 BY FAR!
PLEASE DONATE EARLY BY SNAIL MAIL IF YOU CAN. Make checks payable to 'Farmfest' 1865 Roby Road, Johannesburg, MI 49751 A gate pass will be mailed which you can present to the gate staff when you arrive. It will be up to us to create another magical Farmfest...donations of time, food, talent and mooooola are very important. Give from the heart and watch another year unfold into the wonder-filled event we have grown to love.
Vendors are welcome. We ask that all craft and art vendors choose a location in Vendor Village in the pines or near the entrance to the pines. We will find a site for all craft and art vendors that arrive. Vendors are asked to contact Willow at www.akafeta@aol.com for reservations.
(Food vendors...we are booked for 2011..sorry.)

Farmfest 2011 - Utterly Mooagical
Come Early - Stay Late - Bring friends
Hugs to All
Stacy Jo
THE LINE UP
Music here - Music there - Music Music EVERYWHERE
Main Stage - Dance Pavilion - Feed Bag Cafe - 2nd Stage - Labyrinth - Drum Kiva - Fire Circle in the Woods - Silo Fire Circle - Workshops - Kids Area, Main Gate AND Deer Blind Info Booth
Check out the program when you arrive to see who is where when. There are just too many details and not enough time to put up the full schedule of event.
2011 Performers ~
(STAY TUNED FOR CHANGES. This schedule is changing everyday. Look for DETAILS AND LINKS..WEB WORK IS NOT EASY FOR THE FARMFEST GAL...GEECH!)
THURSDAY Night at the Dance Pavilion
7:00 PM - Amelia Jo
9:00 PM - Seize the Carp
FRIDAY Main Stage
4:20 PM - The Leftover Hippies
5:30 - Dragon Wagon
6:40 PM - The Old Foresters
7:50 PM - The Blue Water Ramblers
9:00 PM - Rootstand
10:20 - Galactic Sherpas
FRIDAY Dance Pavilion
4:00 PM - Pamella Chappell
5:00 PM - Benny Bell
6:20 PM - Glean Infusion
7:40 PM - The Midnight Cattle Callers
9:00 PM - The Jake Allen Band
11:00 PM - K Jones and the Benzie Playboyz
SATURDAY Main Stage
10:00 AM - Open Mic hosted by Kirby
11:20 AM - La Compagnie
12:40 PM - The Turnips
2:00 PM - The Jake Allen Band
3:20 PM - Magdalen Fussum
4:40 PM - K Jones & the Benzie Playboz
6:00 PM The Naughty Neighbors
7:20 PM - Drew Nelson with Mark Schrock
8:40 PM - Nervous but Excited
10:00 PM - Who Hit John
SATURDAY Dance Pavilion
9:00 AM - Joe Kidd & The Sedition World Orchestra
10:20 AM - String Cheese
11:40 PM - Galactic Sherpas
1:00 PM - La Compagnie
2:20 PM - Who Hit John
4:00 PM - Drew Nelson w/Mark Schrock
5:20 PM - Blue Dirt
6:40 PM - Benny Bell
8:00 PM - Family Contra Dance w/Jan Fowler
9:20 PM - Dragon Wagon
10:40 PM - K Jones and the Benzie Playboyz
SUNDAY Main Stage
10:00 AM - Soul Patch
11:20 AM - Parkin Lot Pickers with Ron Fowler
12:40 AM - The Midnight Cattle Callers
2:00 PM - Glean Infusion
3:20 PM - Blue Dirt
4:40 PM - String Cheese
6:00 PM - Nicholas James and the Bandwagon
7:20 PM - Stella
8:40 PM - Starlight Six
SUNDAY Dance Pavilion
9:00 AM - Medicine Crow
10:20 AM - MEGAskyfish
12:00 - Waltz Workshop with Wild Bill
1:20 PM - Nervous But Excited
2:40 PM - Stella
4:00 PM - Soul Patch
5:20 PM - The Naughty Neighbors
6:40 PM - Rootstand
9:30 PM - Audible
THE FEEDBAG CAFE` AND PUB
Friday late night - Natural Reaction
Saturday late night - Mike Rosteck and a medley of bands. Be sure to check it out!
Saturday morning Breakfast - The Wild Uke Band
Sunday morning Breakfast - The Turnips
TWEENERS all weekend - Hosted by Medicine Crow! (The Would Man - Medicine Crow - Left Over Hippies - Benny Bell - Michael Boushea - The Hand Me Downs - Pamella Chappell - MEGAskyfish - The Hand Me Downs - Magdalen Fossum)
THE DEER BLIND IN THE WOODS
Friday afternoon - MEGAskyfish
Saturday afternoon - Wild Uke String Band
Late night Saturday - M.E. Minus Everyone
Sunday afternoon -
THE MAIN GATE STAGE
Thursday
6:00 PM -The Grass Kickers
Friday
noon - The Would Man
2:30 PM - Wild Uke String Band
5:00 PM - Mike Rosteck
7:30 PM - Leftover Hippies
Saturday
noon - Jason Eller
2:30 PM -Amelia Jo
5:00 PM - Benny Bell
Sunday
Noon - Leftover Hippies
2:30 PM - Wild Uke String Band
5:00 PM - The Hand Me Downs
THE KIDS STAGE & Workshops
schedule tba: MEGAskyfish
Magdalen Fossum
The Hand Me Downs
The Traveling Horsemen
Pamella Chappell
SPONSORED ARTISTS
THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR AMAZING SPONSORS. WE NEED MORE OF YOU! MICHIGAN MUSIC NEEDS YOU! STEP UP WHEN YOU CAN AND HELP SPONSOR FARMFEST MUSIC.
Seth and May .....Starlight Six Lake City - Sponsored by Joe MacNeil.
Kirby...From Harbor Springs - Hosting open Mic - Sponsored by Home Comfort Farms LLC
Ron Fowler...Petoskey - Fire Circle Ghost Stories at 9:00 PM Saturday night and Host of The Parkin Lot Pickers, Main Stage 11:20 AM Sunday, Sponsored by Home Comfort Farms LLC
WHO HIT JOHN - Sponsored by Fox on a Hill,
Medicine Crow.. Easton Rapids - Feedbag Cafe` host. - Sponsored by Illegible Records
Blue Dirt ...Traverse City, Main Stage - Sponsored by John Tubbs
Drew Nelson ...WITH MARK SCHROCK! Grand Rapids - Sponsored by Home Comfort Farms, LLC
LA COMPAGNIE -Sponsored by Ms Patricia A. Sabourin & Genot Picor - Storyteller & Fabricare 2 79 Inc.
K JONES AND THE BENZIE PLAYBOYZ -Benzie County - Sponsored by Michigan Council for the arts and Cultural Affairs and the Cheboygan Area Arts Council
THE OLD FORESTERS - Sponsored by The Great Northern Roasting Coffee Company www.greatnoroco.com
LEFT OVER HIPPIES -Sponsored by the Farmfest Sledding Party People! (If you have not made it to the sledding party in February, you are missing a GREAT winter fest at the farm!)
The Turnips - Sponsored by Michigan Made Organic Medical Marijuana Growing Medium
Nervous but Excited ...Ann Arbor - Sponsored by Home Comfort Farms LLC
THE JAKE ALLEN BAND - Grayling - Sponsored by John Tubbs
The Midnight Cattle Callers -Grand Rapids - Sponsored by Carol Gustman and Cracked Pot Studio and Tom Sutton
Glean Infusion ...Grand Rapids - Sponsored by The Wheeler Family Foundation,
Jason Eller - Sponsored by Charty O's LLC
The Grass Kickers .....Detroit - Sponsored by The Detroit Medical Center Wane State University
Sieze the Carp....Sponsored by Made Chip Company
M.E. Minus Everybody...Sponsored by Harris Law Firm
Starting Thursday, and ending Sunday, Farmfest is a four-day family focused folk and traditional world music festival.
Volunteers are welcome to set up camp on Wednesday. In fact we encourage all volunteers to come in on Wednesday if you can. Get the best camp sites and check in. Plan on providing your own meals OR bring a dish to pass for the evening meal.
This is a great day to select your camp site and settle in. Fire circle jam sessions, campground pickin' parties and drumming at the kiva are popular activities on Thursday night. Help fine tune the place if you would like to lend a hand.
Friday - Sunday....Farmfest Magic!
Farmfest is known for its support of our amazing Michigan artists.
Joe MacNeil
The Montmorency Tribune
Illegible Records
Home Comfort Farms LLC
The Wheeler Family Foundation
Fox on a Hill Productions
Carol Gustman - Cracked Pot Studios
John Tubbs
Charlie O's LLC
Harris Law Firm
French Canadian Society of Michigan
Farmhouse Music Organization - Michigan Council for Arts and Culture and the Cheboyan Area Arts Council
The French Canadian Society of Michigan
Made Chip Company
Detroit Medical Center