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Farley Center Fall Festival 2022

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Farley Center Fall Festival 2022

Come join us for the Farley Center Fall Celebration 2022- Open House and Apple Cider Day! Pick apples, wash apples, slice apples and press the apples in the 180 year old cider press! Come join us on a tour of the Natural Path Sanctuary, farm or bees. Listen to music and have a great time!

Please bring your baked apple treats (and other treats) to share with others!

Farley Center honey will be available for sale by Beekeepers Patrick Norby and Matt Kersten. Beekeepers will have information if you are interested in being a Farley Center Beekeeper!

Farley Center farmers will be selling fresh, organic vegetables at the Market Table.

Donations will be accepted to go toward the purchase of buying the next planting of fruit trees. All are welcome!

RAIN OR SHINE!

FALL FESTIVAL TOUR SCHEDULE
11:15 Natural Path Sanctuary Tour
11:15 Farm Tour
11:15 Bee Tour with a Farley Center Beekeeper
1:00 Natural Path Sanctuary Tour
1:00 Farm Tour
1:00 Bee Tour with a Farley Center Beekeeper

MUSIC LINEUP

10:45- 12:15 Too Sick Charlie
Eric Heiligenstein, M.D.
https://toosickcharlie.com/music

12:15-1:45 Eric De Los Santos Marimba Specialist

FOOD/DRINK VENDORS

El Sabor de Puebla (food)- Reyna Gonzalez
https://www.facebook.com/people/El-Sabor-De-Puebla/100046777215513/

Madame Chu Delicacies (drinks and sauces) -Josey Chu Johnson
https://www.madame-chu.com/

Please carpool as parking is limited.

For more information, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org or call the office at 608-845-8724.

Farley Center & SWWAP’s Halloween Community Potluck and Bonfire

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Come join the Farley Center and the Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWWAP) for our Halloween community potluck and bonfire!

There will be music (feel free to bring any musical instruments), poetry by Tim White/SWWAP, good food and a BONFIRE!

Join us for friendship, laughs and fun as we wind down the year. Bring your own drinks, a dish to share, blankets, and lawn chairs.

Come and take a walk through the Natural Path Sanctuary and the Farley Center farms while you are here.

In case of bad weather, the event will be cancelled with updates on our facebook page and posts in this invitation. But hopefully, we will have wonderful weather!

Hoot N Annie Concert @ The Farley Center

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Tickets: $15 at the door

All are invited to attend an Autumnal party at the Farley Center – What A Hoot!

On Sunday, October 10, the Farley Center with co-host SWWAP, will be throwing a “Hootenanny” with the Hoot’n Annie String Band. The fun begins at 5 PM.

There will be a free general tour of the Farley Center at 4:00 by Farley Center Board Chair Jeanne Meier. There will also be Farley Center honey for sale.

Attendees are invited to come early and walk through the Sanctuary and Farley Center farms, Pack a picnic, bring a beverage, chairs, blankets or even a cheese tray (seen at previous concerts).

Tickets are $15, and are available at the event. The Farley Center is located at 2299 Spring Rose Rd, near Verona Wisconsin. For more information on this event, please contact programs@farleycenter.org.

 

So, What’s a Hoot?

 

Websters defines *Hootenanny as “an informal gathering with folk music and sometimes dancing”. There will be plenty of that at the Farley Center on October 10.

A decade ago, at the beginning of the crackdown on protests at the Wisconsin Capitol, people gathered daily at noon to sing songs of solidarity. Now known as the Solidarity Singalong for nine years years, (the longest running protest of its kind in recorded history). Solidarity Singalong musicians who played instruments would gather to accompany the singers, calling themselves The Learning Curve, and many of them would stay after the scheduled sing, and play folk songs. Some were gospel, some were Americana, and all were fun to sing in harmony. Hoot N’ Annie continues to adopt new songs, new stylings and acquire new fans.

Hoot ‘n Annie is made up of 5 friends that play in several bands in and around Madison. Daithi “the fiddler” Wolfe on fiddle is in too many bands to mention them all, but you may know him from The Currach Irish Trio and Yid Vicious. Prentice Berge on guitar (Prentice is a Mt. Horeb native, graduating from Mount Horeb High School in 1981, before going on to St. Olaf College where he majored in music) and he also plays in County Hwy PD with Daithi, and often gigs with the Mad City Jug Band. Michael Bausch is on guitar and harmonica and also plays in the Wright Combination. Cindy Murphy is the multi-instrumentalist of the group, playing cello, mandolin, banjo and tenor guitar. Yes, her house looks like a magical music store full of rare and beautiful instruments. Our newest member, Tim ‘the librarian” Haub who has been playing with us regularly since 2014, officially became a member of Hoot ‘n Annie String Band in the summer of 2019.

*According to Pete Seeger he first heard the word hootenanny in Seattle, Washington in the late 1930s. It was used by Hugh DeLacy’s New Deal political club to describe their monthly music fund raisers. After some debate the club voted in hootenanny, which narrowly beat out wingding. Seeger, Woody Guthrie and other members of the Almanac Singers later used the word in New York City to describe their weekly rent parties, which featured many notable folksingers of the time. In a 1962 interview in Time, Joan Baez made the analogy that a hootenanny is to folk singing what a jam session is to jazz.

Hosted by:
Linda and Gene Farley Center
Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWWAP)
Mount Horeb Area Progressive Trolls
Solidarity Sing Along

Lanterns for Peace 2021

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Event hosted by Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin

Join us for this family friendly event to commemorate the lives lost in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings 76 years ago and make sure that such nuclear attacks never again take place. We remember the past, so that we can envision and work for a peaceful, just and nuclear-free future.

The event will be open to the public to attend at Tenney Park outside of the John Wall Family Pavilion and the entire event will be held outdoors. You are welcome to mail in your lantern if you cannot be in attendance.

Open to public at 6:30pm for people to create lanterns
Program starts at 7:30pm
Lanterns start going out at dusk approximately 7:45-8:00pm
More information >> https://psr-wisconsin.org/lanterns-for-peace

2021 Event Sponsors

– Linda & Gene Farley Center for Peace, Justice and Sustainability
– First Unitarian Society Justice Ministry
– Interfaith Peace Working Group
– Nukewatch
– Outrider Foundation
– Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin
– Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice

Farley Center Fall Festival 2021

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Farley Center Fall Festival 2021

Come join us for the Farley Center Fall Celebration 2021- Open House and Apple Cider Day! Pick apples, wash apples, slice apples and press the apples in the 180 year old cider press! Come join us on a tour of the Natural Path Sanctuary, farm or bees. Listen to music and have a great time!.

Please bring your baked apple treats to share with others! Please send your recipes for a recipe share to programs@farleycenter.org or make copies of your recipe and bring them with you to share with others!

Saad and Ellen Khalia, owners of Steep N Brew West will be donating hot coffee for all the festival goers. We thank them for donating coffee to our festival each year!

Farley Center honey will be available for sale by Beekeepers Patrick Norby and Matt Kersten. Beekeepers will have information if you are interested in being a 2022 Farley Center Beekeeper!

Farley Center farmers will be selling fresh, organic vegetables at the Market Table. Farley Center tote bags will be available with purchase.

Madame Chu will be back to the Farley Center Fall Festival with her special jalapenos made with our own Farley Center honey! This product is only made and sold for the Farley Center Fall Festival. So, stock up when you can. As we get closer to the date, we can take pre-orders and have them ready for pick up when you come! Discount if you purchase a case.

El Sabor de Puebla/Reyna Gonzalez will have food available for purchase at the festival. If you would like to order tamales in advance, we can take orders for a dozen/$20 for pork, chicken or vegetarian. Place your order with programs@farleycenter.org and put “Tamales” in the subject line and we will give Reyna your order and she will bring the frozen tamales for pick up/payment at the Fall Festival.

The Farley Center will be having a Hmong Institute eggroll fundraiser You can pre-order eggrolls and pick them up at the festival Farley Center Farmer Yee Ythao and the Hmong Institute Director and Board Chair will be at the Farley Center. You can just write “pick up at the Farley Center” on the order form. All proceeds from these eggroll sales (Farley Center will supply ingredients for the eggrolls pre-ordered and sold at our festival) will go directly to the Hmong Institute.  For any questions, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org

Donations will be accepted to go toward the purchase of buying the next planting of fruit trees. All are welcome! Invite your friends on this facebook invitation and share this post!

RAIN OR SHINE!

FALL FESTIVAL TOUR SCHEDULE

11:15 Natural Path Sanctuary Tour with Farley Center Board Chair Gil Halsted

11:15 Farm Tour with Farley Center Farm Manager Seth Riley

12:15 Bee Tour – Beekeepers Patrick Norby and Matt Kersten

1:00 Natural Path Sanctuary Tour with Natural Path Sanctuary Asst. Kalev Kristjuhan

1:00 Farm Tour  with Farley Center Farmer Ian Aley

MUSIC LINEUP

10:45- 11:30 MAUI: Madison Area Ukulele Initiative

11:30- 11:45 Break

11:45- 12:30 MAUI: Madison Area Ukulele Initiative

FOOD VENDORS

El Sabor de Puebla/Reyna Gonzales

Madame Chu – Josey Chu

The Hmong Institute – Yee Ythao

VOLUNTEER GROUPS – Meet in front of the red packing shed to be assigned to where you will be needed – picking apples, directing parking, etc…

Please carpool as parking is limited.

For more information, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org or call the office at 608-845-8724.

Farley Center Concert – Skip Jones

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Farley Center Concert with Skip Jones

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MUSICIANS!
All proceeds will go to the musicians

Come join us for an in person concert with Skip Jones, – Wisconsin Folksinger, Storyteller and Educator

Cost: $20 (PAY AT THE DOOR)
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MUSICIANS!

All proceeds will go to the musicians

Come join us for an in person concert with Wisconsin Folksinger, Storyteller and Educator Skip Jones at the Farley Center under the Bur Oak Welcoming Area (BOWA ).

About Skip Jones:
For over 40 years I have been sharing songs and stories with audiences of all types and sizes.

Some songs come from the giants of Americana music – giants such as Woody Guthrie. Others are from some of the great folk singers I have had the privilege of working with over the years, such as my old friend and mentor U. Utah Phillips, Guy Carawan, Bill Stanes and Larry Long. On occasion, I may also sneak in a few songs I have written myself.

The stories come from my travels around the world as a navy veteran and performer, and from my own back yard surrounded by members of the Mohican Nation in Northeast Wisconsin.

They also come from the lives and observations of thousands of “regular” yet very special people I have entertained, from ages 3 to 108.

I am a musical activist for many issues from clean water to respecting each other, and my convictions work their way into my music and stories.

Beyond my own performances I have organized and directed festivals and concert series, introduced House Concerts to the Midwest and beyond, provided high-quality sound engineering for folk festivals and cultural events, and have produced and recorded albums for local, regional and national artists.

See: www.skipjones.net

We encourage attendees to come early or stay late and take a walk through the Natural Path Sanctuary and Farley Center farms.Please bring your own blanket, chair, food and drinks to the concert. Please bring your masks as well.

We are offering an informational tour with Farley Center Board Vice Chair Jeanne Meier at 11:00 – one hour before the concert.

**Farley Center honey ($10) will be available. Please bring cash.**

For any questions, please contact us a 608-845-8724 or e-mail us at programs@farleycenter.org

HOSTED BY::

Farley Center
www.farleycenter.org

Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWWAP)
http://www.swwap.org/

Natural Path Sanctuary
www.naturalpathsanctuary.org

Harmonious Wail

Farley Center Concert – Harmonious wail

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Farley Center Concert – Harmonious Wail 

Cost: $25 PAY AT THE DOOR
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MUSICIANS!
All proceeds will go to the musicians

Come join us for an in-person concert with “Harmonious Wail” at the Farley Center under the Bur Oak Welcoming Area (BOWA ).

“The members of Harmonious Wail are purveyors of Americana-infused Gypsy Jazz, who continue to take their listeners on a ride via the music of the Hot Club sounds of Parisian cafes, to the deepest blues of the Memphis Delta, to the heartfelt folk scenes across every-town-America. This harmonious clique are sublime entertainers, great educators, and lifters of spirits.”

“Harmonious Wail is a trio of multi-award winning musicians. Sims Delaney-Potthoff, a mandolin virtuoso, and vocalist, Maggie Delaney-Potthoff, vocalist extraordinaire, whose percussive instrument of choice is a cardboard box (but who can also rock almost any household object), and Jeffo Weiss, a master bassist who dazzles and mesmerizes on both upright and electric 5-string bass.”

We encourage attendees to come early or stay late and take a walk through the Natural Path Sanctuary and Farley Center farms.

We are offering an informational tour with Farley Center Board Vice Chair Jeanne Meier at noon – one hour before the concert.

Please bring your own blanket, chair, food and drinks to the concert.For any questions, please contact us a 608-845-8724 or e-mail us at programs@farleycenter.org

Please social distance and wear masks.

**Farley Center honey ($10) and organic vegetables will be available. Please bring cash.**

HOSTED BY:

Farley Center
www.farleycenter.org

Harmonious Wail
https://harmoniouswail.com/

Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWWAP)
http://www.swwap.org/

Natural Path Sanctuary
www.naturalpathsanctuary.org

Farley Center Concert with the Hicksville Debonairs (Joe Mirenna and Peter Gorman)

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Come join us for an in person concert with the “Hicksville Debonairs (local Mt. Horeb musicians Joe Mirenna and Peter Gorman) at the Farley Center under the Bur Oak Welcoming Area (BOWA ).

Cost: $15 Pay at the door
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MUSICIANS!
All proceeds will go to the musicians

 

Come join us for an in person concert with the “Hicksville Debonairs (local Mt. Horeb musicians Joe Mirenna and Peter Gorman) at the Farley Center under the Bur Oak Welcoming Area (BOWA ).

 

The Hicksville Debonairs (Joe Mirenna and Peter Gorman) play a wide range of traditional and popular music from the 1860s to the 1960s: Kentucky and West Virginia fiddle tunes, blues, vaudeville, gospel, and jug band music from the Appalachian Mountains and deep South. Their songs and tunes cover a wide range of human experience: young love, hard times, mistaken identity, and more.

 

We encourage attendees to come early or stay late and take a walk through the Natural Path Sanctuary and Farley Center farms.
We are offering an informational tour with Farley Center Board Vice Chair Jeanne Meier at 4:00 – one hour before the concert.

 

Please bring your own blanket, chair, food and drinks to the concert.

 

**Farley Center honey ($10) and organic vegetables will be available. Please bring cash.**

For any questions, please contact us a 608-845-8724 or e-mail us at programs@farleycenter.org
 

HOSTED BY::

Farley Center
www.farleycenter.org

Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWWAP)
http://www.swwap.org/

Natural Path Sanctuary
www.naturalpathsanctuary.org

Bluegrass Concert with Down From the Hills

Farley Center Bluegrass Concert with Down From the Hills

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Come join us for an in-person bluegrass concert with “Down from the Hills” at the Farley Center under the Bur Oak Welcoming Area (BOWA ).

See: http://personalpages.tds.net/~downhome

Listen to a little of their music

Come join us for an in-person bluegrass concert with “Down from the Hills” at the Farley Center under the Bur Oak Welcoming Area (BOWA ).

Cost: $15 (PAY AT THE DOOR)

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MUSICIANS!
All proceeds will go to the musicians

Come join us for an in person bluegrass concert with “Down from the Hills” at the Farley Center under the Bur Oak Welcoming Area (BOWA ).
We encourage attendees to come early or stay late and take a walk through the Natural Path Sanctuary and Farley Center farms.Please bring your own blanket, chair, food and drinks to the concert. Please bring your masks as well.
We are offering an informational tour with Farley Center Board Vice Chair Jeanne Meier at 4:00 – one hour before the concert.

**Farley Center honey ($10) and organic vegetables will be available. Please bring cash.**

For any questions, please contact us a 608-845-8724 or e-mail us at programs@farleycenter.org

HOSTED BY:

Farley Center
www.farleycenter.org

Down from the Hills
http://personalpages.tds.net/~downhome

Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWWAP)
https://swwap.org/

Natural Path Sanctuary
www.naturalpathsanctuary.org

Listen to a little of their music

Pat Downing: mandolin, fiddle, melodion, vocals
Bill McWilliams: banjo, guitar, vocals
Lee Grady: guitar, harmonica, vocals
Kevin Lague: upright bass, vocals