The 9th National Gathering of SongFarmers May 8, 9 & 10, 2025
The 2025 NATIONAL GATHERING OF SONGFARMERS is an exclusive member RETREAT. MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Current SongFarmer Chapter Leaders and SongFarmer members are invited to come FREE to BOTH days. CLICK HERE
IF YOU ARE NOT A SONGFARMER and want to attend the 2025 SongFarmers Gathering, become a member, start your own hometown chapter and more click the Membership button below.. Bring your instrument, your voice and your songs and have a front porch picking time with SongFarmers!
THURSDAY
6PM SongFarmers Public Jam Bourbon County Library 701 High St, Paris, KY 40361
FRIDAY – SongFarmers welcomed by Ruth McLain of the McLain Family Band
2PM Slow Jam begins PERRY & DIANA BRAKE
2PM Bluegrass Circle Begins
3PM INTRODUCING THE NICKLEHARPA Doug Oines
3PM CLAWHAMMER BANJO Perry Brake
4PM SHAPE NOTE SINGING Ron Pen
5PM DINNER BREAK STARTS ON SITE hosted by Billie Mallory
6:30 PM TOWN HALL Kari Estrin
7:15 PM SongFarmers Concert and SF Jam with Bill Hudson
SATURDAY
10AM COFFEE
10AM BANJO Workshop RAYMOND McLAIN
11AM Slow Jam begins PERRY & DIANA BRAKE
11AM Bluegrass Circle Begins RAYMOND McLAIN
11AM START A CHAPTER Workshop Bryan Klausing
11AM MANDOLIN Workshop White
12PM LUNCH BREAK ON SITE hosted by Billie Mallory
1PM GUITAR Workshop Bill Hudson, Raymond McLain & Al White
1PM UKULELE Workshop Perry Brake
2PM SONGS OF SONGFARMERS Perry Brake & Bryan Klausing
2PM FIDDLE Workshop Ron Pen & Raymond McLain
3PM PROMOTE YOUR CHAPTER (NEWSPAPERS & MEDIA) Kari Estrin
3PM DULCIMER Workshop Bryan Klausing, Ron Pen
4PM SHAPE NOTE SINGING Ron Pen
5PM DINNER BREAK STARTS ON SITE hosted by Billie Mallory
6:30 PM FUTURE OF SONGFARMERS Michael Johnathon
7PM SongFarmers Concert and SF Jam with Bill Hudson
SUNDAY WOODSONGS ARTIST PICNIC
FREE For SongFarmers, Poets, Painters, Songwriters and Authors Info WoodSongs.com/Artist
1PM ARTIST MEET & GREET & Desserts
2-4PM EVERYONE CREATES SOMETHING BRAND NEW
4PM POT LUCK DINNER and PRESENTATION “CONCERT
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Attention: Musicians, Writers, Poets, Artists, Fans and Front Porch Pickers! JOIN the WoodSongs Front Porch Association today, become a SongFarmer and start a hometown SongFarmers chapter! click here
Our community of musicians, poets and dreamers is growing so fast it’s hard to keep up sometimes. Active and flourishing chapters from Hawaii to Vermont, from Arkansas to Florida … Ireland and beyond. If you feel like the music business has passed you by, if you’re looking something meaningful to do with this passion inside of you … Become part of this wonderful front porch community and do something good with your music. You don’t have to make a living with it to make it a very wonderful and meaningful part of your life.
What is the WFPA (WoodSongs Front Porch Association)
It is an international network of “front porch” minded musicians, songwriters and fans who simply love simple, rural music. This organization is about EVERYBODY who loves to pick, play and sing. If you feel the music business left you behind, join us. We will show you how to make music a powerful part of your life, even if it is not your livelihood.
Our mission statement:
To help music lovers find a new, defined direction for their music. To gather the global community of front porch minded musicians and help them do good work, bring roots music education into schools free of charge, and enhance communities by redirecting the tremendous energies of local musicians. We call our members “SongFarmers.”
A “SongFarmer” is any artist who uses their music to make their families, their hometowns, their careers better.
The WFPA is all-volunteer run. Your membership supports FREE roots music education into thousands of classrooms and home school families. SongFarmers start local chapters that bring their communities together through music.
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