Festival AT THE FARM 2024
At Barringer Family Farms
Festival at the Farm 2024 brings forth an abundance of adventurous performance events and activities sure to satisfy the senses, energize the ears, tickle the tastebuds, and provide food for thought. A partnership between Zeitgeist and Barringer Family Farms, Festival at the Farm brings people together through innovative and welcoming performance experiences that promote sustainability and celebrate country living. Come join us at the farm!
BARRINGER FAMILY FARMS N4815 810th St Ellsworth, WI 54011 About the artists, performance works, and featured farmers
CLOSED LOOP
featuring Zeitgeist, Pamela Z, and Todd Harper World Premiere Saturday, September 7 6:00 Grounds Open 7:00 Performance Sunday, September 8 3:00 Grounds Open 4:00 Performance Every gardener and farmer is deeply familiar with the cycle that moves from soil to sustenance and back again. Closed Loop, Pamela Z's new work for Zeitgeist, celebrates that cycle with chamber music for piano, clarinet, and a percussive arsenal including marimba, vibraphone, drums, mixing bowls, whisks, and...an immersion blender. Partnering the live musicians is an electronic score featuring samples of MN and WI chefs, farmers, and livestock. In addition to the world premiere of CLOSED LOOP, Pamela Z will perform a solo set of her renowned compositions for voice and electronics, and Zeitgeist and composer/visual artist Todd Harper will perform selections from MUSICAL LANDSCAPES, a series of watercolor scores commissioned by the festival in 2023. Farmers from the Pierce Pepin chapter of the Wisconsin Farmer's Union will be on hand to talk about their production and how they employ sustainability in their farming practice. And...we'll have food! CLOSED LOOP will feature farm fresh food supplied by Barringer Family Farms, Oxheart Farm, Rising Sun Farm and Orchard, and Warm Fields Farm prepared by local chefs. CLOSED LOOP will be performed in a pole barn. The event will happen regardless of most weather events. Performance space is accessibility to those with mobility issues and wheelchairs, but please contact us so that we can best serve you. 
Barringer Family Farms is a third generation family farm located in the verdant Trimbelle River valley in western Wisconsin. They grow vegetables, hay, CBD hemp products, present arts and education events, and host community celebrations.
Barringer Family Farms centers the production of healthy and delicious food in a sustainable manner that nourishes our customers, improves our land, and connects with community. Their food can be purchased at local farmer's markets, through a CSA, online, or at the farm. NOTICE: A person who observes or participates in an agricultural tourism activity on this property assumes the risks inherent in the agricultural tourism activity. Risks inherent in the agricultural tourism activity may include conditions on the land, the unpredictable behavior of farm animals, the ordinary dangers associated with equipment used in farming operations, and the potential that a participant in the agricultural tourism activity may act in a negligent way that may contribute to injury or death. The agricultural tourism provider is not liable for the injury or death of a person involved in an agricultural tourism activity resulting from those inherent risks.
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FESTIVAL AT THE FARM and CLOSED LOOP is made possible, in part, through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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