Barnfest 2023
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Starts at 1PM
80 Bassett Road, Shelburne, MA
We are so excited to welcome you to Bassett Road for our biggest community event of the year! Barnfest is a FREE full day event that includes local crafters and artisans, musicians, kid’s activities, dancing, food, and the weaving together of an amazingly vibrant community.
We welcome all to join us beginning at 1PM for a variety of live demonstrations, interactive workshops, raffles, a buffet dinner, and after-dinner musical entertainment into the wee hours of the morning.
Mini-Workshops
- 1PM
- Beginner Ukulele with Joe Blumenthal
- Beginner Fiddle with Van Kaynor
- 2PM
- International Family Dance Workshop with Rachelle Ackerman
- Fiddle Tricks with Van Kaynor
- Dorset Button Making with Carolyn Wetzel
- T-Shirt to Apron with Sara-Jeane Burke – Bring a favorite t-shirt!
- 3PM
- Hand-sewn Buttonholes with Jenny Wildermuth
- Hugelkulture Bed Build with Carl Davis
Demonstrations
- 1PM
- Live Birds of Prey from the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum
- Processing Flax with Becky Ashenden
- Working Oxen with Sean Porter
- Needle Felting with Robyn Crowningshield
- 1:20PM
- Tool Sharpening & Maintenance with Shelby Howland – Bring your tools to be sharpened!
- 2PM
- Hand-Shearing Icelandic Sheep with Kevin Ford
- 3PM
- Knitting Heddles with Justin Squizzero
- Shelburne Fire Department Fire Truck with Chief John Taylor
- 3:45PM
- Broom Making with Eva Gaultney
- Bread Making in the Earth Oven with Doug Feeney
- 4PM
- Tool Sharpening & Maintenance with Shelby Howland – Bring your tools to be sharpened!
Ongoing Activities
- Free Horse Drawn Wagon Rides with Heritage Hoofbeats
- Sawing Logs with Jay Clark of J Team Portable Sawmill
- Glass Blowing with Kirin Bourgeois
- Massages by Terry Caldwell Therapeutic Massage
- Handmade Shoes with Sarah Shields of Farm Shoes Handmade
- Historic Tools Display by Wheelview Farm
- Try your hand at Weaving
- Spinning Circle with Deanna Moore – Bring your wheel, if you like!
- Streamer Making and activities for kids of all ages!
Afternoon Refreshments
- Wood Fired Pizza in the Earth Oven
- Severance’s Maple Products
- Community Supper served at 5PM
Music
- Prone to Mischief Brass Band
- Song Circle with Eveline MacDougall
- Scandi Jam with Van Kaynor
- Tipsy Parsnips
- Zdravets
- Gogofski
- Balkan Fields
- Orkestar Banitsa
Want to Help?
We hope you will help us spread the word by telling your friends, sharing our Facebook event, or posting our Barnfest Flyers if you are local!
Wondering what Barnfest is like?
Here is a video from our 2019 event:
Pictures from Barnfest 2022
Barnfest is part of an ongoing series of events that ensure a strong future for Fabric of Life as we educate the young, and the young at heart, in traditional crafts, music, dance, agriculture and forestry.