Saturday, October 4, 2025

Starts at 12PM
Dinner at 4:45PM
Pre-order your meal ticket today!

80 Bassett Road, Shelburne, MA

We are so excited to welcome you to Bassett Road for Fabric of Life’s biggest community event and fundraiser of the year! Barnfest features local crafters and artisans, musicians, children’s activities, dancing, and the weaving together of an amazingly vibrant community. All are invited to join us beginning at noon for a variety of live demonstrations, interactive workshops, raffles, a buffet dinner, and live music and dancing into the evening.

Try your hand at weaving, learn about natural dyeing or needle felting, watch a herding dog or sheep shearing demonstration, take part in a yodel therapy session, bring your tools for a sharpening lesson, or let the kids try Shelburne Fire Department’s hose down house. Musicians of all levels will have a chance to practice fiddle tricks, join in an Old Timey or Scandinavian fiddle jam, and listen to a variety of musical styles throughout the afternoon.

We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Stone Soup Café for our community supper. Pre-order your meal ticket today!

Mini-Workshops

More being confirmed!

  • 1PM
    • Beginner Dumbek Drumming with Joe Blumenthal
    • Beginner Fiddle with Van Kaynor
    • Tool Sharpening & Maintenance with Shelby Howland – Bring your tools to be sharpened!
  •  2PM
    • Intermediate Fiddle with Van Kaynor
    • Fun Paper Folding with Barbara Blumenthal
  • 3PM
    • Tool Sharpening & Maintenance with Shelby Howland – Bring your tools to be sharpened!

Demonstrations

More being confirmed!

Ongoing Activities & Displays

More being confirmed!

1PM – 4:45PM:

  • Glass Blowing with Kirin Bourgeois of Bourgeois Glass
  • Horseshow Forging with Randy Heminger of Forge Over the Falls
  • Leather Keychain Making with Sarah Shields of Farm Shoes Handmade
  • Shetland Sheep from Cozie Nook Homestead
  • Drop Spindling with Jackie Korzeniowski
  • Portable Saw Mill with Jay Clarke of J Team Portable Sawmill
  • Yarn, Kits, Sponges, and Wool Pellets from Bloom Woolen Yarns
  • Spinning Circle with Deanna Moore – Bring your wheel, or try one of ours!
  • Envelope Making and Crafts with Eveline MacDougall of Sweat Pea Cottage Industries
  • Vintage Clothing from Vintage La Femme
  • Activity Tent for kids of all ages with Rachelle Ackerman
  • Kettle Corn & Snacks at the Pavillion

Community Supper: 4:45PM

Exciting News: We have partnered with Stone Soup Café for our annual Community Supper.

Much of the food for the meal is generously donated by local farms and bakers.

Dinner tickets are offered on a sliding scale from $10 to $25.

Pre-purchase Dinner Tickets

Music

Afternoon Music:

  • 2PM:
    • Romaniacs (Melinda Fields, Ralph Iverson, et al.)
    • Appalachian Folk Songs with Carrie and Michael Kline
  • 3PM:
  • 4PM:
    • Yodel Therapy with Roger Tincknell
    • Scandinavian Fiddle Jam with Van Kaynor
    • Tamburitsa Jam, Sing-Along, and Dance

Dinner Music:

Evening Music

Want to Help?

We hope you will help us spread the word by telling your friends, sharing our Facebook event, or sharing and posting our Barnfest Flyer if you are local!

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Getting Here

Fabric of Life is located at 80 Bassett Road in Shelburne, Massachusetts. Shelburne is a few miles east of Shelburne Falls village and about 7 miles west of the intersection of Route 91 and Route 2 in Greenfield.

From the East: Take Route 2 West from Greenfield for about 5 miles. Turn left onto Little Mohawk Road and then stay right on Shelburne Center Road. Take the next left onto Bardwells Ferry Road. After about three quarters of a mile, turn right onto Bassett Road.

From the West: Take Route 2 East from Shelburne Falls for about 2 miles. Turn Right onto Shelburne Center Road just before the Shelburne Police Department. After about three quarters of a mile, turn right onto Barnard Road and then take your first left onto Allen Road. At the end of Allen Road, take a right onto Bardwells Ferry Road. After about half a mile, turn right onto Bassett Road

Parking: As you approach the end of our dead-end road, you will see the big Red Barn. There is parking in the mowed area of the field behind the barn.

 

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. Barnfest is made possible through the generous donations from our community.

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Pictures from Past Barnfest Events

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