Schedule of events for this weekend's Plant & Sing
Over this Columbus Day weekend, the fifth annual Plant & Sing will feature music, readings and poetry, singing, dancing, storytelling, harvesting and garlic planting, food events and activities for kids. Admission is free to the Roots Music Film Series on Friday and to Windmill Field on Sunday.
General admission on Saturdays $30 at the gate for adults; $10 for students, ages 8 to 21; and free for kids ages 7 and under.
Tickets can be purchased at the farmstand on Manwaring Road or visit plantandsing.com for tickets and a comprehensive schedule and description of all events.
FRIDAY
Roots Music Film Series, co-sponsored by Historic Films and the Shelter Island Library, library lower level, 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
KIDS AREA (ALL DAY):
Pony rides, face painting, arts & crafts
1 p.m.: Butter making
2 p.m.: Pumpkin painting & carving, paper bag luminaries
3 p.m.: Farm games (burlap sack race, three-legged race, cabbage toss, tug of war)
4 p.m.: Goat on a Boat Puppet Show
SYLVESTER MANOR GROUNDS
10 a.m.: Guided Nature Walk, led by Peter Priolo of Peconic Land Trust. Rain cancels. $5 per person includes refreshments. Reserve a space by calling 283-3195 or email [email protected].
2 p.m.: Historic Grounds Tour of Sylvester Manor
10 p.m.: Garlic shucking for Sunday planting, worksongs and music
THE LITERARY LOUNGE
Co-sponsored with Canio’s Cultural Cafe and the Shelter Island Library
12 noon: A Memorable Meal – a celebration of youth writing
12:45 p.m.: Author Silvia Lehrer, “Savoring the Hamptons”
1:30 p.m.: Author Scott Chaskey, “Seedtime: The History, Husbandry, Politics and Promise of Seeds”
1:50 p.m.: Brad Davis poetry reading
2:15 p.m.: Essays from “Greenhorns: 50 dispatches from the New Farmers’ Movement,” read by Severine von Tscharner Fleming
3 p.m.: Staged reading: “The Beautiful and the Senseless: Rachel’s Voice in the Wilderness,” a one-act play by Megan Chaskey
3:45 p.m.: Esther Freud, author of British bestseller, “Lucky Break”
4:30 p.m.: Shelter Island authors Kathy Lynch and Christian McClean
5:15 p.m.: Tom Leopold and Bill Persky — Stories & Songs
MUSIC ON THE MAIN STAGE
1 p.m.: The Who Dat Loungers (sounds of New Orleans)
2 p.m.: Brian Dolphin (folk and choral songs)
3 p.m.: Lily and the Tigers (“gothic Americana music”)
4 p.m.: The Sun Parade (recent LP “Yossis”)
5 p.m.: The Gawler Family (old and new sounds from many folk traditions)
6 p.m. : Sunset performance by headliners Béla Fleck and Abigail Washington
8 p.m.: Contradance with the Gawler Family
MUSIC ON THE SIDE STAGE
1:45 p.m.: Worksongers, Sylvester Manor’s “house band”
2:45 p.m.: Island Folk (eclectic blend of tunes and acoustic music)
3:45 p.m.: DuneGrass (folk to jazz, bluegrass to swing)
4:45 p.m.: Velocipede (original and traditional fiddle tunes)
Greenhorns documentary film
7 p.m.: Explores the lives of America’s young farming community, part of a larger campaign for agricultural reform.
ON WINDMILL FIELD
7 a.m.: Sunrise Yoga with Heidi Fokine
9 a.m.: Sweet potato harvest
SUNDAY
ON WINDMILL FIELD
8 a.m.: Sunrise Yoga with Heidi Fokine
9 a.m.: Garlic planting, worksongs
