Upcoming Events
Nicholas Edward Williams and Friends
Nov 1st, 7pm – 9pm Eastern Time
Cost : $15 – $20 Sliding Scale – Kids Get In Free
Nicholas Edward Williams joined by Cody Ray (Guitar, Lap Steel, Vocals) and John Benjamin Davis (Mandolin, Fiddle, Banjo, Vocals)
Host of the roots music history podcast American Songcatcher, Nicholas Edward Williams is a multi-instrumentalist and storyteller who has opened for Taj Mahal, The Wood Brothers, CAAMP, John Paul White, Dom Flemons, Town Mountain, Ballroom Thieves, and John Craigieamong many others. Williams is dedicated to “playing it forward” by preserving the songs, stories, artists and styles that have shaped our country: Ragtime, Piedmont Blues, Early Country, Traditional Folk and Old-Time. He has presented on TEDx, and his critically acclaimed sophomore 2021 release Folk Songs For Old Times’ Sakehas been heralded by well-regarded figures of the roots community such as David Holt, Oliver Wood, Dom Flemons, and JP Harris, with a new traditional record called Rags, Folk and Blues, Oh My! releasing in January of 2025 via EarthTone Records.
“Nomadic folk told through a contemplative lens.” – Paste Magazine
“Beautifully uplifting and rootsy…” – Folk Radio UK
“Absolutely beautiful… a delight to the ears.” – BBC Radio Norfolk
The Bakers Basement
Nov 22nd, 7pm – 9pm Eastern Time
Cost : $15 – $20 sliding scale. Kids Get In Free!
2-piece indie folk band from Cleveland called the Baker’s Basement. We perform a whimsical flavor of music featuring our 2 interwoven voices, acoustic/electric guitar, and our heartbeat- a homemade stand-up bucket-drum kit.
Here’s a link to their EPK:
www.thebakersbasement.com/epk
Past Events
Circle Of Abundance -Women’s Day Retreat
EVENT DETAILS
– Sunday July 28, 2024
– 11 am – 6 pm EST
– $222 per person
– Payment plan option available – half now, balance in 2 weeks
– Signal Mountain, TN – address sent upon enrollment.
– Leaders: Surreina Gerbman and Kat Merryfield
– Includes: Lunch, snacks, and hydrating beverages
Join Surreina Gerbman and Kat Merryfield for a transformative day women’s retreat. Set in the serene beauty of Signal Mountain, TN, this retreat is designed to honor the spiritual significance of the harvest season, focusing on themes of gratitude, abundance, and community. This enriching journey blends mindful practices with the joy of celebration and connection.
As we gather during this pivotal time of year, we embrace the Earth’s abundance and the fruits of our intentions. It is a moment to honor the cycle of life and death, recognizing both growth and release. Through shared experiences, we strengthen our community, preparing for the seasons ahead by celebrating life with friends, enjoying the outdoors, and making time for play.
Retreat Highlights:
– Opening and Closing Circles: Begin and end the day by grounding yourself in gratitude and abundance, setting your intentions, and reflecting on the day’s experiences in a sacred circle.
– Gentle Yoga and Feminine Embodied Movement Practices: Connect with your body and the rhythms of nature through gentle yoga and movement.
– Spiritual Botanical Walk and Forest Bathing: Discover the healing properties of local flora on a spiritual walk and experience the restorative power of nature as you bathe in the tranquility of the forest.
– Altar Creation and Flower Crown Making: Participate in creating a communal altar and celebrate the season’s bounty by crafting beautiful flower crowns, tapping into your creativity.
– Releasing Ceremony and Ecstatic Dance: Release what no longer serves you in a special releasing ceremony and joyfully move and celebrate life in an ecstatic dance session, embodying the spirit of the season.
Throughout the retreat, enjoy a delicious lunch, nourishing snacks, and hydrating beverages, all prepared with love and seasonal ingredients.
Taking a day away from the demands of life to gather in sacred sisterhood offers profound benefits. Rejuvenate your spirit in a supportive environment, connect deeply with like-minded women, and experience the healing power of nature and intentional practices. This retreat is an opportunity to pause, reflect, and immerse yourself in the beauty of community and the Earth’s gifts.
Reserve your spot today and step into a sacred space of abundance and gratitude: https://surreina.offeringtree.com/…/circle-of-abundance…
CANCELLATION POLICY
– No refunds within 7 days before the event.
– 50% refund for cancellations within 7-14 days before the event.
– 25% refund for cancellations within 14-30 days before the event.
– 100% refund for cancellations before 30 days of event date.
– All cancellations and refund requests must be submitted in writing.
Whisk Broom Workshop
Date: Saturday, July 13th, 1:30PM-4:30PM CST / 2:30PM-5:30PM EST
Spend an afternoon learning the Appalachian craft of broom making! Participants will make and take home a turkey wing style whisk broom made with traditional broomcorn and hemp cordage. This class is for total beginners as well as avid craftspeople. Age limit: 13+ or with special permission of instructor. This class has space for ten participants.
Tickets purchased through this link – Eventbrite – Whisk Broom Workshop
Early Bird Ticket – $55 plus Eventbrite fees (all materials included)
Standard Ticket – $65 plus Eventbrite fees (all materials included)
Refund Policy: Cancellations prior to ten days before the class date will receive a full refund. Cancellations within the ten day window before the class date will receive a credit that can be applied towards a future class minus a transfer registration fee of $15.
Credit: Frea made her first appalachian style whisk broom with broom maker and craftswoman Emileigh Zola in 2023 at the Firefly Gathering in North Carolina. It was love at first broom and she has been enthusiastically making them ever since. She is excited to share this traditional craft with others.
More about Frea: Frea Forager (pronounced FREE-yuh; she/her) is the craftswoman behind Wild Earth Crafts (https://wildearthcrafts.com/). She has been avidly foraging and weaving with various grasses, vines, sticks, and other wildcrafted materials since at least 2014. Please send any questions and inquiries to her at freawild@gmail.com.
Location: Walden Peak Farm, 141 U.S. Highway 127, Signal Mountain, TN 37377
CLOSED – Nature Crafts & Treats Camp at Walden Peak Farm
For Ages 5-11 July 15-19, 9am-2pm
$260/week Bring a lunch. Snacks included. Max 22 Min 6
Register with $60 deposit to save your spot. Remaining $200 due on July 15.
Join award-winning educator, performer, and author Andrea Zoppo, aka Ms. Ladybug, and her husband Ryan Welch, for a very special week on their farm making, baking, and tasting! Using many of our farm grown berries we will be creating delicious treats. Expect top-notch natural crafts and art to take home. With years of teaching and performing experiences with organizations like Captain Planet Foundation, Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Playful Evolving Monsters, and dozens of schools, Ms. Ladybug and Farmer Ryan have so much to offer.
More about Walden Peak Farm
The Welch family farm is over 20 acres and over 100 years old. Generations have worked, lived, played, and grown up here. Instead of selling off to developers, the family is dedicating the space to live on, grow, and flourish as a gathering place for families and special events. The family has built a beautiful structure from wood harvested right on the property. With a beautiful pavilion, 2 accessible bathrooms, giant blueberry bushes, grapes, blackberries, and more, the farm is inviting and ready to welcome guests of all ages.
More about Ms. Ladybug.
Andrea Zoppo is an artist, children’s entertainer, and gardener, with over 15 years of teaching experience. Her work and dedication as an educator have awarded her PBS’s Early Learning Champion, one of just 17 in the United States in Nov 2018. Certified as a Nature Based Educator with the Eastern Region Association of Forest and Nature Schools, her main love is learning and sharing the wonders of our natural world.
Her Website: FollowLadyBug!
Ryan Welch is a father, gardener, farmer, and builder born and raised on Signal Mountain.
This is a structured camp with planned activities.
If your child prefers more unstructured free play time, please consider joining our Play Camp the following week on July 22. Campers must be able to use the restroom on their own. If your child is turning 5 by Sept 1 they may join the camp.
Faun Fables Summer Evening Concert
Faun Fables Summer Evening Concert
July 11th, 6pm – 9pm Eastern Time
Faun Fables returns to Walden Peak Farm for a summer evening concert atop Walden’s Ridge.
More info to be announced soon!
Woodwind In The Woods
June 1st – 4:30 – 6:30 Eastern
A concert with Grandmaster of the Shakuhachi flute:
Cornelius Boots
zenshakuhachi.com
Wood Prophet and root philosopher Cornelius Boots has performed in most types of ensembles, at international festivals and up-close for goats with big horns. Boots has written, recorded, and released over a dozen albums of his original compositions and teaches his signature playing style to the curious and dedicated around the world.
Forging his own no-holds-barred style as a professional woodwind performer/composer/teacher since 1989, he is a three-time graduate of Jacobs School of Music (BM Classical Clarinet ’97, BS Audio Recording ’97, MM Jazz Studies ’99) and licensed grandmaster (dai shihan) in the dynamic Zen shakuhachi lineage of Watazumido. The 1996 inventor of the bass clarinet quartet – now a popular modality in many colleges and communities – Boots is a sought-after composer, performer, and teacher, and is an active recording artist who has won awards and created fresh new repertoire for both bass clarinet and shakuhachi, reshaping the landscape of modern woodwind performance practice through robust expressive, signature techniques rooted in pan-stylistic depth and artistic evolution.
After a 30-year career of high-caliber jazz, classical, rock, and experimental music activities (on multiple woodwinds with a focus on the bass clarinet), Boots has now positioned himself at the crossroads of personal expression and divine revelation, exclusively playing bamboo shakuhachi (jinashi/hotchiku) and its baritone brother, Taimu. He is the founder of Black Earth Shakuhachi School, and composes music for the Wood Prophets, the world’s first bass shakuhachi group.
zenshakuhachi.com
ALSO FEATURING TONAL VISION!
Tonal Vision is:
Fred Taylor Percussionist/ tabla
Joseph Ridolfo
Sitar, dulcimer and Native American Flute
Jerry Wallace
Digeridoo, singing bowls and Native American Flute
Heath Luallen
Hand pan, percussion and Native American Flute
1st Day of Summer Solstice Party
June 20th – 6pm – 9pm Eastern
We love marking the seasons in community and good cheer!
Let’s gather at Walden Peak Farm at
141 US 127 Signal Mtn TN 37377 for a Potluck Party!
Music by Tonal Vision, Special guests, and artful surprises!
Marvel at the beautiful flower garden and stay to see the fireflies dance.
Rain or Shine.
All are welcome.
Suggested donation $10/adult.
Venmo @Andrea-zoppo 1142 (last 4#)
Spring Equinox Potluck
March 19 Spring Equinox Party, 5-8pm.
Bonfire and Potluck at Walden Peak Farm.
141 us 127 Signal Mountain, TN
More TBA
“In 2024, the March equinox will fall on March 19 in all time zones in the United States. This will be the earliest spring equinox in the country since 1896.”
Enjoy the changing of seasons at Walden Peak Farm.
Seed & Plant Swap PARTY
Sunday, April 28, 1-4pm Eastern.
141 US 127 Signal Mtn TN, 37377
Rain or Shine and All are Welcome Whether or not you have seeds to share
Emily Kate Boyd
October 21th, 6:00 – 9:00pm EST Music starts at 7. Rain or Shine
$10 Tickets – Cash, Vemno, or Cash App
Kids Get In Free
Enjoy the changing of seasons with an evening of live music at Walden Peak Farm.
Emily Kate Boyd – Singer, songwriter & musician.
Her charming, folky americana style with a bluesy twist will lure you in and wanting more.
October 21st, 6-9pm Music starts at 7.
Tickets are $10, Kids get in free!
BYO-drinks, we will be selling some farm fresh concessions.
We will have a fire in the field and will have a farm fresh concessions for purchase.
Live Action Story Time and Smores!
Bring a blanket and a picnic for an interactive Story Time by author and educator, Andrea Zoppo, aka Ms. Ladybug. After Story time there will be a fire with Smore kits and hot coco available for purchase.
415pm-5pm Immersive and Interactive Story Time.
All are welcome!
$5 suggested donation.
5pm-630pm. Picnic and Smore Party at the Farm.
About Story Time:
Storm Bugs Rejoice! Learning through Play and Literacy!
Join author and educator Andrea Zoppo, fondly known as Ms. Ladybug, for a fun-filled time learning about our pollinator friends and what happens to them and other crawlies during a storm! With her new book Storm Bugs , Ms. Ladybug will guide you through the story with puppets, sound effects, and interactive play. Come find out what happens during a storm, you might be quite surprised.
About Andrea Zoppo:
Andrea Zoppo is an author, artist, children’s entertainer, and gardener, with 20 years of teaching experience. Her work and dedication as an educator have awarded her PBS’s Early Learning Champion, one of just 17 in the United States in Nov, 2018. Certified as a Nature Based Educator with the Eastern Region Association of Forest and Nature Schools, her main love is learning and sharing the wonders of our natural world.
About Walden Peak Farm:
The Farm is cared for by Ryan Welch , Andrea Zoppo, and the Welch Family. It has been in the Welch Family for many generations and is a destination and venue to enjoy the wonders and beauty of nature. Stay tuned for more magic sprouting up!
Swing and Blues with Triple L Trio
October 6th, 6:00 – 9:00pm EST Music starts at 7. Rain or Shine
$10 Tickets – Cash, Vemno, or Cash App
Kids Get In Free
We will have a fire in the field and will have a farm fresh dinner option for purchase.
Bluegrassy Sunday at The Farm
September 24th, 1:00 – 5:00pm EST Rain or Shine
$12 Tickets – Cash, Vemno, or Cash App
Kids Get In Free
Music starts at 2:00pm
Signal Mountain’s very Owen Saunder’s band, Tin Foil Mule, will be providing us with a daytime bluegrass show on the farm! Bring your hammocks, lawn chairs, and blankets to sit on.
We will be selling fresh treats and concessions.
First Day of Fall Family Gathering
September 23rd 4:30 – 10:00pm EST
Event is free to attend.
Celebrate the first day of Fall at beautiful Walden Peak Farm!
4:30-5:30pm – All ages Nature Art invitation by Andrea aka Ms. Ladybug in Pavilion (Followladybug.com)
5-7:30pm – Dinner is available for purchase from Chef Ryan or you can bring your own meal/picnic
7-8pm – Sound Bath/Journey in the Woods with Skyeris of skyeris.art/sound
8pm – Singing Circle around the fire pit with Naomi of Chattanooga Singing Circle. facebook.com/chattanoogasingingcircle/
8:30sh-10pm Free and Open Drum circle
Things to bring.
Eating utensils and plate(appreciated but not necessary)
Water.
Blanket.
Yoga mat.
Chair
Drum
Chattanooga Singing Circle
Sept 18th – Time TBA
Community Singing in Interesting Places
Chattanooga Singing Circle Website
Primal Rhythm’s Ecstatic Dance
August 27th 1:30 – 4:00pm EST
$20 to attend
This two-hour experience will include an opening and closing circle with Hara, guided movement by Lauren Whaley, an ecstatic dance set by Magi Music, and a closing sound bath meditation by Reya Sol.
Primal Rhythm’s Ecstatic Dance
12:30-3:30pm July 30th
$20 at the door
Art and Nature Play Camp
Ages 5-9 July 24-28, 9am-2pm
$200/week Register with $25 deposit
Click here for more camp info!
Find out more about Ms. Ladybug!
Chattanooga Singing Circle
July 23rd 9:00-10:30am
Community Singing in Interesting Places
Chattanooga Singing Circle Website
Chattanooga Singing Circle
July 2nd 10:00-11:30am
Community Singing in Interesting Places
Chattanooga Singing Circle Website
Faun Fables Solstice Party & Concert
(THE TIME IS 6pm EST sharp)
WE ARE SO EXCITED TO PRESENT
FAUN FABLES for Solstice!
Family Friendly
$15 in advance *link below
$20 at the door
Kids are free!
Show at 7pm EST
Amazing Local LON ELDRIDGE
Giant Puppet Performance
8pm Headliner
THE INCREDIBLE FAUN FABLES
Listen
Faun Fables
https://youtu.be/k_vYbAClZCI
Lon Eldridge
https://youtu.be/EwuzwtUKF7Y
$15 Advance Tix
https://account.venmo.com/u/michael-mccamish-2