A.C.O.R.N. NATURE AND MUSIC FESTIVAL TICKETS NOW ON SALE
Local Festival to Take Place at Guilford Fairgrounds on Sept. 27, 2014
The first ever A.C.O.R.N Nature and Music Festival (A Community of Resilient Neighbors) is now selling tickets to this exciting, family-friendly, local event taking place at the Guilford Fairgrounds on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. During the day, participate in a myriad of workshops focused on nature, wilderness skills, and resiliency. In the evening, listen and dance to amazing music.
Get your tickets now at www.acornfest.org. Regular, student, elder, and youth tickets are available. Kids ages 5 and under are free. Tickets grant you admission from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. and include parking, kids activities, as well as access to workshops and music.
Headlining the festival will be the gypsy jazz, theatrically dazzling, Caravan of Thieves. (www.caravanofthieves.com) Also playing will be local favorites: world music Gaia Roots, funk-meets-fiddle Gaslight Tinkers, and roots reggae Heirloom Seeds.
Workshops cover a wide range of topics: Tracking, Fire by Friction, Knifemaking, Thanksgiving Ceremony, Hide Tanning, Spoonmaking, Tiny Ash Baskets, Singing, Herbal Medicine, and Inner Tracking are just some of what is available. Workshops are being led by a variety of local and regional teachers, including some from Wolf Tree Programs, Vermont Wilderness School, Mountainsong Expeditions, Earth Angel Herbals, Kroka Expeditions, Flying Cloud Camp, Bee Fields Farm, Roots School, and Maine Primitive Skills School.
A full list of workshops and instructors is available at www.acornfest.org.
Food and craft vendors will be on site selling locally made food and goods. Interested vendors can contact vendors@acornfest.org.
ACORN Nature and Music Festival is a project of the Vermont Wilderness School.
For more information about the festival please contact info@acornfest.org
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Contact: Ben Riseman
Phone: 802-490-4194
Email: info@acornfest.org
