Music We can Work With
Wed, May 11
|Organic Roots Farm at Popover Hill
Farmer-Musician Bennett Konesni leads a worksong workshop and an evening concert on May 11 at Organic Roots Farm at Popover Hill including a farmhouse supper using local ingredients!
Time & Location
May 11, 2022, 5:00 PM
Organic Roots Farm at Popover Hill, 147 E Old Rte 6, Hampton, CT 06247, USA
About the Event
Farmer-Musician Bennett Konesni will return to Hampton to lead a worksong workshop and give an evening concert on May 11 at Organic Roots Farm at Popover Hill at 147 East Old Route 6. Bennett has devoted his life to learning and sharing songs that help get work done, from field hollers to sea shanties, from herding calls to lumberjack anthems, and has been featured by NPR, the New York Times, The Library of Congress, and on the Ted talk stage. He tours internationally and has shared the traditional music of the United States as a Special Envoy for the US Department of State to Mongolia and Ukraine. Bennett last performed in Hampton in 2007 after completing a Thomas J Watson Fellowship. He is the grandson of Rad and Leila Ostby, previous owners of Popover Hill Tree Farm, so this is sure to be an interesting and powerful evening of music in…