by Dmitry | Mar 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Friends of the Boudinot Southard Ross Estate expanded our 2016 Music Series with the addition of four more concerts between April 1 and late October!
The Ross Farm will be featured in a TuneTrek, a very cool video project by musician MikelParis . Paris will tour the Ross Farm, its structures and grounds, on Saturday, April 2, when he will interview volunteers, take video and still photos and perform a song composed for the TuneTrek. The following day, Sunday, April 3, Paris will perform a 60-minute set at 3 p.m. on the property. While Paris tours with O.A.R., he has also worked with Pink, Stomp, Jewel, Train, Blues Traveller and more. He infuses his Vocal, Piano and GuitarDrumming skills into a soulful, organic, groove-oriented sound. The gates to the Ross Farm will open at 2:30 p.m. so guests can come in, help themselves to refreshments and get settled in before the show begins.
Tickets are $25 and may be purchased via , a new feature for our concerts this year!
Our next concerts are the previously-announced Mickelson on April 24 and our 2nd Annual Rock the Barn on May 7 with Nick D and the Believers .
We’re happy to announce that JD Eicher will be back at the Ross Farm on Thursday, June 16! JD sang for us at our first Autumn Acoustic Afternoon last October, and we couldn’t wait to invite him back! The gate will open for this show at 7:00 p.m., with music beginning at 7:30 p.m. We’re hoping for a lovely June evening to host this concert outdoors on our beautiful property, but we can move it indoors if we get a June rain instead! JD lives in Ohio, but you can find him performing all over whether he’s with his band, The Goodnights, or playing solo, or perhaps touring several states in a run with other talented musicians! Come catch him in Basking Ridge while you can!
Tickets for this show are also available via $20.
As announced earlier, Christian Lopez is coming back on June 28, but he’s bringing his band with him this time!
We’ll take a little break over the summer, but when we open the property for Somerset County’s annual Weekend Journey Through the Past on October 8 and 9, we’ll be adding an exciting new event to our weekend lineup when Brooks Hubbard plays a Saturday evening concert for us! More details will be announced in the coming months, but you’ll want to come see this young Nashville musician right here in Basking Ridge! Our final concert will bring another talented Ohio musician to our Farm when Hebdo plays for us on Sunday, October 23. Stay posted for more details on both of these artists and the Autumn concerts that we are already excited to share!
Be sure to our Facebook page so you can get updates on our music events and the other great things happening at this historic Basking Ridge site!
by Valentina Ved | Mar 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
Here’s an opportunity for local young artists to get in on the excitement for our 2nd Annual Rock the Barn concert in May! We had a spectacular event poster last year thanks to Kayleigh Torcivia, and we’re excited to see what our creative kids can come up with for this year’s concert! RHS art students may have gotten this form from their art teacher, but the contest is open to any local youth – not just in the art classes, and not just at Ridge.
Know someone who might be interested? Please share this link Poster_Contest_2016 with them.
Email NolaJH@msn.com if you have any questions.
by Valentina Ved | Mar 1, 2016 | Media
Mark your calendars for the return of music at the Ross Farm! After our successful foray into hosting music on the property in 2015, we’re thrilled to announce three more headliners coming in the next few months. We are also excited that tickets for our music events may now be purchased on our website via PayPal!
Mickelson kicks things off for us with an acoustic performance on
Sunday, April 24. The San Francisco Bay-area folk rock musician recently released his debut solo album, Flickering, which appeared on the 2015 Grammy ballot for both “Best Folk Album” and “Best Roots Music Performance.” Mickelson sings the stories of those living their lives in contemporary America, as fragmented as it is. MusicNewsNashville remarked, “Mickelson sings with aching urgency, cloaked in a dark fog that keeps his melodies balancing on the edge of unresolved, underscoring his take that life is never an all-easy road. His work is smart, moving and never overdone.” Tickets for this show are
$20 in advance or $25 at the door. Doors will open at
3:30 and music will begin around
4 p.m.
We’ll
Rock the Barn again on
May 7 with fabulous indie-pop rockers
Nick D’ and the Believers! This band emerged onto the Ohio music scene in 2013, and their “woozy, new soul” (ColumbusALIVE) was quickly recognized by critics who called the band “consistently mesmerizing” (City Beat) and “one of the fiercest live acts.” (Ted Scheineman, PASTE) Drummer Joseph Barker says, “The Believers live show is about leaving it all on the field. We put our whole hearts into the music and do our best to take the audience on the journey with us. It’s all about striving to have great moments with the audience that they can take home with them.” Tickets for Nick D’ the Believers, appearing at the Ross Farm in cooperation with Pivotal Touring and Management,
are $8 in advance, $10 at the door. The gates will open at
6:30 and music will start at about
7 p.m.
Come celebrate summer with us as
Christian Lopez returns to the Ross Farm, this time with his band on
Tuesday, June 28 – and don’t worry, this is NOT a school night! Christian was an opener for our very first Autumn Acoustic Afternoon in the barn last October, and we are ecstatic to welcome him back as the headliner for this summer set, staged outside the barn to accommodate a crowd! The Christian Lopez Band is making quite the name for itself, appearing on the acclaimed Mountain Stage in West Virginia and a number of on-line and streaming shows, and playing some of the coolest venues from Nashville to New York. Tickets for the Christian Lopez Band will be available in advance on our website for
$20, and at the door for $25. The gates will open for this show also at
6:30, with music starting at about
7 p.m.
We’ll be announcing openers for these shows soon, and perhaps a few other goodies along the way! Make sure you “like” our Facebook page so we can keep you posted about these events and others as the Ross Farm comes alive this spring!
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