Back to the Garden

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Back to the Garden is a summer music festival event near Dorchester/Ingersol hosted by Brent Jones and his parents on their farm. It's an opportunity for local bands to get together and share their music -- peformers are donating their time. On a sunny summer day it's a lot of fun. We went for the free Sunday event, there is an opportunity to donate, but there was also a Saturday concert in the barn (we missed that).

This is the second time we've been here but apparently this has been an ongoing event since 2001. Since our last visit things have changed a bit. The barn is now a great concert space and there are very nice well equipped outdoor rest/washrooms with flush toilets in an outbuilding rather than porta-potties.

Today there's music on a well equipped out door stage (it's not sheltered so thankfully we had sunny weather) as well as events in the barn -- you can skip back and forth to find the music you're interested in. There's a nest of barn swallows hungrily called for food that accompany music in the barn.

There are some vendors outside and some food wagons but we've brought sandwiches, drinks and our portable sun shade. We recall working on our sun burn years past. It's an all ages thing so there are kids there as well. Lots of dancers, some even in time with the music.

It's a bit of a "secret party" and does not attract huge crowds. There's good attendance, but they have room to host many more.

We were impressed by the music we heard and grateful to Brent and his family for hosting.