Lady Moon & The Eclipse is a multicultural ensemble based in Oakland, CA. Through soaring vocal textures and R&B/afrobeat-influenced rhythms, they create inspirational music that explores the Cosmic Soul. Lady Moon carries the essence of the Moon sending a message of love, peace, and light, while the musicians serve as the Sun shining light upon her. The audience represents the Earth, also known as the Star People of Earth, completing the metaphorical eclipse.

Led by founder, singer and songwriter Ngonda Badila aka Lady Moon, the band self-produced their debut EP, Believe, released in April 2016, followed by a series of music videos in collaboration with New York-based filmmakers, receiving recognition from OkayAfrica, Earmilk, Afropunk, as well as regional and international film festivals. Exploring beyond the New York region spanning from Vermont to New Orleans via their Eclipse Season Tours, the band has opened for such names as Thundercat, Kamasi Washington, Amanda Palmer, Maxi Priest, and Tank & the Bangas along the way. Journey to the Cosmic Soul, their full-length album released in April 2020 on double vinyl and CD; was recorded and arranged with a celestial concept used to guide the listener through a journey to become one's best self.

With a marked emphasis on inclusivity, individuality, and spiritual unity rooted in a unique tapestry of celestial perspectives, Lady Moon & The Eclipse radiate positive music and message in community with artists, directors, designers, producers, musicians and Star People of Earth.

Acclaimed art-rockers, Billy Wylder, return to Earth Sky Time for their annual self styled Moonshine Music Festival on the farm. Billy Wylder's music bridges continents and cultures and features desert blues guitar, soaring fiddle, psychedelic synth, and a tight funky rhythm section.

Billy Wylder celebrate the release of their new record, "Trying To Get Free" out Aug. 25! Hear the sounds  billywylder.com

This year, they are joined by Alea, the Colombian songstress and groove queen. Alea's music walks the line between Cumbia, Vallenato, Rancheras, Jazz, and Pop that reverberates with New York City vibes. alealeamusic.com

Family fun on the farm, wood-fired pizza, beer and wine available. Admission $15 (kids free)

Formed in Ulster County, NY in 2020, the Ulsterados play country music that’s easy to dance to, hard-time music that’s good to feel bad to, and old music just as fresh as they’re able. With high harmonies, a steady shuffle and enough twang to make it nostalgic, the group plays at high energy for low stakes with a combined 130 years of experience touring across the U.S.

'All By My Ownsome' is the first solo offering from Jackson Lynch. The album features five original songs by Jackson Lynch as well as traditional folk, blues and gospel songs in Lynch's distinctive style and arrangements. Born in Ireland, Jackson Lynch moved to New York City's East Village when he was young. Jackson is an integral part of the New Orleans music world with his band Jackson & The Janks. He now resides in Red Hook, Brooklyn where he is also a vital part of the New York music scene. Jackson Lynch plays solo, with The Janks and with his string band The Down Hill Strugglers, hailed by Amanda Petrusich in the New Yorker as, "the very best interpreters of traditional material presently going.”

The concert will feature four acts: Shtick & Poke, Slow Pony, Ayden Crispe, and Dan Freiband

Shtick & Poke is led by Manchester resident Theo Levis Canter on accordion and bouzouki, alongside an ensemble of students from Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio. The band’s repertoire focuses on klezmer, the lively Jewish wedding dances of Eastern Europe, with a sprinkling of Americana and Greek melodies.

Hailing from Brattleboro, Eli Dworkin of Slow Pony brings his "polk funk revolutionary collective" ranging from Balkan beats to tango and cumbia, and original works with a similar flair.

Danby native and local firefighter Ayden Crispe adds a soulful touch with her "angsty teen poetry.” Dan Freiband, who plays guitar in Shtick & Poke, will showcase his own original songs, a genre he calls "honest joy pop.”

Tickets are only $10 at the door, with farm-fresh falafel and beverages for sale at the event.

Glen David Andrews, a native son and a beloved musician of New Orleans, is a warrior for cultural preservation at a time when indigenous traditions are being threatened in the city.

His commanding voice and fierce trombone sound – both a powerful, emotional, and resonant blend of smoothness and grit – as well as his disarmingly honest manner provide a musical experience that never fails to meet the moment.

Glen’s music is packed with beauty, hard-earned truths, compassion, humor, anger, joy, and – most of all – hope.

Glen comes from a storied and extended family of musicians. He was born in New Orleans’ historic Tremé neighborhood, which many consider to be the oldest Black community in the United States. Transfixed by the magic and mystery of the city’s second-line parades, Andrews and his older brother, Derrick Tabb of the Rebirth Brass Band, along with their younger cousin Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, learned the history of the brass band tradition firsthand from iconic figures like Tuba Fats.

Glen has been touring since the age of 14, performing in cities around the world. He has played in New Birth, Lil Rascals, and Tremé brass bands, bringing equal measures of musicianship and showmanship to each.

He now fronts his own high-powered ensemble that expertly fuses traditions ranging from jazz to gospel to rock to blues and to funk, all in the same show, sometimes in the same song!

Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band return with their second LP, Siri Ba Kele. After the afro-beat fury of their first album Juguya, the band has now distilled a potent mix of traditional and modern Burkinabe funk with a reverent take on the iconic Mandingue guitar music of the 1970’s. Mamadou Sanou (Baba Commandant) leads the band with a confidence earned from years of toiling in the DIY underground of the West African music scene. His riveting growl and main instrument, the Doso Ngoni, still strike with a profound delivery. The band’s guitarist, Issouf Diabate, is on board again and his breathtaking guitar work is one of the greatest examples of the instrument displayed in modern times. Massibo Taragna (bass) and Mohamed Sana (drums) are simply one of the finest rhythm sections working today, each a master on his instrument and the chops displayed here are truly something to behold. The band has become an interlocking five headed hydra of complex funk and cosmic guitar explosions. Recorded in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in February 2018 by Camille Louvel and mixed with SF’s Hisham Mayet, the Mandingo Band’s sophomore LP is a modern statement of searing Sahelian compositions. It stands shoulder to shoulder with such classics as Super Biton De Segou, Kanaga de Mopti, Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux and the mighty Rail Band.

DOORS 5:00

Opener TBD

Kotoko Brass melds the beautifully complex traditional drumming of Central Ghana, the sturdy bass and keyboards of the Caribbean, and the joyous horns of New Orleans to forge a sound the Boston Globe has described as “propulsive, infectious party music.” The band began when brothers Ben, a performer, scholar, and educator of Ghanaian drumming, and Brian Paulding, a longtime trombone player in Boston’s reggae scene, joined forces. Ben fortified the percussion section with Attah Poku and Kwame Ofori, two master percussionists from Ghana. The rhythm section of M’talewah Thomas (bass) and Yusaku Yoshimura (keyboards), as well as saxophonist Andrew Fogliano, fill out veteran rhythm and horn sections.

Vaud and the Villains was born out of whimsical dreams, glitter and boa feathers. The big show is a 19 piece orchestra and cabaret, and has evolved over the years from a folk band singing traditional tunes…to an originally voiced genre bending spectacle commonly described as Americana Noir meets Moulin Rouge. At once seedy and inspiring…gritty and sublime. Bring your wretched souls, your sins and your dancing feet…they will save you and you will never be the same…

Tickets $15

Students & Farmers $10

Kids Free

Rain or Shine!

event will be held in the barn in event of rain

Tickets $15

Students & Farmers $10

Kids Free

Rain or Shine!

event will be held in the barn in event of rain

Tickets $15

Students & Farmers $10

Kids Free

Rain or Shine!

event will be held in the barn in event of rain

Tickets $15

Students & Farmers $10

Kids Free

Rain or Shine!

event will be held in the barn in event of rain

Tickets $15

Students & Farmers $10

Kids Free

Rain or Shine!

event will be held in the barn in event of rain

Fronted by the charismatic Jamaican-born singer and songwriter Nee Nee Rushie, the seven-piece New York band The Big Takeover plays original music that is rooted in and reverent toward the genres and rhythms of Jamaican pop: reggae, rocksteady, ska. They are devotees of Desmond Dekker and the way the old school did it. At the same time, The Big Takeover crosses lines and blends traditions like global pop fusionists. Their deceptively complex arrangements and big hooks connect with the spirit of Motown and the uptown sophistication of the 21st century retro soul and R&B revival scene.

Tickets $15

Students & Farmers $10

Kids Free

Rain or Shine!

event will be held in the barn in event of rain

Spirit Family Reunion had to cancel their show here at EST due to covid in the band, but our good friends Terrible Mountain Stringband stepped in to share the ticket with VT country legends, Wild Leek River. We wish health and blessings for our spirit family and the whole universe!

Tickets $15

Students & Farmers $10

Kids Free

Rain or Shine!

event will be held in the barn in event of rain

Tickets $15

Students & Farmers $10

Kids Free

Rain or Shine!

event will be held in the barn in event of rain

The Saints and Liars return to EST with Wild Leek river for an evening of country music and farm fun!

Cash bar and wood fired pizza - tix $15 - 9/15 5:00

https://www.wildleekriver.com

https://saintsandliars.com

With great pleasure we present the sixth annual MOONSHINE MUSIC FESTIVAL at Earth Sky Time Farm in Manchester, VT! Join us for an extraordinary concert and community experience featuring Billy Wylder, Mafer Bandola, and Mikahely!

The festivity will have great live sets, bus-fired pizza + local beer/wine, artisans, and a bountiful harvest farm stand! Kids, friends, & lovers all welcome :)

Rain or shine: show in beautiful barn in the event of rain

*The Bands*
BILLY WYLDER

From the front-lines at Standing Rock to the archaic streets of Jerusalem, the Sahel Desert to Carnegie Hall, music has been the source of strength for Billy Wylder. The band features Avi Salloway (Bombino/Hey Mama/Avi & Celia) joined by an inspired cast of singular artists who have performed across five continents including concerts at Coachella, Newport Folk Festival, New Orleans Jazz Fest, Montreal Jazz Fest, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center.

Rising from the ashes of 2020, Billy Wylder forge ahead with their new EP, Whatcha Looking For (out April 9 on Sand & Gold Records). The music weaves together American folk and rock with sensibilities from the Sahara Desert, exploring new musical space akin to Devendra Banhart, Beck, and Tinariwen. The tracks evoke musical evolutions built on grooves informed by ancient African rhythms, art-rock textures, expansive guitars, violins, synths, and drum machines. Salloway’s lyrics flow with inspiration from mythical songwriting hero Leonard Cohen, while threading together more abstract imagery reminiscent of Thom Yorke.

The band has toured extensively, performing and collaborating with renowned artists including Jack Johnson, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Bombino, The Low Anthem, and Pete Seeger.

“A sense of mystery and majesty.” –No Depression

website: https://billywylder.com/
hear the sounds ? ?? https://lnk.to/whatchalookingfor

MAFER BANDOLA
Mafer Bandola is a musician, bandleader, bandola llanera player, composer, journalist, and educator from Barquisimeto, Venezuela. She is a member and co-founder of the multinational band LADAMA. In 2017 Mafer became the first woman to perform professionally on the electric version of the llanera bandola. Her artistic and educational work ranges from promoting the visibility of women performing traditional Venezuelan music and in particular, Joropo, to showing the versatility of the bandola llanera in foreign genres, compositions and live performances. She has performed at events around the world including the 2018 TED Conference, Latin American Music Awards, Nación ESPN: The Latino Experience, The Monterey Jazz Fest and WOMAD UK. Mafer will be performing with her trio including Patrick Swoboda on bass and Daniel Prim on Venezuelan percussion and drum set.

website: https://maferbandola.com/

MIKAHELY
Mikahely is a singer-songwriter who hails from the beautiful island of Madagascar, but his music is out of this world! A self-taught musician, he draws inspiration from traditional Malagasy rhythms to create his own unique and healing sounds on guitar and valiha (a zither-like instrument made from bamboo). Singing his all original music in his native language of Malagasy, Mikahely transcends boundaries.

website: http://mikahely.com/

The Venue:
Earth Sky Time Community Farm
1547 Main Street - Manchester, VT

Tickets: $15 advance, children 12 and under free.

Afrobeat farm concert

pizza / cocktails

Outdoor event - rain or shine

tickets $15 / students and farmers $10 / kids free

Mowgli’s 7-piece Global/Funk/Fusion band Satyrdagg will kick off the energy-packed evening with their original material alongside Funk, Fusion, R&B, and Jazz classics.

Brooklyn’s Kaleta & Super Yamba Band are fronted by Afrobeat and Juju veteran Leon Ligan-Majek a.k.a. Kaleta. The singer/guitarist from the West African country of Benin Republic lived his adolescent life in Lagos, Nigeria where Afrobeat was born. Kaleta's guitar chops earned him decades of touring and recording with Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Lauryn Hill and more.

Kaleta got his start in the late 70s performing in church and was soon after picked up by iconic Juju master and world music pioneer King Sunny Ade. A few years later Fela Kuti came calling. Kaleta would go on to tour the world playing guitar for the King of Afrobeat in his storied band Egypt 80 through the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Now based in New York City, Kaleta has been leading Super Yamba Band since 2017. Their debut album "Mèdaho," which was released by California indie label Ubiquity Records, draws on the group’s shared reverence for the raw, psychedelic sounds that captivated Kaleta as a music loving kid in 1970s Benin. Mèdaho means "big brother," "elder" or "teacher" and is dedicated to Kaleta's late brother Ligan-Ozavino Pascal who introduced him to funk and soul music at a very early age. The album was included on Bandcamp’s “Best Albums of Summer 2019” list and two of the songs were chosen for the ABC/Hulu series High Fidelity staring Zoe Kravitz.

Kaleta and his band have also erupted onto the stages and video screens of major music festivals and music publications across the US. They performed at the historic Apollo Theatre in 2019. They even prompted Action Bronson to stop his own show on VICELAND TV just so he could hear more Yamba. They also performed on Adult Swim’s Fishcenter Live show in 2019. In 2017 they rocked Paste Magazine’s Emerging Music Festival in NYC and after that performance Afropop Worldwide fell in love with Kaleta, saying “his James Brown grunts have got to be some of the best in the business!”

Concert with the Ulsterados
featuring members of:
Spirit Family Reunion
The Horse Eyed Men
& Mail the Horse
+ Morgan O'kane
rain or shine outdoor concert
wood-fired pizza
libations & revelry
5:00 Sunday, August 15th
tickets $15

Featuring:

Saints & Liars

Terrible Mountain String Band

and Andy Falco of The Infamous Stringdusters!

Tickets just $10

Join Earth Sky Time Community Farm for an evening of funky music, wood-fired pizza and family fun in the barn!

Lady Moon & The Eclipse is a multicultural R&B/afrobeat ensemble based in New York. They create inspirational music that explore the cosmic soul. Lady Moon carries the essence of the Moon, delivering a message of love, peace, and light, while the musicians serve as the Sun shining light upon her. The audience represents the Earth, also known as the Star People of Earth, completing the metaphorical eclipse. With a marked emphasis on inclusivity and spiritual unity, Lady Moon & The Eclipse explore positive funky music through the live experience to grow and make a difference in themselves and in the world.

With soulful vocals, energetic horns, and a tight rhythm section groove, The Do Rights are the quintessential party band! They masterfully blend old school sounds with original and contemporary influences and always get the crowd dancing.

Dallas based Fear Gorta adds electronic dance music to the lineup with their ambient synths, hip hop grooves and far flung sounds.

As always, Earth Sky Time will be making pizzas with their homegrown toppings on the famous double decker bread bus. The cash bar will feature local craft beer, kombucha and Ginger Libation. Tickets are $15 ($10 for students/farmers) kids are free. Earth Sky Time Farm is located at 1547 Main St. in Manchester. The concert and fun happens inside the barn rain or shine!

The Moonshine Music Festival

With great pleasure we present THE MOONSHINE MUSIC FESTIVAL

Join us for an extraordinary concert and community experience featuring Billy Wylder, Zili Misik, and Strangled Darlings.

The festivity will have great live sets, bus-fired pizza + local beer/wine and community art making. Instruments, kids, friends, & lovers all welcome :)

Tickets: $15 advance, children 12 and under free: https://moonshinevt19.bpt.me/

Rain or shine: festivities happen inside the barn in the event of rain

*The Bands*

BILLY WYLDER

“A spiritual cousin to Paul Simon’s Graceland” Seven Days 

From the front-lines at Standing Rock to the archaic streets of Jerusalem, the Sahel Desert to Carnegie Hall, music has been the source of strength for Billy Wylder. The band features Avi Salloway (Bombino/Hey Mama/Avi & Celia) joined by an inspired cast of singular artists who have performed across five continents including concerts at the Coachella, Newport Folk Festival, New Orleans Jazz Fest, Montreal Jazz Fest, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center. From 2013-16, Salloway toured the globe with Bombino, the Tuareg guitar hero from Niger, Africa. While on the journey and since returning, Salloway wrote the material on the bands new album, Strike the Match (Sand & Gold Records, released 9.7.18).

Salloway has been bringing these songs to life with the Wylder Family, a group of dear friends and musical kindred spirits. In between shows, the band spent ten days recording at Eyeland Studio in the Columbus Theatre, home of The Low Anthem. The music weaves together American folk and rock with sensibilities from the Sahara Desert: think Andrew Bird meets Ali Farka Toure, Pete Seeger and Talking Heads. Strike the Match expands on American musical traditions, building a bridge to their African roots and coloring the songs with experimental art-rock textures: gilded string lines, synthesizers, and angular guitars. Mother Earth is at its center, surrounded by stories of love, conflict, change and dreams. 

The band has toured extensively, performing and collaborating with renowned artists including Jack Johnson, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Bombino, The Low Anthem, and Pete Seeger.

ZILI MISIK

Zili Misik has been bridging cultures, generations, and continents for 19 years. The all female band perform an acoustic & electronic fusion of roots music of the African diaspora. With captivating sounds that evoke the African continent, Zili retraces routes of forced exile and cultural resistance through diasporic rhythm and song. Powerful Haitian, Brazilian and West African rhythms infuse Zili's original creations and traditional folk songs. Reconnecting Haitian mizik rasin, Jamaican roots reggae, Afro-Brazilian samba, Afro-Cuban son, and African American spirituals, blues, jazz, and neo soul, Zili Misik honors its influences while creating a sound that is uniquely its own: New World Soul. 

Zili has shared the stage with Ms. Lauryn Hill, India.Arie, Shaggy, Boukman Eksperyans, Les Nubians, Zap Mama, and has toured with Queen Omega (T&T), State Radio, Tony Brown (US), Queen Ifrica (Jamaica) and Emeline Michel (Haiti).

“From its visual aesthetic to its pan-global palette to its rallying cry for social justice, the band offers a feast for the senses.” –The Boston Globe

STRANGLED DARLINGS

The music is built on deep sense of rhythm and groove, carried by George Veech on mandolin and Jess Anderly on custom tenor bass & foot drums. His mandolin bursts out in a slalom of notes and snare drum rhythms. Her solid body custom tenor bass weaves an intricate counter melody and her feet pound a percussive groove. The voices and the lyrics are the hidden third member of the band and the story behind the music. The songs work with nontraditional subjects for inspiration. Some song subjects include: the works of great authors (Faulkner, William Blake, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Donald Bartheleme, Anna Ahkmatova) as well as witchcraft in the Civil War, the morality of Somali piracy and the media impact of Neil Armstrong. 

"Strangled Darlings have created a brand of swampy, darkly grooving, foot stomping music." –Anchorage Press

Earth Sky Time Farm

1547 Main Street - Manchester, VT

moonshine!

Raucous but wholesome, sweet but not sappy, full of conscience without too much preaching, pretty much our favorite band in the world… Spirit Family Reunion always brings the right kind of party! The Woodstock Rock Academy will be opening with their big band of young rockers! We’re hosting this special farm night event here at Earth Sky Time. It’ll kick off at 6:00, can’t wait to see you then!