BARRE – The Petersham Jams House Band will be part of the upcoming Fields & Forests Forever Music Fest, which takes place on Saturday, Aug. 2.
The festival is organized by Athol-based Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust and Stone Cow Brewery and will be held at the brewery, which is located at 500 West St., Barre, from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. 500 West St. Barre, Massachusetts
Proceeds from ticket and merchandise sales will benefit Mount Grace, helping to support and expand the non-profit’s conservation efforts across the North Quabbin region.
The evening will have live music, local food trucks and a wide selection of Stone Cow Brewery beverages. Along with the Petersham Jams band, the lineup includes a performance by The Whiskey Treaty Roadshow, an Americana band made up of Massachusetts songwriters.
“There is no better place for Mount Grace to showcase the importance of landscape-scale conservation than on a property that we’ve helped protect,” said Emma G. Ellsworth, executive director at Mount Grace, in a statement announcing the event.
Much of the local food and beer that gets sold at Stone Cow Brewery comes directly from the Carter-Stevens Farm – a farm whose vegetable fields can be seen from the festival venue.
“Five generations of family have lived and worked on this land,” said Phil Stevens, owner of the 1,000-acre Carter and Stevens Farm. “This concert is a celebration of our community’s shared connection to the land and all that it provides.”
Mount Grace hosted the first Fields & Forests Forever Music Fest in 2023, drawing more than 1,000 concertgoers. The festival has since become a summer staple, and organizers hope for a similarly strong turnout this year for another evening of music under the mid-summer sky.
Mount Grace is a regional land trust that conserves and cares for forests, farms and waterways to promote healthy communities in climate-resilient, biodiverse landscapes. It serves 23 towns in central and western Massachusetts and are Land Trust Alliance certified. To learn more, visit mountgrace.org.