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Soil Fest at White Feather Farm in Saugerties, New York - July 21-23

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Soil Fest is a three-day celebration of soil at White Feather Farm in Saugerties, New York.

The second annual festival, taking place Friday, July 21 through Sunday, July 23, will include live performances, workshops and food intersecting art, science and ecology. Soil Fest will feature live performances from the Dust Bowl Faeries, Arm of the Sea Puppet Theater and Lisa Schonberg.

There will be artist-led workshops with Claire Pentecost, Brooke Singer and Allie Wist. Attendees can experience making biochar and tasting alternative grain beers.

Here now to tell us more are artist, educator, and Soil Fest organizer Brooke Singer, composer, percussionist and environmental sound artist Lisa Schonberg, and artist, writer, and educator Claire Pentecost.

Sarah LaDuke

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.

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