The College Farm hosted its third Summer Music Series concert on Friday July 18th, featuring Leo DiSanto & Friends! See more about the event and Leo’s music below.

Our Tourism Grant Award from the Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation allowed us the opportunity to build a mobile stage to take our concerts anywhere on the farm! After wet weather for our first two shows that led us to stay in the barn, we finally had a beautiful evening and rolled the stage out to our fields. Farm staff and friends from Dickinson’s theater department constructed the stage using an existing old farm wagon and new lumber to configure and extend a large space for our bands. It worked perfectly on Friday!

As summer veggies are in full swing, we featured a garlic pesto pizza base on our hand-made crusts with local mozzarella cheese. Veggie toppings included corn and poblano peppers, and we offered our 100% grass-fed beef topping. Our two sides highlighted fresh finds from our fields – marinated roasted squash, zucchini, and onion skewers, and a coleslaw salad. Farm staff and students assembled every pizza, sent them into our wood-fired pizza oven, and served them hot and fresh for our concert attendees! 

Our concerts have been powered by renewable energy sources on the College Farm as we endeavor to create a zero-waste, sustainable music series. All food waste and trays, cutlery, and napkins have been composted in our biodigester, transforming waste to energy! Attendees have been great with recycling their BYOB beverage containers and leaving no waste behind. We’re excited to be sharing agritourism with our attendees, featuring sustainable practices and local, organic food with the backdrop of the beautiful Cumberland Valley.

Leo DiSanto & friends played live tunes from 7-9pm as the sun was setting on a beautiful Friday night! Learn more about Leo:

My name is Leo DiSanto, and I’m a song and story man and compulsive adventurer. A rural Pennsylvania yokel with a passport, a guitar, and a blog, I’ve hauled my wanderlust wagon everywhere from gypsy camps in Transylvania to monasteries in the high Himalaya to the wild interior of Alaska. I see this more or less as my existential mission: to inspire and be inspired.

This website is meant to be the nexus for my various musical endeavors, adventure chronicles, sporadic literary efforts, out-loud dreams, swashbuckling blunders, bungling philosophical considerations, and general windmill tilting. Information about and music by my original string band, Vinegar Creek Constituency, can be found at http://www.vinegarcreekconstituency.com, where you can name your price for downloads of all our albums. Our music can also be found on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Pandora, YouTube, and all the usual places; links to us on those sites are on the VCC homepage. 

I love to spend some of my time on this beautiful, ape-infested earthrock getting to know the people who connect in some way with the things I make, so please feel welcome to contact me through this website to give me feedback; share interesting factoids, daring recipes, or pictures of your dog; discuss weird metaphysics; or inquire about enlisting my services as a writer/ entertainer. 

If you take delight in my various deeds and creations, please keep this ramshackle human entertainment factory in production by making a pledge of as little as one measly buck on patreon.com- it’s the most direct way to support my work, kind of like buying your cabbage from the farmer who grows it rather than the big distributors (or industry execs) who lowball him for it. Here’s the link to my Patreon page: 

https://www.patreon.com/leodisanto

We have one concert left this summer! Check out The Great Long Meadow Fire on Friday August 22nd, 6-9pm on the farm with live music from 7-9pm. We’ll be firing up our pizza oven one last time for the series! Be sure to purchase your tickets here in advance: Summer Music Series

Cheers!