The Red Horse Porch Party is an outdoor event with art, live music, horses, food, and drink. We have herd visits with our horses available in the early afternoon, along with collaborative art stations, spring weather, and fresh air. We’ll be serving food from Farmhouse Deli and beer and wine from local producers. We’ll have our Artful Auction where you can bid on local art, gift card bundles, and wonderful travel experiences. Live music from the Red Horse Ramblers, Great Lakes Brass, & the Max Lockwood Band. Herd visits and family hours begin at 2 pm. The live music kicks off at 5 pm
Contribute Items
to the Artful Auction
The Artful Auction continues to be a highlight of our Porch Party. It’s fun to highlight the wonderful experiences and businesses around us, and share their generosity!
The link below opens a form where you can enter your information directly into the auction site at betterworld.org. Items will get categorized and approved on their way to the public site, so they may not appear immediately. We also may combine gift cards and experiences into bundles by location, or category.
If web forms aren’t your thing, you can also email us or drop items off – whatever works for you.
In the form ahead you’ll be asked to submit the item, value, description, and images. With respect to independent artists and entrepreneurs, donors may choose to retain a % of starting bid. Please identify in the description if you’d like to retain 25% or 50% of the starting bid to contribute to your time and costs.
Copying Items from previous years. We also have the opportunity to copy/resubmit from last year, so if you’d like to “wash, rinse, and repeat,’ email amy@dovetail-design-studio.com with instructions about which item, and we’ll copy it over to this year.
SCHEDULE & ENTERTAINMENT
5 pm: Red Horse Ramblers
6:30 pm: Great Lakes Brass
8 pm: Max Lockwood Band
MAX LOCKWOOD
BAND
Songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and poet Max Lockwood has a sound rooted in songcraft and heartfelt lyricism. His music is a unification of rock & roll with folk and pop. With full arrangements and rich, poetic lyrics Max creates deep, sonic landscapes that reveal truths of love, adversity, growth. The intertwined essences bring a thoughtful and fresh new take on the singer-songwriter genre. http://www.maxlockwoodmusic.com
GREAT LAKES BRASS
Founded and led by Red Horse’s own, Fred Bueltmann – Great Lakes Brass draws from New Orleans traditions, where brass bands express the pulse of communities; celebrating life, mourning loss, and looking ahead. Reverence for history is intertwined with ongoing creative adaptation, and our pledge to play it forward.
Trumpet, trombone, and saxophone play familiar melodies driven by sousaphone and percussion. On the street or the stage, our music moves. http://www.greatlakesbrass.com
RED HORSE RAMBLERS
A home grown debut, the Red Horse Ramblers are an eclectic mix of traditional and original music from Red Horsers close to our hearts.
Volunteer
Wanna join the team? We have a great crew of volunteers who help organize the event starting months ahead, and are also part of setup, tear down, and all of the roles you see on the day of the event.
If you’d like to volunteer your time and talent, we’d love to hear from you.
Sponsor
The Porch Party is one of the fundraising initiatives that make up the Spring Forward Support Drive, which also highlights Mental Health Awareness Month. Funds raised from this event will support several Red Horse programs in many ways, including: H.E.Y. Horses Empowering Youth, Horses for Hospitality, & Herd Support.
We have event sponsorships, and auction sponsorships starting at $500, and category sponsorships at $1,000.
The print deadline for the first-batch of posters is 4.15.2024
HERD VISITS
2 - 5 pm
Herd visits give you the opportunity to meet and spend time with our equine partners. You can make reservations for $10 per person on our ticket site. Individual tickets will join groups up to six. There are three “Group Tix” that can be purchased as a block.
FOOD & DRINK
Farmhouse Deli will be serving their delicious pork tacos, vegan tacos and street corn salad with rice and beans from 2 pm – 8 pm. Food is included in the general admission tickets.
