Live Music From Bryan Dunn on the Skillers’ Station Stage

Live music with local songwriter Bryan Dunn.

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Join us at the tasting room from 2-7 pm.

Bryan performs from 4-6 pm.

Live Music on the Skillers’ Station Stage with Fred Gillen Jr.

Live music with Fred Gillen Jr.

NYFA (New York Foundation For The Arts) grant recipient Fred Gillen Jr has released eleven full-length albums, to great critical acclaim. He has performed all over the U.S. and Europe as a solo artist, his live performances are spontaneous and full of storytelling, and he enjoys audience participation. He is equally comfortable playing at a Theatre, festival, or museum, as at a farmers market, coffeehouse, or brewery. His songs have been featured on ABC's "All My Children," NPR's "Car Talk," and CMJ's New Music Marathon Sampler. From 2017 to 2019 he was music director of the group The Greenheart, traveling to Nepal four times and India once, performing concerts to raise awareness of environmental activism. In 2012 his version of Woody Guthrie's "I Ain't Got No Home" was featured on "Pete Remembers Woody," a collection of Pete Seeger's spoken stories about Woody Guthrie, interspersed with various artists' renditions of Guthrie's songs. Besides playing with his heroes like Pete, he's opened for some great artists such as Merle Haggard, Todd Rundgren, and the David Bromberg Big Band. In both his own songs and the songs he chooses to cover he incorporates elements of a huge swath of folk, rock, roots, and Americana music. Though he writes and sings songs which cover a huge variety of lyric topics, his over-arching message is simple: "we are all in this together."

Fred performs from 4-6 pm.

Live Music on the Skillers’ Station Stage with Mike Herman, Solo

Live music with Mike Herman, Solo.

Mike Herman is a Modern Pioneer in Acoustic Fingerstyle Blues. Growing up on Long Island, music for Mike included guitar lessons with Toby Walker, and a trip to and through Mississippi, searching out, learning from and playing with old-time Bluesmen such as Jack Owens, Eugene Powell and R.L. Burnside. 

After earning a Bachelor of Music Degree from SUNY Purchase in 1995 and a move up to the Catskill Mountains, where he still resides, several years were spent playing in the Regional Blues Duo – The Hell Hounds. Their time together included recording three of their own CD’s and contributing on three compilation CDs for Larchmont Recording with other artists including Rhonda Vincent, Sue Foley and Duke Robillard – one of which was nominated for a Grammy. The Hell Hounds performed all along the East Coast and into the Midwest, and have opened for notables such as Roy Bookbinder, John Hammond and Bob Margolin.

In 2007, Mike began to perform as Mike Herman, Solo. Since then, Mike has continued teaching, performing, opening for notable artists such as Chris Smither and Recording & releasing four CD’s of his own – most recently North Country Blues (2025)

Mike performs from 4-6 pm.

Live Music on the Skillers’ Station Stage with David Kraai

David Kraai (pronounced cry, meaning crow) is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and bandleader who has been traveling and performing his melting pot of country, folk and rock for over two decades. His roots stem from the famed Woodstock area of New York's Hudson Valley, yet his music has taken him all over the United States and abroad, gaining him an ever-growing fan base.

Carrying on the tradition of Cosmic American Music, David's influences include Gram Parsons, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and The Band. These influences along with his unique sense of melody and lyric help create a sound that is truly his own. Kraai has been fortunate enough to release several albums and share stages and bills with some of his heroes: Pete Seeger, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Dickey Betts, Leon Russell, Charlie Louvin, Dr. Ralph Stanley and many more.

David performs from 4-6 pm.

DJ Grace Jones at Skillers

Skillers Mountaintop Distillery welcomes Grace Jones for a fun afternoon of music in the mountains.

Live Music on the Skillers’ Station Stage with Aram Chekijian

Live music with Aram Chekijian

Joining us for a follow-up performance, Skillers welcomes Aram back to Lexington for an afternoon of live music on the Station Stage.

Aram performs from 4-6 pm.