June brings more than just summer blooms to Highlands when Andrew Wooten takes the stage at Orchard Sessions at The Farm on Wednesday, June 11. These gatherings have become our summer ritual, those precious midweek moments when the world contracts to nothing more than music, mountain air, and familiar faces nodding in shared appreciation.
Wooten stands apart from the parade of passing troubadours. His voice carries Appalachian authenticity – soul and spirit inseparable from sound. When he sings of heartbreak or redemption, it feels less like a performance and more like a remembrance.
Nominations for the Upstate Music Awards and a recent signing with Roadside Music Management merely confirm what becomes clear within the first few notes: this is an artist who understands our landscape, both physical and emotional.
Raised where music floated through church doors and kitchen windows, where hymns and hollers merged into one long, seductive note, Wooten learned early that songs weren’t just meant to be heard, they were meant to be kept. His originals bear that legacy: clear-eyed, unhurried, and textured with the familiar grit of real experience. Each note feels earned, not performed.
Andrew Wooten
There’s a gravity to a Wooten performance. No bluster, no hurry –just songs unfolding the way twilight unfurls across an orchard: gradually, then all at once. Expect a set that weaves together new originals and reimagined favorites, shaped by a voice that can carry a room without ever raising itself above it. Somewhere between the first chord and the last sip of wine, the evening will find its own quiet current.
The Farm’s setting amplifies this intimacy. The perfect midweek pause. It’s the kind of evening where you might catch the eye of a neighbor across the way, sharing that unspoken recognition: this, right here, is why we live here.
Doors open at 6:00 P.M., with music from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Light bites will satisfy appetites, and a cash bar will add to the easy, unhurried rhythm of the night, all in accompaniment to Wooten’s music, which surely feeds something deeper. At $25 for Old Edwards guests and members, and $50 for the public, it remains one of our community’s most accessible, richest luxuries.
So claim your place beneath the branches and let the evening unfold. At the Orchard Sessions, music doesn’t just fill the night—it becomes part of it. Book online today at OldEdwardsHospitality.com/Events.
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