Tucked into the woods of Silverhill between highways 59 and 98, Blue Moon Farm has become a quiet haven for Baldwin County music lovers. Its centerpiece is the Frog Pond, a stage built to feel like a welcoming country veranda, where owner Cathe Steele hosts Sunday afternoon concerts.
An Intimate, Phone-Free Concert Tradition
For a $10 to $20 door charge, guests pull up lawn chairs and settle in for an afternoon where silence during the sets is expected and talking is gently redirected off to the side. Attendees bring dishes to a communal kitchen, and the mood is one of family fellowship and restrained enthusiasm.
The first two Sundays of the season featured Grayson Capps, Corky Hughes, Jon Cook and the Moonshine Babies, followed by acclaimed bluesman Alvin Youngblood Hart and Brian Stoltz of the Funky Meters. Capps, a Baldwin County resident and modern torchbearer for the Gothic South, is a fixture at the farm.
Golden-Hour Magic
The sound on the Frog Pond stage draws consistent praise, and as afternoon fades around six, Steele lights candle chandeliers hung from the trees. Some guests dance; most simply sit and bask in the glow. “The money goes directly to the artists on stage,” one visitor noted, and the experience offers an unhurried alternative to noisier venues.