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Side by Side Show Opening Reception
Three sets of songs and stories celebrating the life of John Prine who died April 7th 2020. Doors at 6, show at 7, done by 9:30. Set one: Dale Hannah, JJ Passalacqua, John Crouch Set two: Hugh DeNeal, Taylor Steele, Mat Kuhlig Set three: Chicago Farmer, Bill Poss, Hunter Peebles This is a tips only rent party for the Starlight Listening Room. Any tips received from the event will go to pay the rent for the PMW office and the Starlight Listening Room. There is no cover; it is our hope that all who want to come will come, and you'll give what you can.
History of the Crouch Family Farms:
William Daniel Crouch (b.1798) came to Clark County, Illinois, and began farming here in 1838. He was John's 3rd great grandfather. His son, James (b.1860), John's 2nd great grandfather and his son, James Harlen (b.1895), John's great-grandfather and his son, Johnie Clarence (b.1919), John's grandfather (about whom the song Harder Days was written), and his son, Bill D., John's dad, all have farmed in Clark County, Illinois. John's son, Dustin, also farmed with his dad for a time before becoming a police officer.
John, a sixth-generation farmer, currently farms here, in many of the same fields that have been in the family for over 150 years. He is assisted on the family farm by his stepbrother, Dana Taylor.
One of the farms, from James Crouch's father-in-law, Samuel Orrell, is an Illinois Sesquicentennial Farm.
