Big Woods Canopy Jam - 2025

Find us all day at The Northfield Depot - 204 3rd St W, Northfield, MN

10:30am - 11:30am - Morning Yoga: Gentle Morning Yoga to wake you up and start the day off right. Randy Ferguson joins us to provide live guitar music. Mats will be available for sharing, but feel free to bring your own!

11:45am - 12pm - BWMC Dance Theater Performance: Join us for a short and sweet performance by students of Big Woods Movement Collective and for a preview performance of “Good”, Shari Setchell’s SEMAC funded dance piece.

12:15pm - 1:15pm - Live Music - Community Music Meditation with Trina Brunk: Trina Brunk is a musician, songwriter, and visual artist. We are honored to have Trina joining us at Canopy Jam this year. During Trina’s music meditation event we will gather in a circle and explore what can happen when our voices weave together in improvisational vocal play, savoring and singing the seed thoughts that we are planting in the gardens of our lives. 

1:30pm - 2:30pm - Moving Meditation and Movement Jam with Leslie Reynolds - Leslie Reynolds is an intuitive healer, Reiki master, and founder of Awakened Healing.  Her work weaves together a multi-modal approach to support healing on all levels. She specializes in supporting others to reconnect with their inner truth, release old patterns, and to remember that we are all whole and perfect just as we are. We are thrilled that Leslie is joining us again this year and will be offering a guided meditation and sound healing session — a nourishing experience designed to quiet the mind, restore balance, and awaken the deeper rhythms of your being. Come as you are. Leave more connected.

2:45pm - 3:45pm - Live Music - Over Yonder - From the Desk of Hilda Fårtén - Senior Correspondent, Northfield Arts Quarterly - Since their inception, Over Yonder has quietly — but unmistakably — positioned themselves at the vanguard of Northfield’s ever-evolving new arts landscape. With a practice that shuns easy categorization, they have consistently flouted the conventions of genre, form, and expectation. This year at Canopy Jam, Brian Johnson and Martha Larson will make their choreographic debut — a re-insistence, not a reinvention, in characteristically oblique fashion.

4:15pm - 5:30pm - Swing Dance with Sweet Jazz - Join us to swing dance the afternoon away in the gorgeous Depot space with this outstanding jazz combo. Sweet Jazz will join us to play an incredibly dynamic set list filled with swing tunes, tangos, foxtrots and rumbas! Sweet Jazz has been performing in the Northfield area since 2006. Their focus is on vocal jazz with some instrumentals thrown in. The usual core line-up is Christina Schwietz on vocals, Peter Webb on keyboard, David Miller on drums and winds, and Rob Thompson on bass. Sweet Jazz: the name says it all! Do not miss this unique opportunity to dance in the Depot with this incredible band!

6pm - 7pm - Yin Yoga: Come unwind from your day in this juicy yoga class. Martha Larson joins us to provide live cello music. Mats will be available for sharing, but feel free to bring your own!