Make music that means something, with an assortment of artists, producers and songwriters.
Four days on forty-four acres at Stone House Farms — connect, create and enjoy comfortable lodging with chef-cooked meals every day. Tap into something deep with intention and leave inspired to create in new, meaningful ways. We're running two pilot retreats this summer — Jun 25–28 and Jul 16–19. Apply for whichever fits, or tell us both work.
Three tiers. Same four days.
All tiers include the cohort, all meals, full studio access, and the on-site team — engineers and producers in support. The difference is where you sleep and a few add-ons.
- Pre-set tent with queen bed, shared bathrooms
- All meals + full cohort programming
- 24/7 Madrone Studios access
- Couples option: $1,850 each
- Everything in Standard, plus:
- Extended stay — Wednesday PM arrival
- Post-retreat 1:1 mix/feedback session with a Madrone producer
- Stone House Farms care package
- Take-home farm produce on departure
- House bedroom or premium tent
- Couples option: $2,350 each
- Everything in Premium, plus:
- Master bedroom in the main house
- Private en-suite bath
- Longest stay window
- Priority on session scheduling
- Couples option: $2,850 each
Come back to yourself. Then make the art.
The Artist Retreat is for working artists with a project in motion. You arrive Thursday with material — tracks unfinished, songs in stages, ideas you can't stop circling — and leave Sunday with finished and near-finished work — and the momentum to keep going.
Jake and Jon curate and design the weekend. The cohort co-creates what fills it — a collaborative container, never a curriculum. Every cohort is hand-picked, one-of-one.
Madrone Studios runs on-site — Live Room, Vocal Booth, Control Room. Engineers and producers in support. The chef cooks from the regenerative farm three times a day. The Solarium gets the longest light. Vinyl spins in the Living Room at midnight.
Forty-four acres. Different rooms.
Stone House Farms isn't one space. It's a working farm-property with a studio, a main house, a glamping village, a garden, and forty-four acres of land around it. The cohort uses all of it.
The studio, open until 2am.
Live Room, Vocal Booth, Control Room. Engineers and producers in support. Twenty-four-hour access for the duration of the cohort.
Vinyl until midnight.
A real system, a shelf of records, two leather chairs. Where pairs form, where the unplanned hours land, where the last write of the night happens.
The longest light on the property.
Grand piano, upright bass, glass on three sides. Morning movement, breath, quiet sessions. The room that catches the first light and the last.
Three meals from the farm.
The chef cooks from the regenerative garden three times a day. Long-table dinners on the patio. Saturday's the signature meal.
Scattered through the trees.
Outdoor lounging and seating tucked into the redwoods. Where most of the cohort sleeps, gathers between sessions, and watches the light change.
Lake, sauna, and the long walk.
Five-minute walk through the meadow to the lake. Wood-fired sauna with a cold plunge. The high meadow loop is best at golden hour.
Want a fuller tour? See the property →
The first of many cohorts.
Stone House Farms has hosted private gatherings, music sessions, and creative residencies for years. Cohort 1 is the first time we open the property to an application-based artist cohort — and the artists who walk in this summer set the precedent for every cohort after.
The whole property
Forty-four acres. House, studio, glamping, garden, sauna, pool, lake. Held for one cohort for four full days. The first time we've opened it like this.
A founders' rate
The tiers above are the founders' rate — locked through the first three cohorts (Vol. 3). After that they rise as the format matures.
Music-first
The pilot is themed around music — writers, producers, performers, engineers — but deliberately multi-disciplinary at the edges. Songs make the spine; the rest of what comes in widens the work.
The cohort is hand-picked.
Career stage isn't the filter. Body of work is. We curate each cohort for craft, chemistry, and the kind of person you'd want to make with for four days straight.
- Signed and unsigned artists working on their own material
- Indie artists with real audiences and a clear creative direction
- Producers, engineers, and writers in the Madrone orbit
- Mid-tier indie acts breaking new projects
- Established artists looking for slowed time and a curated cohort
- Anyone who applies and earns the seat
Curated, not headlined.
We don't build the weekend around one famous name. We curate the whole room — artists, producers, songwriters, and the Madrone engineers in support — so the four days are about the people you're actually in it with. When a guest collaborator is the right fit, they join; we'll never sell you a headliner that isn't real.
The cohort is the headliner.
Every seat is hand-picked for craft and chemistry. Madrone producers and engineers are in the room the whole time — tracking, mixing, and making with you, not lecturing at you. When we bring in a guest collaborator from the Madrone orbit, it's because the fit is right, never to put a name on a flyer.
Two output blocks. One garden meal.
The schedule is a suggestion, not a curriculum. Hikes before sessions. Slow meals. Real sleep in real dark.
What else fills the four days.
The session blocks are the spine. These are the things the body remembers afterward. Nothing is required.
Movement in the Solarium
Yoga, breath, or quiet stretching at sunrise. A named guide for two of the four mornings.
Sauna and cold plunge
Wood-fired sauna on the property. Cold tub steps away. The reset between blocks.
Lake swim at dawn
The lake is a five-minute walk through the meadow. Cold water, your morning.
Garden harvest with the chef
Twenty minutes in the rows. Pick what's in season for the day's lunch.
Sound bath once per cohort
A named practitioner brings the cohort down on Friday evening. Deepest sleep most people have had in months.
Fire pit listen sessions
After dinner, by the fire. Whoever wants to play a rough out loud. No pressure.
Concrete. And quieter.
Stone House Sessions
Opt-in to the limited Madrone-pressed vinyl EP and Spotify playlist. You retain all rights.
New collaborators
The cohort is the long-tail. Co-writers, producers, engineers you'd otherwise never have met.
Quieter shoulders
By morning two, your nervous system is different. You'll notice it before anyone says it.
Tell us what you're carrying.
The application is about seven minutes. We respond within 7 days, every time. Apply early to lock the tier you want and qualify for the founders' rate.
Three programs. One property.
For working songwriters and producers.
Up to twenty writers. Three co-writes a day. Daily listens. Self-curated for Vol. 1; publisher-curated camps coming later in the season.
Learn more →For producers and a mentor.
Twelve to sixteen producers and one named guest mentor. Teaching, hands-on, desk-reviews. Mentor announced 60 days before.
Learn more →