The room your A&R wants to put together.
Eighteen to twenty working songwriters and producers. Three co-writes a day. Daily listens. Four acoustically distinct writing rooms plus the studio. On a 44-acre property with a chef cooking from the farm.
Built for the publisher camp.
The Writing Camp at Stone House Farms is the West Coast property publishers have been flying writers to Europe for. La Fabrique. Pennard House. Osea Island. There hasn't been a residential property at this tier in California. There is now.
Four acoustically distinct rooms plus the studio. Twenty-four-hour studio access. Engineers on-site. A chef cooking from the regenerative farm three times a day. Ground transport from SFO, SMF, or Reno-Tahoe. Quoted turnkey — one inclusive number — so your A&R doesn't get nickel-and-dimed.
The property does not take publishing splits. Writers retain their copyrights. Your publisher administers. We're the venue. You're the publisher.
Publisher-curated or self-curated.
Most Writing Camp weekends at Stone House Farms are publisher- or label-curated. A few are self-curated, where individual writers apply and we build the room.
Bring your roster. We host.
Custom-curated camp for your writers. You select. We provide the property, the studio, the meals, the engineers, the transport. Quoted turnkey on a per-camp basis. Standard A&R agreements; we don't take splits.
Apply directly. We build the room.
Select weekends are application-based for working songwriters and producers. The room is mixed-genre, hand-curated for craft and chemistry. You bring what you're carrying. The cohort is the long-tail.
Three sessions. Daily listens.
The Nashville and London publisher-camp standard, set in the Sierra foothills. The rhythm is tight enough for output, slow enough to actually make.
What else fills the four days.
A camp has high throughput. The spaces between are short. These rituals are how the room stays loose enough to keep writing into night three.
Movement in the Solarium
One guided slot every morning — light yoga and breath. Optional. Half the room shows up. Half catches it on day three.
Lake plunge at dawn
Self-organized. The lake is five minutes through the meadow. The most reliable wake-up on the property.
Sauna after dinner
Wood-fired. Cold tub steps away. The unwind before Listen Hour or the late writes.
Listen Hour every night
One hour after dinner. Each room plays today's roughs. Publishers and mentors speak last. It's the most useful hour of the camp.
Mentor office hours
Twenty-minute one-on-ones with named producers, publishers, and writers in residence. Schedule fills fast on day two.
Saturday signature dinner
The chef's seven-course meal. Long table. Phones in the box. The night the room turns into the room.
Garden walk with the chef
Twenty minutes before lunch. Whoever wants to. Most writers come back with a line.
Vinyl in the Living Room
Open until late. A shelf of records, a real system. Where new pairs end up after the last write.
Fire pit on the last night
Sunday's close. Whoever wants to play something out loud — finished or unfinished. No microphone. No pressure.
Specific guides, timing, and the listen-room order are confirmed in the welcome packet a week before arrival.
Stems. Songs. Relationships.
New songs
A productive run of rough-finished starts across the cohort — fresh ideas to take back into the room and finish.
Stems delivered Day +7
Clean folder structure. BPM and key labeled. All contributors credited. Organized for handoff to your A&R.
Rough mixes
Producer-of-the-day mixes a rough at end of day. Daily listens always sound real, not rough demos.
The room
New co-writers, new producer relationships. The cohort is the long-tail value of the camp.
Optional Stone House Sessions feature
Opt-in inclusion on the Stone House Sessions Spotify playlist. You retain all rights. Publisher administers.
Bandwidth back
Four days off the grid, fed, rested, in a working studio. Writers go home with more in the tank than they came with.
Working writers and producers.
For publisher camps, A&R selects the room — writers don't apply, they're booked. For self-curated weekends, we read every application. Pro-level only.
- Staff writers signed to a publisher
- Pro topliners with cuts you'd recognize
- Producers and beat-makers with placement history
- Sync-focused writers who write to brief
- Artists who write — solo or with a co-writer
- Recurring members of the Madrone orbit
Pricing — turnkey for publishers, by tier for writers.
For publisher camps: quoted turnkey on a per-camp basis after a discovery call. One inclusive number includes room block, all meals, studio access, engineers, transport, housekeeping, and Day +7 stems delivery. For self-curated writers: investment by lodging tier is confirmed in your discovery call after application review.
Build a camp with us.
A thirty-minute discovery call. Tell us your roster, your brief, your dates. We come back with a turnkey scope within forty-eight hours.
Three programs. One kind of weekend.
For artists working on their own material.
Sixteen to twenty artists with on-site producers and engineers. Finished and near-finished work.
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Twelve to sixteen producers + named guest mentor. Teaching, hands-on, desk-reviews.
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