A small crowd gathers to hear Dan Modlin and Melissa Bollea perform at the 1824 Centre House Meeting Room during Music on the Farm on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014, at South Union Shaker Village in Logan County. (Miranda Pederson/Daily News)

SOUTH UNION — South Union Shaker Village is one of Dan Modlin’s favorite places to perform.

“There is something about the atmosphere that makes it a special place for creativity,” the Bowling Green singer-songwriter said. “We play a bunch of interesting places, but very few are as unique as this.” 

Modlin performed Saturday with Nashville singer-songwriter Melissa Bollea inside the Centre House Meeting Room at Shaker Village during Music on the Farm.

“You can just feel the spirituality,” Bollea said. “You can feel the history. …You can just feel the honesty and peace.”

The event featured music performances all over the grounds of Shaker Village, including a tent in front of the grain barn built in 1875 and a room inside the brick Centre House, which was built in 1824.

Modlin and Bollea enjoyed performing with no microphones or amps, just their guitars and voices.

“The acoustics here are just incredible,” Bollea said. “They’re better than any sound system we’ve plugged into in Nashville.”

The acoustic nature of the performance helped Modlin feel the audience’s energy, he said. “The audience is just excellent,” he said. “They’re very attentive and appreciative.”

Sandy Stewart of Bowling Green and Terri Hume Gilbert of Nashville had a good time at Music on the Farm.

“It gives more exposure to Shakertown, to what all is here and the history,” Gilbert said. 

The two friends arrived at Shaker Village earlier Saturday for a reunion of former cast members of “Shakertown Revisted,” a outdoor musical drama that was performed in Logan County from 1960 to 1990.

“We love coming back to see people who were in the play with us,” Stewart said. “It’s like coming back home. We spent our summers here.”

Pat Basham and Mary Lucy Franklin, both of Russellville, came to Music in the Barn for the second year in a row.

“Sitting in the barn, just to look out at all this field of beauty, it’s something else,” Basham said. “To me, it’s a million-dollar view.”

She and Franklin enjoyed all the music, but were especially impressed with Modlin and Bollea’s performance.

“They are big-time good,” Franklin said.

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