Lovelane Hoedown

The 2022 musical acts will be Barenaked Ladies and French Lick. Past Hoedown bands include, Peter Wolf of J. Geils Band, Greg Allman, Little Feat, Marshall Tucker Band, David Foster and the Mohegan Sun All-Stars, and Tedeschi Trucks Band.

World-class chefs including Andy Husbands, Scott Gubitose, Steve DiFillippo, Rodney Murillo and Keith Pooler, among many others, have donated their time, food and talent to provide guests with a gourmet experience. Chefs for the 2022 Hoedown will be announced soon.

An upscale jeans and boots event, featuring lawn games, including ax throwing, whiskey tasting, exciting raffle options, and live music. The Hoedown is not a formal, seated event. Instead, guests are free to move around, socialize under our large tent or outside around the fire pits, gather in our lounge areas, or play games with friends.

The event draws an average of 500-700 guests. Over the years, the Hoedown has enticed an amazing guest list of supporters who both revel in the excitement of the event and are moved by the impact of Lovelane’s mission and accomplishments of our participants. Major donors and attendees include philanthropist and financier, Kim and Jim Pallotta, Edward and Allyson DeNoble, Celtics owners, Wyc Grousbeck, Ted and Simone Winston, Courtney and Michael Forrester, Patriot’s owner Robert Kraft, actor Denis Leary, and comedian Lenny Clarke.

The Hoedown will be held at Wil and Priscilla Catlin’s home at Duck Puddle Farm, 48 Lincoln Road, Wayland, MA on Saturday, September 24, from 4-9pm. Parking is managed by attendants and will be easy for all guests.

Lovelane is a pediatric therapeutic horseback riding program that has a dramatic impact on the physical and cognitive development of children with special needs. For 32 years, Lovelane has been committed to providing an individualized program for children with a wide range of special needs that integrates the pure joy and freedom of riding a horse with beneficial and productive therapy to achieve the child's specific therapeutic goals. Lovelane provides services to 130 students a week with the help of 204 volunteers. Sessions take place seven days a week, year-round for over 4,500 individual therapeutic sessions annually. Lovelane has waiting list of 355 students as of February 2022, demonstrating both the need for this unique therapeutic approach and the value parents and their physicians place in its outcomes. Once in our program, children stay for an average of ten years. Opting to remain in our program for so long, demonstrates the significance that this particular therapy has in the lives of our clients and their families.