Tamara T.
Yelp
Came here for a concert to see Lee Fields. Heard about this place, vaguely, and thought they reopened the old Barn House venue from back in the day, but they did not. Farm House Collective is an outdoor food hall with the vendors located in these farm house themed bungalows? At the end of the walkway is an outdoor stage with a grass lawn, ping pong table, fire pit, Cornhole, etc. This is where the concert was. Literally felt like I was in someone's backyard watching the legendary Lee Fields & The Impressions perform. The stage isn't really high off the ground, we were able to move up front with no issues and people just brought their lawn chairs and were sitting in them like it was a concerts in the park type deal.
We literally saw Lee Fields perform at the Fonda Theater in Hollywood back in January and the sound and experience was 1000 times better here than it was there. Even the crowd was better because it wasn't a bunch of fake L.A. people there for the clout, it was real fans that knew the music and sang it like it was written for them. My one complaint was there was a guy in front of us, which was pretty much almost at the barricade to the front, who wouldn't stop talking loudly to the stranger next to him, asking him where he works because he looked familiar. I had to shush him because he was louder than Lee Fields singing a very emotional song. This guy was drinking, A LOT, and I know this because he kept leaving to go get beers and bring them back for his girlfriend and the new friend he made, at LEAST 4 times during Lee's set. Each time he would leave and come back I would be impressed at how fast he was coming back. It was under 5 minutes. I then realized there's a bar about 20 steps from the stage and there was little to no line to get beer! Any music venue you go to, it takes forever to get out of a crowd to go stand in line to get a beer, then you have to fight your way back to the front to your spot, with your beer.
Another plus about this venue is it smells like freshly made waffles cones, because there's a gelato shop making them, literally at the entrance/exit. I actually left during the encore because Yelp said the gelato place was closing in 5 minutes. I walked out the exit and to the left was the gelato spot. It's the best concert venue ever when you can get up to the stage with no issues, get a beer and get back to your spot in 5 minutes then walk 20 steps to the gelato place to get gelato. I forgot to mention parking! It's FREE and there's overspill parking into the lot right next to the Farm House lot. Honestly, they should just build a parking structure because the parking lot designated for the Farm House is a joke. If you have a chance to see a concert here, highly recommend. It's an intimate outdoor venue without all the stress of getting to it and there's a gelato shop when you exit the outdoor stage area.