About the Band

The Whiskey Farm are:

  • Jason Horowitz

  • Brett Wilfrid

  • Jen Wilfrid

  • Chantelle Thomas

  • Clark Stacer

  • Matt Brown

Just Jason

Jason is a singer/songwriter from Milwaukee. He started writing songs and playing guitar when he was a counselor at Camp Minikani, and his songs still have a hint of campfire in them. He began performing publicly while in college in Massachusetts, then returned home to Wisconsin and played the coffee shop circuit in Madison and Milwaukee. He then moved to Nashville and released his first studio album, Every Single Thing. After a move to Saint Paul, he fronted the folk rock band Cabin 18. He moved to Madison in 2008 and helped form the band now known as The Whiskey Farm.

Brett Wilfrid

Mustachioed Mandolinist

Brett grew up in New Jersey, and began playing guitar immediately after his parents said he was not allowed to. He began performing in college in Maine with such little-known groups as The Registrar’s In-Laws, Sir Frock and the Board, and The Meddling Kids. He draws much of his songwriting inspiration from his days as a bouncer in Norway, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal, and his current life as an elementary school principal. He lives on a small hobby farm with his wife Jen, young son Wesley, chickens, honeybees, dogs, and cat Blimpy.

Matt Brown

Bucolic Biochemist

Matt spent the early aughts in Chicago playing improvisational rock and roll music and conducting tumor immunology research. Seeking a more laid back lifestyle, he moved with his family to the greener pastures of Madison in 2007. He spends his days manipulating stem cells into beating heart cells and his nights fashioning mad beats on a vintage set of drums.

Chantelle Thomas

Incognito in Istanbul

Chantelle Thomas is a wandering musical vagabond who has spread her musical love across the country. She has sang and played guitar and keys in such bands as The Big Spaces, Revelstoke, and The Honey Pot. She moved to Madison in 2009 and joined the band after a chance meeting in a distillery. When she is unable to be peer pressured to play her keyboard, she adds harmony vocals, percussion, and sex appeal to the band.

Expounding Egalitarianist

Clark has served in the U.S. Navy, played bass and sang in innumerable bands (including Loam and the Truckee Brothers), toured as the bass player and backup vocalist in the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, built an ISP in the UK, worked as a Post-production Audio Engineer, narrated 26 episodes of the universally famous “Haulin’ House” (airs on HGTV/DIY) , and currently lives in Madison, WI with his wife Shay, their baby daughter Veda Pearl, and their Standard Poodle Kala.

Jen Wilfrid

Aria Able Apiarist

Apiarist extraordinaire, Jen Wilfrid, who amazingly shares the same last name as Brett Wilfrid, must coat her vocal cords with the honey from her apiary, as she weaves her enchanting harmonies with Chantelle’s to bolster Jason’s melodies.