Welcome to Nightjar Records, the online home of singer-songwriter Nath Dresser, who lives in Spring Green, Wisconsin and performs regularly throughout the southern portion of the state, and sometimes beyond.

Nightjar Records is basically a cottage industry. So far the recordings released on Nightjar Records have involved Nath and/or Marnie Dresser and have been recorded in Nightjar's modest home studio. The aim is to produce and market simple recordings that present musical or literary material in a manner that’s faithful to the performance and the work itself. In a sense, it’s folk recording, pure and simple. (Think Harry Smith with modern equipment and a fixed address.)

Live music is a high priority here at Nightjar Records. Wherever you live, Nightjar Records urges you to support local musicians and the local venues that feature live local music.

As Nath says . . .
"If it ain't local, it's somewhere else."

July 27, 2010. . . .

On Sunday evening, July 25, Marnie and I had the pleasure of performing Some Kind of Sign as part of the "Play! in the Barn" summer series at DreamAcres, a sustainable farm off County Road 8 in Wykoff, MN.

What a wonderful place to perform! We arrived at DreamAcres in the heat of the afternoon to set up for the show. The smell of freshly cut hay wafted up from below the stage area, and chickens and goats called out beyond the walls of the barn. By evening, things had begun to cool off, the sun dipping below the western hill. The audience was just as wonderful. I simply can't imagine performing Some Kind of Sign in a more appropriate setting.

Eva Barr, who organizes the shows (and directs many of the plays) presented at DreamAcres as part of the Dreamery Rural Arts Initiative and the "Play! in the Barn" series, is doing a great job of making performance art available in a very rural setting. And what she and Todd Juzwiak, her husband, have done with DreamAcres Farm is simply phenomenal: they're created an off-the-grid organic farm, relying on solar power for everything. It's all truly inspiring--and humbling, too.

For anyone within driving distance of Wykoff in southeastern Minnesota, Marnie and I recommend your looking into what's going on at DreamAcres. With the wide range of progams presented there,

Nathanael Dresser Nathaniel Dresser