Bitter Pill at Vernon Family Farm

Join us at Vernon Family Farm for a magical evening of farm-to-table dining and live music featuring Bitter Pill. Influenced by a wide spectrum of genres, Bitter Pill creates music that defies easy classification. They are a tight-knit family (literally, a father and daughter) who play a dark and anachronistic twist of folk, blues, jazz, rock, and country.
Bitter Pill is a genre-defying band from New Hampshire that fuses
Americana, punk, folk, and old-time medicine show flair into raw,
harmony-laced performances that are equal parts concert and theatre. Led by music and theatre maker Billie Butler and her daughter Emily, Bitter Pill is known for its hauntingly poetic sound, dark wit, and storytelling that straddles the line between the tragic and the absurd. Their songs echo with Appalachian murder ballads, twisted nursery rhymes, outlaw country, and a theatrical spirit that feels both joyfully unhinged and deeply rooted.
More than a band, Bitter Pill is a theatrical family tradition. Their original stage works include Titus Andronicus Musicus, a bloody,
old-timey bluegrass take on Shakespeare’s goriest tragedy, and
Children of the Grim, a macabre musical folk tale for children of all
ages. Bitter Pill’s sound is gritty, heartfelt, and wholly their own.
Whether on stage, in the studio, or jamming on a front porch, they
create art that is eerily familiar, deeply beautiful, and strangely
human.