Arnold Art, Music and Wine Festival...Saturday, August 12th!!!! Arnold, CA...Greater Arnold Business Association presents the 12th Annual Arnold Art, Music & Wine Festival on Saturday, August 12, at Cedar Center (The Heart of Arnold) in downtown Arnold. Directions are easy – go East on Highway 4 through Arnold until you come to El Dorado Savings Bank on the left. Turn left onto Oak Circle. The park is between Hwy 4 and Oak Circle. There is no entrance charge. The Heart of Arnold offers a grassy, shady area, so bring your lawn chairs and blankets and beat the heat! This event is a must for every one of all ages. The day starts at 2:00pm the Arts & Wine vendors open to let you peruse and buy their crafts while bands play all day. Wine tasting from 2pm – 5pm will be $15 per person and includes a really cool glass to taste wines from the various wineries. All this fades into a blur as Music in the Park with the band Cantamos starts at 6:30pm.
* Entrance and Parking is free and The Heart of Arnold will offer food and Beverages of all kinds are available at the event. No Outside Alcohol…Please.
* A number of Artist and Wineries will have Booths are expected to be available for your afternoon pleasure and experience. Wineries include: Ayrael Vieux, Black Sheep, Brice Station, Calaveras Creek, Hovey, Ironstone, Jazz Cellars, Metate, Milliare, Mineral Wines & Stevenot
* Music will play throughout the day:
2:00 – 2:45: Nathan Ignacio (Americana)
3:00 – 4:15: Almost Blue (Jazz)
4:30 – 6:00: Cantamos (Everything…In multiple languages)
6:30 – 8:30: Bill Welles and Friends (Americana & Rock)
The day is being sponsored by our Sponsor’s ~ Dye Painting, High Country Stove & Spa, and Dignity Health Mark Twain Hospital.
YOU SURE DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS EVENT!
05:00 PM
The Beer Garden at Camp Connell Welcomes Chains Required! 100% Grove Guaranteed! Camp Connell, CA...The Beer Garden at Camp Connell welcomes Chains Required! Creekside dining, wood fired pizza, burgers, wings and more! Call 209-795-1121 for more info Saturday at 5 PM. Since 1929 The Camp Connell General Store has been serving generation after generation of customers. New Owner Dan Tulipani and his family are excited to continue and expand on the rich fabric of history and traditions that have made the store an integral part of the community. With Dining, Wine, Beer, Gifts, Groceries & Gas they have everything you need to make your high country adventure a great one.
"I went into a General Store, they wouldn't let me buy anything specific..." Comedian Steven Wright
The story of Camp Connell Continues....
The Camp Connell of today was largely influenced by the surging popularity of auto travel through the mountains inspired when Dr. D. Sargent of Angels Camp became the first to drive an automobile over Ebbetts Pass in 1908. Family camping was destined to become an extremely popular recreational activity To meet those demands, Jack Connell began construction of a campground, cabins, general store and gas pumps in 1928. He and his wife named their endeavor "Camp Connell". Opened for business in 1929, the general store and gas station have been in operation ever since. The Connell's continued to expand the store and added a café to serve the increasing number of visitors. By 1934 the Post Office was moved to the store and became "Camp Connell Station". The store was a local gathering place where local residents and vacationers alike would come to share news and leave messages, much as it is today. Occasionally, Circuit Court was convened in the building. Monte Wolfe, Art and Harry Schimke, the Whittles, Hunts, Tryons, Lombardis, and Airolas were frequent visitors.
While the popularity of the general store and café continued, the campground was closed in 1949 and the property was subdivided into lots selling for $600 each. The cabins remained as part of Camp Connell until the 1960's, when the highway was realigned to accommodate the ski resort and village at Bear Valley, as well as the development of Big Trees Village. The old highway became the current two accesses to Camp Connell and the property has stayed much the same ever since.
Today the Camp Connell General Store is one of the oldest Chevron stations in California as well as the longest continuously operated retail business between Murphys and Markleeville. It is a popular stop for visitors and a cherished part of the local community."
Discover Big Trees Fitness Center, a full-service gym facility, with swimming pool, saunas and jacuzzi, as well as a large group exercise room and lounge.
“Flight Night” at Tanner Vineyards Saturdays, June 24 – September 2 Murphys, CA...Saturday evenings from 6-8PM, kick back in downtown Murphys and enjoy Flight Night with Tanner Vineyards. Every week a new and special combination of Tanner family wines are offered in different flights, wines by the glass and by the bottle. Weekly flights may include selections from Tanner library wines or a "vertical" of outstanding vintages. Tanner Vineyards' tasting room is located at 435 Main Street, across from Murphys Historic Hotel.
“Flight Night” at Tanner Vineyards
Saturdays, June 24 – September 2
6-8pm
435 Main Street, Murphys
(209) 728-8229
06:30 PM
GABA Concert Series Live Music In Arnold Arnold, CA...You know it’s summer when the music begins in the mountain town of Arnold. Staged at the outdoor theatre in Arnold’s Cedar Center, these events are produced by the Greater Arnold Business Association and are free to the public.
For 2017, the concert venue is better than ever thanks to the creativity and investment by new property owners Dean and Jessica Ryan. Adjacent to the outdoor theatre is their all-new Heart of Arnold restaurant, which will offer both indoor and outdoor food and beverage service. So bring your lawn chairs and something to eat if you like, but please do not bring adult beverages. You can buy 16 oz. Stella Artois or Sierra Nevada Pale Ale for $5, Stevenot or Vino Metate wine for $5 per glass or the whole bottle for just $14.
07:30 PM
The Incredible Sonny Landreth at Twisted Oak on August 12 Vallecito, CA...Twisted Oak Winery is pleased to announce the final concert of our 2017 Twisted Folk Concert Series – Sonny Landreth. "I can't think of a higher note to end our season than with Sonny Landreth," said winery owner Jeff Stai. “In fact, I'm sure Sonny can play that higher note just fine! What else can you say about someone who Eric Clapton called 'the most underestimated musician on the planet' - other than 'you should be here August 12th!'
A yummy BBQ rib dinner with side salads will be available for purchase (vegetarian option available), along with yummy Twisted Oak wine, popcorn, and soft drinks. Concertgoers are welcome to bring their own picnics and non-alcoholic drinks, but we ask that no outside alcoholic beverages be brought in.
Seating at Twisted Folk concerts is outdoor festival style, first-come, first-served – bring a low beach-type chair or a blanket to sit up front, or a regular chair to sit farther back. We’re on top of a hill and there is always an evening breeze – it can get a little chilly after dark so please plan ahead.
Sonny Landreth
When Sonny Landreth was 16, he began experimenting with the slide, “much to the horror of my family,” he chuckles. "I didn’t have anybody to teach me, so I had to find my own way with playing it,” Landreth recalls. He made his first slide, one he still uses: “I got a handlebar from a bike and got a hacksaw and cut myself a little slide. I actually used it on my new album on the acoustic side; I still favor it for the tone."
“My jazz and blues heroes—and the time I had spent playing trumpet, flute, and piano—helped push me to reach for a higher purpose in my music. Classical jazz is all about articulation and dynamics,” Landreth says, “and I could take all that and apply it to guitar. I think that helped make me to come at the guitar from a different perspective.”
Playing slide, says Landreth, “gave me a way to combine all these influences. I had to pull it together stylistically to form a concept and to form all these layers of sound.” Landreth lyrically describes the impact of these influences on him, and the key to his own playing: “The sound of the guitar emulates the human voice; all great acoustic bluesmen do this. I noticed that’s what my jazz and blues heroes were doing, trying to emulate the human voice; they’d use the slide as a profound and emotive form of call and response, and this is why I especially I got into playing bottleneck slide.”
After a dozen acclaimed albums, virtuoso slide guitarist and bandleader Sonny Landreth found himself at an artistic crossroads. He wanted to finally create the full-length acoustic collection his fans had long requested. But he was also itching to capture the sound of his stalwart electric trio augmented by a couple of his favorite collaborators. And the time was certainly right for an elastic, career-spanning double-live album.
So Landreth and his longtime friends decided to do it all. ‘Recorded Live in Lafayette’ is a 16-song opus that covers more musical ground than any single album ever could, as the singer and songwriter’s work stretches and twists across 93 minutes of full-band acoustic and electric bottleneck lightning.
Landreth has collaborated with the very top names in guitar over the years: Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Eric Johnson, Derek Trucks – the list goes on. The noted slideman cut his musical teeth in The Red Hot Louisiana Band of zydeco king Clifton Chenier, and Landreth has since recorded and toured with artists ranging from John Mayall to John Hiatt. ‘Recorded Live in Lafayette’ adds another major chapter to his tale, as new vocal and instrumental colors emerge.
"Sonny Landreth is probably the most underestimated musician on the planet and also is probably one of the most advanced." - Eric Clapton
"The best slide guitar player in the world” - Marc Knopfler
"I think that the reason he sounds so different is 'cause of where he's from. I can hear fiddles a lot in his playing, just from the way he raises the notes. Slide is just another voice you can have. You can really make a guitar sound like a person, and Sonny knows what that's about." - Dobro ace and fourteen-time Grammy winner Jerry Douglas
