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< Saturday, February 11, 2017 >


12:00 AM - 12:00 AM "Annie" Presented By Calaveras Sings Theatre Arts Repertory For Kids!
Angels Camp,CA...The sun will come out to the Mother Lode with "Annie," the musical sensation brought to life by Calaveras Sings Theatre Arts Repertory for Kids (CSTARS).


Based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and book by Thomas Meehan, this classic family musical follows the orphan Annie's quest to find her parents in 1930s New York City. Along the way she meets the gruff billionaire Daddy Warbucks, his charming assistant Grace, and a slew of unforgettable characters. Though her attempts to escape a hard knock life are consistently challenged by Miss Hannigan, the desperate and bitter orphanage matron, and her brother Rooster Hannigan and his new flame Lily St. Regis, Annie and her fellow orphans hold out hope that the sun will come out tomorrow for a better life for them all.

This limited-run performance will take place at the Bret Harte High School Center for the Performing Arts on February 10-12. Recent productions of "Mary Poppins" and "The Little Mermaid" have shown a high demand for tickets, so get yours today!

http://cstarsannie.brownpapertickets.com/
09:00 AM Learn How To Graft Fruit Trees With The UCCE Master Gardeners!
Jackson, CA...Join the UCCE Master Gardeners of Amador County on February 11, 2017 for this timely class on grafting backyard fruit trees. Local Master Gardeners will present a hands-on clinic covering grafting techniques for home gardeners. Whip, tongue and cleft grafts will be demonstrated and practiced. Bud grafts will also be discussed. Learn how to grow a fruit salad tree. A variety of fruit tree scions will also be available for participants to take home. Hand-outs will be available. The class is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. All classes are held in the GSA building at 12200-B Airport Rd. in Jackson from 9am to Noon.

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For questions, call the UCCE Master Gardeners of Amador County at the UC Cooperative Extension Office from 10am to noon, Tuesday through Thursday, 223-6838 or email mgamador@ucdavis.edu. Website: http://ucanr.edu/mgamador
10:00 AM Murphys Historic Walking Tour Every Saturday At 10am
Murphys, CA...Every Saturday at 10am the Walking Tours of Historic Downtown Murphys are available at no charge (donations gratefully accepted) on Saturday mornings at 10am leaving from the Old Timers Museum on Main Street. Please contact Jo Sanders at 209-728-3072

Murphys Old Timers Museum
470 Main Street, Murphys, CA 95247
10:00 AM - 02:00 PM Independence Hall Needs Your Stuff! Accepting Donations Every Saturday!!
White Pines, CA...The Flea Market is our only fundraiser for the year. The proceeds provide for maintenance of the building and grounds. It is always held on the first full weekend in August. Donations to the Flea Market are accepted all year.

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Independence Hall Community Center - History

Independence Hall Community Center, Arnold, California, was officially established in 1974. From its inception, the Hall has served as a non-profit, non-tax-supported community facility for the Ebbetts Pass area. Originally, the Hall was the Avery School, a one-room elementary school with a divider creating two classrooms.

The attendance area extended along California Highway 4 from Camp Connell nearly to Murphys. The first function to be held in the building was a school Christmas program in December, 1941. The school was rededicated in 1964 as Hazel Fisher Elementary School in honor of its first principal and teacher, Miss Hazel Fisher. Following construction of a new Hazel Fisher Elementary School, the original building was signed over to the Ebbetts Pass Wonderland Association and in recognition of our nation’s bicentennial was renamed Independence Hall. The Hall was dedicated and remains this area’s community center.

P.O. Box 2056
1445 Blagen Road
Arnold, CA 95223
(209) 795-2152
IndependenceHallArnold@gmail.com
01:00 PM Heavenly Chocolate Festival
Heavenly Chocolate Festival is a dream come true where guests can enjoy unlimited chocolate treats. This is a festival of treasured family recipes along with unique flavor combinations using rich dark, creamy milk and white chocolates. Come and enjoy the 60+ entries plus a chocolate fountain where you can create your own blend of tastes. $12 adults, $5 children under 8. Hot & cold beverages included. Wine by the glass to enjoy with your chocolate will be available for sale. 509 Algiers St., 1st Congregational Church Murphys; Saturday, February 11th at 1-4 pm Tickets @ 728-3141 and at the door.
01:00 PM Don't Miss The 6th Heavenly Chocolate Festival!
Murphys, CA...The 6th Heavenly Chocolate Festival is a dream come true where guests can enjoy unlimited chocolate treats. This is a festival of treasured family recipes along with unique flavor combinations using rich dark, creamy milk and white chocolates.


Come and enjoy the 60+ entries plus a chocolate fountain where you can create your own blend of tastes. $12 adults, $5 children under 8. Hot & cold beverages included. Wine by the glass to enjoy with your chocolate will be available for sale. 509 Algiers St., 1st Congregational Church Murphys; Saturday, February 11th at 1-4 pm Tickets @ 728-3141 and at the door.
01:00 PM 2nd Annual Love Bites Valentines Bash At Copper Town Square!
Copperopolis, CA...Join us for our 2nd Annual Love Bites Valentines Bash!Bring your sweetie and families to this fun free event! Live music by Keno Rojas! Free Professional Photo Ops! Free Date Night at The Square Raffle Prizes!


Our shops will be offering BITES, Wine Tasting, Specials, Sales and more! Select Sweets, Food and Craft Vendors will be here.
01:00 PM - 02:30 PM Big Trees North Grove Guided Tours Saturdays At 1pm
Arnold, CA...North Grove Guided Tours – Guided walks of the North Grove are held on Saturday at 1 pm. The walk is 1.5 to 2 hours. Meet in front of the Visitor Center. Bring water and your comfortable shoes.


Snowshoe Walk – When appropriate – the guided walk becomes a snowshoe walk. Snowshoes are provided.

Calaveras Big Trees State Park
Hwy 4 Arnold, CA 95223

Calaveras Big Trees Association
http://bigtrees.org/
02:00 PM West Point Library “Loves to Read” Party
West Point, CA...Join the Valentine party on February 11th, 2017, 2-4pm at the West Point Library. Located in the West Point Elementary School at 54 Bald Mountain Rd.


Refreshments will be provided, and there will be a Valentines crafting station for kids. For more information, call 293-7020.
05:00 PM - 08:00 PM Zucca After Hours
Join us all year on Friday and Saturday nights from 5-8pm for a relaxing evening in our garden with your favorite Zucca varietals. Enjoy a glass, bottle or a flight of four wines and savor the atmosphere of our wine garden.

Bring your own dinner from home or one of the great local restaurants.
05:30 PM Live Music At Milliaire's Barrel Room Bash!
Murphys, CA...Join Milliaire for their February Barrel Room Bash at the Milliaire Winery barrel room, just 3 miles outside of downtown Murphys! Enjoy live music by the incredible Bob Eisenman Jazz Trio, local food by Old Skool Pie pizza, and half price on select bottles of wine...perfect event for date night! Music begins at 6PM. FREE ADMISSION! “Read More” for directions.


*Parking is limited, carpooling and 4 wheel drive are encouraged!

3300 Murphys Grade Rd.
Murphys, CA

Directions-
From Murphys:
2.9 miles from the junction of Main St

From Angels Camp:
3.6 miles from the junction of Hwy 49

Lost? Call Us: 736-1915
06:00 PM Love On The Vine At Ironstone Vineyards
Murphys,CA...Love is in the Air at Ironstone Vineyards. Bring your appetite and dancing shoes to Love on the Vine, Saturday, February 11th, from 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. Enjoy a romantic dinner featuring a selection of Ironstone Vineyards wines, and dance music courtesy of Kool Shifters.


Cost is $75 per person ($65 for Wine Club members), excluding tax & service charge.

For questions or reservations, please call (209) 728-1251

www.ironstonevineyards.com/
06:00 PM Richard Burleigh Memorial Scholarship Dance
Sonora, CA...On January 1st, 2016, Tuolumne County awoke to the New Year with sad news that one of its best-loved arts benefactors had passed, Richard Burleigh. With nearly 40 years' experience organizing popular arts, crafts and music festivals, Burleigh will long live in the hearts of many people as the man, who brought us creative fun!Now, to honor him Burleigh's family and Tuolumne County Arts Alliance are working together to create the Richard Burleigh Memorial Scholarship to support local youth arts. "From the day he moved to Tuolumne County, Richard went to work to help create our local arts council," says TCAA's executive director Connie O'Connor-Gahagan. "He was a founding member of our arts advocacy work. With such a deep friendship, everyone at TCAA knew that we needed to help build a lasting tribute to this brilliant producer and artist."


On Saturday, February 11th, TCAA and the Burleigh-Grandstaffs will host the first fund raiser for their new scholarship program. "Richard wanted kids to have every chance to get involved in the arts," says his wife Corinne Grandstaff, "So, we're going to help make that dream real."

The inaugural RBM Dance takes place at the Sonora Opera Hall, located at 250 S. Washington St., on February 11th, beginning at 7pm with doors opening at 6pm. "We're wrapping up our February Art Night with this amazing gathering," says Art Night committee member and TCAA member Laurie Lehmann. Advance tickets of $30 are now on sale at Mountain Bookshop, 13769-I Mono Way (209.532.6117), at Tradewinds Fine Consignment, 63 S. Washington St. (209.588.8810), or online at www.tuolumnecountyarts/store.org . If available, tickets will sell at the door for $35 that evening. "We hope that lots of folks will get their tickets early," says Lehmann, a longtime friend and one of the Christmas Crafts Faire's first elves. "This is going to be such a great night!" During the evening guests can purchase pizza from one of Tuolumne County's local food carts, Old Skool Pizza, and a no-host beer and wine bar.

"Our concert will feature two very popular bands, that my dad enjoyed," says Kailee Burleigh, daughter of the much loved promoter. "He loved introducing Tuolumne County to great new music and musicians, so we're bringing out some of the best." The featured band for the evening is Painted Mandolin, a northern California group who explores the acoustic side of the Grateful Dead's legendary Jerry Garcia. Comprised of some of the North State's best musicians, Painted Mandolin jams with great energy and strong vocals covering Garcia's Jug Band days, his Bluegrass period, as well as the Grateful Dead's "Reckoning" period. The anchor for this up and coming band is freestyle multi-instrumentalist , music educator, theatre performer, and sound-poet Joe Craven, a former member of the David Grisman Quintet and Mumbo Gumbo. An international musical force, Craven has also partnered with many well-known musicians, such as Alison Brown, Jason Marsalis, David Lindley, and more. Currently Craven and his own family are embarking on a musical research trip to Cuba. "We're quite excited to dive into the rhythmic beat of this Caribbean treasure," Craven states. "I'd love to bring some of that musical spice home and share it at our night in Sonora." In late April 2017 Craven will offer his second Vocàli Camp, a weekend of vocal arts, at Camp Sylvester in Pinecrest, CA. "Joe is a flowing river of creativity, community, and magical charm," says longtime arts advocate BZ Smith. "During Strawberry Music you can expect to see Joe invited on stage to add his musical textures to any number of acts. But most important now is this: Richard Burleigh and Joe were dear friends for more than 30 years. It's no wonder that Joe is an integral part of this Tuolumne County celebration of Burleigh, our very own Rainbow Tie-Dye Hippie Man." Rounding out Painted Mandolin will be a host of outstanding musicians, who are mostly based in the Santa Cruz Mountains: Guitarist and vocalist Larry Graff, founding member of the Banana Slug String Band, ChinaCats' Matt Hartle on banjotar, mandolin, fiddle, bass and percussion, and Roger Sideman, also of ChinaCats, on bass.

Opening for Painted Mandolins is one of the Mother Lode's most creative acoustic bands, Risky Biscuits, who opened the Fall 2016 Strawberry Music Festival. The eclectic group is renowned for its tight Bluegrass, juxtaposed with its own style of Break-Out Jazz. "These talented young guys are incredible musicians," says Lehmann. "We're so lucky to have this group in our own area! They are going places with their music!" The six-member group describes their songs as "mountain music from the heart and the trees, creating a state of mind that grows like a virus, infecting the brain of the musically inclined." Members of the band include fiddler Austin Broder, Emery Nelson on percussion, Travis Schlafman on banjo, keyboardist Nathan Semprebon, songwriter and guitarman Kiel Williams and bassist Andy Merrill. The latter two are both graduates of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA.

"We all need to remember Burleigh for his work that laid groundwork for our local arts community," says Gahagan-O'Connor. "He was the driving force behind the Sonora Christmas Craft Fair and Music Festival, the Summer Arts & Wine Fest in Twain Harte, as well as the producer of the Blues and Brews Fest, which lasted for 16 years. He produced many festivals and concerts in other northern California communities, and knew every influential contemporary musician on the West Coast."

Burleigh was born Aug. 20, 1948, in Santa Monica. In his 20s, he worked in banking, stained glass and glass restoration in the Los Angeles area before making his way north. He arrived in the Mother Lode in 1975, and soon after opened Fire on the Mountain Stained Glass Studio in Twain Harte. A few years later that entity morphed into Fire on the Mountain Productions.

"Richard had a knack for seeing new artistic talent, and he understood how to structure large events," remembers arts advocate and storyteller BZ Smith. "It's no wonder that he launched this amazing history of festivals!" Burleigh's creative mind was tireless, attending over 50 shows a year to scout out new talent and to promote his local shows in Tuolumne County. Along the way, he gave many new artists and artisans a platform to get their work known. But over the years the promoter's health began to decline. This tribute concert and fund raiser gives the community a chance to hold on to Burleigh's memory for years to come.

Burleigh had a rich love of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead's acoustic music. The two featured bands for this concert, Painted Mandolin and Risky Biscuits, are cut from that same piece of tie-dyed cloth, and are deeply inspired by the Grateful Dead. "These bands are perfect for my dad! Joe Craven is a close friend, and the reason I chose Risky Biscuits, was because he loved supporting up and coming acts," says his daughter Kailee Burleigh. "He always wanted to go see them, but I don't know that he ever made it."

Burleigh truly believed that our lives are enhanced through the arts. Now this new scholarship fund will help his family carry on Richard's legacy. Says wife Corinne, "We're grateful to the arts council and Richard's many friends for helping us. We share Richard's vision of strengthening children's lives through the arts." Once the fund is established, Grandstaff and her children hope to help provide access to the arts through arts scholarships, grants, arts lessons, instrument rental or purchase, and possibly helping to bring guest artists and musicians to the area. "If you'd like to contribute, but you can't come that night, please make a donation in Richard's honor to TCAA-Hearts for the Arts," the arts council's O'Connor-Gahagan. "We have an easy-to-use donation button at our website!" For more information, please visit www.tuolumnecountyarts.org and learn more about TCAA's Hearts for the Arts programs.
06:00 PM Love Is In The Air At Ironstone Vineyards
Murphys, CA...Bring your appetite and dancing shoes to Love on the Vine, Saturday, February 11th, from 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. Enjoy a romantic dinner featuring a selection of Ironstone Vineyards wines, and dance music courtesy of Kool Shifters. Cost is $75 per person ($65 for Wine Club members), excluding tax & service charge.


Menu

Appetizer Table
Artisan Cheeses
Tillamook Sharp White Cheddar, Manchego, Smoked Gouda, French Triple Cream Brie
Fresh fruit, Dried Fruit, Nuts, Quince Paste, Crostini, and Crackers
Puff Pastry with Fig Jam, Point Reyes Blue, Pear, and Prosciutto
French Onion Stuffed Mushrooms
Caramelized Onions, Gruyere Cheese, topped with Bread Crumbs

Buffet Dinner
Artisan Breads With European Butter & Garlic Butter
Mixed Field greens with berries, Chevre, Sliced Apples, Roasted Almonds, tossed in a Champagne Vinaigrette
Free Range Chicken Breasts in a Beurre Blanc Sauce with Capers
Flat Iron Steak with Mushroom Cognac Reduction Roasted Garlic
Yukon Gold Mashed Potatoes
French Green Beans with Caramelized Shallots

Dessert
Mini Cheesecakes with Raspberry Coulis
Fresh Brewed Coffee
06:00 PM AMA 2017 Annual Crab Feed
Angels Camp,CA...It's the 2017 Annual Crab Feed hosted by The Angels-Murphys-Arnold Booster Club on February 11th in Mark Twain Hall at the Calaveras Fairgrounds. Proceeds to benefit youth sports provided by A.M.A.


Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the 2017 ATV drawing will take place immediately after dinner. Tickets may be purchased through Pay-Pal or on our website at www.amayouthsports.com
07:00 PM Sweet Romance At Allegorie Wine & Art Gallery
Murphys,CA...For the romantic with the two left feet looking for a more seductive wine experience, Allegorie Wine and Art Gallery in Murphys is hosting the talented Spanish Guitarist Nicholas Lefler joined by the sultry and beautiful Flamenco dancer, Violaine on February 11th at 7pm.


As if that wasn't enough the night includes cupcakes! Because in Calaveras you CAN have your cake and eat it too and Allegorie will be the place to be for the ultimate romantic evening.

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