Calaveras County: Your Adventure Land, Summer Edition

Treat yourself to a burst of color this summer.

Join Sierra Repertory Theatre for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a joyful family musical filled with song, dance, humor and a warm message of faith and forgiveness.

Fun for all ages, Joseph plays at the Fallon House in Columbia from June 16 to July 30.

The show puts a lively spin on a beloved Bible story of Joseph and his coat of many colors.  It’s told in a fast-packed series of vignettes and a wild mix of musical styles that whip from country swing to rock ballad to Calypso and Parisian street song.

The international family musical sensation is a fun and very hip adaptation of the well-known biblical tale. Joseph, a young man who has prophetic dreams, incurs the jealousy of his brothers when he is given a magnificent coat by his doting father. Featuring a melodious, eclectic contemporary score that is a tongue-in-cheek blend of calypso, 50s rock and roll, country-western, and vaudeville, Joseph is a winning, rollicking show that is ideal family entertainment.

An international sensation, Joseph was the first musical collaboration of legendary Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.  They originally created it for a London boys’ choir, then adapted it as a full stage production that has been wowing audiences and critics for more than four decades.

To bring this legendary music to life, SRT is pleased to welcome back Sarah Wussow as Musical Director for Joseph.  “I am so extremely excited to be coming back to SRT to work on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  I am looking forward to collaborating with director Dann Dunn and help see his vision come to life on stage.  I love the story, I love the characters, and of course, I love the music!”

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, rated G, opens June 16 and plays through July 30 at the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park.  Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees begin at 2 pm, Friday and Saturday evening performances begin at 7 pm, Thursday performances begin at either 2 or 7 pm.  For reservations and information, call the SRT box office at 209-532-3120, e-mail: tickets@sierrarep.org or visit the SRT website at www.sierrarep.org.

Hey Neighbors and Friends! Our next Locals’ Night is coming up soon! Join us July 26th for live music by The Experimentalist and food by La Esperanza Taco Truck.

Select bottles of wine will be half price, watch our Facebook page to find
out which favorites we will be offering that night. You don’t have to be a
local to hang out, but you will feel like one before you leave!

Swing by every second and fourth Wednesday from June to September for some casual, Creekside patio fun.

Facebook page link: https://www.facebook.com/MilliaireWinery

Free Admission. Doors open at 5:30pm, music begins at 6:00pm.

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Summer evenings never sounded as good as they do on Wednesdays in Calaveras County. Music in the Parks is brought to you free of charge. It is funded in large part by the generosity of our sponsors and advertisers. Please help us thank them by shopping locally. In addition, we will be passing the hat at each concert. Music starts at 6:30.

For the 26^th year, the Calaveras County Arts Council is presenting Music in the Parks, starting June 14 and ending August 16, every Wednesday night from 6:30 to 8 p.m. There’s an all new line up of local and not-so-local musicians, and one returning favorite. The popular program, which brings free toe-tapping tunes to the county, is part of the Arts Council’s mission statement to “support, nourish, and awaken the arts in our community.”

This year the council is partnering with community groups to provision concert goers with real-time grub ranging from simple dessert-centered pie and ice cream in Moke Hill— thanks to the Moke Hill Lion’s Club—all the way to a full-on Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner in Mountain Ranch, served up by the Mountain Ranch Community Resource Center. And in August, the Murphys Community Club will be serving brownies with a scoop of ice cream. Future concert feasts and community partnerships will be announced on Facebook, on the website, and by weekly concert emails.

The first concert of the summer starts on June 14 in Copperopolis, and then on successive Wednesdays takes place respectively in Brice Station, Angels Camp, Mokelumne Hill, Mountain Ranch, Rail Road Flat, San Andreas, Valley Springs and Murphys.

Your ticket to summer Wednesday fun. Free and family-friendly!

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June 14
Copperopolis, Town Square
Lava Cats
40’s-50’s Country, Blues, originals

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NEW VENUE!
June 21  Brice Station Winery, Murphys*
Juni Fisher
Western Entertainer, songwriter, humorist
*Wine, beer and drinks for sale — cheese, fruit and dessert
(no offsite alcohol permitted)

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June 28  Angels Camp Utica Park
Random Strangers
Country Rock

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July 5  Angels Camp CAMPS Restaurant
Almost Blue
All American Song Book of popular music.
Soft, swinging tunes that have remained classics for several generations

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July 12  Mokelumne Hill, Shutter Tree Park*
 Swing Gitane
Swing from Another Era: Hot Club Jazz and Gypsy rhythms plus cowboy Jazz
*Moke Hill Lions Pie and Ice Cream Social

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July 19  Mountain Ranch, Community Park*
Brothers Strong
*Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner 5:00 to 6:15 available prior to concert
In partnership with the Mountain Ranch Youth Alliance

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July 26  RR Flat
The Highlife Band
Reggae

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Aug 2  San Andreas
Hick’ry Switch
Blue grass/Americana

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Aug 9  Valley Springs
Slade Rivers
Country Swing, Hillbilly Jazz

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Aug 16  Murphys*
Rockslide
Rock
 *Murphys Community Club Brownies & Hot Fudge Sundaes

More information will be available soon.  Log on to www.calaverasarts.org

Maestro Michael Morgan and the Bear Valley Music Festival invite you to a dazzling concert lineup from July 21 to August 6, 2017. Here are some highlights but more details will be added as they become available:
TRIBUTES Fleetwood Mac (Saturday, July 22) * Motown (Wednesday, July 26) * Queen (Thursday, August 3)
PIANIST Vladislav Kern (in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto – Friday, July 28)
SYMPHONY Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony (Saturday, July 29)
TENOR Jonathan Blalock & The Bear Valley Orchestra (in Britten’s Les Illuminations – Saturday, July 29)
RESIDENT CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Bear Valley String Quartet (Sunday, July 23)
WINE TASTING CONCERT Sips & Sonatas (with Opera Frontier and the Bear Valley String Quartet – Wednesday, August 2)
JAZZ ARTIST Kalil Wilson & The Kalil Wilson Jazz Ensemble (Friday, August 4)
GALA DINNER & AUCTION “Bear Valley Goes to Hollywood” (Saturday, August 5)
BAROQUE BRUNCH Bach & Bagels (with selected Brandenburg Concerti – Sunday, August 6)
FOR CHILDREN Free Family Concert with Dawn Harms (Sunday, July 30) & Stars of Tomorrow (Sunday, July 30)

Tickets will go on sale in late February.

Round trip shuttle transportation will be available from Forest Meadows, Arnold and Camp Connell (by prior reservation). Barbecue meals will be prepared at the Festival tent for all evening concerts (advance reservation recommended).

See you at the giant white tent!

Enjoy the high sierra summer with tennis clinics among the pines!

These all level clinics have both adult and youth sessions that run 2 hours Thursday – Saturday They are grouped by age and level of play. Expert coaches use dead and live ball drills and games, clinics to teach proper technique and reinforce the basics of tennis. It’s our goal for you to have fun while learning skills to build a strong foundation for the game of tennis!

Format will include drills for:

• Groundstroke
• Volleying
• Serving
• Strategy for singles and doubles play

$110 per 3 sessions

• Pro-rated daily fees available upon request
• Discount rate available for B.V.T.C members

Download Registration Form For Additional Info

Make checks payable to: Peter Regan P.O. Box 3057 Arnold CA, 95223

**Click here to purchase tickets**

The Great American Trailer Park Musical opens at SRT’s East Sonora Theatre on July 21 and runs through August 20, 2017. Show times are Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2 pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 pm, Thursdays at 2 or 7 pm. A talk-back will follow the 7 pm performance on Thursday, August 19. For reservations contact Sierra Rep’s box office at 209-532-3120, e-mail tickets@sierrarep.org or visit our website: www.sierrarep.org. *This show contains adult material and language and carries an “R” rating.*

The Trailers are Rockin’ & Rollin’ and Emotions are Runnin’ High in Armadillo Acres! In present-day North Florida, in a town called Starke, in a trailer park called “Armadillo Acres” (though there are few armadillos and even fewer acres), there’s a new tenant – and she’s wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. New resident, Pippi, the stripper, is on the run, in her five-inch heels no less! Her arrival shakes up the otherwise hum-drum, daily existence of the trailer park residents. When Pippi comes between the Dr. Phil-loving agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth-collector husband Norbert – Conflict shakes the dysfunctional bliss of the trailer park!

The trailer park’s colorful and quirky denizens include a Greek-chorus-like trio of women: Linoleum, (Lin), Betty and Pickles, each with their own problems, who serve as narrators and lawn chair philosophers, pontificating on life in their trailer park world.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical, with music and lyrics by David Nehls and book by Betsy Kelso is a raucous and ribald musical featuring a country-rock/blues score including such hits as “This Side of the Tracks,” “It Doesn’t Take a Genius,” and “Road Kill.” Sierra Rep welcomes TREY COMPTON as guest director/choreographer for his first time with SRT. His most recent success was his nomination for a Drama Desk Award for Best Musical and Best Director for the off-Broadway production of the musical Yank! at the York Theater Company, NY, New York. His numerous credits include White’s Lies, which ran at New World Stages with Betty Buckley, as well as his experience with classics like; South Sierra Repertory Theatre Page 2 Pacific, Twelve Angry Men, The Music Man, Evita, The Producers, and West Side Story, as Assistant Director. Trey grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and has been making his living as a director, choreographer and fight director in New York City for the past ten years. He attended Pace University in NYC. When asked to share his thoughts and visions for the SRT production of Trailer Park, he said, “I have loved Trailer Park since I first saw it in New York. Trailer Park knows exactly what it is from moment one. Within the first twenty seconds the audience knows immediately that they are about to go on a bumpy, hysterical, colorful, cheese-whiz filled ride! It has a wonderful balance of both lowbrow and highbrow humor that is delivered at unexpected intervals, keeping the audience in constant surprise. Ultimately, it becomes a heartwarming story about individuals who are challenged to change.”

Treat yourself to a burst of color this summer.

Join Sierra Repertory Theatre for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a joyful family musical filled with song, dance, humor and a warm message of faith and forgiveness.

Fun for all ages, Joseph plays at the Fallon House in Columbia from June 16 to July 30.

The show puts a lively spin on a beloved Bible story of Joseph and his coat of many colors.  It’s told in a fast-packed series of vignettes and a wild mix of musical styles that whip from country swing to rock ballad to Calypso and Parisian street song.

The international family musical sensation is a fun and very hip adaptation of the well-known biblical tale. Joseph, a young man who has prophetic dreams, incurs the jealousy of his brothers when he is given a magnificent coat by his doting father. Featuring a melodious, eclectic contemporary score that is a tongue-in-cheek blend of calypso, 50s rock and roll, country-western, and vaudeville, Joseph is a winning, rollicking show that is ideal family entertainment.

An international sensation, Joseph was the first musical collaboration of legendary Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.  They originally created it for a London boys’ choir, then adapted it as a full stage production that has been wowing audiences and critics for more than four decades.

To bring this legendary music to life, SRT is pleased to welcome back Sarah Wussow as Musical Director for Joseph.  “I am so extremely excited to be coming back to SRT to work on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  I am looking forward to collaborating with director Dann Dunn and help see his vision come to life on stage.  I love the story, I love the characters, and of course, I love the music!”

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, rated G, opens June 16 and plays through July 30 at the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park.  Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees begin at 2 pm, Friday and Saturday evening performances begin at 7 pm, Thursday performances begin at either 2 or 7 pm.  For reservations and information, call the SRT box office at 209-532-3120, e-mail: tickets@sierrarep.org or visit the SRT website at www.sierrarep.org.

Maestro Michael Morgan and the Bear Valley Music Festival invite you to a dazzling concert lineup from July 21 to August 6, 2017. Here are some highlights but more details will be added as they become available:
TRIBUTES Fleetwood Mac (Saturday, July 22) * Motown (Wednesday, July 26) * Queen (Thursday, August 3)
PIANIST Vladislav Kern (in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto – Friday, July 28)
SYMPHONY Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony (Saturday, July 29)
TENOR Jonathan Blalock & The Bear Valley Orchestra (in Britten’s Les Illuminations – Saturday, July 29)
RESIDENT CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Bear Valley String Quartet (Sunday, July 23)
WINE TASTING CONCERT Sips & Sonatas (with Opera Frontier and the Bear Valley String Quartet – Wednesday, August 2)
JAZZ ARTIST Kalil Wilson & The Kalil Wilson Jazz Ensemble (Friday, August 4)
GALA DINNER & AUCTION “Bear Valley Goes to Hollywood” (Saturday, August 5)
BAROQUE BRUNCH Bach & Bagels (with selected Brandenburg Concerti – Sunday, August 6)
FOR CHILDREN Free Family Concert with Dawn Harms (Sunday, July 30) & Stars of Tomorrow (Sunday, July 30)

Tickets will go on sale in late February.

Round trip shuttle transportation will be available from Forest Meadows, Arnold and Camp Connell (by prior reservation). Barbecue meals will be prepared at the Festival tent for all evening concerts (advance reservation recommended).

See you at the giant white tent!

*Purchase tickets here*

There’s nothing like the raw sound of Blues music combined with barbeque that’s been cooked low and slow to leave a lasting impression on your summer. This year’s Blues and Bones Festivals are sure to satisfy your cravings for both. Come join us in California for the 7th annual Blues and Bones Festival on July 28th and 29th at the Calaveras Fairgrounds in Angels Camp.  This event is laid back and family friendly! Come enjoy some of the country’s best travelling Blues Bands along with award winning Barbeque.

Camp size limited to 15 kids per date.

The Angels Camp Museum is offering a great opportunity for children 9 – 12 years old. No previous art experience is required, just a willingness to have fun as we unlock the natural skill kids are born with. Illustrator and Education Coordinator Jim Miller will guide students through a day of “Drawing Nature Step-By-Step.” The lessons will focus on developing observation skills useful in sketching with pencils. Materials will be supplied. Please have your child bring a brown bag lunch and plenty of water. To register,  call (209) 736-2963 or email education@angelscamp.gov

Angels Camp Museum

753 S. Main Street, Angels Camp, CA 95222

(209) 736-2963  |  angelscamp.gov/museum

Fridays • 10 am to 4 pm. July 21, 28, August 4, 11. Old Masters’ Oil Techniques with Heinie Hartwig of Soulsbyville

Learn to paint the way the old masters from 1860 to 1900 painted—detailed, yet fast and loose.  You will complete a good-sized painting in this six-hour class.  Paintings will include landscapes, seascapes, still life, abstracts, and barns. Heinie is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and is listed in American and international auction houses.  He paintings hang in museums in America and Russia.

You may choose your canvas size.  Heinie prefers these sizes for students:  9×12, 12×16, 12×24, 18×24, 5×7, and 8×16.  Heinie will demo the first lesson on 12×16.  Your medium will be a mixture of mineral spirits, linseed oil, and drops of Cobalt Dryer—see Heinie for measurement amounts.  Bring rags, paper towels, turp pot, rounded tip and palette knife.  You will need these brushes: either Princeton or Briston Silver in flats 4, 8, 12, and fan brush size 6, and Princeton Neptune watercolor script brush #6.  Oil paint colors:  ivory black, Permabla white, yellow light, cad yellow deep, cad red light, alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue, cerulean or thalo blue, sap green, cad green, and burnt sienna. Cost is $300 for four lessons, which you may start at any time.

The Angels Camp Certified Farmers Market runs every Friday now through Sept. 29th from 5 p.m. to dusk at Utica Park in Angels Camp. Hosted by the Angels Camp Business Association, the annual Farmers Market brings farm-fresh vegetables, herbs, plants, flowers and fruits, handmade products, live entertainment, dinner options, desserts and a different featured local winery and musician each evening. Entry and parking is free. For a complete listing of music and wineries, visit angelscampbusiness.com or call 209-736-1333.  Entertainers and wineries may be subject to change.

*Click on “more” (below) and scroll down for more dates and info*

Twisted Pizza Nights at Murphys Tasting Room! Featuring real wood-fired pizza from Old Skool Pies of Sonora, live music by Highway 49 Revisited, and yummy Twisted Oak wines by the glass or bottle. Hang out by Murphys Creek, grab a table in our Enchanted Garden, or just chill on the porch! Even if you have other plans, why not stop by and share a pie and a bottle on the way to your next stop? The pizza and fun start at 5pm.

Additional dates:

• June 16th: Keno and Vince from Plan B
• June 30th: Jill Warren
• July 14th: Nick Leffler & Ras Beeken Dan
• July 28th: TBD
• August 11th: Eddie Castro & Brad Peterson
• August 26th (Saturday): TBD
• September 8th: TBD
• September 22nd: TBD
• October 6th: TBD

TBD sure are playing here a lot, aren’t they? Check back here and see who we have booked. Dates and music are subject to change, because stuff happens. Rain or shine!)

**Click here to purchase tickets**

The Great American Trailer Park Musical opens at SRT’s East Sonora Theatre on July 21 and runs through August 20, 2017. Show times are Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2 pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 pm, Thursdays at 2 or 7 pm. A talk-back will follow the 7 pm performance on Thursday, August 19. For reservations contact Sierra Rep’s box office at 209-532-3120, e-mail tickets@sierrarep.org or visit our website: www.sierrarep.org. *This show contains adult material and language and carries an “R” rating.*

The Trailers are Rockin’ & Rollin’ and Emotions are Runnin’ High in Armadillo Acres! In present-day North Florida, in a town called Starke, in a trailer park called “Armadillo Acres” (though there are few armadillos and even fewer acres), there’s a new tenant – and she’s wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. New resident, Pippi, the stripper, is on the run, in her five-inch heels no less! Her arrival shakes up the otherwise hum-drum, daily existence of the trailer park residents. When Pippi comes between the Dr. Phil-loving agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth-collector husband Norbert – Conflict shakes the dysfunctional bliss of the trailer park!

The trailer park’s colorful and quirky denizens include a Greek-chorus-like trio of women: Linoleum, (Lin), Betty and Pickles, each with their own problems, who serve as narrators and lawn chair philosophers, pontificating on life in their trailer park world.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical, with music and lyrics by David Nehls and book by Betsy Kelso is a raucous and ribald musical featuring a country-rock/blues score including such hits as “This Side of the Tracks,” “It Doesn’t Take a Genius,” and “Road Kill.” Sierra Rep welcomes TREY COMPTON as guest director/choreographer for his first time with SRT. His most recent success was his nomination for a Drama Desk Award for Best Musical and Best Director for the off-Broadway production of the musical Yank! at the York Theater Company, NY, New York. His numerous credits include White’s Lies, which ran at New World Stages with Betty Buckley, as well as his experience with classics like; South Sierra Repertory Theatre Page 2 Pacific, Twelve Angry Men, The Music Man, Evita, The Producers, and West Side Story, as Assistant Director. Trey grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and has been making his living as a director, choreographer and fight director in New York City for the past ten years. He attended Pace University in NYC. When asked to share his thoughts and visions for the SRT production of Trailer Park, he said, “I have loved Trailer Park since I first saw it in New York. Trailer Park knows exactly what it is from moment one. Within the first twenty seconds the audience knows immediately that they are about to go on a bumpy, hysterical, colorful, cheese-whiz filled ride! It has a wonderful balance of both lowbrow and highbrow humor that is delivered at unexpected intervals, keeping the audience in constant surprise. Ultimately, it becomes a heartwarming story about individuals who are challenged to change.”

Maestro Michael Morgan and the Bear Valley Music Festival invite you to a dazzling concert lineup from July 21 to August 6, 2017. Here are some highlights but more details will be added as they become available:
TRIBUTES Fleetwood Mac (Saturday, July 22) * Motown (Wednesday, July 26) * Queen (Thursday, August 3)
PIANIST Vladislav Kern (in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto – Friday, July 28)
SYMPHONY Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony (Saturday, July 29)
TENOR Jonathan Blalock & The Bear Valley Orchestra (in Britten’s Les Illuminations – Saturday, July 29)
RESIDENT CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Bear Valley String Quartet (Sunday, July 23)
WINE TASTING CONCERT Sips & Sonatas (with Opera Frontier and the Bear Valley String Quartet – Wednesday, August 2)
JAZZ ARTIST Kalil Wilson & The Kalil Wilson Jazz Ensemble (Friday, August 4)
GALA DINNER & AUCTION “Bear Valley Goes to Hollywood” (Saturday, August 5)
BAROQUE BRUNCH Bach & Bagels (with selected Brandenburg Concerti – Sunday, August 6)
FOR CHILDREN Free Family Concert with Dawn Harms (Sunday, July 30) & Stars of Tomorrow (Sunday, July 30)

Tickets will go on sale in late February.

Round trip shuttle transportation will be available from Forest Meadows, Arnold and Camp Connell (by prior reservation). Barbecue meals will be prepared at the Festival tent for all evening concerts (advance reservation recommended).

See you at the giant white tent!

OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS DIRECTED BY MARYANN CURMI

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Treat yourself to a burst of color this summer.

Join Sierra Repertory Theatre for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a joyful family musical filled with song, dance, humor and a warm message of faith and forgiveness.

Fun for all ages, Joseph plays at the Fallon House in Columbia from June 16 to July 30.

The show puts a lively spin on a beloved Bible story of Joseph and his coat of many colors.  It’s told in a fast-packed series of vignettes and a wild mix of musical styles that whip from country swing to rock ballad to Calypso and Parisian street song.

The international family musical sensation is a fun and very hip adaptation of the well-known biblical tale. Joseph, a young man who has prophetic dreams, incurs the jealousy of his brothers when he is given a magnificent coat by his doting father. Featuring a melodious, eclectic contemporary score that is a tongue-in-cheek blend of calypso, 50s rock and roll, country-western, and vaudeville, Joseph is a winning, rollicking show that is ideal family entertainment.

An international sensation, Joseph was the first musical collaboration of legendary Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.  They originally created it for a London boys’ choir, then adapted it as a full stage production that has been wowing audiences and critics for more than four decades.

To bring this legendary music to life, SRT is pleased to welcome back Sarah Wussow as Musical Director for Joseph.  “I am so extremely excited to be coming back to SRT to work on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  I am looking forward to collaborating with director Dann Dunn and help see his vision come to life on stage.  I love the story, I love the characters, and of course, I love the music!”

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, rated G, opens June 16 and plays through July 30 at the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park.  Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees begin at 2 pm, Friday and Saturday evening performances begin at 7 pm, Thursday performances begin at either 2 or 7 pm.  For reservations and information, call the SRT box office at 209-532-3120, e-mail: tickets@sierrarep.org or visit the SRT website at www.sierrarep.org.

The perfect place for your 4-12 year old to learn and play in the Sierra this summer! Our Summer Adventure Club combines outdoor learning with all the joys of summer recreation. At our day camp, kids will spend the morning taking on the Adventure Park, climbing, jumping, balancing, and more.  After lunch, embark on an interactive activity to explore and learn about the natural world with games, skits, and song. The program is different every weekend, so be sure to check the schedule* for a summary of activities!

Week 5  July 29-30: To Be Decided (please call)

Available every Saturday & Sunday

Price: $75
Space is limited. Reservations are highly recommended! 

PEAKS Season Pass Members get 20% off
Polar & Forever Season Pass Members get 10% off
Call to get your discount!

Book Online 209-753-2301 ext. 777

Come to the beautiful Mother Lode in Utica Park, Angels Camp, California. Please get there early if you would like to be judged or in the swap meet! Utica Park is lined with large, shady trees and has a terrific playground for the kids. Bring the whole family! This event is hosted in conjunction with the Tri-Dam Lions Club.
2016 Event included the following activities:
The day includes:
· VW Swap Meet
· Music
· Engine Blow!
· VW Vendor Booths
· Food, Wine & Beer Booth (hosted by Tri-Dam Lions Club)
· Judged VW Car Show …

· Coloring contest for the kids
· Raffle for lots of good stuff! (Grand prize to be announced. 2nd grand prize is a complete Mainland skateboard)

Judged VW Car Show (entries in from 7-10 a.m.)
Judging begins 11:00 a.m.

2016 Costs (updates to come soon):

Cost: FREE to the public!
Judged car show entries $20.00
Swap Meet booths $10.00 for 2 spaces

Awards: All show entries receive a dash plaque. Trophies will be given to all first-through-second class winners
(NOTE: this is a participant-judged car show)

Classes:
· Early Beetle Ovals & Splits (stock & modified classes)
· ’58-’67 Early Beetle (stock & modified classes)
· ’68-’79 Late Beetle (stock & modified classes)
· Convertible Beetle – All
· Karmann Ghia – (stock & modified classes)
· ’49-’67 Type II (stock & modified classes)
· ’68 and newer Type II (stock & modified classes)
· Type 3 & 4 – (stock & modified classes)
· Off-Road, Sand Rail, Baja & Buggies – All
· Thing – (stock & modified classes)
· To 1994 Watercooled VW (stock & modified classes)
· 1995 & Newer Watercooled VW (stock & modified classes)
· Under Construction Volkswagen

Only Volkswagen-powered vehicles or vehicles with a Volkswagen body will be allowed in the show.

~~No Porches, no Audis, no exceptions ~~

DONATE A CAN OF FOOD AND GET A FREE RAFFLE TICKET!
*** Anyone entering the show who donates a canned food or non-perishable item will receive a free raffle ticket (one ticket per person). All food collected will be donated to a local shelter. This is exclusively a VW car show. Please no “beanie baby” type booths or non-VW cars or trailers for sale in the swap meet or vendor booths. Only approved booths will be accepted.

Vendors & sponsors must pre-register. Email us: motherlodevwclub@hotmail.com if you
would like to be a sponsor, vendor or for more information.

Dogs must be kept on a leash
Please no outside alcohol in Utica Park
Sorry, no overnight camping allowed in Utica Park

Where is Angels Camp?

We are on Highway 49, south of Sacramento, and one hour east of Stockton (off of Highway 4). We are located in Calaveras County, between San Andreas and Sonora.

Follow us on Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/MotherLodeVWClub

Illustration with Nicole

Saturday, July 29 • 1 – 4 pm

The Art of Illustrating Animals with Nicole Caldwell of Stockton

Learn how to interpret your favorite animals into simple and stylish illustrations. We will practice transforming fun fauna forms into simple line drawings, then inking in the details freehand with micron pens, and shading with illustration markers for a polished professional look. Our creative critters will be adorned with pen work patterns inspired by the zentangle method. So let your creativity run wild with an evening of inky enjoyment!

Nicole is an art and archaeological conservator trained at SACI in Florence, Italy. She is a California native, recently moved back to Stockton after three years of working as an objects conservator at the Baha’i World Center in Haifa, Israel. As the new head Curator of Collections at the Haggin Museum, Nicole has a minor in Studio Arts and has sold paintings and illustrations in every country she where she has lived (US, Canada, India, Italy, and Israel).   This will be Nicole’s last class—she was accepted at Oxford!

Bring 2-4 sheets of 5×7 to 8×10 paper (thicker paper with a smooth surface if best), illustration paper, bleed-free marker paper, or ideally brown craft/illustration paper (for contrast) such as toned tan paper or mixed media pad, and 1-3 photos of animals (full body if possible). You will also need a mechanical pencil, gum eraser, black micron pens 005, 01, and a 05 or 08, white gel pen or white colored pencil, Prismacolor double-ended art markers in 3 shades of grey- a light, medium, and dark.

Class size is 4 to 14 students.  Please register by June 22.  Class cost is $25.

Quarter Final Competition, 6pm on Saturday, July 29 at the Calaveras Performing Arts Center on the Calaveras High School campus.  $7 per person general admission. Dinner and snack will be available for sale at all events. All Proceeds go to support music education at Calaveras County schools.  Sponsorship
opportunities are available. Additional shows will be on the following dates:

Quarter Final – August 12th 6pm, Bret Harte Theater (Bret Harte High School), Angels Camp

Semi Final – August 26 6pm, Calaveras Performing Arts Center (Calaveras High School), San Andreas

Final – September 16 6pm, Bret Harte Theater (Bret Harte High School), Angels Camp

OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS DIRECTED BY MARYANN CURMI

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The Great American Trailer Park Musical opens at SRT’s East Sonora Theatre on July 21 and runs through August 20, 2017. Show times are Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2 pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 pm, Thursdays at 2 or 7 pm. A talk-back will follow the 7 pm performance on Thursday, August 19. For reservations contact Sierra Rep’s box office at 209-532-3120, e-mail tickets@sierrarep.org or visit our website: www.sierrarep.org. *This show contains adult material and language and carries an “R” rating.*

The Trailers are Rockin’ & Rollin’ and Emotions are Runnin’ High in Armadillo Acres! In present-day North Florida, in a town called Starke, in a trailer park called “Armadillo Acres” (though there are few armadillos and even fewer acres), there’s a new tenant – and she’s wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. New resident, Pippi, the stripper, is on the run, in her five-inch heels no less! Her arrival shakes up the otherwise hum-drum, daily existence of the trailer park residents. When Pippi comes between the Dr. Phil-loving agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth-collector husband Norbert – Conflict shakes the dysfunctional bliss of the trailer park!

The trailer park’s colorful and quirky denizens include a Greek-chorus-like trio of women: Linoleum, (Lin), Betty and Pickles, each with their own problems, who serve as narrators and lawn chair philosophers, pontificating on life in their trailer park world.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical, with music and lyrics by David Nehls and book by Betsy Kelso is a raucous and ribald musical featuring a country-rock/blues score including such hits as “This Side of the Tracks,” “It Doesn’t Take a Genius,” and “Road Kill.” Sierra Rep welcomes TREY COMPTON as guest director/choreographer for his first time with SRT. His most recent success was his nomination for a Drama Desk Award for Best Musical and Best Director for the off-Broadway production of the musical Yank! at the York Theater Company, NY, New York. His numerous credits include White’s Lies, which ran at New World Stages with Betty Buckley, as well as his experience with classics like; South Sierra Repertory Theatre Page 2 Pacific, Twelve Angry Men, The Music Man, Evita, The Producers, and West Side Story, as Assistant Director. Trey grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and has been making his living as a director, choreographer and fight director in New York City for the past ten years. He attended Pace University in NYC. When asked to share his thoughts and visions for the SRT production of Trailer Park, he said, “I have loved Trailer Park since I first saw it in New York. Trailer Park knows exactly what it is from moment one. Within the first twenty seconds the audience knows immediately that they are about to go on a bumpy, hysterical, colorful, cheese-whiz filled ride! It has a wonderful balance of both lowbrow and highbrow humor that is delivered at unexpected intervals, keeping the audience in constant surprise. Ultimately, it becomes a heartwarming story about individuals who are challenged to change.”

Treat yourself to a burst of color this summer.

Join Sierra Repertory Theatre for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a joyful family musical filled with song, dance, humor and a warm message of faith and forgiveness.

Fun for all ages, Joseph plays at the Fallon House in Columbia from June 16 to July 30.

The show puts a lively spin on a beloved Bible story of Joseph and his coat of many colors.  It’s told in a fast-packed series of vignettes and a wild mix of musical styles that whip from country swing to rock ballad to Calypso and Parisian street song.

The international family musical sensation is a fun and very hip adaptation of the well-known biblical tale. Joseph, a young man who has prophetic dreams, incurs the jealousy of his brothers when he is given a magnificent coat by his doting father. Featuring a melodious, eclectic contemporary score that is a tongue-in-cheek blend of calypso, 50s rock and roll, country-western, and vaudeville, Joseph is a winning, rollicking show that is ideal family entertainment.

An international sensation, Joseph was the first musical collaboration of legendary Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.  They originally created it for a London boys’ choir, then adapted it as a full stage production that has been wowing audiences and critics for more than four decades.

To bring this legendary music to life, SRT is pleased to welcome back Sarah Wussow as Musical Director for Joseph.  “I am so extremely excited to be coming back to SRT to work on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  I am looking forward to collaborating with director Dann Dunn and help see his vision come to life on stage.  I love the story, I love the characters, and of course, I love the music!”

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, rated G, opens June 16 and plays through July 30 at the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park.  Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees begin at 2 pm, Friday and Saturday evening performances begin at 7 pm, Thursday performances begin at either 2 or 7 pm.  For reservations and information, call the SRT box office at 209-532-3120, e-mail: tickets@sierrarep.org or visit the SRT website at www.sierrarep.org.

Maestro Michael Morgan and the Bear Valley Music Festival invite you to a dazzling concert lineup from July 21 to August 6, 2017. Here are some highlights but more details will be added as they become available:
TRIBUTES Fleetwood Mac (Saturday, July 22) * Motown (Wednesday, July 26) * Queen (Thursday, August 3)
PIANIST Vladislav Kern (in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto – Friday, July 28)
SYMPHONY Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony (Saturday, July 29)
TENOR Jonathan Blalock & The Bear Valley Orchestra (in Britten’s Les Illuminations – Saturday, July 29)
RESIDENT CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Bear Valley String Quartet (Sunday, July 23)
WINE TASTING CONCERT Sips & Sonatas (with Opera Frontier and the Bear Valley String Quartet – Wednesday, August 2)
JAZZ ARTIST Kalil Wilson & The Kalil Wilson Jazz Ensemble (Friday, August 4)
GALA DINNER & AUCTION “Bear Valley Goes to Hollywood” (Saturday, August 5)
BAROQUE BRUNCH Bach & Bagels (with selected Brandenburg Concerti – Sunday, August 6)
FOR CHILDREN Free Family Concert with Dawn Harms (Sunday, July 30) & Stars of Tomorrow (Sunday, July 30)

Tickets will go on sale in late February.

Round trip shuttle transportation will be available from Forest Meadows, Arnold and Camp Connell (by prior reservation). Barbecue meals will be prepared at the Festival tent for all evening concerts (advance reservation recommended).

See you at the giant white tent!

The Bureau of Reclamation announces its 2017 summer interpretive program and activity schedule for New Melones Lake, located in Calaveras and Tuolumne counties. All program presentations, unless otherwise noted, will take place at the Amphitheater in the Glory Hole Recreation Area. Programs are free of charge, suitable for all ages and do not require reservations. Children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

An Evening with Bees

Saturday, July 29, 8 p.m.

New Melones Lake Visitor Center

Discover what’s “abuzz” with park ranger and bee aficionado Sam. Learn the life history of arguably nature’s most beneficial insect, the honey bee. Also, become familiar with some of the bees’ close relatives also living in our region. The program begins at the New Melones Lake Visitor Center at 7 p.m. Join us and “bee” a part of the evening’s festivities! For additional information about the program, please leave a message for Ranger Sam Masquelier at 209-536-9094 ext. 233 or email smasquelier@usbr.gov.

 There’s Gold and Water in Them Thar Hills!

Saturday, August 5, 8 p.m.

Join Park Rangers Geoff and Devin and discover how gold and water has shaped the history of the Mother lode. Explore the lives of early California miners and the towns they lived in, including Melones, now submerged beneath New Melones Lake. Learn about California’s “liquid gold” and how it has shaped the landscape and livelihood of our region.

 Meteor Shower!

Saturday, August 12, 8 p.m.

The Perseid Meteor Shower is an astronomical highlight every August. Join park rangers and discover what the night sky has to offer. Telescopes will be on hand for viewing. Before nightfall, learn about outdoor safety and how best to be prepared when visiting our public lands. Safety presentation starts at 7:30 p.m.

Nocturnal Happenings

Saturday, August 19, 8 p.m.

Join our park rangers and discover what travels by “dark feet and dark wings.” Learn about bats, owls and other nocturnal critters that call New Melones home, and experience the nighttime world using all your senses. The program will include a walk, an activity or two and a story.

Solar Eclipse

Monday, August 21, 9 a.m.

Tuttletown Recreation Area

Eagle Point Picnic Area

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon blocks the sun, revealing the sun’s radiant outer atmosphere known as the corona. Enjoy this rare lifetime event at New Melones Lake. Rangers will be available providing information and guidance on how to safely view the phenomenon. For additional information please contact Park Ranger Diana Popkins at 209-536-9094 ext. 218 or dpopkins@usbr.gov.

Outlaws of the Mother Lode

Saturday, August 26, 7:30 p.m.

Join Park Ranger Josh and hear the stories and tall tales of the desperate desperados that ran afoul of the law in the Mother Lode, including Black Bart and Joaquin Murrieta. You can leave your spurs at home, but be sure to bring your enthusiasm for the rich history of the area!

Calaveras Community Band

Saturday, September 2, 6:30 p.m.

Come celebrate the end of the summer with us! The Calaveras Community Band will be playing all your favorites until the sun goes down. Get up and dance, clap, and sing or just sit back and enjoy the music. Bring the family and enjoy one last summer night! Music begins at 6:30 p.m.

As a reminder for boaters, invasive Quagga and Zebra mussels pose one of the greatest single threats to New Melones Lake; diminishing water quality, disrupting ecosystems, impeding dam operations, and impacting water recreation – especially boating and fishing. Throughout the United States, lakes and rivers have forever been altered by creatures worthy of science fiction. No invasive mussels are currently present in New Melones. Keeping the lake mussels free is a challenge we all share as a community. During the summer, park rangers will be meeting with fishermen and recreational boaters inside the Tuttletown and Glory Hole Recreation Areas, helping to “spread the message and not the mussel.” For additional information contact Natural Resource Biologist Sam Sosa at 209-536-9094 ext 221 or ssosa@usbr.gov.

If you would like to participate in a program, need accommodation, or have any questions please contact Park Ranger Mike McGraw at 209-536-9094, ext. 233, or email mmcgraw@usbr.gov.

The New Melones Visitor Center and Museum is managed by Reclamation’s Central California Area Office. Hours of operation are daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For additional information on activities, directions, pet restrictions or other questions, please call 209-536-9543 (TTY 800-877-8339) or visit the website at http://www.usbr.gov/mp/ccao/newmelones/index.html.

DJ Night with DJ Outlaw. Each 2nd and last Saturday of each month

• 9:00pm  11:59pm

• Hotel Léger Restaurant & Saloon8304 Main StreetMokelumne Hill, CA, 95245

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   For information call 866.276.4235.
Or email us to be notified of future events in the Square.

Treat yourself to a burst of color this summer.

Join Sierra Repertory Theatre for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a joyful family musical filled with song, dance, humor and a warm message of faith and forgiveness.

Fun for all ages, Joseph plays at the Fallon House in Columbia from June 16 to July 30.

The show puts a lively spin on a beloved Bible story of Joseph and his coat of many colors.  It’s told in a fast-packed series of vignettes and a wild mix of musical styles that whip from country swing to rock ballad to Calypso and Parisian street song.

The international family musical sensation is a fun and very hip adaptation of the well-known biblical tale. Joseph, a young man who has prophetic dreams, incurs the jealousy of his brothers when he is given a magnificent coat by his doting father. Featuring a melodious, eclectic contemporary score that is a tongue-in-cheek blend of calypso, 50s rock and roll, country-western, and vaudeville, Joseph is a winning, rollicking show that is ideal family entertainment.

An international sensation, Joseph was the first musical collaboration of legendary Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.  They originally created it for a London boys’ choir, then adapted it as a full stage production that has been wowing audiences and critics for more than four decades.

To bring this legendary music to life, SRT is pleased to welcome back Sarah Wussow as Musical Director for Joseph.  “I am so extremely excited to be coming back to SRT to work on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  I am looking forward to collaborating with director Dann Dunn and help see his vision come to life on stage.  I love the story, I love the characters, and of course, I love the music!”

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, rated G, opens June 16 and plays through July 30 at the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park.  Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees begin at 2 pm, Friday and Saturday evening performances begin at 7 pm, Thursday performances begin at either 2 or 7 pm.  For reservations and information, call the SRT box office at 209-532-3120, e-mail: tickets@sierrarep.org or visit the SRT website at www.sierrarep.org.

OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS DIRECTED BY MARYANN CURMI

**Click here to purchase tickets**

The Great American Trailer Park Musical opens at SRT’s East Sonora Theatre on July 21 and runs through August 20, 2017. Show times are Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2 pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 pm, Thursdays at 2 or 7 pm. A talk-back will follow the 7 pm performance on Thursday, August 19. For reservations contact Sierra Rep’s box office at 209-532-3120, e-mail tickets@sierrarep.org or visit our website: www.sierrarep.org. *This show contains adult material and language and carries an “R” rating.*

The Trailers are Rockin’ & Rollin’ and Emotions are Runnin’ High in Armadillo Acres! In present-day North Florida, in a town called Starke, in a trailer park called “Armadillo Acres” (though there are few armadillos and even fewer acres), there’s a new tenant – and she’s wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. New resident, Pippi, the stripper, is on the run, in her five-inch heels no less! Her arrival shakes up the otherwise hum-drum, daily existence of the trailer park residents. When Pippi comes between the Dr. Phil-loving agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth-collector husband Norbert – Conflict shakes the dysfunctional bliss of the trailer park!

The trailer park’s colorful and quirky denizens include a Greek-chorus-like trio of women: Linoleum, (Lin), Betty and Pickles, each with their own problems, who serve as narrators and lawn chair philosophers, pontificating on life in their trailer park world.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical, with music and lyrics by David Nehls and book by Betsy Kelso is a raucous and ribald musical featuring a country-rock/blues score including such hits as “This Side of the Tracks,” “It Doesn’t Take a Genius,” and “Road Kill.” Sierra Rep welcomes TREY COMPTON as guest director/choreographer for his first time with SRT. His most recent success was his nomination for a Drama Desk Award for Best Musical and Best Director for the off-Broadway production of the musical Yank! at the York Theater Company, NY, New York. His numerous credits include White’s Lies, which ran at New World Stages with Betty Buckley, as well as his experience with classics like; South Sierra Repertory Theatre Page 2 Pacific, Twelve Angry Men, The Music Man, Evita, The Producers, and West Side Story, as Assistant Director. Trey grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and has been making his living as a director, choreographer and fight director in New York City for the past ten years. He attended Pace University in NYC. When asked to share his thoughts and visions for the SRT production of Trailer Park, he said, “I have loved Trailer Park since I first saw it in New York. Trailer Park knows exactly what it is from moment one. Within the first twenty seconds the audience knows immediately that they are about to go on a bumpy, hysterical, colorful, cheese-whiz filled ride! It has a wonderful balance of both lowbrow and highbrow humor that is delivered at unexpected intervals, keeping the audience in constant surprise. Ultimately, it becomes a heartwarming story about individuals who are challenged to change.”

Maestro Michael Morgan and the Bear Valley Music Festival invite you to a dazzling concert lineup from July 21 to August 6, 2017. Here are some highlights but more details will be added as they become available:
TRIBUTES Fleetwood Mac (Saturday, July 22) * Motown (Wednesday, July 26) * Queen (Thursday, August 3)
PIANIST Vladislav Kern (in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto – Friday, July 28)
SYMPHONY Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony (Saturday, July 29)
TENOR Jonathan Blalock & The Bear Valley Orchestra (in Britten’s Les Illuminations – Saturday, July 29)
RESIDENT CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Bear Valley String Quartet (Sunday, July 23)
WINE TASTING CONCERT Sips & Sonatas (with Opera Frontier and the Bear Valley String Quartet – Wednesday, August 2)
JAZZ ARTIST Kalil Wilson & The Kalil Wilson Jazz Ensemble (Friday, August 4)
GALA DINNER & AUCTION “Bear Valley Goes to Hollywood” (Saturday, August 5)
BAROQUE BRUNCH Bach & Bagels (with selected Brandenburg Concerti – Sunday, August 6)
FOR CHILDREN Free Family Concert with Dawn Harms (Sunday, July 30) & Stars of Tomorrow (Sunday, July 30)

Tickets will go on sale in late February.

Round trip shuttle transportation will be available from Forest Meadows, Arnold and Camp Connell (by prior reservation). Barbecue meals will be prepared at the Festival tent for all evening concerts (advance reservation recommended).

See you at the giant white tent!