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Alchemy Features Hovey Winery Tuesday, Dec. 30
Murphys, CA...Alchemy Market and Wine Bar, 191 Main St., Murphys, will feature the wines of Hovey Winery from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30 with discounted Hovey Viognier, Tempranillo and Isabel Cabernet Sauvignon for $20 a bottle or $5 per glass....
 
At 5:30 p.m. guests can enjoy live music by Julio Inglesias. Guests are invited to order off the menu or opt for specials that have been created to pair with the wine.
For reservations or more information, call 728-0700.
More About Julio is below...
Nedra started playing harmonica at age 12, and sat in with other musicians throughout her youth. But it was a near-death experience that got her musical energy flowing in unstoppable waves. A car accident in 1992 found her with 110 broken bones. She coded three times and suffered from a lacerated liver, holes in her spleen, and an induced coma from the brain swelling.
"The doctors asked, 'What can we do to bring her back to life with?'" Russ recalled. "My family answered, 'Well, she loves music.' They put headphones on me. I can remember getting well with Vince Gill singing to me and whatever else they put in the CD player. It opened something in my mind that didn't exist on that level before. So once my stress levels left my life, the songs just started flowing and I really became serious."
In 1999, she joined her first band - Spirit Echoes - with guitarist Dave Vasquez (now with After Dark). Russ and Vasquez also hosted a successful open mic night at a local venue for a year, which introduced her to other musicians and led to the formation of her second band - blues band Bad Juju.
In 2009, Russ started taking speech-level singing lessons from Daniel Hayes in Roseville, and also studied with Brett Manning, before starting her own speech-level singing lessons in her hometown of West Point. She honed her harmonica playing by taking master classes in San Jose and working with such greats as David Barrett and
Joe Filisko. Also that year, she attended her first SPAH - Society for the Preservation and Advancement of Harmonica - convention.
"That pretty much changed my life," Russ said. "I realized the instrument had huge potential and I needed to devote myself to it. I signed up on-line for video classes with Howard Levy, who is quite the master of all proportions in music. I can't even express how valuable his training has been."
Russ has also received her certification in electronic publishing. On the "Everybody's Been Somewhere" album, she mastered her own tracks and produced the album start to finish.
In 2012, Russ ranked 94 on the list of All Time Top 100 Harmonica Players from the
World of Harmonica. "Everybody's Been Somewhere" took 2nd place peoples choice for CD of the year.
Nedra won the gold spike award at Jamestown 1897 rail town harmonica train competition 2013
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Russ also donates her time to the local youth in her rural hometown of West Point, CA, teaching singing and performance skills. In recognition of her selfless dedication to her beloved pupils, she was awarded the 2010 Teammagic award by the Blue Mountain Coalition for Youth and Families
Although she owns more than 50 harmonicas, Russ only carries 22 to each gig. Her collection includes custom built Marine Bands by Joe Spiers- a student of harmonica master Joe Filisko and the only US certified by Horner Her backup sets are Manjies and other Horner as well as Lee Oscars
She also owns a handmade, tiger wood bullet mic custom made for her tiny hands by Fritz the Mic Man.
"The Green Bullet is the standard mic for harmonica players, but they're huge and I got little teeny hands and I just couldn't get the sound out of them," Russ commented. "I sent [Fritz] my handprints and he designed this one for me and I can cup it and get the same sound you would out of a Green Bullet."
The Tiger Bullet includes a Shure magnetic element inside. Additionally, Russ uses a buflletizer made by Greg Herman out of the Bay Area. The microphone also has a wireless connector that allows Russ to be animated on stage and in the crowd.
“• Switching gears a bit, we move on to blues singer and harmonica player Nedra Russ whom I like to call the soft side of grit. Her femininity comes through in her vocal intonations, but when she blows harp, she holds her own against the boys.”
Gwen Bohdan - Amador Music Hub
Julio Stanford Guerra, a.k.a. Julio Inglasses. Photo courtesy of Relish Photography.
Julio Inglasses was born Julio Stanford Nicholas Guerra in Quito, Ecuador - 10,000 feet in the Andes Mountains. He comes from a long line of musicians, starting with his maternal grandmother, Toinette Anderson-Snyder, a lifetime musician, playing first violin in the Colorado String Symphony, as well as organ for the silent movie industry, and gave her grandson julio piano lessons when he was a child.
When Guerra was 2½ years old, he moved to the United States. In 1961, when Guerra was a high school freshman, he became inspired by his father's record collection, particularly a 45 of Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock."
"I was transfixed," Guerra recalled. "It was like, 'Okay, this is kind of what I want to do.'"
Also that year, his best friend introduced him into the Kingston Trio.
"We wanted to be cool and play folk music," he mentioned. "That's when I picked up a guitar. At that time, as a high school age person, it was folk music: Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary and then surf music and some blues back in the day."
In 1963, Guerra formed his first band - the Merced Viscounts.
"We played surf music and Freddie King blues stuff," he said. "My brother, John played keyboards."
Guerra returned to Ecuador in 1966 and formed a band called Los Insectos.
"We were the first rhythm and blues band in Guayaquil, Ecuador," he boasted.
The following year, Guerra played in the Ecuadorian band, Los Cool Cats, before returning to the U.S. where he would spend the next few decades playing in several bands while developing his own signature on the guitar.
"The most stylistic foundation of my playing was my becoming a musical devotee of John Fahey," Guerra said. "He was a finger-picking guitarist.
My whole life, I've used finger picking. If I try to use a flat pick, it'd always end up in my mouth and I'd use my fingers anyway, whether I play electric guitar lead or anything."
The next three decades found him playing in several bands,
a group he co-founded in 1975 Fiddlestix
and 1990 Blue Shoes
1997 Amador County Foothillbillies -
205 Forrest Flannigan and Aesthetic Cling - the jug band that grew out of the Sutter Creek Jug Band Festival
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Guerra has also achieved several awards, including first and second place in the guitar and mandolin categories at the La Grange Fiddle Contest and the Bangor Fiddle Contest in Columbia.
"My musical development started out with folk music, went electric, went to old-time/traditional fiddle music," he noted. "I've had all these different influences. I knew some day my day would come, and I think it's close now."
Jerry Harmon
Congratulations my friend. I am touring the UK mostly now, and I have to say it is a lot of fun. I shared some of your songs with a friend recently, and he was amazed. I think you are one of the best finger picking guitarist I have ever heard, and I have heard a lot of them. I even use that style myself on certain songs. You however have a unique style as well as being a tremendously good player, and that is what separates you from the pack.
Guerra owns seven guitars, but three are his prides and joy.
• 1945 Martin. This was guitar was built during World War II and came off the assembly line right after the atomic bomb dropped in September of 1945.
• Shanti. This sweetheart was born in Calaveras County. Oringially built by Michael Hornig for a skier woman based in Colorado, the neck is embedded with skier inlays, wolf designs on the bottom (from the natural koa wood) and wolf tracks embedded on the back.
• Regal Dobro, given to Guerra as a thank you gift for playing the role of Tee Tot in the local production of "Lost Highway" - the story of Hank Williams
Taylor Hollow body electric T-5X
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