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Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 05/28/2008 06:42 PM Updated by: Kim_Hamilton on 06/05/2008 02:54 PM
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Big Year for the Bear Valley Music Festival!

Bear Valley, CA…If the words “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” or “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” start your toes tapping, you need to be in the audience Saturday night, July 26, at the start of the two-week-long Bear Valley Music Festival. It’s the 40th anniversary of this classic music celebration, a mix of popular music and classical performed in a palace-size 1,250-seat tent set amid high Sierra pines and aspen. Entertaining for the whole family, the....


Festival is the summer highlight of Bear Valley Village on Ebbetts Pass, Highway 4, a National Scenic Byway.

An easy three-hour drive from the Bay Area through the historic Gold Country, Bear Valley Village offers access to an abundance of recreation, including hiking, biking, fishing, kayaking, swimming, boating, camping, mountaineering, and just plain relaxation.

Refreshments and dinner are available at the Festival tent, in Bear Valley Village, and in nearby communities, including Dorrington, Arnold, Murphys (center of the foothills’ wine industry) and Angels Camp.

The Bear Valley Music Festival was created by and continues to be run by dedicated volunteers. The premiere performance of the festival took place on a sunny August afternoon in the Cathedral Lounge of the Bear Valley Lodge in 1968.

Proceeds, then and now, benefit the Festival and help support the Bear Valley Young Musicians Camp, which immerses students 11 to 17 in a week long musical institute.

“This year’s music offered at the festival is the best we’ve seen in many years. The performances are always top-notch, but this year’s selection can’t be beat,” said Randy Hanvelt, president of the Bear Valley Music Festival.

“Bear Valley Rocks” is the theme for the first week, which opens with “Oh, What a Night!” a tribute to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Succeeding evenings include “The Best of Broadway Pops,” “County Line Trio,” “Yesterday – Beatles Tribute Band,” and, at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, a Free Children’s Concert coupled with the immensely popular “Teddy Bear Picnic.”
That evening, Aug. 2, the Bear Valley Festival Orchestra will perform “America’s Favorite Music,” featuring violinist Sandra Cameron and music by Copland, Barber, and Gershwin. Following the performance is the very lively and surprisingly fun auction and picnic style dinner.

The music continues Aug. 3 with the Bear Valley Festival Orchestra offering “Music with a Latin Flair,” featuring Croatian guitarist Zoran Dukic. Chamber music and wine tasting is the Aug. 5.

A change of venue occurs on Wednesday, Aug. 6, when the Festival presents “Local Band Night” in the grand, but cozy Bear Valley Lodge, at the heart of Bear Valley Village. Successive nights that week, back in the tent, feature the jazz group “Hot Club of San Francisco,” returning for it’s second season; the Bear Valley Festival Orchestra with pianist Santiago Rodriquez performing top Russian hits, including Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and two of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, Romeo and Juliet and the ever-popular Overture 1812.

On Saturday, Aug. 9, the Bear Valley Festival Orchestra “Goes Hollywood” with performances of “Victory at Sea” and the theme song Bolero from the movie “10,” and the theme from “Star Wars” highlighted with a dramatic Laser Light Show.

The Festival concludes at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10, with an “audience choice,” a selection of classics from the Festival’s 40 years of performances.

In recognition of its 40th anniversary, the Festival is offering specials on admission prices (see attached), with added value for those who sign in early. For details, visit our web site, www.bearvalleymusic.org or call us at (209) 753-2574.




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