Life & Style

04/06/2024 - The 2024 Deputy Sheriff's Association Dinner Dance!
San Andreas, CA...The 2024 Deputy Sheriff's Association Dinner Dance! An event not to be missed...

04/07/2024 - History of Photography Lecture @ Angels Camp Museum ~ CVB Feature
Angels Camp, CA...Kristopher Mandell has an international art education. He received his BA in Art History while at San Francisco State University where he studied abroad at the University of Amsterdam and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia. He received his MA in Art History from John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. He is currently the Executive Director of the Calaveras County Historical Society and the Director of the County Museums located in San Andreas.



Photography During the Gold Rush

During the California Gold Rush period in the mid-19th century, photography played a crucial role in documenting the dramatic social and environmental transformations of the time.

In my lecture, I will be showcasing a variety of photographic examples that illustrate the diverse uses of photography during this period. This will include daguerreotypes and tintypes capturing the faces of gold miners and settlers, providing a glimpse into their daily lives and struggles.

Additionally, I’ll explore photographs depicting the booming mining towns, bustling with activity and commerce, as well as images of the rugged landscapes that drew thousands in search of fortune. Overall, these photographic examples will offer insight into the multifaceted ways in which photography both documented and shaped the narrative of the California Gold Rush era.

We hope you’ll join us Sunday, April 7th at the Angels Camp Museum Carriage House!

Source = Calaveras Visitors Bureau

TIME
April, 7th @ 1:30 pm

LOCATION
Angels Camp Museum

753 S. Main Street, Angels Camp CA 95222

04/03/2024 - Parks Master Plan Community Meetings Start Tonight! Your Input is Needed!
San Andreas, CA...Outdoor spaces and amenities for all ages are valuable and essential to Calaveras County. In September of 2023 Calaveras County contracted with O’Dell Engineering to create the County’s first Parks Master Plan. A Parks Master Plan provides an abundance of benefits to a community including, but not limited to; assessing current and future recreation needs of the community, establishing a long-range vision, prioritizing capital improvement projects, strategizing to fill gaps and reduce redundancies within the parks systems, building community support, promoting new ideas and partnerships, and encouraging new opportunities for future development.



 

The Parks Master Plan will encompass the following County parks and facilities:

Alex Quinones Park, San Andreas (leased to San Andreas Recreation and Park District -SARPD)
Nielson Park, San Andreas (leased to San Andreas Recreation and Park District – SARPD)
Mountain Ranch Community Park (leased to Mountain Ranch Community Club – MRCC)
Murphys Park, Murphys (leased to Murphys Community Club – MCC)
Rail Road Flat Community Center, Rail Road Flat (leased to Blue Mountain Community Renewal Council – BMCRC)
A comprehensive plan is backed by the community. Calaveras’ Parks Master planning will engage residents throughout the County through several community meetings and an online survey. The goal of the community meetings and online survey is to analyze the current programs and facilities and to consider the community needs and aspirations.

The Community Meetings will be held at 5:30 PM on the following dates:

Wednesday April 3rd, 2024, Calaveras County Firehouse, 6501 Jenny Lind Rd Valley Springs
Thursday April 4th, 2024, Governor’s Mansion, 101 Stone Street Copperopolis
Thursday April 11th, 2024, West Point Community Hall 22283 State Route 26 West Point
Wednesday April 17th, 2024, Native Sons Hall 389 Main Street Murphy’s
Thursday April 18th, 2024, Jenny Lind Veterans Memorial 300 W Daphne Street Valley Springs
If you cannot attend any of the community meetings, an online survey will be available 3/29/24 through 4/25/24, the link can be found on our website. If you have any questions, you can email the County at ParksandRec@calaverascounty.gov

08/31/2024 - Steve Miller Band Returns to Ironstone on August 31st
Murphys, CA...Steve Miller Band has been announced to play Ironstone Amphitheatre in Murphys, CA as part of the Black Oak Casino Summer Concert Series on Saturday, August 31st. Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 5 at 10am through Ticketmaster.


Steve Miller has been a monumental presence on the American music scene for more than half a century – and, in the course of that era, his releases have sold tens of millions of records and been streamed billions of times. Miller’s Greatest Hits 1974-78 received the RIAA Diamond Award with sales of more than fifteen million copies. It is among the 25 best-selling albums of all time.

At the start of his career, Miller was a mainstay of the San Francisco music scene that upended American culture in the late ’60s. With albums like Children of the Future, Sailor and Brave New World, Miller perfected a psychedelic blues sound that drew on the deepest sources of American roots music and simultaneously articulated a compelling vision of what music – and, indeed, society – could be in the years to come.

Then, beginning in the ‘70s, Miller crafted a brand of pure pop that was smart, polished, exciting and irresistible – and that dominated radio in a way that few artists have ever managed. Hit followed hit in what seemed like an endless flow: “The Joker,” “Take the Money and Run,” “Rock’n Me,” “Fly Like an Eagle,” “Jet Airliner,” “Jungle Love,” “Swingtown” and “Abracadabra,” among them. To this day, those songs are instantly recognizable the moment you hear them – and impossible not to sing along with. Their hooks are the very definition of indelible.

Running through Miller’s distinctive catalog is a combination of virtuosity and song craft. And that’s no accident. His parents were jazz aficionados – not to mention close friends of Les Paul and Mary Ford – so, as a budding guitarist, Miller absorbed valuable lessons from that musical tradition. When the family moved to Texas, Miller deepened his education in the blues, eventually relocating to Chicago, where he played with Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, James Cotton and Paul Butterfield. That range of sources informs his music to this day.

In recent years, Miller has fully immersed himself in the blues and its many byways. As he has always done, he continues to find creative outlets for the full panoply of his musical passions. On his successful tours with the Steve Miller Band, he complements the commercial peaks of his extensive catalogue with lesser-known songs that expand his fans’ awareness of the range of his work.

As a member of the Board of Directors at Jazz at Lincoln Center and at the request of Wynton Marsalis, he is defining a blues pedagogy for Jazz at Lincoln Center and has curated and headlined a series of shows that explore themes like the bridge from blues to jazz in the music of guitar great T-Bone Walker; the distinctive sounds of the blues triangle of Memphis, Texas and Chicago; the resonances between the singular musical creations of Ma Rainey and Miles Davis; the deep American roots music of Appalachia; Cannonball Adderley and the Blues; Steve Miller on Steve Miller which explored his own influences and the music they inspired and most recently the Future of the Blues.

He is also a member of the visiting committee of the Department of Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Indeed, five of his guitars were displayed in “Play It Loud: The Instruments of Rock and Roll,” a groundbreaking exhibition at the Met that ran for six months in 2019. Miller was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016 and into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2022.

He has recently begun to open his vaults for the first time, releasing the acclaimed Welcome to the Vault box set in 2019 and Breaking Ground Live! August 3, 1977 in 2021. 2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the release of the chart-topping, RIAA Platinum-certified studio album The Joker. To celebrate this important moment in his career, Steve Miller released a groundbreaking new box set chronicling the extraordinary artistic journey that led to its creation: J50: The Evolution of The Joker.

With each listen the beauty and immediacy of Miller’s work, whether at its most playful or most serious, is palpable. As always, whether he was riding the top of the charts or traveling the endless blue highways of American music, you can hear him playing and singing with conviction and precision, passion and eloquence, making music that is at once immediately accessible, thrillingly alive in the present, respectful of the past, and more than able to stand the test of time.

Get your tickets to see Steve Miller Band Live at Ironstone Amphitheatre on August 31st this Friday, April 5th at 10am through Ticketmaster.

03/30/2024 - The 14th Annual Barry Young Memorial Crab Feed
Mokelumne Hill, CA...Presented by Mokelumne Hill Veterans Memorial District. Saturday, 5:30pm. Moke Hill Town Hall. Northern California’s finest Dungeness crab! Tickets: $65 per plate & sides. Wine/Beer/Spirits available. Live Auction featuring Mokelumne Hill’s finest desserts!


Tickets are available at Moke Hill Nuts & Candies/Moke-A-Java, 2092868064
or contact Mike Moran 209 283-4469, Patty Yocom 209 286-1160

Info: mokehillvets.specialdistrict.org fb: Mokelumne Hill Veterans Memorial District.

TIME
(Saturday) 5:30 pm

LOCATION
Mokelumne Hill Town Hall

8283 Main Street, Mokelumne Hill, CA 95245