08/11/2018 - The Dustbowl Revival Returns to Twisted Oak Winery, August 11th Vallecito, CA...The Dustbowl Revival returns to Twisted Oak this Saturday August 11th! Don't they look like a fun bunch? Tickets: https://www.twistedoak.com/dbr — at Twisted Oak Winery...Saturday, August 11th at 7:30pm - live at Twisted Oak Winery in Vallecito! Swing. Hot jazz. Pre-war blues. Bluegrass. Southern soul. New Orleans funk. The Dustbowl Revival is what you could call an American roots orchestra with eight full-time members — and they play it all, mashing the sounds of traditional American music into a genre-hopping, time-bending dance party that coaxes new fire out of familiar coal. This isn’t a throwback band. It’s a celebration of the sounds that have kept America moving for more than a century, performed with all the flair of a medicine show and rooted in the sweat and swagger of a juke joint song swap.
“Best Live Band in LA” - LA Weekly
Advance tickets are only $29 and can be purchased right here online. Concertgoers will be admitted starting at about 6:30pm - please carpool! - the show starts at about 7:30pm. Admission is $10 for children under 12. All proceeds from children's ticket sales will be donated to support music education in Calaveras County.
Tickets will be $35 at the door. Please order now!
A yummy BBQ rib dinner with side salads will be available for purchase for $15. Delicious Twisted Oak Wines, popcorn, cookies, & soft drinks will also be available for purchase. Please do not bring other alcoholic beverages. Our license does not permit it.
Seating is "festival style", first come first served - but all locations are good! Bring your own low back "beach" chairs for up-front seating. Click here for everything you might like to know about our concert venue.
Please note: Advance ticket sales end at 4pm on the day of the event - or when sold out. After that time tickets - if available - will be available at the winery after 6:30pm. In any case, all ticket sales are final and there are no refunds.
The Dustbowl Revival is an Americana Soul band with eight full-time members who mash the sounds of New Orleans funk, bluegrass, soul, pre-war blues, and roots music, into a genre-hopping, time-bending dance party that coaxes new fire out of familiar coal. Dustbowl is touring behind their self-titled, fourth studio album which spent three weeks on Billboard charts, hit #1 on Amazon Americana-Alt-Country, #2 on Amazon Folk, spent 16 weeks on the Americana radio chart peaking in the Top 20, and has spent one straight year on the Folk radio chart.
The band was founded in 2008 in the bohemian enclave of Venice Beach, California. Over the last five years Dustbowl has become known for their free-flowing and joyous live shows, combining their funk rhythm and brass section with a fast-picking string band section - opening for bands as diverse as Lake Street Dive, Trombone Shorty and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, touring China as a guest of the state department and headlining festivals like Delfest, Floydfest, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and recently Bergenfest (Norway) and Tonder Festival (Denmark). The band received a big wave of attention with their music video that featured famous actor Dick Van Dyke for "Never Had to Go", which garnered over 10 million cumulative views. That video is now airing in an HBO Doc titled "If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast" starring Jerry Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, and Dick Van Dyke.
While the band has been known for their old-time and bluegrass roots, they have departed from those styles and evolved more into modern soul music. Now, with Producer Grammy Award-winning Ted Hutt (Old Crow Medicine Show, Gaslight Anthem, Dropkick Murphys) who collaborated on the recent album, Dustbowl Revival brings it on, in the good company of neo-Soul contemporaries such as Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats and St. Paul & The Broken Bones. The album delivers eleven hot tracks, dominated by love-triangle funk & soul, tenderized with a nod to the unlikely possibility of true love – i.e. "Honey I Love You", with Grammy Award-winning blues artist Keb’ Mo’ sitting in.
This exhilarating new sound jumps out on the album’s opening tracks, “Call My Name” and “If You Could See Me Now.” Drummer Joshlyn Heffernan and bassist James Klopfleisch lay down a righteous groove that trumpeter Matt Rubin and trombonist Ulf Bjorlin supercharge with their big blasts of horns. This Stax-style soul builds to a pair of showstoppers: “Good Egg” and “The Story.” The former is a dynamic number that showcases Liz Beebe’s sexy, full-throttled vocals as well as Bjorlin’s dirty trombone solo. On “The Story,” Beebe teams with band founder Zach Lupetin for an emotionally charged love song that features some infectious interplay between the horn players and the string-men (mandolinist Daniel Mark and fiddler Connor Vance).
From an Outside Lands Music Festival review, Rob Sheffield, in Rolling Stone, hailed them as a great band “whose Americana swing was so fun I went back to see them again the next day.”
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08/04/2018 - Freight with Jimbo Scott and Grover Anderson at Brice Station August 4th Murphys, CA...“Jimbo Scott and Grover Anderson are two northern California singer/songwriters who have joined forces for this folk-based act. “Freight” honors the famed Freight & Salvage of Berkeley, California, where they met at a 2011 Open Mic… As Freight, Jimbo & Grover put on a show much greater than the sum of their parts. Joined in a full band setting by Josh Certo and Marshall Henry, as well as Jimbo’s impressive beard, their harmonies and energy are lighting up the Northern California music scene.” – from the Freight website
Doors open at 5:30pm & Concert is 7pm on August 4th
Since the days of original owner, Durant Brice’s first stage stop, Brice Station has been a must see destination for travelers from all around the world. And nothing has changed! With the addition of the tasting room to the property in 2003 the old stage stop added wine tasting to the already impressive list of things to see and do including: Pottery, Fine Art, Blacksmithing, Mechanical Printing, Livestock, Organic Gardens and Impressive Vistas.
09/29/2018 - Watertown Shootout & Trap Fundraiser Join us for our 2nd Annual Watertown Shootout on Saturday, September 29th at the Stockton/Waterloo Gun and Bocce Club!
Stockton Gun and Bocce Club
4343 N Ashley Ln
Stockton, CA
Registration starts at 8am and trap shooting starts at 9am.
PRE-REGISTRATION IS DUE BY September 1, 2018. Registration fee is 150.00 per person - AND includes:
ammo, targets, breakfast, lunch, event T-shirt.
Shoot 2 Rounds, 25 clays each round; teams/squads of 5
Adults and youth welcome
Prizes, awards, food, and fun!
Proceeds from this fundraiser will benefit Foothill Communities Park and Recreation and their project of the Watertown Rd Gun Range & Shooting Center. Foothill Communities Park and Rec is a 501(c)3 # 68-0445889. For more information, contact foothillparks@gmail.com or (209) 736-9663
07/29/2018 - Foreigner with Special Guests Jason Bonham & Queensryche at Ironstone Murphys, CA...On September 13th, 2017 Foreigner’s catalog sales were celebrated in Business Insider magazine as hitting the Top 40 among the Best Selling Music Artists of All Time. The Beatles were justifiably #1, but Foreigner came in ahead of Britney Spears, Bob Dylan, Phil Collins, Prince, Queen, Bon Jovi and Def Leppard. With ten multi-platinum albums and sixteen Top 30 hits, Foreigner is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world with a formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel sold-out tours and album sales, now exceeding 75 million.
Responsible for some of rock and roll’s most enduring anthems including Juke Box Hero, Cold As Ice, Hot Blooded, Waiting For A Girl Like You, Feels Like The First Time, Urgent, Head Games, Say You Will, Dirty White Boy, Long, Long Way From Home and the worldwide #1 hit, I Want To Know What Love Is, Foreigner continues to rock the charts more than 40 years into the game with massive airplay and continued Billboard Top 200 album success. Foreigner also features strongly in every category in Billboard’s Greatest of All Time listing. Catalog sales often eclipse those of Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Aerosmith and most of their Classic Rock peers. (Source: Nielsen SoundScan week ending 8/3/17).
07/28/2018 - Willie Nelson & Family & Alison Krauss at Ironstone Murphys, CA...Willie Nelson & Family & Alison Krauss at Ironstone. Willie Nelson needs no introduction and a bit more about Alison Krauss. Windy City, her latest solo album, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums and Top Bluegrass Albums charts and received two Grammy nominations. The album was produced by Buddy Cannon, whose vocal harmonies Krauss grew up listening to and were the soundtrack to her childhood. “Buddy sang harmonies on everything back then,” Krauss says. She also reveals of Cannon, “I don’t do something unless I feel like I’m called to do it. That’s what I felt like, so I honored it. It’s like the same feeling of when you know something is right musically, with a song or a batch of songs – the same feeling, but this was attached to a person instead of a batch of songs.”
Born in Champaign, Illinois, Alison Krauss grew up listening to everything from folk to opera to pop and rock music, but quickly fell in love with bluegrass when she began playing fiddle at the age of five. Shortly after, Krauss began entering fiddle contests. At the age of 14, Rounder Records signed her to her first record deal and she went on to release her debut solo album two years later. The accomplished bluegrass musician became a member of the Grand Ole Opry at age 21.
Since 1985, Krauss has released 14 albums including five solo, seven with her longtime band and musical collaborators Union Station, and the Robert Plant collaboration Raising Sand, which was certified platinum and won five Grammys, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year. She’s sold more than 12 million records to date, and her honors include 27 Grammys, nine Country Music Association awards, 14 International Bluegrass Music Association Awards, two Academy of Country Music Awards and two Gospel Music Association awards.
07/27/2018 - Twisted's Friday Night Live Music, Pizza & Wine! Murphys, CA...Come to our Enchanted Garden behind our Tasting Room at 363 Main Street in Murphys. We've got George Haskell playing guitar & singing along with delicious wood-fired pizzas by Pizza B Goode! We make yummy wines from Tempranillo, Viognier, Mourvedre... Visit us! http://www.twistedoak.com/
Twisted Oak Winery located in the Sierra Foothills of Calaveras County, California. We make wines using grapes like Tempranillo, Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre, Viognier, Verdelho, Marsanne and Roussanne grapes - basically, Rhone and Spanish style wines. And we are whacko. Seriously. Total whack jobs.
Our Winery Tasting Room in Vallecito is open every day 11:30 to 5:30, Saturdays and Sundays 10:30 to 5:30.
Our Murphys Tasting Room at 363 Main Street is open Mondays and Fridays 11:30 to 5:30, Saturdays and Sundays 10:30 to 5:30.
07/25/2018 - CONCERT IN THE PARK AT BISTRO ESPRESSO BISTRO ESPRESSO is hosting "Random Strangers" band this Saturday night from 7-10pm. The Bistro features an outdoor bar serving a variety of beers and wines. The restauramt will be serving up perfectly seasoned Harrison Ranch Beef Burger Combo with Fries and Appetizers during the event. Bring your lawn chairs and dancing shoes! Ice cream, draft beers, coffee drinks and smoothies will alsobe available during the event.
https://www.facebook.com/events/158176818204627/
Check out Random Strangers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZBbKCsIF1M
07/21/2018 - Blow Daddy at Brice Station Murphys, CA...High energy, horn driven dance music from all eras and genres. From 1940’s swing and jazz – to contemporary R&B and pop – Any tune that grooves! – from the Blow Daddy Facebook page
July 21st at 7pm
01/07/2018 - Guided Tours of Ironstone Vineyards Murphys, CA...Take a complimentary guided tour beginning in the tasting room (offered Wednesday – Sunday only) at 1:30 pm. Or take the self-guided tour. Print out the self-guided map here. Ironstone is open Daily from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Closed: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Day
