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UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Lake County Wine Studio (LCWS) and artist Diana Liebe are presenting monthly sip and paint parties.
The February wine and watercolor session will be held on Saturday, Feb. 13, from 1:30 to 4 p.m.
Liebe is a former art teacher at both the high school and college levels. She has been very involved in the Lake County Arts Community since moving here from Mendocino County 11 years ago, and actively teaches art workshops around the county.
The class fee of $40 covers all of the painting supplies needed along with Leibe’s step-by-step guidance and a glass of fine Lake County wine.
Reservations are required for each month’s class as participation is limited to 12 people.
A schedule of class dates and time is available at LCWS, www.lakecountywinestudio.com/events.html or by contacting Susan Feiler at 707-293-8752.
The Lake County Wine Studio is located at 9505 Main St. in Upper Lake and is open Monday, 1 to 6:30 p.m.; Tuesday to Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 7 p.m.; and Friday from 1 to 8 p.m.
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UPPER LAKE, Calif. – The Tallman Hotel continues its 2016 series of “Concerts with Conversation” series on Saturday, Feb. 13, with an informal concert by the renowned folk duo of Alisa Fineman and Kimball Hurd.
This Valentine’s weekend tradition at the Tallman starts at 7:30 p.m. in the intimate Meeting House next to the hotel.
“Alisa and Kimball have performed for us in February the past two years,” commented Tallman owner Bernie Butcher. “The audience loved them both times so I jumped at the chance to have them back this year on the eve of Valentine’s Day.”
Based in Santa Cruz, Fineman and Hurd travel extensively and are favorites in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas.
They’ve earned national acclaim for their world music repertoire and songwriting abilities as well as their engaging personalities. Vocal harmonies are nicely blended with instrumental prowess on guitar, mandolin, dobro and banjo.
As a musician and songwriter, Fineman’s inspirations have included Joni Mitchell, Odetta, Willa Cather, Kate Wolf and Mary McCaslin. As with these artists, her repertoire of songs speak of love, of a sense of place, and an appreciation for the earth's beauty and fragility, as well as life's sometimes difficult choices.
Following a recent performance, the Monterey Bay Weekly commented that “Alisa and Kimball are a fresh duo with gorgeous harmonies, an exquisite blend of acoustic instruments and insightful lyrics that speak directly to the heart ... They replenish the world with beauty on every level and are good medicine for the soul.”
This will be the third in the Tallman’s 2015-16 series of Concerts with Conversation.
Coming up on March 5 is a chamber concert headed by oboe virtuoso Laura Reynolds and featuring local artists Beth and Tom Aiken. The series concludes on April 16 with the Macy Blackman Trio featuring Nancy Wright on sax.
Tickets for the Feb. 13 show are priced at $25 plus tax per person and may be purchased by calling the Tallman Hotel at 707-275-2244, Extension 0.
More background information on Fineman and Hurd can be found at www.alisafineman.com/ .
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Bring all your favorite sweethearts, young and old, to the Valentine’s Day Contemporary Chamber Music concert at the Soper Reese on Sunday, Feb. 14, at 3 p.m.
The second in a four-part series produced by Beth Aiken and Jeff Ives, this concert features the haunting harp sounds of San Francisco-based Triskela as well as the saucy Classical Latin beats of Panamericana from the Ukiah area.
All seats are reserved. Tickets are $20 and $15. Children 18 and under are free.
Triskela Harp Trio's sound can be described as “California Celtic,” weaving world folk traditions, early music and original works into a soundscape that transports listeners to an other-worldly place.
Triskela's arrangements for lever harp, voice, Irish whistle, flute and percussion are intricate and refined, yet accessible and always from the heart.
Panamericana is composed of musicians from Lake and Mendocino counties, with Steve Baird , string bass and vocals; Ellie Siegel , mandolin and percussion; Tom Aiken, piano and keyboards; Will Siegel, guitar; and Beth Aiken, oboe and English horn.
Tickets online at www.SoperReeseTheatre.com ; at the theater box office, 275 S. Main St., Lakeport on Fridays, 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; or by phone at 707-263-0577.
Tickets also available at The Travel Center, 1265 S. Main, Lakeport, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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A friend told me recently that he tries to keep in touch with people he's known even though they don't put any effort into doing that themselves.
Here's William Trowbridge, who lives in Missouri, making an effort. His most recent book is “Put This On, Please” (Red Hen Press, 2014).
Long Distance to My Old Coach
The reception's not bad, across 50 years,
though his voice has lost its boot-camp timbre.
He's in his 80's now and, in a recent photo,
looks it, so bald and pale and hard to see behind
the tallowing of flesh. Posing with friends,
he's the only one who has to sit—the man
three of us couldn't pin. "The Hugger,"
they christened him before my class arrived—
for his bearlike shape and his first name, Hugh.
He fostered even us, the lowly track squad.
"Mr. Morrison," I still call him. "You were
the speedster on the team, a flash," he recalls
with a chuckle. That's where his memory of me
fades. And what have I retained of him beyond
the nickname, voice, and burly shape? The rest
could be invention: memory and desire's
sleight-of-hand as we call up those we think
we've known, to chat about the old days
and the weather, bum hips and cholesterol,
our small talk numbing as a dial tone,
serious as prayer.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation ( www.poetryfoundation.org ), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We do not accept unsolicited submissions. Introduction copyright © 2016 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
