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NICE, Calif. – The award-winning Featherbed Railroad is hosting an open event featuring the art of Lake County artist Jim Colling on Sunday, May 26.
This special reception, which takes place from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. will feature special food pairing with Lake County wines and supports charities in Lake County.
Colling will be painting “plein aire” during the reception with a wide variety of his exceptional works on display.
Attendees can participate in the wine and appetizer pairing for a $15 donation which includes wine tasting and appetizer pairing.
To round out the afternoon, local musician Michael Barrish will be on hand to make ears happy, too.
Featherbed Railroad is located at 2870 Lakeshore Blvd., Nice.
For more information call Featherbed Railroad at 707-274-8378 or visit www.featherbedrailroad.com .
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UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Lake County Wine Studio (LCWS) is presenting a one-night performance show with guitarist/song writer Jack Williams at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 5.
Williams’ music, rooted in his native South Carolina, was shaped by a 54-year career of playing folk, rock, jazz, R&B, classical and the popular music of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. He is counted among the most dynamic performers on today’s “folk” music circuit.
Williams is an uncommonly unique guitarist, a writer of vivid songs with a strong sense of place, and a storyteller in an old Southern tradition who further illustrates each tale with his guitar.
A sought-after artist on all contemporary acoustic music stages, from coffeehouses and festivals to music halls and city arts stages; from acclaimed appearances at Newport, Boston, Philadelphia, Kerrville, New Bedford SummerFest Folk Festivals, his musicianship, songs, stories and commanding presence have established him as an uncommonly inspiring and influential performer.
Friendships with two great singers had an enormous impact on Williams’ career and on the development of his own singing voice.
In 1973, his relationship with the late Harry Nilsson resulted in an album effort at RCA during an ill-fated period of music industry turmoil.
Until 2002, he sometimes toured as solo accompanist to his friend, the late Mickey Newbury, with whom he co-wrote, co-produced and recorded a live album and video, Nights when I am Sane (reissued as Winter Winds).
From 1958 through 1988, along with playing jazz trumpet and classical guitar, Williams was best known as an electric guitarist in a series of original rock bands and smaller acoustic ensembles.
As a hired-gun guitarist in the Deep South of the Civil Rights-Easy Rider 1960s, Williams’ bands accompanied the likes of John Lee Hooker, Big Joe turner, Jerry Butler, Hank Ballard, the Shirelles and the Del-Vikings.
Enriched from these varied influences, Williams’ music is truly an “All-American Southern” music. In the late 1960s he gave in to his troubadour nature and began performing solo – singing and playing a gut-string guitar and touring from coast to coast.
Lake County Wine Studio is located at 9505 Main St. in Upper Lake.
For reservations and additional information, contact Susan Feiler at 707-275-8030 or 707-293-8752, or e-mail
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LOWER LAKE, Calif. – “Fame,” the Lower Lake High Drama Department's Spring Musical, opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 24.
It will continue at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 25, and will conclude its run with a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee on Sunday, May 26.
The performance will be held in the Lower Lake High Multi-purpose room on Lake Street.
Tickets are available now at the office at Lower Lake High.
Ticket costs are $10 for students, $11 for senior citizens and $12 for adults. Presale tickets are reduced by $2.
For more information call 707-994-6471, Extension 2735.
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- Written by: Ted Kooser
If we haven’t done it ourselves, we’ve known people who have, it seems: taken a vacation mostly to photograph a vacation, not really looking at what’s there, but seeing everything through the viewfinder with the idea of looking at it when they get home.
Wendell Berry of Kentucky, one of our most distinguished poets, captures this perfectly.
The Vacation
Once there was a man who filmed his vacation.
He went flying down the river in his boat
with his video camera to his eye, making
a moving picture of the moving river
upon which his sleek boat moved swiftly
toward the end of his vacation. He showed
his vacation to his camera, which pictured it,
preserving it forever: the river, the trees,
the sky, the light, the bow of his rushing boat
behind which he stood with his camera
preserving his vacation even as he was having it
so that after he had had it he would still
have it. It would be there. With a flick
of a switch, there it would be. But he
would not be in it. He would never be in it.
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. Poem copyright 2012 by Wendell Berry, whose most recent book of poems is New Collected Poems, Counterpoint, 2012. Poem reprinted from New Collected Poems, Counterpoint, 2012, and used with permission of Wendell Berry and the publisher. Introduction copyright 2013 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. They do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.