LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Arts Council is presenting the nineteenth edition of the Winter Music Fest on Saturday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m., and on Sunday, Feb. 27, at 2 p.m.

The WMF is a fundraiser for the Lake County Arts Council.

Tickets for this program are now available at the Main Street Gallery, 325 N. Main St., Lakeport, at the Soper-Reese Theatre box office at 275 S. Main St., Catfish Books in Lakeport, Lower Lake Coffee and online from www.soperreesetheatre.com.

The reserved seats are available only from the Soper-Reese Theatre’s box office, 707-263-0577, or from the Web site.

This year’s festival will showcase Lake County musicians, some of whom have been on this stage before, and some remarkable new talents as well.

For the last few years, the artists that applied for the show included dancers, jugglers, poets, actors and yo-yo masters, so the Arts Council decided to put on a show modeled on vaudeville.

This year, the talent that presented itself was exclusively musical. While the music is of varied styles, the vaudeville format has been dropped for this show. It will be in a concert format, and we will be lead through it by that splendid MC, Bert Hutt.

The Soper-Reese Community Theatre is an ideal venue for this kind of presentation. Every one of its comfortable seats has an unobstructed view of the stage and the sound system fills the auditorium.

Between the excellent acoustics of the hall and the professional mixing, no music is lost anywhere in the theater. While this year’s Music Fest has no rock-n-roll or country bands, the Soper-Reese can make even such intense music as that a pleasurable experience.

The only large musical groups that will be performing at this year’s Winter Music Fest will be the Mendo Lake Singers and Sax-O-Rama, very experienced entertainers in this area, and never hard to listen to.

That could be said for all the acts in this year’s entertainment. Melodious, intelligent, experienced, interesting, moving … these musicians are all that, but never hard to listen to.

Not every Music Fest can claim that, by any means, but this year one thing we can count on is that every member of the audience will leave feeling energized and positive.

For more information, contact the Lake County Arts Council by phone at 707-263-6658, or on the Web site at www.lakecountyartscouncil.com, or contact the Soper-Reese Community Theatre, 707-263-0577.