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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Arts Council's Main Street Gallery will host an artists' reception and First Friday Fling on Friday Dec. 6.
The events will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the gallery, located at 325 N. Main St. in Lakeport.
This month’s exhibit features beautiful quilted hanging art by Elsa Mayer and whimsical paper mache art by Ruth Morgan plus many new artists with varying mediums represented: acrylics, oils, pencil and watercolor. Come see the whimsical, abstract and realist art work of local artists.
Holiday gifting items are in abundance from original art and prints, to homemade jams and bakery.
Wearable art, a variety of jewelry, pottery, beautifully etched glass ware and many other gift items are available.
Enjoy the fine wines of Noggle Winery while listening to the talented Brittian Family as they entertain on a variety of instruments.
Stop by Friday and join the arts council for its monthly festivities and meet the artists.
For more information, please call 707-263-6658.
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UPPER LAKE, Calif. – On Sunday, Dec. 15, the Tallman Hotel/Blue Wing Saloon will feature The Dorian May Trio for a very special afternoon jazz brunch.
Dorian May, premier local bandleader, teacher and keyboard artist, his wife Dorothea May on upright bass and Tom Rickard on drums form the area’s top up and coming jazz trio.
Playing in a classic jazz piano trio style reminiscent of Oscar Peterson, the trio can be heard performing throughout Mendocino and Sonoma Counties.
Enjoy a great brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. with live music inside or out in the garden in good weather from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Blue Wing Saloon is located at 9550 Main St. in Upper Lake, next door to the Tallman Hotel.
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UPPER LAKE, Calif. – In the first of its annual winter/spring “Concerts with Conversation” series, the Tallman Hotel in Upper Lake will host an informal concert by Nashville-based bluegrass guitarists Rob Ickes and Jim Hurst in the Meeting House next to the hotel at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10.
“We are fortunate that Rob and Jim have again scheduled a stop at the Tallman on their west coast tour,” commented Tallman owner Bernie Butcher. “They put on a tremendous show for us about this time last year. It was so popular that we were able to schedule a second followup event for the next night.”
Rob Ickes is a Northern California native and brother of local banjo master and bluegrass promoter Pat Ickes. He moved to Nashville in 1992 and joined Blue Highway as a founding member in 1994. He is recognized as one of the most innovative Dobro players on the music scene today, recording with his own band and as a sought-after session player.
Ickes won the International Bluegrass Music Association's Dobro Player of the Year award for a record-setting fifteenth time in 2013. He is the most recognized instrumentalist in the history of the IBMA awards.
Jim Hurst is also a multi IBMA award-winner. His vocal talents, multi-instrumentalist abilities and well-rounded stylings make him one of the most popular musicians in Nashville. In addition to his own recordings, Hurst has supported the recording sessions of some of the best artists in country and bluegrass music.
One critic who saw Hurst and Ickes perform together in Nashville commented that “their ability to follow each other through an unannounced maze of spaghetti-like improvisation is beyond normal human capability.” Good videos of the two playing together are available on YouTube.
Subject to limited availability, concert tickets at $25 plus tax may be purchased by calling the Tallman Hotel at 707-275-2244, Extension 0.
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The bread of life, well, what is it, anyway? Family, community, faith? Here’s a lovely reminiscence about the way in which bread brings us together, by Richard Levine, who lives in Brooklyn.
Bread
Each night, in a space he’d make
between waking and purpose,
my grandfather donned his one
suit, in our still dark house, and drove
through Brooklyn’s deserted streets
following trolley tracks to the bakery.
There he’d change into white
linen work clothes and cap,
and in the absence of women,
his hands were both loving, well
into dawn and throughout the day—
kneading, rolling out, shaping
each astonishing moment
of yeasty predictability
in that windowless world lit
by slightly swaying naked bulbs,
where the shadows staggered, woozy
with the aromatic warmth of the work.
Then, the suit and drive, again.
At our table, graced by a loaf
that steamed when we sliced it,
softened the butter and leavened
the very air we’d breathe,
he’d count us blessed.
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 Richard Levine from his most recent book of poems, A Tide of a Hundred Mountains, Bright Hill Press, 2012. Reprinted by permission of Richard Levine 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. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.