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The evening of art and music will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the gallery, 325 N. Main Street, Lakeport.
New works from the following local artists will be introduced: Richard Seisser, landscape scenes in pastel; Ron Snider, figures with the “old master’s touch”; Jim Aldridge, fantastic wildlife photo collection and landscapes ; Walter Dreis, landscape oils, mostly in miniature ; Leonora McKenzie , colorful photo collection of landscapes; Karen Whittington , acrylic wildlife paintings, up close and personal; and Ray Farrow , alkyd and oil landscapes with a knife .
Currently showing at the gallery are Bruce Vandraiss – colored pencil; Terry Durnil – pastels; Wanda Quitiquit – turn-of-the-century Pomo design, hand-painted gourds; Bill Rose – stained glass, fused glass, carved eggs of the ostrich, emu, duck and rhea; Colleen La Plante – artistic, colorful fused glass table settings and more; George Waterstraat – one-of-a kind burl wood (maple, redwood, walnut, bay laurel), redwood, ash vases and bowls; Curtis Westfall – handcrafted, tooled leather goods; and Lois Feron – acrylic on canvas and boards.
There will be finger food, a chance to meet the artists, music by Drew Tritchler and wine poured by Red Lava Wines.
For more information contact the Main Street Gallery at 707-263-6658.
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The event begins at 2 p.m. at the Soper-Reese Community Theatre, 275 S. Main St., Lakeport.
The show has a lineup of all new artists to the festival this year.
The Lake County Singer Songwriters Guild produces this annual event with all proceeds going to support KPFZ 88.1 FM, Lake County Community Radio.
Tickets are $15 for general admission, $12 for KPFZ members and kids under 11 may attend for free.
Tickets are available at Watershed Books in Lakeport, at the theater box office on Thursdays and at www.soperreesetheatre.com.
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- Written by: Katherine Morgenstern
UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Mike Wilhelm & Hired Guns will play at the Blue Wing Saloon on Monday, Aug. 8, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m.
Personnel are regulars Wilhelm and Randy Hare, guitars; Jim Leonardis, tenor sax; Jamie Webber, bass and Slammin' Scott Slagle, drums.
The Blue Wing Saloon & Cafe is located at 9520 Main St., Upper Lake, California.
Reservations are recommended for parties of six or more.
Accommodations are available at the historic Tallman Hotel adjoining the Blue Wing. Telephone is 707-275-2233.
Further information is available at www.bluewingsaloon.com and www.tallmanhotel.com.
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- Written by: Ted Kooser
It is estimated that one out of five Americans enjoys spending time bird watching, or birding, and here’s a poem for some of those people by Kathleen M. McCann, who lives in Massachusetts. I especially like the way she captures the egret’s stealthy motion in the second stanza.
Lone Egret
Classically stagy, goose-neck
elegant, river’s third eye.
Pencil thin head. S
for a throat. Skeleton of a saint.
Plodder, preening posturer.
One foot,
another.
Up from the dank weeds.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2010 by Kathleen M. McCann, whose most recent book of poetry is A Roof Gone to Sky, Carpenter Gothic Publishers, Inc., 2010. Reprinted from South Dakota Review, Vol. 48, no. 1, 2010, by permission of Kathleen M. McCann and the publisher. Introduction copyright ©2011 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.