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Mariposa County / Mariposa Area:

Come out to Historic Coulterville and re-live a moment of history.
Every Saturday between April and September,
watch the Coulterville Claim Jumpers as they recreate a shootout on
Main Street in Coulterville beginning at 1:00 p.m.

 
We are holding a Rummage Sale this Saturday and Sunday  (August 23, 24) from 8-4 pm. to benefit two local non-profit organizations. The first organization is CASA, Court Appointed Special Advocates.   CASA is made up of specially trained volunteers, who assist the children who are in the Dependency Court system  (they have been taken by CPS)  The second organization is MMASH. Mariposa Mothers Against School Hazing.  This is an antibullying group, also made up of volunteers.  Both organizations are so important to the children of Mariposa.  
 
The sale will be at 3288 Highway 140 in Catheys Valley, on the Guadalupe Grade at Tanager Lane.  


The 2008 MCHS Grizzly Boosters Club membership has begun.   
New Grizzly Boosters club members signed up during the MCHS Freshman orientation on August 18th.   For anyone interested and missed the sign up, another opportunity is scheduled during the MCHS Back to School Night scheduled for August 27, 2008 Wednesday at 5:30pm.  The membership drive is one of the fundraising events of this organization and selling the Grizzly Gear is another source.  Grizzly Gear will also be available at this event.  The MCHS Cheer will provide the Taco salad meal with a $5.00 donation. 

The MCHS Grizzly Boosters support many MCHS programs such as Associated Student Body activities, Academic Letter Program, Sober Grad Night, Sports Gate Duty, Sports Banquets, other academic programs.  The Grizzly Boosters meet every first Monday of the month unless it is a holiday which then moves to the second Monday.  The September meeting will be held on September 8 at 5:30pm Room 28.  For any questions, please call Kim at (209) 742-2190

 

  

Mariposa Evenings

 Friday and Saturday Nights
Times: 7PM
Location:  Mariposa County Arts Park

Free music performances at Mariposa County Arts Park, located between 4th & 5th Street on Hwy 140 in downtown Mariposa.
Bring a chair or blanket and find a place on the lawn.

 
 


Pacific Vibe
 Pacific Vibe is a jazz group led by Rudy Merino, Merced’s godfather of Jazz, gathering the coolest and hippest musicians from throughout Central California for a night of jazzy salutations and explorations. Merino’s rich history of playing drums behind many jazz greats, and presenting top acts at festivals and his own Rudy’s Jazz & Blues Club allows him to draw from a huge pool of talent. The Aug. 22nd show will feature Bear Valley’s own Tim Hagar on guitar, Mariposa’s hardest working bass player Mike Simpson, and Jorge Espinosa on percussion.



Mike Hammar & the Nails




 

Summer Music and Mural Dedication

        The Mariposa County Arts Council & it’s many fine sponsors presents it’s final weekend of Cousin Jack’s Mariposa Evenings, with a celebration and mural dedication with the jazz stylings of Pacific Vibe on Fri. Aug. 22nd, and the powerful blues of Mike Hammar & the Nails on Sat. Aug. 23rd.

The August 23rd Mural Dedication will bring people together for a celebration of collaboration among community-based organizations, the County and community residents, who worked together to create a beautiful public art on the wall that stands today as a symbol of transformation, cultural heritage and the majestic geography of Mariposa County. 

        An evening of mighty blues can be enjoyed on Sat. when Mike Hammar & the Nails take the stage for the fourth year running. This entertaining blues act from the San Joaquin Valley add a unique touch of rockin’ soul to this classic form of American music, playing with unbridled energy. Oklahoma born, Native American Mike Hammar fronts the band with blistering guitar playing and soulful vocals, writing many of the songs the band performs, always paying respect to the roots of the blues. Mike is no stranger to Mariposa, with many ties to the area, having grown up here. The Mariposa Indian Clinic is dedicated to his revered father, Mike Hammar Sr., and his great- grandfather Archie Leonard was one of the first Yosemite Rangers and escorted Teddy Roosevelt around Yosemite before it became a National Park. Joining Hammar on Sat. night will be Mariposa’s own Allan Carroll (“Flipside” & “Lost in the Shuffle”) on the Hammond B-3 organ; veteran bluesman “Harmonica Jim” Pedersen on harp; drummer Greg Merino (son of jazz legend, playing the night before – Rudy Merino) and bassist Sparky Gehres (bassist for Virgin Records recording artist Steve Johnson) make up the all important rhythm section. Stop and say hello to Hammar’s mother, (still living here) and witness why their shows have had the highest attendance of the past seasons.

Last fall the Mariposa County Art Council was asked by Ron Willey to facilitate the acquisition of a mural on the Pizza Factory building in downtown Mariposa.  For the past couple of years, as residents and commuters have driven down or walked along Hwy 140 between 4th and 5th Streets, past the Mariposa County Art Park, they have noticed a large blank wall on the east side of the Pizza Factory.  The wall, constructed after the collapse of the Trabuco Warehouse in 2006 stands 30’ tall and 90’ long.  Mural artist, Colleen Goodwin-Chronister was commissioned to create the mural by Ron Willey, owner of the Pizza Factory.  Depicted through flag representations, Yosemite stands tall in Mariposa, California of the United States of America.  A butterfly, or “Mariposas”, was named by Spanish explorers in 1806.  A Yosemite Native American, the Courthouse erected in 1854 and a gold prospector remind us of the heritage of historic downtown Mariposa.   The mural is sixteen feet tall and thirty-two feet wide.   

Join us in appreciation of the commitment, dedication and collaboration that occurred to make this mural possible.  Through unique partnerships, today we have an historic landmark of Mariposa County history and community pride.

        This weekend will culminate the music series for the 2008 season of Cousin Jack’s Mariposa Evenings, and the Mariposa Arts Council along with Ronnie Sweeting, coordinator and host, thank the many sponsors that help make these shows possible by their generous support; the music groups that come from near and far to play & sing; and the great audiences that show up and demonstrate their appreciation with applause and tips for the bands. Thank you all & see you next year. 

All performances for Mariposa Evenings will be held at the Mariposa County Arts Park, located on Hwy. 140, between 4th and 5th Streets, in downtown Mariposa.  There is ample, free parking on 5th Street, just a pleasant stroll along the Creek Walkway to the park.  Mariposa Evenings is made available through generous donations by local businesses, which are featured in our Mariposa Evenings program.  Musicians donate their performances to the community, so tips are encouraged and appreciated.  This activity is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.  Each performance will begin at 7:00 pm.  Please bring a lawn chair or blanket for park seating.  For more information call the Mariposa County Arts Council at (209) 966-3155, P.O. Box 2134 Mariposa CA 95338, Fax (209) 966-3962, email: info@arts-mariposa.org, or visit us on the web at: arts-mariposa.org.

 
 

 

  


Sixth Street Cinema:
 

FRIDAY AUGUST 22 & SATURDAY AUGUST 23 — 7:30 p.m. WORLD CINEMA
Shine A Light $3 members • $7 non-members • 122 minutes
Review by Roger Ebert. Martin Scorsese's Shine A Light may be the most intimate documentary ever made about a live rock 'n' roll concert. Certainly it has the best coverage of the performances onstage. Working with cinematographer Robert Richardson, Scorsese deployed a team of nine other cinematographers, all of them Oscar winners or nominees, to blanket a live September 2006 Rolling Stones concert at the smallish Beacon Theatre in New York. The result is startling immediacy, a merging of image and music, edited in step with the performance. In brief black-and-white footage opening the film, we see Scorsese drawing up shot charts to diagram the order of the songs, the order of the solos, and who would be where on the stage. This was the same breakdown approach he used with his doc The Last Waltz (1978), which would hopefully enable him to call his shots through earpieces of the cameramen, as directors of live TV did in the early days. The challenge this time was that Mick Jagger toyed with the list in endless indecision; we look over his shoulder at titles scratched out and penciled back in, and hear him mention casually that of course the whole set might be changed on the spot. Apparently after playing together for 45 years, the Stones communicate their running order telepathically. In a sense, this movie marks where Scorsese came in. I remember visiting him in the post-production loft for Woodstock in 1970, where he was part of team led by Thelma Schoonmaker who were combining footage from multiple cameras into a split-screen approach that could show as many as three or four images at once. But the Woodstock footage they had to work with was captured on the run, while The Last Waltz had a shot map and outline, at least in Scorsese's mind.

Shine A Light combines his foreknowledge with the versatility of great cinematographers so that it essentially seems to have a camera in the right place at the right time for every element of the performance. It helped, too, that the Stones' songs had been absorbed by Scorsese into his very being. "Let me put it this way," he said in a revealing August 2007 interview with Craig McLean of the London Observer. "Between '63 and '70, those seven years, the music that they made I found myself gravitating to. I would listen to it a great deal. And ultimately, that fueled movies like Mean Streets and later pictures of mine, Raging Bull to a certain extent and certainly Good Fellas and Casino and other pictures over the years." Mentioning that he had not seen the Stones in concert until late 1969, he said the music itself was ingrained: "The actual visualization of sequences and scenes in Mean Streets comes from a lot of their music, of living with their music and listening to it. Not just the songs I use in the film. No, it's about the tone and the mood of their music, their attitude. I just kept listening to it. Then I kept imagining scenes in movies. And interpreting. It's not just imagining a scene of a tracking shot around a person's face or a car scene. It really was [taking] events and incidents in my own life that I was trying to interpret into filmmaking, to a story, a narrative. And it seemed that those songs inspired me to do that, to find a way to put those stories on film. So the debt is incalculable. I don't know what to say. In my mind, I did this film 40 years ago. It just happened to get around to being filmed right now." The result is one of the most engaged documentaries you could imagine. The cameras do not simply regard the performances; in a sense, the cameras are performers too, in the way shots are cut together by Scorsese and his editor, David Tedeschi (who also edited The Last Waltz).

Even in their 60s, the Stones are the most physical and exuberant of bands. Compared to them, watching the movements of many new young bands on Leno, Letterman and SNL is like watching jerky marionettes. Jagger has never used the mechanical moves employed by many lead singers; he is a dancer and an acrobat, and a conductor, too, who uses his body to conduct the audience. In counterpoint, Keith Richards and Ron Wood are loose-limbed, angular, like way-cool backup dancers. Richards in particular seems to defy gravity as he leans so far over; there's a moment in rehearsal when he tells Scorsese he wants to show him something, and leans down to show that you can see the mallet of Charlie Watts' bass drum, visible as it hits the front drumhead. "I can see that because I'm down there," he explains. The unmistakable fact is that the Stones love performing. Watch Ron lean an arm on Keith's shoulder during one shared riff. Watch the droll hints of irony, pleasure, quizzical reaction shots, which so subtly move across their seemingly passive faces. Notice that Keith does not smoke onstage not simply to be smoking, but to use the smoke cloud, brilliant in the spotlights, as a performance element. He knows what he's doing. And then see it all brought together and tied tight in the remarkably acrobatic choreography of Jagger's performance. I've seen the Stones in Chicago in venues as large as the United Center and as small as the Double Door, but I've never experienced them this way, because the cameras are as privileged as the performers onstage. And the music? What do I have to say about the music? What is there left to say about the music? In that interview, Scorsese said, "'Sympathy for the Devil' became this score for our lives. It was everywhere at that time, it was being played on the radio. When 'Satisfaction' starts, the authority of the guitar riff that begins it is something that became anthemic." I think there is nothing useful for me to say about the music, except that if you have been interested enough to read this far, you already know all about it, and all I can usefully describe is the experience of seeing it in this film.

 
Rated PG-13.

Official film website: Shine A Light
 


 


Eastern Madera County / Oakhurst Area/North Fork:

 

Aug 23 Curtis Kirk Memorial Potluck, 11:30am, The Buckhorn Saloon, Info: 877-8700 and The Buckhorn Saloon Website


Calaveras County / Angels Camp

 

Aug
20 August, 2008 to
30 August, 2008
'Outrageous and/or Provocative' Exhibit, Calaveras Art Gallery, San Andreas- 209-754-1774
20 August, 2008 to
24 August, 2008
Drama 'Unforgettable' Black Bart Theatre Murphys 209-532-5463
20 August, 2008
Music in the Park, Cedar Center, Arnold- 209-754-1774
20 August, 2008
Murphys Historic Hotel Anniversary, Murphys- 209-728-3444
20 August, 2008
Farmers Market in San Andreas, Government Center- 209-754-4856
21 August, 2008
Cross Country Meet, Frogtown- 209-736-2561
21 August, 2008
Girls Night Out at the Murphys Historic Hotel-209-728-3444
21 August, 2008
Chamber of Commerce Quarterly Business Luncheon, Camps Restaurant- 209-736-2580
21 August, 2008
Music in the Gazebo, Copperopolis Town Square- 209-785-8553
22 August, 2008
4th Annual Angels Camp Centennial Rotary Club/ Calaveras Enterprise Golf Tournament, Greenhorn Creek- 209-754-3861
22 August, 2008
Fresh Farmers Market-Angels Camp-209-736-1333
23 August, 2008
Beef in the Barrel & Car Show-Mountain Ranch Community Park 209-754-4806
23 August, 2008
Fireman's Fun Day, Utica Park in Angels Camp- 209-736-4081
23 August, 2008 to
24 August, 2008
Junior Bull Riding, Frogtown- 209-736-2561
23 August, 2008
Angels-Murphys Rotary Club Shrimp Feed, Murphys Community Park- 209-728-0183
23 August, 2008
Live at the Lube, Dorrington Hotel- 209-795-5800
23 August, 2008
Chains Required Concert, Cedar Center- 209-588-0999
23 August, 2008
Man Eating Bugs! Program at New Melones- 209-536-9543
24 August, 2008
Frog Jump at Fireman's Funday, Frogtown- 209-736-2561
24 August, 2008
Gold Mining: The Race to Ravenous Ruin Hike at New Melones- 209-536-9543
24 August, 2008
An Afternoon of Cowboy Poetry, Greenhorn Creek- 209-754-6006

Tuolumne County / Sonora Area / Groveland Area

Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2008: Guns of a Chosen Few ~ Old West Reenactments - 3rd Sunday Each Month - (209) 743-8116
Apr 1 - Oct 1, 2008: Railtown 1897 State Historic Park - (209) 984-3953
Apr 12 - Dec 13, 2008: Columbia State Historic Park: Gold Rush Days - (209) 536-1672
May 1 - Dec 31, 2008: Black Oak Casino "Live Entertainment Lineup" 2008 -
May 8 - Sep 11, 2008: Twain Harte Nights - 586-1976
May 8 - Sep 11, 2008: Twain Harte "Cars in the Pines" 2008 - (209) 586-4482
May 11 - Oct 26, 2008: Ironstone Vineyards ~ "Events" - (209) 736-4237
May 17 - Oct 18, 2008: Sonora's Certified Farmer's Market - Buy Local - Saturdays 7:30-11:30 - (209) 532-7725
Jun 4 - Sep 24, 2008: Tuolumne Village Market & Music - Each Wednesday - (209) 928-4351
Jun 14 - Aug 30, 2008: Twain Harte "Concerts in the Pines" 2008 - (209) 586-4482
Jun 14 - Aug 30, 2008: Twain Harte "Concerts in the Pines" 2008 - (209) 586-4482
Jun 27 - Sep 7, 2008: Theatre: Fallon House Theatre "South Pacific" - (209) 532-3120
Jul 25 - Sep 12, 2008: Music In The Park - Sonora - 209-588-9625
Aug 15 - Sep 6, 2008: Theatre: Murphys Creek Theatre presents "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde - (209) 728-8422
Aug 20, 2008: Concerts in the Park and Farmers Market - 928-1214
Aug 22, 2008: Movies in the Park - 209-928-1214; 928-3030
Aug 22, 2008: Concert In The Park with Lori Brandon - 209-588-9625
Aug 23, 2008: New Melones Lake "Man Eating Bugs!" - (209) 536-9543
Aug 23, 2008: Columbia State Historic Park: Back to School Night, 1861 - 209-588-9128
Aug 23, 2008: Meals & Wheels for Meals on Wheels (Fundraiser) - Railtown 1897 SHP - (209) 532-1124
Aug 23, 2008: Music @ Stage 3 with Coyote Hill - 209-536-1778
Aug 23 - 24, 2008: River Ranch Music Festival -
Aug 24, 2008: New Melones Lake "Gold Mining" The Race to Ravenous Ruin" - (209) 536-9543


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