NORTH FORK – Back by popular demand, the North Fork Studio is hosting the third annual Jazz Jam fundraiser on Saturday, Dec. 27, from 2 to 4 p.m. This year’s event will feature clarinet, flute, bass, guitar, drums, voice and ukulele. This is a potluck so bring your favorite dish. Come and enjoy great music, delicious food, good friends, and ...

AHWAHNEE – The new season of top-flight concerts at the Coolwater Ranch kicks off with Grammy-winning guitarist Mike Dowling on Saturday, Jan. 17, at 7 p.m. Dowling draws inspiration from American roots guitar. Bottleneck blues, vintage swing and ragtime are just a few of the styles in which he is fluent. With his self-deprecating wit and elegant interpretations of an ...

The Mariposa Symphony Orchestra’s December 20th Festive Holiday Concert will feature a special musical gift to all children aged 4 to 104: Serge Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, narrated from the podium by MSO Founder/Conductor Les Marsden. The story of Peter and a bird, a duck, a cat, a fierce wolf and Peter’s grandfather is one of the most beloved ...

NORTH FORK – Amidst poinsettias and Christmas greens, the North Fork Community Choir and the Sierra High Mountain Chorale will perform old favorites and new holiday music at the annual “Songs of the Season,” this Saturday at 7 p.m. in Kennedy Hall at North Fork School. This event has been a holiday favorite for 14 years, bringing a stirring end ...

OAKHURST – This is the time of year for holiday entertainment, and in the spirit of the season, a new Christmas-themed variety show comes to the Golden Chain Theatre (GCT) this weekend, Dec. 5 – 7.

OAKHURST – The Oakhurst Lutheran Church presents a Cowboy Christmas concert on Dec. 6. The Cowboy Christmas band will include Bobby Black on the steel guitar, Jimmy Collier on the banjo, guitarist Arnie Johnson, melody by Hues, Cliff Neufeld on the keyboard, Eddie Guzman on the drums and harmonica, Kirk Moulin on the bass guitar, Rudy Helm on the synthesizer ...

AHWAHNEE – Breathtaking, spectacular, and exquisite. Those are just some of the words critics have used to describe Chris Proctor, National 6 and 12 String Champion, who brings his amazing variety of guitar sounds and textures to Coolwater Ranch on Saturday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. Influenced by such great and diverse talents as Michael Hedges and Leo Kottke, Proctor’s ...

OAKHURST- The Oakhurst Community Band will present a free Fall Concert at Mountain Christian Center on Sunday, Nov. 23, at 3 p.m. The 45-piece band will be performing music by Joseph Curiale, with Double Happiness, Quad City Stomp by Michael Sweeny, Clare Grundman’s American Folk Rhapsody No.3, Timothy Johnson’s Fanfare Prelude, and J.S Bach’s Sleepers, Wake. The program will also ...

Submitted by Carol Kovach OAKHURST – We have some amazing talent on this mountain. That’s just one of the comments made after watching the Golden Chain Theatre production of Willy Wonka the Musical. The show debuted on Saturday, Nov. 1 and it’s been getting great reviews ever since.

NORTH FORK – The scene is the Blueberry Ranch in the high Sierra. Our villain tricks the wayward husband out of the deed to the ranch and turns it into a casino, forcing the lovely Lilac to sing to keep Aunt and Uncle Blueberry out of the poor house. Will a clever plan win back the ranch? All will be ...