Ida-Ho-Down Saturday will feature nonstop music all day long
The Ida-Ho-Down, an annual reunion concert that brings together several bands for a day-long concert, has been scheduled for Saturday at Brundage Mountain Resort.
Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the gate, and are available at Common Ground Cafe in McCall or online at www.inticketing.com/events/43494/Ida-Ho-Down.com.
Music is scheduled to start at noon and continue until at least midnight. Among the featured bands are Equaleyes, The Shook Twins, Voice of Reason, Polyphonic Pomegranate, Stoney Holiday, The Fav, Cosmic Family Band, AlpenFlow, Perry Garfunkel and the Disappearing Delta, and GlennKelly.
Ticket-holders may purchase a scenic chairlift ride ticket for $5. Food, beer and cocktails will be available for purchase during the concert. No outside coolers or dogs are allowed in the concert area.
Camping will be available, and coolers and dogs on leashes will be allowed in the camping area. Campfires are prohibited.
In addition to 12 plus hours of continuous, live music on two stages, concert-goers at the upcoming Ida-Ho-Down Jam State Festival can feel good about the event’s social consciousness.
The promoters of the event, Idahoans for Music & the Environment, strive for event sustainability through creativity. The Ida-Ho-Down will be sustainable in all ways practical. The event was planned with paper waste reduction in mind. Recycling stations will be available with all trash facilities, complete with educational materials. The food and beverage vendors will use only recyclable beer and soda cups. The concert features Idaho talent and the use of local/regional goods and services. Even the stage will have a sustainable element, with the use of LED lighting aimed at reducing energy use.
Courtyard art show Aug. 29 to feature wide variety of artists, media
The McCall Artist Connection will hold its fourth annual Art in the Courtyard Show from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, in the garden patio of Bistro 45 and the Hotel McCall in downtown McCall.
The show will feature fine oils, acrylics, watercolors, pen and ink drawings, pastels, photography, woodblock prints, wood sculptures and frames, fabric art, jewelry, and glass and ceramic art along with live music to entertain visitors.
Here are brief profiles of some of the featured artists:
• Jesse and Shelly DeMoss: The couple work with glass and are young, self-taught and in love with the process of creation.
Jesse’s glass pieces are valued around the world and have a place in the permanent collection of the Kobe Glass Art Museum in Japan.
“I greatly credit living in a remote part of the world for the opportunity to develop a style that is unique and my own,” he said. “It is kind of like an artistic incubator being cradled by such natural beauty and far from the influence of other styles.”
Some small glass art pieces, known as Finders Keepers, are embedded in rocks and left along a trail or on a rocky ledge by DeMoss with the hope that someone will pick one up and contact Jesse to let him know it’s been found. It’s a playful and inventive way to give something back to the public, he said.
• Cher Sandmire: Sandmire is one of several photographers who will display their work in this show. “I fell in love with photography the first time I saw that print come up in the darkroom tray some 35 years ago!” she said.
She graduated from the Brooks Institute of Photography and has owned a portrait photography studio for 25 years.
Recently she expressed her love of Italian culture and the people of Italy by creating an exciting new collection of photographs. One of those photographs was chosen for the People’s Choice Award at the “We Art Women” benefit for the Women’s Crisis Center in Boise.
• Marge Layton: Layton works with pen and ink and watercolor washes to create delightful depictions of local scenes, buildings and still-life subjects.
Her work has appeared in many publications, and she coauthored a book about her travels in Yellowstone National Park and an article about her travels in France.
Her watercolor “Willow Creek from Roseberry Road” was chosen for the juried show Idaho Paints Idaho and is currently being shown in the Art Museum of Eastern Idaho in Idaho Falls.
For more information about MAC and its member artists, go to www.mccallartistconnection.org.
Free concerts to be held at McCall church, Legacy Park
Former national champion fiddle player Jana Jae will present two free concerts in McCall this week.
Jae, known as “The First Lady of Country Fiddle,” was a regular on the “Hee-Haw” syndicated musical-comedy show.
The concerts will be presented in conjunction with the first annual String Chamber Music Workshop and Hells Canyon Fiddle Fest, two workshops being presented this week at Pilgrim Cove Camp.
The first free concert, culminating in the chamber music workshop, will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the McCall Community Congregational Church in downtown McCall.
The concert will feature Brian and Betsi Hodges of the Boise State University music faculty with Terrie Baune and Nick Marlowe of Humboldt State University in California. Also featured will be Jae, her sister Cherie Gans, their mother, Bette Hopper, and other workshop musicians.
Admission is free, but donations will go to the church as well as assist with professional fees for musicians teaching at the camp.
A concert at the church that was scheduled for tonight is cancelled.
The second free concert, “Fiddles Under the Stars,” begins at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Legacy Park in downtown McCall. An incorrect date was given in a story in The Star-News last week.
It will feature all of the musicians taking part in the fiddle camp, playing together with Jae, Bette and Joe Hopper, Katrina Pearce of the Nampa Junior Jammers, Scott Sumner and Randy Pollard, who are instructors at the camp.
Donations will be accepted for the McCall Music Society, which is assisting with the concerts. Technical support for the concerts is being provided by McCall native Jim Freeman.
Jae and Gans have created the workshops as a part of their life-long dedication to enriching people’s musical experience and furthering the arts.
The fiddle camp is still accepting musicians of all ages. For information, go to www.janajae.com and click on the link to the “2009 Idaho Music Workshops.”
Church to host Fair Trade Market this weekend
The annual Fair Trade Market will be held Saturday and Sunday at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church at the corner of Forest and Gamble streets, McCall.
Dunia Marketplace, formerly Ten Thousand Villages, is hosting the event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
The market will feature handmade and fairly traded jewelry, home decor, musical instruments, textiles, pottery, rugs, teas, coffee, and holiday ornaments and nativity sets from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Dunia Marketplace is a not-for-profit store in Boise that takes its fair trade message to several locations in Idaho. The organization provides fairly traded, handcrafted items from around the world in an effort to bring jobs, dignity, sustainability, education and hope to people in developing countries.
The McCall sale is one of five held annually in Idaho. Shoppers can find a variety of items priced from a few dollars to several hundred, with a percentage of the proceeds going to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church.
For more information about Dunia Marketplace, call (208) 333-0535, e-mail info@duniamarketplace.com or visit www.duniamarketplace.com.
Event to celebrate Roseberry’s 40th birthday
A celebration of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the historic Roseberry townsite east of Donnelly will be held Saturday.
The event will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday in the new performance stage and barn on the site of the Valley County Museum, which is the name of the collection of buildings at the site.
There will be a potluck, stories, photos and art in the barn in honor of founder Frank Eld and volunteers who have worked over the years to develop the townsite and museum.
Mother Hips concert Aug. 28 to support music festival
The Mother Hips will perform live at Common Ground Cafe in McCall on Friday, Aug. 28, in a benefit concert to support the Summer Music Festival at Roseberry.
The Mother Hips recently released its first album in eight years, “Kiss the Crystal Flake,” and has run the gamut from dorm band to buzz band to cult favorite since it formed in 1991 at Chico State in California.
The Hips have played shows supporting Wilco, Johnny Cash, Rodrigo Y Gabriela and many others.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 28, and the show starts at 6 p.m. Tickets are $12 online or at the door. More information and ticket sales are available at www.mccallfolkloresociety.com or www.idaho-me.com.
Perry Garfunkel and the Disappearing Delta, a McCall band, will open the show.
The show is open to all ages, and children aged 12 and under will be admitted free. There will be a beer and wine garden and food and drink vendors on site. No dogs are allowed.
Lake Cascade park to host ‘down-home’ music Aug. 29
Several local musicians will be featured for an evening of “down-home” music from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Van Wyck unit at Lake Cascade State Park in McCall.
Groups scheduled to perform include the Tom Moody Ensemble, the Viva la Diva fiddlers and Fish out of Water featuring Stacy Sedlacek. The concert is free, but there is a $4 daily entrance fee in effect at the park.
Those planning to attend should bring lawn chairs or a blanket and a picnic dinner. For more information, call the park at 382-6544.
AWeSOMe to host paintball tourney Aug. 29
Adaptive Wilderness Sports of McCall will host a paintball tournament on Saturday, Aug. 29, at Camp Pinewood in McCall.
The “Last Person Standing” paintball tournament will be double elimination. Teams can have two to five members, and the registration fee is $20 per person before Saturday, Aug. 22, and $30 after that date.
The entry fee includes participation in the tournament, use of a paint gun, 50 paintballs per game and safety equipment.
The event is a fundraiser for Adaptive Wilderness Sports, a nonprofit organization that provides recreation for children and adults with disabilities.
For more information, call 347-4484, (208) 271-6249, or visit the Web site at www.awesomeidaho.org.
Donnelly to host bluegrass festival over Labor Day
The Idaho Sawtooth Bluegrass Association will hold its Fall Festival 2009 over Labor Day weekend at the Mountain View RV Park in Donnelly.
Admission is $10 on Friday, Sept. 4, $15 on Saturday, Sept. 5, $10 on Sunday, Sept. 6, or $30 for the entire weekend.
A variety of groups are scheduled to perform throughout the weekend at the park, located at 1140 W. Roseberry Road.
Among the scheduled acts are Will Williams and Gravel Road, Council Mountain Bluegrass Band, Panhandle Polecats, Chicken Dinner Road, and JD Webb and the Downstate Ramblers.
Organizers have also scheduled jamming and workshops. General jamming will take place Friday and Saturday, and intermediate jams have been scheduled from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Jonah Shue is scheduled to put on a flat-picking workshop for intermediate guitar players. Sessions will be held from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, with a $75 fee for both workshops.
“The festival is as much for people who play as it is for people who listen,” said organizer Carolyn Thorsen. “There will be a lot of jamming, and we encourage people who play a bluegrass instrument to come and join in.”
Organizers are emphasizing the involvement of children in bluegrass, and young performers will take the stage for about an hour Saturday afternoon, Thorsen said.
“We are trying to provide an outlet for kids, so for an hour on Saturday afternoon kids in bluegrass will do a performance,” she said.
There will be food vendors at the festival. For more information, call the park at 325-8271 visit www.idahosawtoothbluegrass.org.
Yellow Pine golf tourney to be held Sept. 5
The fifth annual Ron Welch Memorial Golf Tourney will be held Saturday, Sept. 5, at the Yellow Pine Country Club.
Registration starts at 11:30 a.m. The $15 entry fee includes the golf, on-course refreshments and membership in the country club.
The tournament is limited to 72 golfers, as organizers plan to have foursomes tee off on all 18 holes at noon. An awards ceremony is planned at 3:30 p.m.
For more information, call (208) 633-3300, (208) 633-0773, or e-mail llwelch@cableone.com.
Photographer Terra featured at ‘Mocha-Muffin-Madness’
McCall photographer Joey Terra will be the featured artist for the Mocha-Muffin-Madness event Sunday at the Mustache Flats Gallery in McCall.
Free mocha and muffins will be served to the public upstairs at the gallery at 302 N. Third St. from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Terra will be on hand to discuss his exhibit, “Inside the Line.”
Terra was raised in Ketchum and became interested in art while in high school. Over the years, he continued his creative studies in air brushing, painting and photography, focusing mainly on nature.
Later, while working for a small stock photo company, Terra built his own portfolio and began selling his work. When digital photography began to replace film, he felt something was missing.
“Something had been lost in the process – the look and quality of the prints,” he said. “So I decided to concentrate my efforts on black and white film.”
A strong desire to create by hand helped Terra develop his current style of painted photo art, which will be featured in this week’s exhibit. He uses watercolors and acrylics over black and white prints to produce unique results.
Wood carver to give demo at MAC meeting
Local wood carver Virgil Butler will give a demonstration at the monthly meeting of McCall Artist Connection at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27, at Meadowood Lodge in McCall.
Anyone who wishes to try a hand at the art form should attend the meeting.
Now Playing
(The following is a run-down of upcoming performances of live music in the area.)
COMMON GROUND CAFE - San Francisco based band LoCura will be performing at Common Ground Cafe’s “Alive After the Grind” tonight as part of the band’s Northwest Summer tour. Doors open at 5 p.m.
LoCura is a band emerging from the Bay Area’s fertile music scene that “crafts an organic fusion of south-of-the-border pop melodies, hot Flamenco and Rumba rhythms, Cali-baked Rasta grooves, and a spectacular performance style,” writes Sam Prestianni from the SF Weekly.
LoCura traverses the cultural and musical borderlands of Spain, California and Cuba creating a raw and inspiring sound.
CRUSTY’S PIZZA - The band Gizzard Stone will be featured at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Crusty’s Pizza in McCall.
Gizzard Stone plays in many genres including jazz, honky tonk, rock, reggae, country and nearly anything else that intrigues them.
The band has been compared to “a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re gonna get.” Approaching shows in this fashion allows them to tailor sets to suit the crowd’s desires.
FORESTERS/DOG HOUSE - The Water Tower Bucket Boys of Portland, Ore., will play on Friday night at Foresters Club/Dog House Saloon.
The band got its start busking on the street corners of Portland and enlivening local square dances. Honing their sound as a solid dance band, playing up and down the West and East coasts, the “boys” have perfected their unique style, drawing from classic bluegrass, old-time and country songs.
Their original sound, heavily influenced by blues and country, distinguishes them from other string bands. Their lightning stage performances will invigorate audiences of all ages and types.
MOUNTAIN LIFE CHURCH - The band Manafest will be featured in a “Back to Skool Bash” concert to be held at 7 p.m. Sunday at Mountain Life Church in McCall.
Manafest was formed seven years ago by Chris Greenwood, who “watches the world fly by and sees a thousand faces between the blur of brake lights and highway signs,” according to one reviewer.
“With each stop it’s a new stage, an electrifying show, and a heightened desire to activate something within the hearts of those on the receiving end of the microphone,” the reviewer said.
The band’s music is a mix of pop, rap, rock and gospel flavors. “My goal is to hear one thousand stories from kids saying that our music sparked a change in their life,” Greenwood said.
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