KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – On Saturday, Sept. 9, “Bluegrass at the Ely,” will be presented at the Ely Stage Stop and Country Museum from noon to 5 p.m.
The fun event is being produced by the Lake County Historical Society and the Anderson Marsh Interpretive Association.
The concert will benefit the two groups, which are charitable nonprofits that work on preserving and protecting both the Ely Stage Stop and Country Museum and Anderson Marsh State Historic Park.
The groups have joined together this year to present the Bluegrass event on the Ely Stage Stop grounds on Highway 281 (between the Clear Lake Riviera and Highway 29).
Tickets are $20 at the gate, and $15 advance sale at Catfish Coffee House in Clearlake and Watershed Books in Lakeport. Tickets are also available online at www.andersonmarsh.org to be picked up “on call,” at the event.
There will be craft and food booths, a lemonade stand and beer and wine available for sale.
The Bluegrass event will begin with local artists and veterans of the bluegrass scene, Pat Ickes and Bound to Ride, delivering traditional bluegrass songs.
Barwick and Siegfried, who have performed at the Strawberry Music Festival in California and pubs and concert halls throughout Ireland and Northern Ireland will be performing folk and bluegrass songs on mandolin and guitar.
Kathy Barwick is a native of Sacramento and has been widely hailed over the past 30 years as one of California’s most versatile acoustic musicians, known for her work in bluegrass, Americana and traditional Irish music.
Pete Siegfried, a Pennsylvania native has lived in Grass Valley since the 1970s and founded the bluegrass band Mountain Laurel in 1988 and sang lead vocals and played mandolin in the popular quintet until it disbanded in 2011.
The Thin Air String Band is a gifted group of Mendocino College teachers who perform a blend of folk and acoustic songs that are a pleasing mix of bluegrass, old-time, classic country, and Americana with an emphasis on quality vocal and acoustic music.
Local artists, The Cobb Stomper Mountain String Band is a throwback, quintessential example of the all acoustic performers that the folks from southern Appalachians have been whooping it up to for generations. They remain fresh sounding, and true to the infectiously danceable fiddle and banjo music that they started with.
Uncorked is a band of talented musicians who have been performing Irish and bluegrass for many years in Lake County and the Konocti Fiddle Club consists of very gifted young fiddlers led by Andi Skelton.
Join your Lake County friends and neighbors for a fabulous and fun day at the Ely Stage Stop and Country Museum. Please, no pets allowed and bring your own lawn chair for more comfortable viewing.
For tickets and information go to www.andersonmarsh.org.
Traditional, folk, and acoustic groups featured at Sept. 9 ‘Bluegrass at the Ely’ benefit
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