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Tending Toward the Bluesy – Damdave and the Left-Hand Band
By Julie Horner Looking out from the “fishbowl” at the Boulder Creek Brewery Outpost, heads close together in comfortable familiarity in the late afternoon light, Dave Gillett and I sipped our “usual” and went to town reminiscing about spirited times in old haunts around the San Lorenzo Valley. Known affectionately as “Damdave,” he is front-man singer-songwriter and guitar player for…
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Park Hall benefit concert with Andre Thierry & Heathen Hill
Celebrate community in the heart of Ben Lomond with a concert to benefit Park Hall: Andre Thierry & Heathen Hill Saturday November 9, 2019 at 7:30pm at. Park Hall is located at 9370 Mill Street in historic downtown Ben Lomond, California. Read more.
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Felton Music Hall: A New Live Music Experience
Felton Music Hall Offers an “ineffable” night on the town. By Julie Horner Felton’s famous dinner and dancing venue with a pedigree dating to the mid-century, promises a full immersion musical treat, dinner and drinks. Located in the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains, the newly opened Felton Music Hall delivers an unrivaled live music experience. Those who love music…
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Remembering Julie Di Mauro
Friends and family say farewell. “Julie left our world on June 24th around 6:15 am. She passed away surrounded by her artwork, family, friends and her beautiful music in the background (we played all three JnJ Dynamite albums a few times over). Julie passed comfortably in her sleep in one of her favorite places, our living room. She had a…
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Henflings to Reopen in Ben Lomond: A Neighborhood Hub Embraced
New owners, Erin Maye Zimmer and Josh Miller invite you to the new Henflings of Ben Lomond By Julie Horner The new lease holder at Henflings, Josh Miller said, “We’re working through the final stages of the liquor license with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) and making sure our neighbors are comfortable. It’s our goal to distinguish…
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Welcome Fairies and Earthlings: Ben Lomond’s Robie Hiroz
Ben Lomond craftsman, Robie Hiroz, makes magic and music in the mountains By Julie Horner September 22, 2018 With steady hands rough and stained with varnish, Robie slowly takes the top of the fiddle off with a butter knife. The top releases. “The seal breaks – makes that sound – POP! Scares you at first,” he says. A four-inch crack…
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Camp Krem Hosts Summer Revelers at DIO Fest
Camping Unlimited doing it up for fifth annual Do-It-Ourselves Festival By Julie Horner As antidote to the dark and wet, rustic Jon Lucchese Center stands on a sandy plateau in full sun biding over a sweeping panorama of forest and blue sky. The air, soft and moistly fragrant with oak and bay, is gratefully languid after an eternity of torrential…
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On Spirit Wings
Boulder Creek Band ‘Medicine Road’ Heals Through Music By Julie Horner Pablo Eagle used to ride his motorcycle through the Santa Cruz Mountains regularly. For some reason one day he took his pickup. It was a beautiful day for riding, warm and dry, with no wind at all. A motorcyclist with a woman on the back passed him. “God, I…
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Kenny Hill Guitars
Master Craftsman “Tilting Gravity” in Ben Lomond, California By Julie Horner A solo classical guitar breathed seductively into the early morning chill as I let myself into the Hill Guitar Company showroom in Ben Lomond, CA. Gentleman luthier, Kenny Hill, sat just inside, momentarily absorbed in music making, hands wrapped purposefully sensuous around one of his own instruments. The music…
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