Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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It's impossible to put one label on Wendy Waldman. She is a critically acclaimed recording artist, a writer of multi-platinum songs in genres ranging from country and cowboy music to pop, film, jazz, Latin and R&B. She is also a teacher of guitar and songwriting, a classically trained pianist, and one of the first distinguished women record producers. Waldman is also a spell binding performer, as the audiences in 2011 and 2012 in a packed Fiddlers Crossing will attest. She keeps the audience...
Hold on to your broomsticks, it's almost Halloween! To celebrate, the BeeKay Theatre will again be transformed into the BooKay! On Saturday, October 28, the Tehachapi Pops Orchestra (TPOPS) will offer musical tricks and treats in two hour-long performances, at 2 and 4 p.m. As in prior years, the concert will be presented in partnership with the Tehachapi Community Theatre (TCT). This year, members of the J&M dance company will also perform with the orchestra in several numbers. A special treat...
Fiddlers Crossing will celebrate Autumn on Friday, Sept. 29, with the return of Flagship Romance from Jacksonville Beach, Florida. The couple, Jordyn and Shawn Fisher, call their music, "harmonic alternative folk" but it is much more. They are part of a resurgence in popular music of well-crafted songs and solid, soaring harmonies. They display a passion and intensity in their performance reminiscent of a young Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. When she was 3 years old, Jordy...
As a native French speaker from Canada, it's only natural that Ray Bonneville would love New Orleans. The Juno winning singer-songwriter will bring his blues-influenced New Orleans-style groove to Fiddlers Crossing Saturday, August 26, at 7 p.m. "Colorful" is an adjective that doesn't even come close to describing Ray Bonneville's eventful life story. His bio is packed with world travels that have provided him with enough observations about the human condition to fill many albums with...
Storytelling in music is as old as melody. Although today's pop music tends to focus more on "beats" than ballads, musical storytelling is still alive and well in acoustic music. Over the last seven years, Fiddlers Crossing has been bringing some of the best musical storytellers to Tehachapi. Berkley Hart, returning for their second appearance in the venue August 4, is certainly in the top tier of musical storytellers. The combination of Kerrville New Folk Songwriter Award winner, Jeff Berkley,...
If you have ever driven Hwy 154 north of Santa Barbara on a Sunday afternoon and stopped at the Cold Spring Tavern for a tri-tip sandwich, you will undoubtedly remember the "good-time" blues music that went along with it. Tom Ball, on harmonica and vocals, and Kenny Sultan, on guitar, have been playing their own brand of American roots styles of music together for 35 years, and outside on the porch of the Tavern on Sundays for much of that time. On Saturday, July 15, at 7 p.m., Fiddlers...
Have you ever wanted to write a song but didn't know where to start? Have you written songs and want to take them to the next level? Do you have a song you would like to record? Camp Kiya has offered songwriting classes in the past, but plans to have a full workshop this year. Kerry Patrick Clark and Peter Romano are returning to head up the program. They will be joined by Max Valentino, who will also teach bass, percussion and guitar, as in past years. Camp Kiya is a traditional music camp for...
Gary Stockdale has an impressive resume: Wonderful singer. Witty songwriter. Engaging performer. TV and film composer. Two EMMY nominations. A BMI award for music composition. He plays piano and guitar. He has sung on many Henry Mancini movie scores. He has scored films for Roger Corman and others. He was an arranger for film composer Lalo Schifrin. He composed music for many Penn & Teller projects, as well as for television sitcoms including Sabrina the Teenage Witch. He has sung on...
The "big dream" for many singer-songwriters is to have their music used in film or TV scores. For Ernest Troost, it was the other way around. Troost became an Emmy Award-winning composer of movie and TV scores first, and only recently became an award-winning folk-blues songwriter, as well. "Songwriting was something I had put in the trunk and sat on for 20 years because it was an impractical thing to do," he said. "I hadn't done it since high school." Ernest Troost will return to Fiddlers...
Camp Kiya, Tehachapi’s family traditional music camp, has been awarded a $1,000 grant from the Arts Council of Kern. The “Arts in the Community” grant was given for the scholarship program, which helps make the camp affordable to students and adults who would not be able to attend without some financial aid. Camp Kiya will take place July 23-27 this summer. The Arts Council of Kern – in partnership with the California Arts Council, the County of Kern and local agencies – provides, supports and promotes arts access, advocacy and education...
Two-time Grammy-winning guitarist Laurence Juber will make his fourth appearance in Tehachapi on Saturday, April 1, at Fiddlers Crossing. Juber is a world-renowned guitar virtuoso, composer and arranger, who won his first Grammy as lead guitarist for Paul McCartney's Wings. Since then, he has become particularly noted for his finger style interpretations of Beatles songs, including two CDs from the Beatle songbook. One of them, "LJ Plays The Beatles," was voted one of Acoustic Guitar Magazine's...
The Fiddlers Crossing poster for West My Friend reads: "Canadian eclectic acoustic ensemble." The quartet of young and accomplished musicians from Vancouver Island has also been called an "Indie folk pop band," or simply "Indie roots." Other music reviewers have called the band, "Third-wave indie rock pop with four-part harmonies," and their style, "Cascadian third-wave indie progressive chamber folk-roots music." Obviously, West My Friend defies being pigeon-holed into any one genre. Their blen...
Juni Fisher is no stranger to these parts. She has already given four sold-out concerts in Fiddlers Crossing and will ride into town March 3 for her fifth appearance. Fisher is the real deal – a Western singer who actually IS a cowgirl. Many of her songs are about women rodeo riders of bygone days, and she can be funny and poignant at the same time. Fisher grew up horse crazy on a San Joaquin Valley citrus farm, achieving 4-H and FFA honors, listening to the music of Marty Robbins, Joan Baez a...
The logo for the duo, JC & Laney reads, “Heart ‘n’ Soul & Rock ‘n’ Roll.” That’s the perfect summary for this dynamic musical duo who will take the stage at Fiddlers Crossing on Friday, Feb. 10, to kick off Valentine’s weekend. JC & Laney are high-energy entertainers, with improvised banter, signature harmonies and memorable songs that run the gamut between folk, blues, pop, rock and comedy. Together they write, sing harmony and perform their own compositions, with two voices and one guitar. As fitting Valentine’s Day, some of their songs will...
"Winterdance," a Celtic Christmas celebration, will return to Tehachapi for two performances in the BeeKay Theatre on Sunday, Dec. 18. The concert, put on by Fiddlers Crossing, has been a sell-out the last two years. As in the past years, two performances will be presented, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for students. The core of the concert is the traditional Celtic trio, Molly's Revenge. They will again be joined by vocalist Christa Burch, along with the Rosemary...
C. Daniel Boling has been called "a thinking man's singer/songwriter." While most of his songs and stories are simply about relationships -- with his wife, children, parents and life itself – there is nothing that sounds simple about them. Boling, said one reviewer, is "one of those characters who can keep you glued to his telling about a whole day in his life without your getting bored at all." The award-winning singer/songwriter will be in concert at Fiddlers Crossing on Friday, Oct. 28, at 7...
Kerry Patrick Clark has been called "A Musical Norman Rockwell" because of the portraits he paints with his music of everyday life. Rockwell gave us an affectionate and humorous look at small town and family life in America in his famous paintings and Saturday Evening Post Magazine covers. Like Rockwell with his art, Clark, in his music, shows us what we as a people have in common. A native of Ohio, Clark's music centers around stories of love, faith, family, friends and the dreams to which we...
Fearless. Dazzling. Compelling. Eclectic. Graceful. Magical. Legendary. These are all words that have been used to describe singer-songwriter, Jack Williams who will make his debut appearance at Fiddlers Crossing on Sunday, June 12, at 3 p.m. In a career that has spanned 50 years, Jack Williams has become one of the most sought-after artists on the contemporary acoustic music circuit. From music halls and festivals to coffee houses and house concerts, he is a very busy performer. He especially...
At this point in this "forever" presidential campaign, Fiddlers Crossing decided a little levity would be in order, in the form of political satirist Roy Zimmerman. Saturday, June 4, will mark his second appearance at Fiddlers Crossing. He played to a sold-out crowd in 2014. While Zimmerman may not change any minds a few days before our primary, he should at least give us an evening of hilarity. He is, after all, "an equal opportunity offender." He finds just about everything and everyone funny...
Three lovely, brilliant young women, singing folk, gospel and bluegrass songs through a jazz-infused filter, with stunning harmonies and body percussion – this is Honey Whiskey Trio. These three graduates of the esteemed Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at Cal State Long Beach have been enchanting audiences wherever they have performed. They will bring their honey harmonies to Fiddlers Crossing on Saturday, May 21, at 7 p.m., and fans of vocal music will want to be there. The Honey Whiskey Trio e...
Jan. 25, 1759, is the birthday of the famed Scottish poet, Robert Burns. Scottish Societies here and abroad will celebrate the anniversary month with special dinners and events, as they do every year. This year, Fiddlers Crossing will also celebrate by presenting one of Scotland's best contemporary bards, Alan Reid, a founder of the famed Battlefield Band, on Friday, Jan. 29, at 7 pm. This will be Reid's second time in Fiddlers Crossing, and he will again be joined by Dutch-born Rob van Sante,...
Over the last few months, TCT has been on a path of reorganization and renewal. The spring schedule of plays has been totally revised, and new plays and ideas are in the works. Fiddlers Crossing has brought one-person concert-theatre pieces to Tehachapi, with performances by blues master Guy Davis and Celtic harpist Patrick Ball. With the success of those shows, the venue has been considering bringing in a series of one-person concert-theatre pieces. It's natural, then, that the community...
Among the blueblood bands of bluegrass music, Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, of course, will always be the King. But the four-piece band, The Special Consensus, is certainly one of the crown princes. Tehachapi will be treated to a royal visit by this Nashville-based band on Sunday, January 17, at 3 pm in Fiddlers Crossing. The award-winning, GRAMMY-nominated group was formed in the Chicago area in 1975, and features a repertoire of traditional bluegrass standards, as well as original...
The Celtic musical duo, Men of Worth, will offer an evening of authentic traditional Irish and Scottish music Saturday, Nov. 21, at 7 p.m. in Fiddlers Crossing. Their tunes and songs are so closely connected to their heritage, that Scotsman Donnie Macdonald sings some in his native Gaelic and Irishman James Keigher performs songs saved from the centuries-old oral traditions of his native County Mayo. "Our music has its history in the crofting life of my Hebridean homeland and James' western...
Fiddlers Crossing’s next concert will be in keeping with the season when award-winning singer-songwriter Brad Cole performs Oct. 23, at 7p.m. The songs of Brad Cole address the ups and downs of the human condition with both wit and raw insight. His passionate and distinctive delivery of roots-based folk music, woven with the grit and groove of old school r&b, moves audiences in a way that is unexpected, yet at the same time familiar. Cole has released a music video called, “I Got a Job at the Church,” that paints a compelling portrait of a man...
