Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Warning! It's that time of the year again, when that wild bunch of Sheriffs, Desperados, and Ballroom Girls will be hitting the streets and establishments of Tehachapi. They are considered armed with Good Time Badges, looking for people having a good time without one. The Good Time Badges have the theme and official logo of the 53rd Annual Mountain Festival® on them and only cost $2. All proceeds will go back into the community. Don't worry, the City Council members are always the first to...
This is Gary's 7th year handling the live sound and serving as Entertainment Master of Ceremonies for Mountain Festival. Gary has a degree in Recording Engineering and Live Sound from Sound Master Schools in North Hollywood which he received way back in 1983. He displays his skills along with his professional sound equipment. We're looking forward to another great year. Read The Loop's Complete Guide To Mountain Festival 2016, click here: http://www.theloopnewspaper.com/page/...
The excitement of the Carnival will again be part of Mountain Festival. The rides, the lights, the fun! There will be rides and fun for all ages. The Carnival will be located at the corner of Robinson and "D" Streets south of the Tehachapi Unified School District offices. Carnival hours are Friday, Aug. 19 from 6 – 11 p.m.; Saturday, Aug. 20 from Noon – 11 p.m.; and Sunday, Aug. 21, Noon. – 8 p.m. At the carnival booth ticket prices will be 1 ticket for $1.25, 20 tickets for $20 and 50 ticke...
The 19th annual Thunder on the Mountain Car and Truck Show will be held on Sunday, August 21 in beautiful Downtown Tehachapi. Before the sun rises, classic and vintage autos will begin lining up to get a good spot near the heart of the car show – the intersection of Green St. and F St. At 6 a.m., car show committee members will begin directing the cars to the parking area. The car show officially opens at 9 a.m., when the Master of Ceremonies welcomes participants and spectators, and the A...
Local artifacts collected over the past 39 years, such as the four-foot long Mammoth thighbone, a fullsized horse drawn buggy and the recreated blacksmith shop help tell Tehachapi's story at the Tehachapi Museum. Across the street, the Errea House Museum shows rural life in a 1900 to 1930 setting, in a house moved from Old Town on log rollers in 1900. Both are operated by the Tehachapi Heritage League, with each museum telling a part of the history of Tehachapi. A Kawaiisu exhibit in the Mark...
From all the members of the Parade Committee, we wish everyone the best during the Tehachapi Mountain Festival®. To put on the parade takes many hours of planning and preparation. It is the hard work of the committee members that enables us to put on such an event. This year we expect about 5,000 people to attend and about 100 entries to participate. The entries range from equestrians to commercial floats and color guards. The parade committee is made up of several different task groups....
Everyone Welcome On Friday, Aug. 19 the Tehachapi Moose Lodge, located on the corner of Curry and F streets, will be holding a dinner and a dance for the 2016 Mountain Festival starting at 6 p.m. with a Loyal Order of Moose (LOOM) dinner (keep your eyes open for signs and menus with prices around the lodge) and dancing with Denim beginning at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20 Breakfast burritos by Steve, and $2.50 Bloody Marys starting at 8 a.m. till 10 a.m. Starting at 9 a.m. LOOM will be firing up the...
The Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Parks District will present the Mountain Gallop 5K and 10K on Saturday, Aug. 20. Entrants will meet at Philip Marx Central Park, corner of Mojave and E St. Registration begins at 6 a.m. and the race will start at 7:30 a.m. Register online at www.tvrpd.org. Early registration is $30 for 5K and $35 for 10K. Race day registration is $35 for 5K and $40 for 10K. Registration includes technical T-shirt, championship timing, refreshments, great course, finisher's...
Studio Elite Dancers are seen all around town and continue to entertain Tehachapi at school talent shows, local pageants, and the International Junior Miss competition. They received a First Place float trophy and performed in last year's Tehachapi Mountain Festival Parade. Miss Sara Morris teaches weekly classes year round in ballet, lyrical, jazz, hip hop, tap, clogging, competition team, cheerleading, and tumbling to students ages 3 to adult and will be featuring her Competition Clogging...
Tehachapi Martial Arts Center, owned and operated by the Jadric family, has been part of the Tehachapi community for over 24 years. Offering instruction in a variety of martial arts including; Tae Kwon Do, Combat Hapkido, Kung Fu and Tai Chi. TMAC has participated in the Tehachapi Mountain Festival for 22 years and this year is no exception. On Saturday the students and instructors of TMAC will demonstrate their skills and dedication to the arts. Come and cheer the students on as they perform...
The Mountain Festival has been a staple of Tehachapi summers since 1963. Now in its 53rd year, it continues to be a quality three-day event for the families of Tehachapi. It's a chance for local businesses and craftsmen to set up and sell their products. It's a weekend that kicks off the school year with food, live music, carnival rides, an arts and crafts show, and a parade. This year will feature the Mountain Gallop 5k and 10k, the Thunder on the Mountain Car Show, PRCA Rodeo, the VFW Dinner...
Bring the whole family, there's something for everyone! There will be over 50 vendors of beautiful handmade arts & crafts including Jewelry, Clothing, Leather Purses and Wallets, Photography, Quilts, Wooden Children's Toys, Metal Yard Art, and so much more. A large variety of commercial booths, local non-profit organizations and commercial food booths will have everything including Tri-Tip and Hotlink Sandwiches, Thai Food, Funnel Cakes, Hand Scooped Ice Cream, Greek Gyros, Italian Ice, Baked...
The Black Gold Cloggers demonstration team, led by Loni O'Donley, is from Bakersfield California. It was established 34 years ago. The members of BGC come from the clogging class which is offered by Bakersfield Recreation and Parks. We meet at Silver Creek Recreation Center, 7011 Harris Road, Bakersfield, California each Thursday evening from 6 p.m. until 8:45 p.m. The next beginner class will begin on Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 6 p.m. All ages from 7 years and up are welcomed. You can come...
The Pat Strong Trio + 2 band performs great up-beat listening music, sung in three or four part harmony. The group plays all their favorites, including country, folk, soft rock, and jazz. They like "mixing it up" – with songs of all kinds – fast and slow, varying the lead singers, creating a fresh and fun sound for all ages to appreciate. Pat Strong leads the band as key vocalist and rhythm guitar player. She makes each song her own with her wonderful full-bodied alto voice. Pat wrote the muc...
Blue Mustard will perform in Central Park on Sunday Aug. 21, from 3:30 to 5 p.m., closing out this year's round of entertainment. Blue Mustard is a group of seasoned professional musicians bonded together by great love of music. Each of the members has paid their dues thru hundreds of musical performances. The lead vocalist and voice of the band is Roy Hernandez. Roy doubles on harmonica and is a gifted lyricist-songwriter. His song writing partner is Jerry Mulkins, the leader of Blue Mustard an...
Wine tasting boutiques offer the charm of Tuscany, convivial company, award-winning wines Looking for that APPELLATION In the wine grape cultivation and tasting room business, every vineyard owner cheers for the success of other vineyards in the vicinity. Visitors like to ramble from one tasting room to another, the more destinations the merrier. "We're all in the game together," Bob Souza of Souza Family Vineyard said. "We support each other." The vintners hope to gain a coveted Appellation...
The Triassic Vineyard wine tasting room rises from the gentle southfacing slope of Cummings Valley like a modern pyramid, beckoning visitors to come in, sit on the deck and enjoy the soft evening breeze and view of the beautiful valley. This part of the valley, in addition to its sunny exposure, consists of volcanically pressured ancient marine sediments that produce exceptional wines. Owners Jim and Sally Arnold, like the Souzas before them, left their former business to launch into an...
Mike and Michele Dorner of Dorner Family Vineyard have created a forested wonderland in their corner of Cummings Valley where they book one wedding a weekend so the participants can relax and enjoy their special time. The Dorners will sell their own wine in a forthcoming wine tasting boutique and they are building four Tuscan-style guest villas. They have planted more than 600 trees in 52 varieties on the property and have 500 vines of Reisling and Zinfandel grapes. With extra grapes purchased...
The beautiful posters that announce the 53rd PRCA Rodeo of the Tehachapi Mountain Rodeo Association held this August 19 and 20 are the result of the talent of a local artist, Mrs. Betty Finch. With this being both an election year and an Olympic year Betty felt it was appropriate to include an American flag in the painting. That was the inspiration for Miss Rodeo Tehachapi galloping in on her palomino with the stars and stripes. Betty Finch was born in Indiana, and raised in Mojave, California....
Rodeo audiences look forward to the hilarious antics of a rodeo clown. These clowns, like their circus counterparts, often wear big floppy shoes, big red noses with funny hats, clothes and wild hair. But the rodeo clowns today are called barrel men and do much more than just entertain the crowd with their funny hijinks. The Tehachapi Mountain Rodeo Association would like to welcome back PRCA barrel man Austin Singley. It is part of Austin's job as a barrel man to help distract the bull when a...
Rodeo Entertainer Bobby Kerr is at the center of the mustang movement. He competed in two Extreme Mustang Makeover challenges, sponsored by the Mustang Heritage Foundation as a way of bringing attention to the wild mustangs available for adoption through the BLM and was a two-time fan favorite who won his division in 2012. The Makeover challenges pitted Kerr against dozens of other trainers who bought wild mustangs through BLM auctions. Each had 120 days to tame and train their horse "and show...
Get your dancing boots all shined up and join us after the Saturday night rodeo for an old fashioned western dance at the Tehachapi Event Center and Rodeo Grounds. The dance immediately follows the rodeo in the southwest corner of the grounds. Tickets will be on sale for $10 at the TMRA information booth on the north side of the stands. The Boys Scouts of Tehachapi will have lots of food and non-alcoholic drinks. Adult beverages will be available also at the TMRA Watering Hole. The dance...
Speakeasy, a four piece smooth jazz ensemble from Bakersfield, California, was formed in the spring of 2009. Speakeasy's vision is to share their love and talent for music with the community, to encourage a greater appreciation for the arts, and to help create lasting memories for those they play for. Although the members come from a wide background of experience and styles, have played with multiple groups and shared their talent for music in many ways, Speakeasy started from humble...
The vendor line up for the 5th annual Handcraft Festival at Railroad Park on August 20-21 promises to provide a spectacular shopping event. Not only is it the coolest breeziest place in town during the summer months, but this event will feature 35 booths of the coolest most unique handcrafted gifts and fine arts anywhere. Embellished clothing for children and adults, jewelry, fresh roasted coffee beans, hair accessories, bath and body supplies, candles, metal art, wood carving, ceramics and home accessories are just a handful of things...
Gracing the Grand Opening of the Tehachapi Mountain Rodeo Associations upcoming PRCA Rodeo on Aug.19-20 in the Milano Arena at the Tehachapi Event Center and Rodeo Grounds will be the Dust N' Diamonds Equestrian Drill Team. The "Diamonds" are both a competitive and exhibition equestrian drill team. This award winning group of all women ride in unison to create formations and patterns while riding their horses at speeds that would scare the average equestrian. The Dust N' Diamonds Equestrian...
