Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The Mountain Festival has been a staple of Tehachapi summers since 1963. Now in its 56th 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 Din...
Summer is the time for fun and travel, and the Kick-Stomp Ensemble should bring plenty of both when their wild mixture of edgy folk, punk and world music comes to Fiddlers Crossing on Saturday, July 27. The travel, of course, will be a musical journey throughout the world – spanning many cultures, traditions and languages. This eclectic quartet will even take us to a cantina in a galaxy far, far away, playing a popular tune on the banjo. Be prepared, however, for a world slightly twisted and p...
Planning for the most fun fundraising event in Tehachapi, Cheers to Charity, is underway. Aviator Park, at the Tehachapi Airport, will be the setting for the sixth year of this annual fundraiser. Shade trees, acres of grass, plenty of parking and a gentle breeze provide a cool venue on a hot August night. Scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 10, Cheers to Charity benefits local nonprofit organizations and features music, food, wines, craft and home-brewed beers - beneath the canopy of a Tehachapi...
Members of the Tehachapi Community Church - United Church in Christ have devised a set of special services led by congregation members and local community leaders for June through August as our pastor, Reverend Nancy Bacon, takes a sabbatical. Our services take place Sundays at 10:30 a.m., 100 East E Street, Tehachapi and all are welcome. TCC continues the rest of June and through mid-July with a series of guests. On June 23, a member of the Mountain Spirit Zen Center will speak on “Buddhism,” with a Mission moment from the Bakersfield UCC...
So, what do a small, green, plush Hedgehog toy, Henry's Café, mountain rescuers and Slice of Life Enrichment School have in common? Read on and you will find out. On Tuesday, May 28 Susan Minor, the owner of Slice of Life Enrichment School, where art, music and languages are taught, was waiting to be seated for breakfast at Henry's Cafe. Suddenly, her ears pricked up! Did she hear someone speaking French? She looked around quickly to find out where the French voices were coming from. She saw...
Mention John Gorka to anyone who has heard him and the response is immediate: "Where and when is he playing and how do I get a ticket?!" The short answer is: Fiddlers Crossing, Saturday, June 8, at 7 p.m. This will be Gorka's second appearance at the downtown venue, the first being back in 2014. Among the acoustic singer-songwriters, Gorka is generally considered to be one of the brightest stars. His songs have been covered by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nanci Griffith, Mary Black, Bill Morrissey...
Fiddlers Crossing has presented a wide-range of acoustically-based music during its nine years in Downtown Tehachapi. From traditional folk styles to contemporary acoustic pop, Americana, country, acoustic blues, Celtic, bluegrass and, recently, jazz, soul and R&B with singer, Nicole Stromsoe, the venue has covered a lot of musical ground. One genre that has been well represented over the years is that of the contemporary "singer-songwriter." There are many out there these days, each with their...
California State Old Time Fiddlers Association awarded its prestigious Ross and Rae Huffman Award to the District 3 State Director, Gayel Pitchford, during the 53rd annual State Fiddle Contest, held at Lodi, Calif., on April 12 and 13. The Huffman Award, a huge trophy which has all the winners' names going back to the award's inception in 1984, is presented annually to a member of the California State Old Time Fiddlers Association who has done a lot to preserve and perpetuate old time fiddling i...
Spring will be “TPopping” Sunday, April 28, when The Tehachapi Pops Orchestra opens its 12th season with a concert in Grace Fellowship Church. TPOPS is comprised of musicians of all ages from Tehachapi and around Kern County. It includes seasoned professionals as well as students who are playing in their first orchestra. As the name implies, TPOPS plays a mixture of showtunes, light classical, jazz, rock, standards and other popular music. For this concert, the orchestra will be conducted by...
The Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi announces that Tehachapi Mayor Susan Wiggins will be the featured speaker at the Kiwanis 33rd Annual Prayer Breakfast on May 2. A native of Mojave and a Tehachapi community leader, Wiggins will share her personal story and vision. The theme of the event, “Love One Another” (#Love1Another), is taken from the words Jesus spoke as recorded in John 13:34: “Love one another, just as I have loved you.” The Men of Faith Quartet will present upbeat, modern contemp...
First Friday in April will feature Catherine Hammons, glass painter, polymer clay artist and more. Catherine paints on glass creating beautiful glass vases, sun catchers and more. She creates cute polymer clay animals, which she uses to make fun earrings. Raised in a crafty family, Catherine learned to crochet as soon as she could hold a needle. She also paints glass and other things like fabric and henna tattoos. She makes wire wrap jewelry and works with polymer clay. A published author,...
Cowboy entertainer Dave Stamey has made several trips to Tehachapi. He played to a sold-out crowd in Fiddlers Crossing in 2013 and The Beekay Theatre in 2015 and 2017. With ticket sales again brisk this year, he will play another concert at the BeeKay on Saturday, March 30 at 2 and 7 p.m. Stamey is one of the most popular singer-songwriters on the cowboy circuit today. Before becoming a full-time musician, he has been a cowboy, a mule packer and a dude wrangler. As a singer, he has been voted...
This show has been rescheduled from March 8 to the 16th due to weather. Whitherward: a 13th-century word meaning, "toward what or which place." It's also a 21st-century acoustic band. In 2014, Edward Williams and Ashley Norton formed Whitherward and set a goal to leave Nashville "to play music we love for people that love music." The travelling duo, with the addition of Stephanie Groot on fiddle, mandolin and ukulele, will bring their brand of Americana/Indie-Folk to Fiddlers Crossing on Friday,...
One critic said Americana singer-songwriter Dulcie Taylor is, "a major talent who's been hiding from the rest of us for too long." Bringing "hidden talents" to Tehachapi is one of the goals of Fiddlers Crossing. Taylor will be returning to the downtown music venue on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. Her first appearance at Fiddlers Crossing was back in 2014. She will be joined by guitarist George Nauful and percussionist Tracy A. Morgan. Dulcie Taylor learned a hard music lesson at an early age – d...
Fiddlers Crossing will welcome back singer-songwriter Jann Klose on Friday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. This will be his third time in the downtown venue. Klose is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who epitomizes the "Crossing" part of Fiddlers Crossing. Klose is truly an international musician, having lived in Germany, Kenya, South Africa and the United States. His music is a genre becoming known as "Chamber Pop," a form of pop-rock performed in an intimate style more like folk music. His lush, beautiful...
The Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce and the 56th Annual Mountain Festival Committee are looking for a theme for the 56th Annual Tehachapi Mountain Festival®. The Festival will be on August 16 - 18, 2019. Original or unique theme ideas should be submitted to the Chamber by Thursday, Feb. 28 at 4 p.m. The winner will receive a $100 prize, along with V.I.P. treatment and an invitation to ride in the Mountain Festival Parade. Participants are allowed to submit an unlimited number of theme...
... and Tehachapi Community Theatre actors are going to make sure you leave the BeeKay knowing the right pronunciation. Tehachapi Apple Festival presents a Tehachapi Community Theatre production of "Young Frankenstein," beginning Feb. 22. An entertaining ensemble of actors are rehearsing multiple times a week to prepare for the Broadway version of Mel Brook's creation. "It has been a blast and really fascinating to see how everything is coming together. From costumes and props and acting ......
Fiddlers Crossing tries to honor its Celtic roots by offering an Irish concert on or around St. Patrick's Day in March, a Scottish one to celebrate Robbie Burns' birthday at the end of January and presenting the Winterdance Celtic concert at Christmas. This year, to honor Robbie Burns and Scotland, the venue is presenting Jim Malcom on Sunday, Jan. 27, at 3 p.m. This will be his second visit to Tehachapi. Malcom is considered one of the finest voices and interpreters of Robert Burns' songs in Sc...
Well, its the holiday season and time to start thinking about Christmas again! I am writing this article to let people know how to care for a living Christmas tree and how easy it is. Here are some tips. (1) Use a large saucer to catch drips and save the carpet. 2) Water and let dry before bringing inside. 3) Bring in approximately 10-14 days before Christmas. 4) Place in a cool location, away from heater vents. 5) Water the tree with ice cubes in the pot about every other day while inside....
A Tehachapi Christmas tradition is returning to Fiddlers Crossing. Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," read by Tehachapi's own Alex Zonn, will be presented twice at the venue this month, on Saturday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 16, at 3 p.m. First published in 1843, "A Christmas Carol" is the story of a bitter old miser named Ebeneezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from a supernatural visit from the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, and the Ghosts of...
"Winterdance," a Celtic Christmas celebration, will return to Tehachapi for two performances in the BeeKay Theatre on Sunday, Dec.+ 23. The concert, put on by Fiddlers Crossing, has been a sell-out the last four 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. This year they will be joined by vocalist Amelia Hogan, along with dancers from...
The Fiddlers Crossing poster for West My Friend reads: "Canadian eclectic acoustic ensemble." The trio 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 three-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 blend...
Hold on to your broomsticks, it's almost Halloween! To celebrate, the BeeKay Theatre will again be transformed into the BooKay! On Saturday, Oct. 20, the Tehachapi Pops Orchestra (TPOPS) will offer musical tricks and treats in two hour-long performances, at 4 and 7 p.m. As in prior years, the concert will be presented in partnership with the Tehachapi Community Theatre (TCT). Alex Zohn, of TCT, will return for an encore performance of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," with music composed by BooKay...
On Oct. 8 the Tehachapi Planning Commission was finally able to give the go-ahead to Rudy Ramirez for the development of the old Moose Lodge at 123 West F St. The Commission had been unable to reach a quorum at their two prior meetings. Ramirez plans to develop the facility as a restaurant, meeting facility and venue for parties and weddings. Ramirez said that the facility will have amplified music at which time he agreed the outside doors will be closed. All events must end by 11 p.m....
