Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Gayel Pitchford has been chosen as the recipient of AAUW's Named Gift Award for 2014. Branches that contribute $500 or more to national scholarships and grants made by American Association of University Women are entitled to give this award to a person who has promoted AAUW goals. Tehachapi Mountain Branch always donates this amount in addition to the local scholarships they award each year. Pitchford has encouraged, promoted and taught music in this community since 1996. She is responsible for...
New Superintendent -- The Tehachapi Unified School District Board of Trustees welcomed new superintendent Susan Andreas-Bernel with a unanimous vote of approval and a contract signing ceremony at the May 27 board meeting in the district board room. The board expressed pleasure with the result of their intensive search that followed the announcement of the departure of Superintendent Lisa Gilbert, who has taken a position with the Kern County Superintendent of Schools. "The superintendent we're...
The Main Street Farmers Market, will start at Railroad Park on June 5 and run every Thursday until August 14 from 4 to 7pm. Farmers and local growers will again be the focus, with additional vendors who sell handmade, local, and other related items. The beer garden and bratwurst will be provided again this year by Kohnen's Bakery. Other vendors will provide tasty treats to enjoy while listening to local musicians arranged by Mountain Music. You'll find many of your neighbors returning from...
On Friday, May 30, Fiddlers Crossing will present popular satirist Roy Zimmerman in his third appearance in Tehachapi. Zimmerman played to sold-out crowds at Mama Hillybeans several years ago, and at a house concert last year. Zimmerman finds just about everything and everyone funny in one way or another. As a satirist in the vein of Tom Lehrer, but with a decidedly more political point of view, his "funny songs about ignorance, war and greed" skewer our major politicians and celebrities, as...
Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District is excited to bring many exciting events to Tehachapi in the next few weeks. May 31, 2014 is the Run with the Wind (and under the sun) four "miler" at the Mountain Valley Airport (Glider Airport) on Harris Road. Brought to you by World, Wind & Solar, GE, Sun Power, Solar City, Tehachapi Recycle, Mid-American Solar and Michelob Ultra, this four mile course takes you east toward the beautiful hillside of GE turbines, turn South along Danford Road,...
I feel that, in my last column, I had done the French Hotel an injustice by somewhat skirting over its past. I had placed it, rather abruptly, on the corner of Green and F streets, without enough ceremony. A whole page of history was glossed over, and I'd like to go back and give you "the rest of the story." As aforementioned, The Summit School was a beautifully structured building where the ancestors of early settlers studied as well as the children of an influx of Spanish and French Basque,...
When reviewers first dubbed Chuck Pyle the "Zen Cowboy" he decided to be true to his motto: "Always ride the horse in the direction it's going." He took the nickname to heart, shaving his head and blending his upbeat perspective with old-fashioned horse sense. Pyle will perform at Fiddlers Crossing on First Friday, May 2, at 7 p.m. His music is an infectious blend of hummable melodies, straight-from-the-saddle poetry and quotes from bumper stickers, proverbs, world leaders and old cowboys....
This season Fiddlers Crossing has been introducing Tehachapi to some of the best contemporary singer-songwriters now touring. The next performer in this series of exceptional concerts is Eric Taylor, an icon of the Texas style of songwriters, coming to Fiddlers Crossing Saturday, April 12, at 7 p.m. Taylor has been called "a sage musician, a lyrical genius and a master of the guitar." His songs have been recorded by Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith and many others. Griffith calls him, "The William...
Rick and Cindy Remillard had been trying to move to Tehachapi for five years. Last November they were finally able to realize their dream. They both still commute to Bakersfield for work, but Cindy says it is very much worth the trouble. Rick has been an engineer at San Joaquin Community Hospital for twenty-six years and, while he doesn’t really mind the commute, would like to explore the possibility of working closer to home. Cindy is a recruiter for Western Truck School, a job she has held f...
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 perform at Fiddlers...
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, March 16, at 4 p.m., in concert with fellow singer-songwriter Antje Duvekot. For tickets call Mountain Music, 661-823-9994. And do it soon! 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...
What if Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had hailed from California instead of Britain? Would the Rolling Stones songs have sounded more like The Beach Boys', sung in tight harmony and played on acoustic guitars? James Lee Stanley and John Batdorf will present their answer to that question when they perform their "All Wood and Stones" concert in the BeeKay Theatre Saturday, March 1, presented by Fiddlers Crossing. With songs that in the hands of these two virtuoso singers and acoustic guitarists...
You may remember hearing about manna from Sunday School, Bible studies or even Sunday sermons, and while the manna served up on the last Monday of each month at Tehachapi Mountain Vineyard differs in substance from that which God gave His people in the desert, the intent is very similar: feeding God's people when they find themselves in need and when there's more month than money. Between Pastor Barry Galloway and Lilliana Valdez who, according to Pastor Galloway "runs a tight ship," organizes...
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 perform at Fiddlers...
Like many of our Americana "roots" music genres, the blues has morphed many times and in many ways from its acoustic origins in the deltas and cotton fields of the steamy south to the electric rock and roll dance halls, clubs and bars in the rest of the country. It has spawned jazz, soul, R&B, rock and country music. Blues itself has become standardized, fitting nicely into eight bars or 12 bars in minor keys with a set pattern to the lyrics and chord structure, and most always a sense of...
In its nearly four years as a venue, Fiddlers Crossing has been introducing Tehachapi to a wide variety of acoustic musicians. Some are well-established favorites in blues, Celtic, bluegrass, folk and Americana. Some are bright young stars-to-be. Amber Cross is one of those singers that you'll soon enough be able to tell your friends, "I heard her first at Fiddlers Crossing." Listening to her old-school country songs and honest back porch voice has been likened to putting an archival...
Fiddlers Crossing is greeting 2014 on a high energy note with the return of Sligo Rags, a rollicking Celtic "pub" band with "a decidedly bluegrass attitude," on Saturday, Jan. 11. Sligo Rags is non-stop fun. With Michael Kelly on fiddle and vocals, David Burns on acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin and vocals, and new member Olivier Prud'homme on bass, the group delivers foot-stomping tunes and side-splitting humor. The group is now a quartet, with the addition of percussionist Jonathan Baer, who...
