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<\/a>\nPhoto courtesy of Calaveras Visitors Bureau<\/p>\n
After a year hiatus, Angels Camp\u2019s signature entertainment festival is back and promises to be a rollicking good time. With the level of excitement building for what was known as Gold Rush Days, the event\u2019s producers have rechristened it as the Mark Twain Wild West Fest, and they\u2019ve spared no expense to bring a full day of fun and world class entertainment to historic downtown Angels Camp.
\nSierra Nevada Guns for hire Mark Twain Wild West Fest
\nPeriod costume performers you might see at Mark Twain Wild West Fest | File Photo
\n\u201cThe Mark Twain Wild West Fest started out years ago as \u2018Gold Rush Day\u2019 honoring special milestones in Angels Camp history,\u201d says Anne Forrest, chairman of the Angels Camp Commemorative Committee. \u201cIn 2015, we planned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mark Twain\u2019s time in Angels Camp and the Mother Lode, but had to cancel the event because of the Butte Wildfire that devastated a good portion of the county.\u201d
\nContinuing, Anne explains, \u201cAs we began to plan for 2016, we realized that not only did Mark Twain have a lasting influence on Angels Camp, but Angels Camp had a significant impact on Samuel Clemens, aka, Mark Twain. His tale, \u2018The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,\u2019 which he heard at the bar of the Angels Hotel, was his first work to gain worldwide fame. Angels Camp is truly the place where Mark Twain found his voice.\u201d
\nMany voices will be on stage this year, as the Fest prides itself on bringing high energy, up tempo music and entertainment to the streets of downtown Angels Camp. With three stages and acts ranging from Americana and country music to spoken word, cowboy poetry and comedy, it\u2019s going be an exciting day. Show producer Christopher Buttner, who has a long tenure in concert production, emphasized the high caliber performers and how they tie into the theme of the Wild West Fest, \u201cThe musical acts are all really fitting to the show itself, in the spirit of Old West flair with engaging storytellers and seasoned musicians.\u201d
\nThis year the Mark Twain Wild West Fest welcomes:
\nThe Sierra Mountain Band, who have performed everywhere from Branson to Angels Camp, will deliver a mix of country and western favorites, high-energy bluegrass, soulful mountain ballads, cowboy classics and toe-tapping fiddle and banjo tunes. http:\/\/www.sierramountainband.com
\nThe Old West Trio, celebrating over 20 years of performing Western-themed music from classic Sons of the Pioneers and Gene Autry tunes to contemporary Americana masterpieces, are the recipients of the 2011 Western Duo\/Group of the Year and a nominee for 2014 Western Duo\/Group of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists. http:\/\/oldwesttrio.com\/
\nSourdough Slim, the Last of the Vaudeville Cowboys, is a stage veteran from The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering to The Lincoln Center\u2019s Roots of American Music Festival and the Carnegie Hall Folk Festival. Cowboy Magazine calls Sourdough Slim, \u201cAn accordion playing, yodeling, tongue-in-cheek, cowboy-dressed entertainer deluxe.\u201d http:\/\/www.sourdoughslim.com
\nErnie Sites, all the way from Idaho, is a guitar strumming, singer\/songwriter and performing western cowboy poet; a trick roper, bull rider, rodeo clown, bareback rider, and roper extraordinaire. Western author, Corinne J. Brown, dubbed Ernie \u201cthe urban cowboy troubadour.\u201d http:\/\/www.erniesites.com
\nThe Black Irish Band, who just released their 25th CD, \u201cGive us All Yer Whiskey (Songs of Hard-rock miners & Hard-luck sailors),\u201d hail from the historic Gold Rush Country of America. For over 25-years, they have combined influences of Celtic, Spanish, and Italian delivering an incomparably exciting, original, progressive, and upbeat acoustic folk music sound that is, not only, as timeless as the rugged landscape of the west, but captures the spirit of the immigrants of this land; the men and women who tamed the Wild West. http:\/\/www.blackirish.com\/
\nOther featured performers include magicians, comedians, jugglers; gun-slinging cowboys and outlaws and shoot-out reenactments, as well as villains and damsels in distress; gold miners, their encampment and gold panning demonstrations; a flapjack breakfast; over 80 street vendors of all descriptions including arts and crafts, and a custom car show.<\/p>\n
Event Details
\nWhat: The Mark Twain Wild West Fest presented by the Angels Camp Commemorative Committee \u2013 http:\/\/www.marktwainwildwestfest.com
\nWhen: Saturday, October 15, 2016
\nTime: 10 am to 9 pm \u2013 Street Festival from 10 am to 5 pm
\nUtica Park Evening Music Festival: 5 pm to 9 pm
\nWhere: Highway 49, \u201cMain Street\u201d Angels Camp, California. Google Map
\nAdmission: FREE!
\nDeputy Discount Badges may be ordered in advance here
\nAge: All Ages and 21+ to drink alcoholic beverages.
\nAttire: Period costumes strongly encouraged. Wild West, Western, Gold Rush, Edwardian, Victorian, Gothic and even Steampunk.
\nFacebook: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marktwainwildwestfest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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