KVMR Events Schedule

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KVMR's 14th Annual Celtic Festival

Come for the Music

...Stay for the Magic

It's music, magic, and so much more at KVMR's 14th annual Celtic Festival.

Get your tickets now and take advantage of advance ticket pricing. You'll enjoy world-class headliners, great food, one-of-a-kind shopping, and so much more. It's a weekend of fun for the whole family.

Click here for more about KVMR's 14th Annual Celtic Festival

Think Local First!

Grass Valley Thursday Night Market

6:00 PM to 9:30 PM, Thursdays, July 1st thru September 2nd
Downtown Grass Valley

It's a Farmer's Market, it's a free concert series, it's a shopping spree, it's a place to see and be seen. The Grass Valley Thursday Night Market is all of this and more. It's one of the great charms of our community where everyone comes together for food, fun, and merriment.

It is a celebration of free enterprise and new ideas blended with heritage craftsmanship and art. Items from around the world and up in the hills! There are street performers and entertainment for everyone in the family.

This heritage event in the heart of the Gold Country blends the town and country elements and attitudes of Nevada County into a neighborly snapshot of our community. In this day and age when most commerce is geared to the automobile and satellite malls, the Grass Valley Thursday Night Marketplace brings the local and regional community downtown to walk, browse, talk meet your friends and neighbors, all in the shadow of a wonderfully historic and colorful downtown. This is the real thing, this is authentic character, the face of our community and it reflects the synergy of those who live here and those who visit or would love to live in our town.

Stop by the KVMR booth during your visit to the market and pick up the latest Listener's Guide or information about the Celtic Festival. We'd love to see you!

Click here for more about Grass Valley's Thursday Night Markets

An Encore Performance

Johnny Cash Tribute Show featuring

James Garner and his Cash Band

Saturday, September 4th
at the Grass Valley Veteran's Hall
255 South Auburn Blvd., Grass Valley
Doors open at 6:15 PM
Show starts at 7:00 PM

After a sell-out performance in the Spring, The Nevada County Conference & Visitors Bureau is bringing back the Johnny Cash Tribute Show for an encore. Featuring James Garner and The Tennessee Three, this show is one to see if you're a fan of Johnny Cash or just enjoy the great "boom-chicka-boom" sound that Cash pioneered.

Up until his death in 2003, Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash had a show business career that span almost 50 years. Johnny Cash was a prolific songwriter and singer whose genres covered country western, rock 'n' roll, rockabilly, blues and gospel music. Cash is the only person to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. In 1968, after many proposals, he married June Carter who came from a family that some describe as 'country music royalty'. They went on to write and perform many songs together until June's death just four months before Johnny's.

Click here for tickets and more for the
Johnny Cash Tribute Show Featuring James Garner and his Cash Band

Click here to visit the James Garner and his Cash Band web site

Click here to visit the Johnny Cash web site

Friends of Hospice present

"Side by Side" with Jane Rivar

September 11, 2010
River Highlands Ranch

Join Friends of Hospice and honorary chairperson LaVonne Amaral, present a premier benefit concert event, "Side by Side". KVMR joins Friends of Hospice in standing together to celebrate 29 years of support for the mission, programs, and patient services of Hospice of the Foothills and now the new Compassionate Care Home.

Held at the lovely River Highlands Ranch, the concert includes wine and appetizers, opening music with Ivan Najera, live auction, dessert bar, and a special concert with Jane Rivar.

Click here for the Friends of Hospice web site

Click here to visit Jane Rivar's web site

Click here for more about this Friends of Hospice benefit & presentation of "Side by Side" with Jane Rivar September 11, 2010

The Center for the Arts presents

Chubby Checker and The Wildcats

September 11, 2010
Grass Valley Veteran's Memorial Hall

Celebrate 50 years of twisting the night away with KVMR and The Center for the Arts and rock and roll pioneer, Chubby Checker.

Maybe you're looking for some reasons to attend this concert? Take a look at these Chubby Checker facts:

• The only artist to have 5 albums in the Top 12 all at once.

• The First Platinum Record "Let's Twist Again"

• The only artist to have a song to be # 1 twice - "The Twist"

• The only artist to have 9 Double-Sided Hits

• Chubby Checker changed the way we dance to the beat 24/7 since 1959

KVMR will be there - we hope you will too. Stop by and say hello at our table in the lobby.

Click here to visit Chubby Checker's web site

Click here for more about Chubby Checker and The Wildcats at Grass Valley Veteran's Memorial Hall September 11, 2010

New LIVE! Festival Broadcast from KVMR

4th American River Music Festival

Henningsen-Lotus Park, Lotus, CA (Click here for a map)

On the South Fork of the American River in the Coloma-Lotus Valley

September, Friday 17th - Sunday 19th, 2010

LIVE! Broadcast September, Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th

KVMR adds another amazing festival to our live broadcast calendar. It's the 4th Annual American River Music Festival with over 32 Folk, Americana and Acoustic Blues performances at 11 stages throughout the friendly river community of Coloma.

Enjoy riverfront camping, a whitewater river trip, a guided riverfront hike, wine tour, Friday night showcase, kid's activities, live art, food, beverages and a great vibe. Stop by the Live Broadcast booth and say hello to KVMR broadcasters.

Artists include:
Jesse Winchester · Slaid Cleaves · Karla Bonoff with Kenny Edwards and Nina Gerber · Handful of Luvin · Mike Beck and the Bohemian Saints · The California Honeydrops · Anne Weiss with David Jacobs-Strain · Walter Strauss Trio · Leroy Bell and His Only Friends · Berkely Hart · Ma Muse · Dana Hubbard · Forest Sun · Jonny Mojo · Garrin Benfield · The Bungee Jumping Cows · The Easy Leaves · Open Mic.

Click here for the American River Music Festival website

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