June 2013 concerts in Tahoe: Steve Miller Band, Tahoe Reggae Festival

May 29-Jun 02 Bob Zany / Zan AufderHeide @ Improv at Harvey's
June 01-02 Valhalla Rennaisance Faire @ Camp Richardson
June 01  Highway 50 Wagon Train rondezvous @ Zephyr Cove Resort
  Big Bad Voodoo Daddy @ Harrah's 
  Solo Chapman Stick @ Horizon
  Battlecross, Huntress, Otis, Arsonists get All The Girs @ Whisky Dick's
  The Kandinsky Effect @ Moody's Bistro
  Soroptimist wine and restaurant faire @ Coyote Moon golf course in Truckee
  Ivan neville's Dumpstaphunk, Jellybread / Caught a Ghost @ Crystal bay Club
June 02  America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride
  Wagon Train Parade
  Terraplane, The Beer Gardeners @ Tahoe Mountain Brewery 
  DJ Cook-E, Peridon, Whomping Willow @ Electric Mushroom in Horizon
June 04  Multipleks, DubColing, S1nth3sys @ Whisky Dick's
  Local Talent @ Moody's Bistro
June 05-09 Heath Hyche / Ronnie Schell @ Improv at Harvey's
June 06  Float Tahoe: Float the Truckee river from Elk's club drive to Lake Tahoe
  Jimmy Ashley @ Cottonwood Bar and Grill
  Accoustic Thursday @ Cottonwood Bar and Grill 


June 07  Opening Day for hiking / Mountain Bike park @ Northstar
  O'Niel Cup Stand-Up paddle races @ Donner Lake
  2 Hundred West / SO Dubs @ Whisky Dick's 
  Moondog Matenee @ Heavenly Village
  35th Annaversary party @ Jakes on the Lake
  Robert Earl Keen w/ Andrea Davidson / jerry halford and the Healers @ Crystal Bay Club

June 07-08 George Souza 
June 08-09 Vallhalla Rennaisance Faire @ Camp Richardson
June 08  Tahoe Institute for Natural Science fundraiser @ Lake Tahoe Golf Course
  Patch fest 2013: Glacier snowboarding and campout @ Red Lakes 
  The Virgins @ Montbleu (canceled)
  Eric Burdon and the Animals @ Harrah's
  Jeff Jones @ The Beacon
  The New Thoreaus @ Divided Sky
  J.J. Cady @ The Passtime club in Truckee 
  Alan and Moore Duo @ Northstar
  Truckee Running Festival @ Truckee regional Park 
  Opiuo, Subtropixx, Tre Tuna, Phil harmonic @ Lakeside at night
  Billy Shaddox @ Between the Notes Music in Truckee
  Afrofunk Experience / Terraplane @ Crystal Bay Club
June 09  Sangre, Blessed Curse, Erabis, Through the Gates @ Whisky Dick's
  Big Red Blues Band @ The Beacon
  Coburn Station @ Northstar
  Rubber duck derby @ Truckee regional park
  CBC 10th annaversary w/ Grace Potter and the Nocturnals / Tumbleweed Wanderers @ Crystal Bay CLub
June 11  Irieyes, Zombass, Subtropixx (w/ Shane Suffritti and Gurbtron) @ Whisky Dick's
June 12-16 Steve White / Shayla Rivera @ Improv at Harvey's
June 12  Jesse Kalin w/ Jester's Attic @ The Beacon
  Ryan Bingham w/ The Wild Feathers, David Jacobs Strain @ Crystal Bay Club
June 13  Ike and Martin @ The Beacon
  Moon Gravy @ Cottonwood Bar and Grill 
June 14-15 RENT @ Lake Tahoe Community College
June 14  Gift of Gab /Pigeon John @ Blu at Montbleu
  Zeroclient, Poindexter, Thicker than Thieves @ Whisky Dick's
  Johnny O Band @ The Beacon
  Jason king Band @ Heavenly Village
  Mojo Green, Groovebox / Downbeat @ Crystal Bay Club
June 15-23 Tahoe City Solctice festival
June 15  Charlie Musselwhite / Coco Montyoa @ Harrah's South Shore Room
  Deep Fried Mojo @ The Beacon
  Lonesome Locomotive @ Himmel Haus
  Deep Fried Mojo @ The Beacon
  Summer Shred skate competition @ Woodward Tahoe  
  Jason King Band @ Northstar
  No Duh! a tribute to No Doubt / Subtropixx, Shane Suffriti,Gurbtron, Micah J @ Crystal Bay Club
June 16  FATHER'S DAY
  High School Jazz Band @ Valhalla
  Cash Only Band @ The Beacon
  The Northstar Session @ Northstar
  Father's day concert feat. Kristyn Harris @ Thunderbird lodge 
  Mumbo Gumbo @ aboard the Tahoe Gal
  James McMurtry @ Crystal Bay CLub 
June 19-23 James Davis / Avi Liberman @ Improv at Harvey's
June 19  Jellybread @ Truckee river park
June 20-22 RENT @ Lake Tahoe Community College
June 20-24 Bounce Music festival: Beats Antique, Grizz, Boombox, Justin Martin, Mark Farina, LowRiderz, Rob Garza
  Nadastrom, Break Science, The Polish Ambassador, Lumimox, Sabo, Vokab Kompany, @ Twain harte
June 20  Golf Luau @ Lake Tahoe Golf Course
  Ike and Martin @ The Beacon
  Live at Lakeview kickoff feat. Jellybread and 4-piece puzzle  @ Lakeview Commons
  Boys and Girls Club spaghetti feed @ Steamers
June 21  Long Beach rehab / SO Dubs, Squarefield Massive, Weapon @ Blu at Montbleu
  Glam Cobra @ Heavenly Village
  Joe Mama @ The Beacon
  Junior Brown, Easy Leaves / Igor and the Red Elvises @ Crystal Bay Club
June 22  Steve Miller Band feat. Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers @ Harvey's Outdoor Amphetheatre
  Max Pain and the Groovies, Deep Space @ Whisky Dick's
  Forget the Roses @ The Beacon
  Deep Fried Mojo @ Tahoe Paradise Park
  Full Moon Kayak @ Sugar Pine Point st. Park
  The Everyone Orchestra ft. Steve Kimock, John Kimock,Trevor Garrod(TLG), Sunshine Garcia,
  Dan Lebowitz(ALO) and Mike Sugar + After Party w/ NVO @ Crystal Bay Club  
June 23  Freq Nasty, 6-Blocc @ Blu at Montbleu
  Redneck Sextet @ The Beacon
  Trey Stone @ Commons Beach concert series opener
  McAvoy Lane as Mark Twain @ Pine Lodge in Sugar Pine point 
June 25  Bass Mtn fundraiser w/ special guests @ Whisky Dick's
June 26-30 Michael Kosta / Quinn Dahle @ Improv at Harvey's
June 26  Bowl a thon for Boys and Girls Club @ Tahoe Bowl
  The Silver Shine, Straight Shooter @ Whisky Dick's 
June 27  American Jubilee feat. Brian Lesh & Ross James / Tracorum @ Live at Lakeview Commons
  Protoje / Jah faith @ Hacienda del Lago
June 28  Sceam, Equinox, DJ Kronyak, Syrax, Bluntstache @ Electric Mushroom
  Island of Black and White @ Heavenly Village 
  3UPFRONT @ Hacienda Del Lago
  The Blues Monsters @ The Beacon 
  Keyser Sose / Mark Sexton band @ Crystal Bay Club
June 29-30 Race the Lake of the Sky Stand Up Paddle races @ Lakeview Commons

June 29  Lake Tahoe Reggae fest: SOJA, Alpha Blondy, Passafire, Stick Figure,
       Tomorrow’s Bad Seed, Island of Black & White @ Montbleu
  The Dan Band @ Harrah's
  Plantrae, Mumukshu, Soulular, Sixis, Shwex, Shap-er, Benjah Ninjah, Phil Harmonic @ RAW bar
  Captured by Robots, Dirt Starship, Up Against It @ Whisky Dick's
  Big Bad Wolf @ the Beacon
  One Track Mind @ King's Beach 
June 30  Exceeding 55 @ Valhalla music on the lawn series
  Midnight Riders @ The Beacon
  Joy and Madness, Hans Erbach @ Commons Beach
July 1  Battlecross, Otis, Huntress, Gary busey Amber Alert @ Whisky Dick's 

America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride 2013

America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride is a 72 mile bike ride around Lake Tahoe put on every year by Bike The West.  Riders complete a circuit from Stateline, through South Lake Tahoe, CA, up the mountain to Emerald Bay, past Homewood up to Truckee and Crystal Bay, and then back down the East shore to finish back where they started in the back parking lot of the Horizon casino resort.




See my full gallery of pictures of 2013's America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride on Google Plus

Wildfire Awareness Week

See the full gallery of Wildfire Awareness Week on Google+

The first ever WildFire Awareness Week event drew over 600 spectators to the Montbleu resort Memorial Day weekend.  It fetured baloon rides on the famous Smokey the Bear baloon, making its first ever appearance in Lake Tahoe, as well as firefighter gear demonstrations and representatives from many local, state, and federal agencies.

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Defensible Space

For the individual homeowner, the key thing they can do to protect their home from the risk of being consumed in a catastrophic wildfire is to have good defensible space. LivingWithFire.info reccomends at least 30 feet of non-flammable plants, with a stone drainage between any vegitation and your house and a 100 foot "lean, clean, and green" area around your home if possible.  The TRPA used to reccomend that people leave their pine needles in their yard for water quality, the new reccomendation is to clean the entire defensible space area of all dead material.

Lake Tahoe Master Gardeners has provided a list of plants to be sure to avoid in the 30ft area including:

• Juniper
• Spruce
• Pines and Firs
• Manzanita
• Chinquepin
• Huckleberry Oak

Fire Gear

Structure firefighting and wildland firefighting have very different needs. Structure fires burn hot in confined spaces, so the gear is designed to offer protection against both extreme heat and dense smoke inside a building. 

Wildland firefighting gear has to be lighter.  According to fire marshal Eric Guevin "obviously when we do a  wildland fire, a brush fire, that gear is not practical.  We wouldn't be able to have all that gear on. It's way to heavy, the guys would be exhausted and they wouldn't be able to fight the fire because they'd be physically unable to do that."

He continued, "It's a lot lighter, so they're more agile on the fire line, and yet it affords some protection against fire brands and fire exposure.  So it's designed to keep them a little cooler and a little bit more agile but yet provide for protection." 

Wildland firefighters also have to contend with the weight of carrying a portable fire shelter, a hose, a supply of water, and tools for cutting fire lines and setting backfires.

Trey Stone kicks off Heavenly Village concert series

The new Heavenly Village Friday night concert series (Sponsored by KTHO radio and Wake Up Tahoe) kicked off on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend in front of Base Camp Pizza with the Trey Stone band playing some great blues and Jimi Hendrix covers including "Voodoo Chile", and "The Wind Cries Mary"

Trey Stone is a longtime musician who has played with Parliament/Funkadelic, Bootsie Collins, Dee-Lite, and Tower of Power.  He has lived in Tahoe for a number of years now and loves it too much to leave.


He is accompanied in this video by "8-track" John Belanger (Drums), and  Boyce Pittman (Bass).

The Heavenly Village concert series will continue all through June and July.  Upcoming dates include:

• May 31 - Jesse Kalin and Cool Black Kettle
• June 7 - Moondog Matenee
• June 14 - Jason King Band
• June 21 - Glam Cobra
• June 28 - Island of Black and White
• July 05 - Connor Brothers feat. Groovebox
• July 12 - Street Urchinz
• July 19-20 Jon Bovi (Las Vegas)

Follow Wake Up Tahoe on Facebook to stay up to date on this concert series.

 

Slow Rollers 2013 afterparty

For the last 3 years running Lake Tahoe's Slow Rollers bicycling club has put on a costumed bike parade, which last year I filmed as a contender for the Gueiness world record for "World's Longest Bicycle Parade" but this year the spring weather was rainy with a threat of lightning and the turnout wasn't as big as usual. 

It's  usually from the Y to Stateline; this time it was from South Shore Bikes to Mo's Place, so I missed the actual parade; but I caught up with the slow rollers at their afterparty and got this video with all the riders in their costumes.

May 2013 Tahoe Concerts: Vanilla Ice, Sammy Hagar, The Shins, Ra Ra Riot

May 1-5 Rocky LaPorte / Ron Morey @ Improv at Harvey's
May 01 Jesse Kalin and Acousitcal @ Cabo Wabo
 All Tahoe clothing swap @ American Legion
May 02 City Mouse, Ninja Slaughterhouse, End of the Line @ Rojos
 Bias and Dunn feat. Steve Kershnick @ Moody's Bistro
 Chasing Ice movie screening @ Squaw Valley
 Chango's Tree House @ The Grid
May 2-4 Left of Center @ Cabo Wabo 
May 3-5 Genoa cowboy festival feat. Riders in the Sky, Dave Stamey, Hot Club of Cowtown and Waddie Mitchell.
May 3-4 Sammy Hagar: Four Decades of Rock @ Harrah's
 Firefighter's "fill the boot"fundraiser at the Y 
May 03 Seasonal Job Fair @ Harvey's bus garage
 Jesse Kalin @ The Beacon
 The Vegascendants @ Classic Cue
 Graham Marshall @ Moody's Bistro
 New Monsoon / Acorn Project @ Crystal Bay Club
May 04 Mayweather vs. Gurerro watch party @ Montbleu
 Boogie Nights Cougars and Cubs party @ Opal
 Sugar Beats, NoWa, EfxHand, AD/AM, and Nausicaa @ RAW bar
 Truckee River Band / Molly taylor @ Whisky Dick's
 Ike and Martin @ The Beacon 
 Forget the Roses @ Moody's Bistro
 The Bumptet, Sean Leahy Trio / Spirit Family Reunion @ Crystal Bay Club
 Biggest little skate jam for Autisim feat. Melvin Makes Machine Guns in Sparks

May 05 Cinco de Mayo (parties at Hacienda del lago, Heavenly's CA Lodge, and more)
 DJ Chris English @ Cabo Wabo
May 06 Cash Only Band @ Cabo Wabo 
May 07 TYMK, IJV, Ground Score @ Whisky Dick's
 Skiier/BASE jumper Eric Roner of MTV's Nitro Circus @ Moody's Bistro  
May 8-12 Jake Johannsen / Sammy Obeid @ Improv at Harvey's
May 08 Douglas County Sherrif's office open house @ America's Greenest Jail
 Tone Cookin @ McP's
May 09 Jackson and Jesus @ McP's
May 09-12 Motherhood Out Loud @ Montbleu
May 10 Trunk Monkey @ McP's
 Jellybread, Drop Theory, Low Flying Birds @ Crystal Bay Club

May 11 The Shins / Ra Ra Riot @ Montbleu
 Super Diamond @ Harrah's
 SureFure Deluxe @ McP's
 Bent Wood @ The Beacon
 Ben Fuller @ Moody's Bistro
Joker, Philosophy, Tally, Trevor B, Agent 42 @ RAW bar
 Head for the Hills / Hellbound Glory @ Crystal Bay Club
May 12 Mother's Day
 Local's appreciation party feat. Thrive, Weapon, Bukue One @ Montbleu
 Anne Roos @ The Boathouse restaurant at BEACH retreat
May 13 Joy / Pleasure Bonus / Molly Taylor @ Whisky Dick's
May 14 Career faire @ LTCC
 Digital Connection, Humpfree LowGart of (Ohm Wrecker) @ Whisky Dick's 
May 15-19 Charles Fleisscher / Brant von Hoffman @ Improv at Harvey's
May 16 Kelly Anne Miller @ Cottonwood bar and grill
 Slow Rollers bicycle parade through South Tahoe
 Harmony Road @ McP's
 The Main Squeeze @ Crystal Bay Club
May 17-18 The Academy of Dance Arts @ Montbleu
May 17 Livitz Livitz, Boot to the Kool, Ninja Slaughterhause @ Whisky Dick's
 Ron's Garage @ McP's
 Afrolicious, Eddie Robert's west coast sound / Downbeat @ Crystal Bay Club
May 18 Ira Walker w/ M.I.P. @ Whisky Dick's
 Manic Bros @ McP's
 RYDHA J ClYDE, DUBB 20, J PIGG fr hooligans @ RAW bar
 Lyrics Born feat. Skins and Needles and 40 Watt Hype / The CME, Mr. Rooney @ Crystal Bay Club
May 21 Oscar Danliels, Dead Robot, HepHany @ Whisky Dick's
May 22-27 Nick Griffin / Gene Pompa @ Improv at Harvey's
May 23 Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes @ Montbleu
 Live at Lakeview Commons voulenteer recruitment (5PM) @ Lakeview Commons
 Neutralboy, Up Against It @ Rojos 
 Ben Taylor @ Crystal Bay Club
May 23-24 Northstar Elevators @ McP's
May 24-25 Steven Roth @ Moody's Bistro
May 24 Equinox, DJ Kronyak, Conspiracy Theory, Beat Karma @ Blu nightclub in Montbleu
Long Beach Rehab / Arden Park Roots @ Blu
 K-Theory @ Tahoe Biltmore
 Sisqo @ PEEK Tahoe
 Trey Stone @ Heavenly Village
 Dead Winter Carpenters w/ California Honeydrops / The Paisley Brain Cells @ Crystal Bay Club
May 25 Dead Winter Carpenters w/ He's My Brother, She's my Sister / Achilles Wheel @ Crystal Bay Club
 Valilla Ice @ Harrah's
 4-way street @ McP's
 Deep Fried Mojo @ The Beacon
 Stranger Band (reggae) w/ SO Dubs, Weapon @ Whisky Dick's
 Late Nite Billy's birthday bash feat. DJ Morefiend & DJ Enlightenment  @ RAW Bar
 Cool Black Kettle @ The Beacon 
 Perfect Giddimani / Winstrong @ Hacienda del lago
May 26 Starship w/ members of Jefferson Airplaine @ Harrah's
 Naughty By Nature @ PEEK Tahoe
 Big Bad Wolf @ The Beacon 
 Tracorum, Groove Session / The Nick Moss Band @ Crystal Bay Club
May 27 Memorial Day
 Mindfull Massive dubstep show @ Whisky Dick's
 Protoje @ Hacienda del Lago
May 28 Desert Dwellers, Ransom, Trevor & tattoo Joe Moontribe @ Whisky Dick's
May 29- June 02 Bob Zany / Zan Aufderheide @ Improv at Harvey's
May 29 Birds of Chicado @ The Divided Sky
  Ron's Garage @ McP's
 Agent Orange, Marones, The Business End @ Whisky Dick's
May 30 JG Duo @ McP's
 The Black Lillies @ Crystal Bay Club
May 31 Gretchen Wilson @ Montbleu
 Dab City in South Lake Tahoe
 Castle, Hate FX, Demon Lung, Envirusment, Serpent & Seraph @ Whisky Dick's
 4-way Street @ McP's
 Jesse Kalin and Cool Black Kettle @ Heavenly Village
 Reggae legends The Wailing Souls w/ Pure Roots / Massive Delicious @ Crystal Bay Club
July 1-2 Highway 50 Wagon Train rondezvous @ Zephyr Cove Resort
 Valhalla Rennasaince Faire @ Camp Richardson
 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy @ Harrah's
 Battlecross, Huntress, Otis, Arsonists get All The Girs @ Whisky Dick's 
July 2 America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride
 Wagon Train Parade
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Lake Tahoe Home and Garden Show

I went out to the South Lake Tahoe Rec center for the The 2nd Annual Home and Garden Show presented by Golden Bear Events and talked to some of Tahoe's finest home and garden vendors. 


Featured Participants:
JoAnn Connor - Golden Bear Events (event producer)
Nick Wester - House and Garden plant nutrients
Chuck Brown - Decorative Overlays
Joanna Rossmeisl - Cookie Lee
Jamie Davis - Beauty Society
Theresa Chisholm - Legal Shield
Tami Smith - Tastefully Simple
Tommy Purnal - Lee Designs
Doug Bolton - Color Time / Carpets Plus
Jesse Schexnayder - Hot Shotz heat packs
Terry - Sit Means Sit dog training
Jean Prestella - Beachcomber Inn
Vicki Palmer - Wild Tree
Frank McCreary - Frank's Stump Grinding
Mandy Kendall - Health Connective
Rodney Moore - Carson City Beauty Academy
Bonnie Driscoll - Habitat for Humanity
Nathan Schwab - Calstar
Rick Madden - I Can Fix That Tahoe
Diana Peticolas - Barefoot Limosines
Don the Baker - Cakes by the Lake
Steve Terry - Affordable Construction Services