We can’t wait to welcome Devoted Fans, a SF indie pop band, who perform “Sweet, sensitive, and earnest songs for sarcastic, cynical, and selfish times ♥” and Desario, a Sacramento band whose sound “is reminiscent of ‘90s Britpop and shoegaze.. More suited to a dark, cavernous club than a raging party, the songs are at once intimate and lonely but always highly melodic and layered.

doors at 5 // tunes at 7ish

listen here: https://devotedfans.bandcamp.com/album/hyper-devotion

https://desario.bandcamp.com/

Join us in welcoming Cactus Lee, hailing from Austin, Texas, to the Caspar Inn stage.

Doors at 5pm, Tunes at 7

tickets:

For years Cactus Lee has quietly made records at a relentless pace, plugging along and playing out at local honky tonks in and around his hometown of Austin, Texas.

What began as a home recording project for songwriter Kevin Dehan in 2019 quickly became a group with rotating members and pick-up bands along the way. The project has played New York and Los Angeles multiple times, as well as a Chicago residency as part of the Cosmic Country showcase.

listen here: https://cactuslee.bandcamp.com/album/lees-dream

A community puppet festival.

Timing of morning workshop & evening show TBA

Cuban inspired cuisine by Dalen available

Music by Sabroso and Andalele, and a Cuban style Descarga feat. members of !Mambo This!

**proceeds go through Cuba Terra Nova, to benefit residents of Viñales with groceries, medicine, seeds, and clean water

Doors at 5 // Music at 5:30

suggested donation: $20

Ukulele workshop, all levels welcome! Need a ukulele? Pick one up at the Music Box in Mendo Village :)

5:30 - 7pm

We look forward to welcoming Andalele back to the stage for an evening of Latin Jazz! A Mendo local group consisting of Chad Swimmer, Cathryn Guillette, and James Whiting, plus some other special Guests

Also featuring a 5pm beginning partner dance lesson by Wade Killingsworth.

Doors open at 5, music from 5:45pm to 8PM

No ticket required for entry, but we suggest bringing a cash tip or donation of $10 for the artists

** no experience necessary!

Bring clothing you’d like to repair & prolong. Bring general sewing supplies if you have them (scissors, pins, etc). the bakery will be open, for coffee / tea & treats to keep you going while you mend

hosted by patch + plug

Kind Word is back with Trudy Monk, up from Bolinas

Bar & doors at 5, tunes at 7

listen here: https://trudymonk.bandcamp.com/album/yours-trudy

All are welcome to take in the sights and sounds of our talented community. An evening of celebration, appreciation and a vision of queer joy being lived out.

Doors at 5pm, show from 6:30 - 9:30.

sliding scale tickets at the door $10-30. No one turned away

details and lineup TBA

learn more: https://forthecurious.net/

Join us as we welcome northern Californian artist Natural Bridges to the Caspar Inn stage, and Donald Beaman back to the stage.

Doors at 5pm // Tunes at 7pm

Sliding scale tickets at the door $10-$20

Natural bridges delivers pop, rock, and soul influenced tunes that sound like lost classics dug from the depths of the dollar bin.

“Donald Beaman…conjures up a twilit landscape with shimmering guitars, clever-but-not-fussy arrangements and vocals that recall the enigmatic lilts of Cass McCombs and Will Oldham…in the classic folk/rock/country vein, while still feeling absolutely fresh…quietly gorgeous…filled with empathy and warmth.”

listen here: https://naturalbridges.bandcamp.com/album/residual-daydreams

https://donaldbeaman.bandcamp.com/album/donald-beaman

Storytelling night on the Caspar Inn stage. Every 2nd thursday.

Kids: 4:30-5pm

Adults: 6:00-7pm

come one come all! no cover, donations appreciated

• this week Chef Chantelle will have food for sale, 5pm-8pm. Chicken soup and/or Chickpea soup

Subprime Mortgage plays an acoustic set as Mary McQueeny, a San Francisco indie folk-country band formed by singer-songwriter Mary Kate Tankard and guitarist Cornelius Hart. Familiar yet experimental, they combine acoustic blues with overdriven, spacey lead, to create an atmospheric and eclectic sound.

Doors open at 5pm, music at 7pm

No Cover, suggested donation of $10-$15

Join us in welcoming Christian Conaway back to the Caspar Inn stage - look forward to an evening of tales from their journeys across California, told through songs written for solo piano. Expect surprises, laughter, and piano music akin to Elton John meets Nina Simone e.g. jazzy, soulful, songstories.

music at 6pm

No cover but tips or donations encouraged!

NorCal indie, avant-folk artist Gillian Grogan returns to Mendocino with a band to celebrate the finale of the Bloom Or Bust Tour and fresh summer release of "Ants In The Garden" - the song that took the NPR Tiny Desk Contest by storm last year with a treehouse performance that left many in tears and was one of the few finalists featured on NPR. This 50-date, 20-state garden-themed tour is littered with unique and fleeting duo and trio performances featuring local musicians across the country, offering an early sneak peek of the songs and stories comprising her much-anticipated sophomore record, Honey Moon.

The Bloom Or Bust Tour also launches the 30-day, all-or-nothing Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to finance the artful and independent release of Honey Moon this coming year.

Grogan recently finished recording Honey Moon at 2200 Studios (formerly The Record Plant) in Sausalito, CA with Grammy-nominated co-producer Ben Bloomberg and Grammy-nominated recording engineer Damien Lewis. She collaborated with artists like The Westerlies, Jason Crosby and mix engineer Rob Shelton (Altamira Sound) to weave together little strands of folk, indie, rock, soul and nature itself into a sonic landscape “unlike anything else you’ve heard in 'folk' music today” (Ear To The Ground). 

Honey Moon explores questions without answers, love without purpose, and chords without resolve. It embraces readiness without preparation, vulnerabilities without  judgement, and seeks to release the present from the past. It is a collection of songs and interludes that speak to a single truth—that it is our flaws which make us most beautiful, just as it is the dust and pollution in the earth’s atmosphere which casts a warm amber hue on the moon at the horizon, as it rises, as it falls, and rises again.

These incredibly talented Mendocino local and Bay Area artists will be opening the show...

R.O. SHAPIRO A troubadour, a traveler peddling original tunes of love, loss, and social justice, carefully crafted and soulfully sung. A New Yorker, an Austinite, and now a Californian, he’s always on the lookout for new communities and stages where he can share his authentic warmth and wit. https://roshapiro.com https://instagram.com/r.o.shapiro

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WINONA A musician, songwriter, and performer based in Northern California. Her songs are mythic, her vocals haunting, full of melancholic longing and timeless beauty. Rooted in the folk music of the 1960s and inspired by modern indie songstresses, Winona’s sound is at once nostalgic and dew-fresh unique. Her influences include Feist, Kate Wolf, Courtney Marie Andrews, and (of course) Joni. https://winonadoesmusic.com https://instagram.com/winonadoesmusic

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NICO MESA California-born, Colombian-raised singer-songwriter weaving folk, Latin, and jazz into a sound all his own. For fans of: Fleet Foxes, Andrew Bird, Elliot Smith. https://linktr.ee/nico.mesa https://instagram.com/nico.mesa.musica‍ ‍

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MADELEINE LEIGH A multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter based in Boulder, Colorado. She is a founding member of Austin bands Ley Line and Steel Betty and has toured both nationally and internationally since 2016. She is a twin, a lover of nature, and a storyteller. https://madeleine-leigh.com https://instagram.com/madeleine__leigh‍ ‍

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MORGAN DANIEL A pillar of the Mendocino music community. We all know him. We all love him. https://foxgloveonline.com/ https://instagram.com/morganneildaniel

“The Blank Tapes told us to never get old, and like any good advice, we've been trying to live it ever since, drenched in the band's laid-back, California haze. At the heart of it all is Matt Adams, a quiet storm with a head full of kaleidoscopic sounds. Adams' multi-instrumental mastery is a call to anyone looking for something smoother than a jolt. His dream mix of psych-soul, hippie funk and '60s pop has just enough fuzz to keep it from floating away.”

Doors at 5pm, Tunes at 7pm

tickets: $10-20 sliding scale at the door

listen here: https://theblanktapes.bandcamp.com/

Ukelele workshop, all levels welcome! Need a ukelele? Pick one up at the Music Box in Mendo Village :)

We look forward to welcoming Andalele back to the stage for an evening of Latin Jazz! A Mendo local group consisting of Chad Swimmer, Cathryn Guillette, and James Whiting, plus some other special Guests

Doors open at 5pm, music from 6:30pm to 8PM

No ticket required for entry, but we suggest bringing a cash tip or donation of $10 for the artists

Bring your bike, bring tools if you got em, work on your bike with friends in our side yard. Have a pastry while you do so? Group ride after?

come one come all!

Surfsquatch will be joined by Return to Nagoya, up from Santa Cruz, along with local up-and-comers Gaia.

****Caspar neighbors will be grilling, and we’ll have BBQ for sale from 5PM onwards! No ticket required for food ****

Music at 6

Tickets available at the door, sliding scale cover $10-30

listen here:

https://surfsquatch.bandcamp.com/album/time-vampire

https://returntonagoya.bandcamp.com/track/die-over-again-version-1

Part II of the Kind Word residency at the Caspar Inn stage, this round we also welcome up Agnes Martian from Oakland.

Doors & Bar at 5, Music around 7.

Listen here:

{kind word}: https://assateague.bandcamp.com/album/good-morning-blues

https://agnesmartian.bandcamp.com/

Join locals and friends Sharkie and the Honor roll for retro funk grooves and an all-around good time.

Free! Door at 5pm, music at 7pm.

The bar will be pouring the usual beverages and serving up bar snacks.

Join us in welcoming the Heeters back to the Caspar Inn stage - we’re looking forward to a joyful night of their r&b, soul, and funk grooves.

Doors & bar at 5pm, Music around 7.

tickets: $20 online or at the door. buy them here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-heeters-tickets-1994435475195

listen here: https://theheetersband.com/

Blushin’ Roulettes return to the Caspar Inn stage!

5pm doors, 7pm music. We’ll be serving the usual drinks & bar snacks, and encourage donations for the musicians

listen here: https://blushinroulettes.com/music

“The Blushin’ Roulettes deliver old-time tunes with a modern twist. Songwriter/guitaress/banjo-picker Angie Rose Heimann writes earthy Americana folk songs and sagas of damsels in their bliss and distress in a stirringly delicate alto tinged with vibrato. The San Francisco Free Folk Festival called her songs “stripped down, sexy little jewel boxes stuffed with ancient mountain magic.”  Themes include love and loss,  wildness and domestication, and deepening the well within while while rooting into life with family, community and the natural world. The band's August 8 lineup will include a talented cast of local musicians- Raffaele Cataldo on fiddle, Blake Tallman on drums, and a possible surprise guest on harmony.”

We’re warmly welcome Alela Diane - hailing from the other end of Hwy 20 (Nevada City) - whose beautiful, timeless, folksy-bluegrass minstrel tunes will feel right at home on the Caspar Inn stage. We’ll open the evening with Shannon Lay’s ethereal melodies.

Purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alela-diane-with-shannon-lay-tickets-1987974362834

listen here: https://aleladiane.bandcamp.com/album/whos-keeping-time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0et8HzbbDo

Night Animals are coming up from San Francisco to grace us with their funk rock jams ~~ the stage will be clear, bring your dancing shoes

Doors at 5pm, Music at 7pm.

tickets: at the door, $10-$20 sliding scale

listen here: https://soundcloud.com/nightanimals

We will be open for dinner & bar service on a TUESDAY for a Maracuyas fundraiser pop up —

“Abolish ICE and free our people. Protect one another. Love one another. Show up and support. Here’s a way that you can. All proceeds will go directly to families”

food 5-8pm or sold out

We look forward to welcoming Andalele to the stage for an evening of Latin Jazz! A Mendo local group consisting of Chad Swimmer, Cathryn Guillette, and James Whiting, plus some other special Guests

Doors open at 5pm, music from 7pm to 9:30PM

No ticket required for entry, but we suggest bringing a cash tip or donation for the artists

Food by Instant Karma, 5pm-8pm (or sold out)

~Braised chicken, heirloom beans & salad, seasonal fruit dessert ~

Acoustic set by Itasca

tickets: sliding scale donation

listen here: https://itasca.bandcamp.com/album/imitation-of-war

We’ll be staying open late to project the big game on our big (8×8) screen

Frosty beverages will be flowing, bring your own snacks if so desired

Sports!

A set from our friends Kind Word, to follow up the day of music and festivities at Casparfest (across the street at our beautiful community center)

tickets: at the door, donation based