We couldn’t be more stoked to welcome our friends Sour Widows to the stage. Local singer songwriter Bodhi Walker will be providing an opening act

tickets available online and at the door. doors at 5pm, music starts around 7pm

purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sour-widows-tickets-1991423248544?aff=oddtdtcreator

Bio

Maia Sinaiko and Susanna Thomson like to joke that they are delusional about Sour Widows, the Bay Area band they started seven years ago that is just now releasing its entrancing and powerful debut LP, ‘Revival of a Friend’. In those seven years, Sinaiko and Thomson each endured losses and hardships that at times required putting bigger plans on hold; looking back, they can only laugh at these hurdles and wonder if they should have taken them as signs—to stop, to start over, to succumb to the hardship.

Absolutely not: Sour Widows has served as an essential outlet for Sinaiko, Thomson, and drummer Max Edelman, a way to process real-time woes so as to transmute them into something beautiful, useful, real, and lasting. It has been an anchor, too, keeping them lashed to reality as the world roiled around them. ‘Revival of a Friend’is their collective testament to that process, an hour-long lesson in endurance that is years in the making. Inspired by the folk singing of their youth, the grit and grace of Joni Mitchell, the slowly spiraling dazzle of Duster, and the steady angularity and sudden snarl of Slint, ‘Revival of a Friend’ fully recognizes the arbitrary cruelty of individual existence and finds that some of the best ways beyond it are to share harmonies, a tangle of electric guitars, or a song that simply imagines hope somewhere on the other side. Methodically built over many years with longtime friend and trusted drummer Max Edelman, this is a poignant and gripping record about the pain of growing up and getting on with it.

However pervasive it is, grief is not the only takeaway on the album. Sinaiko, Thomson, and Edelman are still here, after all, in a great DIY rock band that is a gathering of best friends, having made a mighty record that encapsulates and so sublimates all this anguish. It feels especially relevant that it emerges as a work of friendship from the Bay Area, dominated in recent years not by stories of the arts but instead by technology and the inequality it has wrought there. ‘Revival of a Friend’ is rooted in personal hurts, but it feels like an invitation to band together and work through our pains as one, to share the burdens of the world until we can find a better way forward. This is not delusion; this is hope, as difficult and necessary now as ever.

https://sourwidows.bandcamp.com/album/revival-of-a-friend

We’re looking forward to welcoming the wonderful NEW NASHVILLE WEST back to the Caspar Inn Stage

Doors @5, music at 7pm. We will have our usual bar offerings ~ snacks and drinks. yee haw!

Tickets at the door AND online here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-nashville-west-tickets-1992311272648?aff=oddtdtcreator

They barely need introduction, but just for your reading pleasure ~~~

The original early nineteen sixties group, Nashville West, was one of the premier, pioneer music groups that defined the term “Country Rock”. Many of the musicians that went on to form famous groups like The Flying Burrito Brothers, Poco, and the “Sweetheart of the Rodeo” version of the Byrds and Buck Owens’ “Buckaroos”, came regularly to listen and be inspired by the Nashville West as they played nightly as the house band at the “Nashville West” music club in El Monte, Southern California. They also played various clubs in Bakersfield and throughout the California Southland.

The original Nashville West consisted of the Louisiana born Cajun fiddler, Gib Guilbeau, bass player Wayne Moore, and the famous bluegrass guitarist, studio musician, and Fender Telecaster artist extraordinaire, Clarence White, and the multi-instrumentalist recording artist and inventor of the StringBender, Gene Parsons.

After Clarence White and Gene Parsons went on to be members of the Byrds, and later for Gene, ‘The Flying Burrito Brothers,’ Gib Guilbeau went on to play on the road and in the studio with Arlo Guthrie, Linda Ronstadt, and various other top name artists.

The New Nashville West was formed in 2021 by the only remaining member of the original Nashville West, Gene Parsons. The NNW consists of very experienced and gifted veteran musicians; Gene’s daughter, Lily Parsons on bass and vocals, Morgan Daniel on acoustic guitar, fantastic triple StringBender Telecaster and vocals with Johnny Bush driving the groove on drums and vocals and Keeter Stuart on acoustic guitar, rockin’ Stratocaster electric guitar and vocals.

And of course, last but not least, Gene Parsons on pedal steel guitar, acoustic and Telecaster StringBender guitars, five string banjo, mandolin, Cajun double reed harmonica, and Vocals.

Gene, as sole survivor of the original band, strives to lend tribute to the original members and late friends by having fun playing some of the music they created. The members of New Nashville West tip a hat to those iconic times and tunes while introducing songs offered from the more current times and from the extremely talented members as well. Gene says: “Everyone in New Nashville West is so capable. I love the interaction we have developed and I have NEVER been in a band where everyone understands vocal harmony the way this band does. It is simply a joy and a thrill to be playing music with Lily, Morgan, Johnny and Keeter.

We’re over the moon to host the 2 day Sublime Frequencies film festival. Hisham Mayet ~ a film maker, photographer, musical researcher and sound adventurer and co-owner of the Sublime Frequencies, will join us to screen a selection of his films. Tom of Hummingbird records will be spinning records as well ~ a treat for the eyes, a treat for the ears

the bar will be open per usual, serving up beverages and bar snacks ( 2 kinds of sandwich and the usual fare)

Find tickets here: (1 or 2 day passes available) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sublime-frequencies-film-fest-july-11th-12th-tickets-1992516619847?aff=oddtdtcreator

trailer : https://vimeo.com/user71331680

****Sublime Frequencies is a collective of explorers dedicated to
acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and
traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field
recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and
pop music, sound anomalies, and other forms of human and natural
expression not documented sufficiently through all channels of academic
research, the modern recording industry, media, or corporate
foundations.****

Saturday July 11th programming :

7pm The Divine River

The Divine River: Ceremonial Pageantry In The Sahel A Film By Hisham
Mayet 47 minutes

Sublime Frequencies announces a new film by Hisham Mayet: The Divine
River: Ceremonial Pageantry in the Sahel.  Condensed from 40 hours of
footage shot between 2007 and 2012, The Divine River is an exhilarating,
hallucinatory and harrowing record of music, ritual, life and landscape
along the Niger River—which the Tuareg call Egerew n-Igerewen, or
"River of Rivers"— as it winds through Mali and the Republic of Niger.


Traversing 300 miles of this transitional zone between the Sahara and
the Savanna, The Divine River is not a linear record of a journey so
much as a phantasmagoria of visual associations that create their own
emotional topography and chronology, always accompanied by music that
blurs the lines between sacred and secular, past and present. Highlights
include intimate views of ecstatic dance in the painted houses of the
island-dwelling Wogo; the seductive courtship rites and trance vocals of
young Wodaabe men; a mesmeric Tuareg and Zarma duet for guitar and molo;
Hausa griots enchanting with comsaa strings; Zarma spirit possession
ceremonies; and heart-stopping footage of the Dogon mask ritual atop the
Bandiagara Escarpment in the village of Endele.

True to Sublime Frequencies' "aesthetic of extra-geography and soulful
experience," The Divine River refuses hasty contextualizations and rote
interpretations that, far from "explaining" cultural displays, deaden
viewers to the presence of mystery. Avoiding the temptation to reduce
ritual to a simple matter of ends and means, its silence respects the
chasm that separates concepts like "possession" from their lived
reality. Rejecting the distractions of an imaginary understanding in
favor of simple attention and humility, it traces the portal to deeper
knowledge counseled in a centuries-old Sufi prayer: "O Lord, increase my
bewilderment."



8pm Oulaya's Wedding (featuring Group Doueh)

OULAYA’S WEDDING [زفاف العيلة] is an impressionistic account
of love, family, gender roles and ecstatic music in the Sahara desert.
It’s an intimate portrait of a family of wedding musicians, their
court of extended friends and peripheral misfits, who are giving away
their eldest daughter’s hand in marriage. The film portrays the
emotional and logistical maelstrom of a Sahraoui wedding. Presented are
candid and sincere accounts by the residents, hosts, guests and artists
that make these weddings a foundation of Saharan culture in the city of
Dakhla.Group Doueh, the most beloved family band in the Western Sahara,
are the main subject of this documentary. Sublime Frequencies co-founder
Hisham Mayet and his team, were Doueh's personal guests and given
unprecedented access to film and record the pageantry and stunning music
of his daughter's traditional Sahraoui wedding. The result is a film of
warmth, humor and belonging through music in this remote and overlooked
region in the midst of a rapidly changing Sahraoui culture .
[Documentary, 58 min., Dir. Hisham Mayet with Cyrus Moussavi and
Brittany Nugent].

We’re over the moon to host the 2 day Sublime Frequencies film festival. Hisham Mayet ~ a film maker, photographer, musical researcher and sound adventurer and co-owner of the Sublime Frequencies, will join us to screen a selection of his films. Tom of Hummingbird records will be spinning records as well ~ a treat for the eyes, a treat for the ears

Chef Chantelle will be cooking up something good, 5pm till sold out. Menu TBD

Find tickets here: (1 or 2 day passes available) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sublime-frequencies-film-fest-july-11th-12th-tickets-1992516619847?aff=oddtdtcreator

trailer : https://vimeo.com/user71331680

****Sublime Frequencies is a collective of explorers dedicated to
acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and
traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field
recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and
pop music, sound anomalies, and other forms of human and natural
expression not documented sufficiently through all channels of academic
research, the modern recording industry, media, or corporate
foundations.****

Sunday July 12th

7pm Musical Brotherhoods From the Trans-Saharan Highway

Filmed in 2005 by Hisham Mayet predominately at the Jemaa Al Fna in
Marrakesh Morocco, 'Musical Brotherhoods of the Trans-Saharan Highway'
captures an assortment of spectacular musical dramas presented live and
unfiltered on the home turf of the world's most dynamic string and drum
specialists performing and manifesting the ecstatic truth. Ancient
mystical brotherhoods have been flourishing for centuries in and around
the cities of Marrakesh and Essaouira in Morocco where the trade
caravans have gathered from their long journeys across the Trans-Saharan
Highway. This is some of the last great street music on Earth. A must
see for string aficionados looking for inspiration as electric ouds,
banjos, mandolins and the Gnawa sentir peel flesh from bone right before
your eyes!

8pm Voundoun Gods of the Slave Coast 50 min

Hisham Mayet's exploration of West African possession ceremonies
continues in Benin. Benin is the cradle and birthplace of Voodoo.
Formally known as the Slave Coast as, most of the slave industry was
exported from its shores. Voodoo worship is integral to the every day
lives of the people of Benin. This film, shot in 2010 during the
country's rich Vodoun celebrations, is an impressionistic lens on the
myriad ceremonies that this rich and diverse culture has to offer.
Showcasing intimate observations of a variety of Voodoo ceremonies: The
cult of Sakpata (god of Pestilence and healing), Egoun dramas shrouded
in magisterial costumes and the Secret Police of the Zangbeto night
watchmen, among other highlights.

9pm Michael Hurley Memorial Doc

We look forward to welcoming The Appalucians back to the Caspar Inn stage. Doors at 5pm, Music at 7pm.

Tickets: at the door, donation based

“The Appalucians play music from the mountains of Western North Carolina, featuring spirited songwriting, sublime harmonies, and a layered interplay between dobro, guitars, harmonica and banjo. The band is the musical union of Aditi Sethi and Jay Brown (Aditi and Jay) and Angie Heimann and Cas Sochacki (The Blushin' Roulettes)”

Listen here: https://theappalucians.com/music

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, sliding scale $10-20

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

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’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