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The Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival
Nicholas has photographed the 2004 - 2008 festivals.
Kate Wolf Music Festival main stage, 2006
View a special tribute page for Utah Phillips taken at the 2006
The nationally known Wailin' Jennys and the Mendocino Coast's own Blushin' Roulettes are acoustic music ensembles that write and perform original music. They appeared in a concert benefit for public radio station KZYX&Z at Fort Bragg's Cotton Auditorium on March 7, 2010. Click to view a web photo gallery.
CasparFest
The annual CasparFest fills the Caspar Community Center with music, artists, crafters, and "green" enterprises – all sharing traditions that connect with the sun, the planet, and the finest traditions of lasting technology from the folk of many lands over centuries. Renowned multi-instrumentalist and honorary Casparado Joe Craven leads Gertie, Caspar's reclusive Gorse Monster, on her annual procession amongst the booths, local musicians jam on the outdoor stage, and babies dance in the grass. Beautiful handmade objects are admired and change hands. Delicious locally-grown food is prepared and shared. Caspar, the friendly ghost town, is a former sawmill town on the Mendocino Coast of California midway between Mendocino and Fort Bragg.
CasparFest 2007 featured Kevin & the
Coconuts steel band, hot air balloon rides, workshops, and lots more.
Click the photo or here for a web gallery of 50
photos.
CasparFest 2008 takes place Sept. 27 and 28. Click here for more information. (opens in a new window)
Since 1979, the people of Elk have put on the annual Great Day In Elk, a parade and carnival of fun and games to benefit the Greenwood Community Center. The carnival features live dance performance, live music, food and drink, and a Saturday night dance. There are old-fashioned events like a watermelon eating contest, sack race, greased pole climb, egg toss and plenty of fun for young and old.
2007 Watermelon Eating Contest, Junior
Division
Ready, set, EAT! No hands! (click
the photo or here for over 140 more 2007 Great Day photos)
Mendocino's July 4, 2008 parade and Friendship Park Celebration
Available on special DotPhoto.com pages where you can see them and order prints and full screen slide show DVDs. These links open in a new browser window. Note: The site search feature on nwilsonphoto.com will NOT search these photos because they are on a separate server.
Miniature horses and wagon pass
Mendocino's Kelley House Museum in the July 4, 2008 parade.
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The Mendocino Film Festival is held every May in the town of Mendocino. Nicholas Wilson is one of the festival photographers.
2006 Inaugural Season featuring special guests Sydney Pollack and Laszlo Kovacs
2007 Second Season featuring special guest Albert Maysles
New! 2008 Third Season (partial coverage)
For more information about the Mendocino Film Festival visit the MFF website (The link opens in a new window.)
Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack answered audience questions during the inaugural season of the Mendocino Film Festival in May 2006. Mr. Pollack passed away May 26, 2008, a few days before the 3rd annual MFF began.
Bill Irwin "By The Seat Of His Pants"
The great actor, clown and physical comedian captured on stage July 8, 2007, in a benefit performance for Mendocino Coast Clinics in Fort Bragg, California. Click Bill's photo below to enter the gallery.
Puccini's La Bohème by Opera Fresca
Nicholas photographed the final performance of the opera in Fort Bragg, California, in April 2006. Click the title above or the photo below for more information and a link to the gallery.
Mimi (Jessica Julin, soprano) and townspeople (chorus members) in Paris, circa 1890.
