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Job duties:
I do news pagination for all the Nevada News Group publications. I also write about hiking and entertainment in the area.
About me:
I moved to Nevada in 2016 and started working at the newspaper in February 2016. I grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York and went to college at SUNY Plattsburgh near the Adirondacks. I now live in Dayton and enjoy hiking and going to live music events.
2023 Nevada Press Association Awards
• First Place General Excellence – Lahontan Valley News
• First Place Page One Design — The Record-Courier
• Second Place General Excellence – Nevada Appeal
• Second Place Page One Design — Lahontan Valley News
• Second Place in Entertainment Feature Story
• Third Place Page One Design — Nevada Appeal
The band performs a free concert outside the Brewery Arts Center on Saturday as part of the Murals and Music Festival in Carson City. The music starts at 5 p.m. with opening band Kilowatt Hours.
The band takes sounds from Eastern European folk music and blends them to deliver a funky dance party.
Lance and Lea gave Carson City a taste of their music last March when they played as a duo.
The band plays many traditional Celtic tunes but differently than many other Celtic bands as they add tribal drums and digeridoos, including a new bronze age instrument they’ve acquired.
The band is known for helping to create the psychedelic music scene in San Francisco in the 1960s and launching Janis Joplin’s career.
Carson City gets some local flavor when False Rhythms brings reggae rock the free Levitt AMP Concert Series hosted by the Brewery Arts Center on Saturday.
The 21-and-over event features 17 bands with exclusive performances with headliners Pigeons Playing Ping Pong with Karl Denson and Jackie Greene with Eric Lindell, and The Wood Brothers.
“You can’t fight that beat. Once it starts pounding away and dropping — it starts with the tapping, then it moves up to your hips ,then you know it’s going from dancing to full on noodling.”
He said it was the lightest crowd that they’ve seen pretty much ever in Quincy and heat was a big factor.
The festival was the hottest High Sierra on record in Quincy with an average of 100.3 degrees over the four days, according to the National Weather Service.