NV150 Fair events in Carson City continue Saturday with live music, carnival and livestock shows
Among today's activities, there will be livestock shows, sales and demonstrations, carnival rides and games, fly tying demonstrations, cloggers, a dog show at 4 p.m. Sons of Slide Mountain Band beginning at noon, Youth Theater Carson City performance at 12:30 p.m.
On stage The Mountain Girls (band) at 4:30, Ranch Rodeo at 5 p.m., live music with CW Bayer and Mr. Spoons at 5:30 p.m. Larry Elliott and Good Time Music at 7 p.m., The Reno Jazz Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. St. Christopher Project at 9 p.m. and the Chris Gardner Band at 9:30 p.m.
See below for the full fair schedule times and venues.
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The five "Jazz & Beyond" bands at the Fair Saturday are Sons of Slide Mountain, RVGS Tantalus, Lynne Colvig Latin Jazz, the Reno Jazz Orchestra with singer Jackie Landrum, and the St. Christopher Project, featuring the music of Tom Waits.
Sons of Slide Mountain, a bluegrass band, will perform at noon on the BAC Stage on the east side of the grassy part of the fairgrounds. The group has performed all over northern and western Nevada and eastern California, including at the Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-off, at the Harvest Fest at Squaw Valley Resort, for the Northern Nevada Bluegrass Assoc., and at the Hawkins Amphitheater.
RVGS Tantalus will perform at 2:30 on the Main Stage, on the west side of the grassy part of the fairgrounds. RVGS Tantalus is one facet of the Reno Video Game Symphony, an assortment of individually run ensembles that all work together for the same goal: to arrange music from popular games and bring them to various audiences. RVGS Tantalus, the jazz band, features Nate Hamer on bass, Brandon Melnar on alto saxophone, Clark Harrell on keyboards, and one elusive rogue drummer.
Lynne Colvig Latin Jazz performs at 4:00 p.m. on the BAC Stage. Singer Lynne Colvig sings jazz with intensity and often with humor. She will be accompanied by Kevin Tokarz on keyboard, Dennis Steele on congas, and Mic Valentino on guitar.
The Reno Jazz Orchestra performs with vocalist Jackie Landrum at 7:30 p.m. on the Main Stage. After big bands in casino showrooms in the Reno and Lake Tahoe area were replaced by recorded music or by small combos in the early 1990s, musicians in those former house bands joined together in 1997 to keep northern Nevada's big band sound alive and to promote jazz education in the middle schools, high schools, and colleges. RJO musicians are some of the best in the business, and their individual performances have included backing Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Elvis Presley. Members have traveled with the bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Ray Charles, and Buddy Rich. The RJO has appeared at the music festival in Carson City each August since its inception in 2004.
The St. Christopher Project rounds out the "Jazz & Beyond" performances at Fuji Park Saturday with a performance at 9:00 p.m. on the BAC Stage. Tristan Selzler, on vocals and drums, leads a small but highly talented group in the music of Tom Waits.
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