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FREE VIBES
Ketch’em Alive, Mahoney’s and StoneSeed STORY & PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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toneSeed will play a mix of blues, folk, gypsy jazz, America and maybe even a little country funk when it plays Mahoney’s Bar and Grill in Bellevue Thursday night. The Boise group features Ty Clayton on guitar and mandolin, Lindsey Terrell on violin and guitar and Bennett Barr on djembe, snare and accordion. The free concert starts at 6:30 p.m. Other free vibes this week: Tonight: The Kim Stocking Band, a Bellevue-based Americana group, returns from a two-year hiatus to perform at The Wicked Spud in Hailey. The concert runs from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Possessed by Paul James performs at the Sun Valley Brewery in Hailey, beginning at 8:30 p.m. Thursday: Dewey, Pickett and Howe play their easy-listening American music laced with a touch of bluegrass, folk and country from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Ketchum Town Square outside Starbucks. Slyfoot will play at the Sun Valley Brewery in Hailey beginning at 8:30 p.m. Sunday: The Brooks Hartell Trio plays Jazz in the Park from 6 to 8 p.m. at Ketchum’s Rotary Park, Warm Springs and Saddle roads. Tuesday: Old Death Whisper will play its Western roots and country music fresh off a gig with the Cowboy Ball at Swiftsure Ranch in Bellevue during Ketch’em Alive. The free concert runs from 7 to 9 p.m. at Ketchum’s Forest Service Park, First and Washington streets. Monday: The Dirk Quinn Band will perform at the Sun Valley Brewery in Hailey beginning at 8:30 p.m. tws
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Sawtooth Treasure Relax in the Mountains With the Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch STORY & PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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Tim East and Stephanie Grosscup kick up their heels to the Latin rhythms of Incendio during last week’s Ketch’em Alive concert.
Garden Fundraiser Turns Into 3-Ring Circus
ames Kennedy and Ellen Libertine figure they have welcomed summer from the porch of the Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch for the past 31 years. This year was no different as they pulled up a rocker, wine glass in hand, and gazed out on the jagged peaks of the Sawtooth Mountain Range as they caught up on the details of their otherwise busy lives. “I refer to this as porch duty,” said Kennedy. “When I first came here, they still had the original Idaho Rocky Mountain Club dishware. Sometime in the mid-’80s I saw my first laptop on this porch— someone from New York had brought one out here with them. But, generally, I’ve learned that you don’t come to this porch and talk about the news of the day because people don’t want to hear it.” Indeed, it’s easy to leave the cares of the modern-day world behind and settle into a simpler rhythm at the Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch, which is nestled in the Sawtooth Valley between Galena Summit and Stanley. Day starts as the sun emerges from the hills behind the ranch, its rays burning through the ground fog that hangs over the valley and highlighting the tops of the mountain peaks that ring Redfish Lake. By 7:30 the ranch hands have set out a buffet of bagels, fruit, yogurt and homemade granola for early risers. And by 8:30 even the late risers are straggling in for breakfasts of Grand Marnier sourdough French toast and a Sawtooth veggie scramble made with grilled asparagus, leek, bell pepper, marinated tomatoes, baby red potatoes and goat cheese. Breakfast gives way to horseback rides along the Gold Creek Trail, hikes to nearby Hell Roaring Lake, fly-fishing and maybe even a trip to the nearby ghost towns of Bonanza and Custer. And by the time guests have worked up an appetite, the dinner bell rings again.
Cabins offer a view of the Sawtooth Mountains.
Once upon a time…
The ranch is not a dude ranch in the strict sense of the word where guests feed the horses, rake manure and help bring in the calves. Rather, it’s a guest ranch where folks from New Hampshire and Idaho—and Germany, Italy and Sweden, too—can play in the outdoors while snuggling up in handmade quilts designed to fend off
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The hallway in the lodge offers a rustic flair.
Film Festival Friday July 19th Product Fair Saturday July 20th
Film Festival 7:00pm Sun Valley Opera House Tickets $15 Pre-party & Fly Casting Games - 5:30pm at our store in the Sun Valley Mall
Product Fair 10:00am - 4:00pm Ketchum Store 208.726.5282 silver-creek.com/events