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More Music and Food as Roaring Camp Bullet Trains to the Future
The Civil War re-creation is huge, but a future-forward music festival will draw thousands.
Celebrating its 50th year, Felton's Roaring Camp is rolling out more than trains. This year, they are bringing in some big name musical acts, and a giant party to commemorate its first half century.
The Redwood Mountain Faire will be held June 1 and 2, featuring performers in reggae, bluegrass, soul, country, Americana and rock, including Lacy J. Dalton, who People magazine called Country's Bonnie Rait, bluesman Coco Montoya, who has been a regular at the Santa Cruz Blues festival and also toured with John Mayall, world-music-jazz artists, the B-side players, and MoonAlice, a San Francisco jam band, are on the list of entertainers. To read more, click and see the full schedule and bios.
Roaring Camp offers plenty of parking and more space than the old site at Highlands Park for the festival that started in 1980 and took a dozen years off before returning in 2010. Local micro-brews, wine, kid's activities, and family fun, and the historical steam train will all be part of the event. The Faire is being organized by the Valley Women's Club of San Lorenzo Valley.
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On June 8 and 9, the Birthday Celebration will be in full swing. A print shop, town marshalls, vintage photography, panning for gold, bands on the stage with shows that are downtown, trains into Santa Cruz and around the Redwoods complete with train robbers, a blacksmith, and BBQ's will all be part of the weekend long event.
