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Valentine’s Celebration

This Year…Kiss at CAMPS

Delicious food and dancing all weekend long!

Special Menu on Tuesday, February 14, 2012
The Evening’s Special Menu

First Course:
Medley of Winter Greens
With Caramelized Pecans,
Winter Apple & Blue Cheese and Raspberry Vinaigrette

Choice of Entrée:
Roasted New York Strip with Fresh Dungeness Crab
Chive Whipped Potatoes and Béarnaise Sauce
Pan Seared Fresh Sea Scallops
Served on a Bed of Bacon Leek Risotto
Parmesan Crusted Prawn-Stuffed Chicken Breast
Served with Creamy Lobster Sauce atop Soft Polenta

Dessert
Belgium Dark Chocolate Torte with White Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

Music:
Richard Matranga

$55.00 per person
plus tax and service charge

Ray Roberts

Ray Roberts is one of California’s most respected, recognized and awarded Plein Air artists. He recently won the Gold Medal for “Best Painting” at the California Art Club and the Artists’ Choice Award, the highest accolade from fellow artists, at three major Southwest art events. He is best known for his seascapes, figurative work, and majestic views of California and the Southwest. Ray’s vibrant use of color, bold textures, and sensitivity to shifting patterns of light give life and movement to his paintings. They are to be experienced, not merely observed.

Inspired by such early California impressionists as Hanson Puthuff, William Wendt, and William Ritschel, Ray seeks to capture the luminous, golden light and the magnificent, vanishing landscapes of his native state. Like his other great hero, Maynard Dixon, Ray shares a reverence for the land and a marked spirituality in his work.

Ray grew up in an Orange County with orange groves, before the days of freeways and sprawling housing developments. It has given him an enduring affection for the untamed, undeveloped California of his youth. The Art Center is where Ray met his wife, impressionist painter Peggi Kroll. While dating, the two of them would go out nightclubbing, to sketch rather than dance! It has been a successful partnership ever since.

Ray and Peggi now live with their three children on a 20 acre ranch in Angel’s Camp, an old California gold rush town, surrounded by the oak-studded hills which he frequently paints.

krollroberts.com

Lorna Dillion—The Artist

Each part of the West has its own distinctive characteristics that encompass geography, history, and culture. Lorna Dillon, a native Californian, now living in Columbia, CA, sets her paintings in rural California. The influence of the cowboys and vaqueros and their honest horsemanship is so classical that their legacy comes to life under her brush.

As a child, Dillon was intrigued by paintings in her family home. Her fascination was profound, and the seed was planted. It lay dormant until the late 70s when Lorna took up painting to see if her interest could be developed. She followed a long and laborious path filled with much trial and error, studying the styles, composition and techniques of other artists whose work she admired.

Gradually her style developed and her interests aimed her for the western art genre. Livestock trade shows did double duty as both a source of subjects and sales. There she learned more about the animals and their various characteristics, sold a lot of art, gained discipline and brush mileage, and, most importantly, Lorna says, “I met a lot of wonderful people in the livestock industry. ” The ranching life felt very natural to her, and she found the ambiance warm and genuine. Success and her reputation in the field grew.

After many years of this self-taught effort, workshops became a springboard for her to really begin to mature as an artist. Many well-known regional shows in the western states led to her inclusion in the prestigious Prix de West Invitational at the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City for the past six years. That event has been “the pinnacle of my career” according to Dillon, “and I thank God for the guidance to make it all possible”.

lornadillon.com

Peggi Kroll-Roberts

Peggi Kroll-Roberts
Award winning artist, Peggi Kroll-Roberts, was trained at Arizona State University and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Peggi worked as a fashion and advertising illustrator before making the transition into fine art. Using intense color and value to accentuate her subject, she moved into fine art with a bold palette, a love for small paintings and a very loose style that achieves a lot with a few very energetic brush strokes. She prefers to suggest reality than render it.

Inspired by her children she paints beach scenes and other aspects of their lives. She also breaks away from the conventional still life by painting scenes of cosmetics and the occasional coffee cup or slab of butter. Peggi’s work gives us a new appreciation of our own daily life.

Sculptor: Gary Price

* Sculpture with meaning.
* Sculpture to lift the human spirit.
* Sculpture to inspire.

This sculpture is part of the artist’s “Great Contributors” collection that features people, such as Mark Twain, who has had a profound beneficial impact on the world.

Gary Lee Price life-size bronze sculptures capture the unique human spirit. This is the essence of his work. This is his life’s journey. His sculptures and images also grace the covers of various magazines and books. His works are included in public and private collections in homes, galleries, museums, libraries, corporations, cities, and educational institutions throughout the world, including the front entrance of CAMPS Restaurant at Greenhorn Creek in Angels Camp, California.

The sculptor resides in Springville, Utah. He credits his success to his mother, who instilled in Gary the ability to express himself through art; to his friend and wife, Lanea, who offers constant love and support; and to their five boys who provide constant inspiration.

garyleeprice.com

Bobby Billeci and Natalia

Friday nights come alive with saxophonist and vocalist performing.

Excerpt from: The Union Democrat
By GARY LINEHAN

She doesn’t sound Russian. That’s because she’s Ukrainian. When it comes to singing, however, her sound is all-American.

Natalia Susoeff, known professionally by her first name only, is one-half of the Diamond Duo, joining saxophonist Bobby Billeci in a musical act that released two compact discs this year.

Born and raised in the Ukraine, where she started singing and performing at age 5, Natalia moved to Sonora in February 2007 when her husband, Jason, began his new job as manager of Abbey Carpet.

In the Ukraine, Natalia learned to play the piano at home and graduated from schools with musical honors and awards. She began performing professionally during her youth and early adulthood. As an adult, she worked for radio stations as an engineer and acquired an audio recording skill.

At night, she sang in nightclubs and resorts throughout the Ukraine and Turkey. She also has performed for high government officials in the Ukraine.

Natalia met Billeci in June 2007 while performing at a Sonora restaurant where he had previously performed alone.

Billeci was born in the Bay Area city of Pittsburg and started playing saxophone at age 10. He also learned to play piano at home and graduated from schools with musical honors.

He performed professionally during his youth and early adulthood. As an adult, he performed part-time with San Francisco area bands while working full-time for Shell Oil Co. He also built a home recording studio and recorded musical backgrounds to play saxophone over.

After 35 years with Shell, Billeci chose early retirement and moved from Antioch to Sonora, where his wife, Jill, was beginning a new job as manager of Gottschalks department store.

In Sonora, he started performing as a solo act to his pre-recorded backgrounds.

The name “Diamond Duo” sprang from an exchange the two had after they joined forces.

“She said ‘When you found me, you found a diamond,’ ” Billeci recalled. “I said, ‘What am I, a lump of coal?’ ”

Quite the opposite, Natalia maintains.

“Bobby’s musical creativity and talent on his saxophone has no limit,” she said. “He has widened my own musical horizons to a much higher level.”

Billeci echoed her enthusiasm.

“Natalia is indeed a world class vocalist,” he said. “She is the most talented person that I’ve ever worked and performed with. As a record producer, she possesses the skills that capture the best saxophone playing that’s inside of me. When we perform together, I get chills and goose-bumps.”

They released their first compact disc, “Unforgettable Favorites,” in February, followed by “Unforgettable Favorites II” on July 11. Both combine jazz, pop and country standards with original material.

Both discs are on N&B Records, a handcrafted project from start to finish.

“All the songs and instruments are performed and arranged by Natalia and I,” Billeci said. “The recording and mixdown was done by Natalia. We make and print our CD jacket inserts, plus we burn each individual CD.”

Larry Henderson

Larry will be performing at Camp’s Restaurant each Saturday evening from 7-9p.m. Come out and enjoy great food and some acoustic music.

Christmas Time

CELEBRATE YOUR HOLIDAY GATHERING WITH US!

Admire the tallest, most magnificently decorated tree in Calaveras County! Dine by the glow of the warm fire…
Enjoy holiday cheer and live music on Friday and Saturday nights. The dining room glistens and is beautifully decorated with greenery and boughs.

Choose from our regular restaurant lunch and dinner menus or enjoy:

GLORIOUS HOLIDAY BUFFETS
Prepared for groups of 15 or more.

Roasted Pork Loin with Port Glaze or Grilled Chicken with Herbal Cream Sauce
along with Apple-Almond Stuffing, Creamy Mashed and Sauteed Green Beans
Bread and butter, Winter Green Salad, Cranberry Iced Tea and Petit Christmas Cookies
Lunch: $12.95 Dinner: $18.95 plus tax and service charge

HOLIDAY DINNER SPECIALS
Roasted Pork Loin, Truffled Risotto, Stuffing & Plum Port Sauce $18.95

WEEKENDS
Slow Roasted Prime Rib of Beef with Traditional Horseradish Cream $22.95/$26.95

New Year’s Eve

NEW YEARS EVE SPARKLING GALA CELEBRATION

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2010

Dinner served from 5:30 until 9:30. Dancing and music by the “Diamond Duo” Bobby Billeci and Natalia beginning at 8:30pm.

NEW YEARS MENU

FIRST COURSE
MEDLEY OF WINTER GREENS WITH CARAMELIZED PECANS, FALL APPLE & BLUE CHEESE AND RASPBERRY VINAIGRETTE

CHOICE OF ENTREE
ROASTED PRIME NEW YORK STEAK WITH BUTTER POACHED LOBSTER TAIL
TOPPED WITH SAUCE BÉARNAISE & WHIPPED POTATOES

MARINATED GRILLED RACK OF LAMB
SERVED WITH CREAMY RISOTTO AND A POMEGRANATE PORT GLACE

PAN SEARED FRESH SEA SCALLOPS
SERVED ON A BED OF BACON LEEK RISOTTO

PROSCIUTTO STUFFED CHICKEN BREAST
SERVED WITH CREAMY MUSHROOM SAUCE ATOP SOFT POLENTA

CHOICE OF DESSERT
BELGIUM DARK CHOCOLATE TORTE WITH CHANTILLY CREAM AND FRESH RASPBERRIES
TIME SQUARE MILE HIGH NEW YORK STYLE CHEESECAKE WITH HOMEMADE CARAMEL

COUNTDOWN, PARTY FAVORS AND CHAMPAGNE TOAST AT MIDNIGHT

$75

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