Kelseyville >>> The Ely Stage Stop and Country Museum will host its First Sunday Fiddlers’ Jam on Sunday.
Typically musicians from Lake, Sonoma and Mendocino counties descend upon the stage stop for a round robin style jam session. Musicians of all ages will meet in the Ely barn from noon through 2 p.m. to perform their Americana music.
The event begins at the museum at 11 a.m. See the newest display in the main house celebrating the Lake County dairy industry. Collections of milk bottles and butter churns are featured with old photos from by-gone days at the dairies.
There will be the regular monthly raffle near the end of the jam and more chances to purchase raffle tickets for the “Barns, Birds and Quilts” raffle that will celebrate a winner later in the year. Those items will be on display.
This is a free, family-friendly event. Hot beverages and tasty treats will also be available. Guests may bring their own wine and sip it in Ely Stage Stop wine glasses that will be available for purchase.
Donations benefit both the Ely Stage Stop, helping to fund a blacksmith shop on which volunteers are about to start work, and the Old Time Fiddlers Association District 10, which uses it to partially fund their scholarship programs.
Home to the Lake County Historical Society, the stage stop is located at 9921 Highway 281 (Soda Bay Road) in Kelseyville. Current hours of operation are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday. Fiddlers’ jams occur the first Sunday of every month from noon until 2 p.m.
Visit www.elystagestop.org or www.lakecountyhistory.org, check out the stage stop on Facebook at www.facebook.com/elystagestop, or call the museum at 533-9990.
