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The Blowbacks bring dancing music to The Drytown Social Club on New Year’s Eve.

Roadside bar turns speakeasy for New Year’s Eve party

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DRYTOWN — Beginning at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31, The Drytown Social Club in the heart of Amador County’s wine country will transform to a 1920’s speakeasy nightclub, offering an elegant dinner, live music, dancing and champagne.

The evening’s vibe will combine bright and glittery and dark and mysterious with refined, understated style. Harkening to Prohibition times, guests will enter the venue through a side door with a password paying homage to the secretive nature of a prohibition-era gathering.

As well as indoor seating there is a heated outdoor patio adorned with string lights and vive spirit.

Formal attire and ’20s-era gowns are suggested. Waiters serving champagne and oysters on the half shell will kick off the evening.

At 8 p.m. The Blowbacks, a ninepiece band, will take up residency for the evening. This high-energy, horn-driven dance band plays big band, blues and rock ‘n’ roll. Made up of the gold country’s most seasoned musicians with guitar, bass, trombone, saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, keyboards and drums as well as striking vocals, the band’s music fills the room. The club will offer a large dance floor.

Susan Feist was inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” and Jay Gatsby’s proclamation to host the party. “I love large parties; they’re so intimate. At small parties, there isn’t any privacy.”

The dinner is offered at $78 per person and will consist of Hog Island oysters on the half shell, crab cakes, endive salad with heirloom apples, beef bourguignon and chocolate mousse bombe by local pastry chef Ingrid Fraser. A wine pairing is offered at an additional charge. Door entry without dinner is offered at $20 per person pre sale and $25 at the door. Tickets are available at feistwines.com or at The Drytown Social Club.

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The Mother Hips will perform Friday and Saturday night at Harlow’s.

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Mother Hips jam at Harlow’s

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SACRAMENTO — Northern California’s The Mother Hips rings out 2022 with two shows at Harlow’s in Sacramento, Dec. 30 & 31.

The Hips is gearing up for the Jan. 27 release of “When We Disappear.” For the album, the Hips headed to New Mexico, spending time at Ghost Ranch before settling in at Jono Manson’s Kitchen Sink studio in Sante Fe in late 2021 for the sessions. Self-produced, “When We Disappear” features nine cosmic new tracks co-written by co-founders Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono, a collection of compelling, guitardriven songs inspired by psychology and literature.

Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “one of the Bay Area’s most beloved live outfits,” The Mother Hips’ headline and festival performances have became the stuff of legend, finding the musicians sharing stages with everyone from Johnny Cash and Wilco to Lucinda Williams and The Black Crowes. Rolling Stone called the band “divinely inspired,” while Pitchfork praised its “rootsy mix of ’70s rock and power pop” and The New Yorker lauded the group’s ability to “sing it sweet and play it dirty.”

Founded more than 30 years ago while Bluhm and Loiacono were students at California State University, Chico, The Mother Hips caught its first big break before the musicians even graduated from college when legendary producer and industry icon Rick Rubin signed the band to his American Recordings label. In the decades to come, the group has gone on to release 12 critically acclaimed studio albums and cement itself as architects of a new breed of California rock and soul — one equally informed by the breezy harmonies of the Beach Boys, the funky roots of The Band and the psychedelic Americana of Buffalo Springfield.

Doors open at 8 p.m. for Friday’s show that begins at 9 p.m. The New Year’s Eve show begins at 10 p.m. with doors opening an hour prior. Harlow’s is located at 2708 J St. For tickets and more information visit harlows.com/events.

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