The La Honda Voice

The Face of Local Music - La Honda Fair 2017

Sound guy Bo Putnam closing out 2016 LHF with Gary Gates Band

 

by craig eddy

 

After just spending six days at the Strawberry Music Festival I am definitely in the festival frame of mind.  Traditionally the Memorial day weekend is the kickoff of festival season. Next on my agenda is my favorite festival of all, The La Honda Craft Fair and Music festival June 17-18.  As far as festivals go, the La Honda Fair is tiny but of the highest quality. Most bands featured are local or have a local connection. La Honda also has many artists and craftspeople that show their work at the Fair. Whether a small one day or a weeklong festival, festivals bring together people with similar tastes  to mingle and enjoy some time together. This year there are  some new bands joining some of the local iconic bands to celebrate Fathers Day weekend. Coast Tribe, Sumer, and Collective Movement will be performing for the first time although there might be some familiar faces in one of  those bands.

    This year Puente will be sponsoring a Friday night fair weekend kickoff on the Café patio featuring the music of Pathetic Honey.  A lasagna dinner will be available starting around 7pm. If you are out of town on Sunday for Father’s Day then come on down Friday evening and help kick off the best La Honda weekend of the year. Pathetic Honey is going to do their best to turn the patio into a dance hall so put on your dance shoes and come on down.  Thanks to Charlie Catania for making this weekend what it is as he donates the location every year. Also big thanks to Paula Dennis the festival coordinator who makes it all come together.

 

               La Honda Fair Music 2017

 

                                     Sat                                                         Sun

 

11-12:00          TBA                                                         Shea Nolan

12:15-1:15       Sumer                                                    Undergods

1:30-2:30          John Henry’s Farm                              Bundy Browne Band

2:45-3:45          Collective Movement                         Jack and the Hitchhikers

4:00-5:00          This Way Up                                         Coast Tribe

5:15-6:15          Zanzibar                                                Gary Gates Band

 

 

SF Archbishop to Visit Our Lady of Refuge

Pictured: The archbishop's visit to St. Anthony's in 2014. L to R Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, former parish administrator Fr. Shouraiah Pudota and Deacon John McGhee Photo credit: Debra Greenblat used with permission

It’s not unusual for an archbishop to visit any of his parishes to administer the sacrament of confirmation or to make a pastoral visit to personally meet the priests and parishioners. On Sunday June 10, 2017, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will be administering confirmations at the main church in our parish, Our Lady of the Pillar in Half Moon Bay.

What is unusual is that he will return to our parish on June 25, making a special visit to Our Lady of Refuge to offer our Sunday Mass here in La Honda. The parish of Our Lady of the Pillar is the largest in land area in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and is comprised of the main parish church in Half Moon Bay and the two mission churches, St. Anthony's in Pescadero and Our Lady of Refuge in La Honda. Because of the distance between the three churches in the parish, it was too difficult for the archbishop to visit Our Lady of Refuge during his pastoral visitation to the parish two years ago. Parishioners were asked to attend either his Mass at Our Lady of the Pillar or his Mass at St. Anthony’s in Pescadero. Now he will finally be visiting our church. And it works out well in the end, because since the pastoral visit when he could not come to Our Lady of Refuge, we have gotten a beautiful new floor!

The parish community of Our Lady of Refuge is extremely honored that Archbishop Cordileone is making this special visit to our little mission church.

For more information call Mary at 650-559-9344.