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The Gimlets of Summer

Garden tours and gimlets. Sounds like a recipe for summertime doesn’t it? Gimlets are made with vodka and a bit of Rose's lime juice, a summer flavor if there ever was one. I’ve always believed a crisp gimlet, not too sweet mind you, was the antidote to most everything at the end of a long, hot summer day. With that in mind….

  

Friday, July 17

Ketchum/Sun Valley

• The Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley's big fundraiser, "Dog Days of Summer" will begin at 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 17 at Trail Creek Pavilion, Sun Valley. Also, Westminster's Dave Frei hosts the Animal Shelter's "Best in Show." For details call (208) 788-4351.

 

• Meanwhile at other locales, Papa Hemi’s will host present Cow Says Moo tonight from 6:30-9:30 p.m. and Fred Crabtree on Saturday, July 18. At the Sun Valley Pavilion those in a more fiddling mode can listen to Barrage at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 per person.

 

• Iconoclast Books in Ketchum will host an Open Mic night 8 p.m. Friday. Everyone is welcome to come read, sing, play, juggle or be a Bike Valet.It's all good.

Hailey

• At the Wicked Spud on Main Street, Voci Ingenium (talented voices) tunes up tonight at 5 p.m. From there, mosey along the Hailey Art Walk tonight from 5-8 p.m. as part of "A Month of Art in Hailey." More than 20 businesses will exhibit paintings, photographs, glasswork and sculpture. Sip a beverage, stroll the streets and see some of the fine art work created in the Wood River Valley.

 

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Saturday, July 18

 Most of the action on Saturday is in the mid and south valley.

• The Friends of the Hailey Public Library Garden Tour will be 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Della View area of Hailey. And at the Sawtooth Botanical Garden, from 6-9 p.m., grab a Gimlet in the Garden. The delicious cocktails will benefit educational programs and garden development. Sip on some Rose’s lime, slip into the silent auction and enjoy the musical stylings of Kevin Kirk & Onomatopoeia & Sally Tibbs. To RSVP call 726-9358. 

Hailey

• Sun Valley Center presents its first big concert of the season on Saturday night, and it’s a gimlet of event. Salsa Celtica is the 11-man band famed for championing—and no doubt inventing—a fusion of salsa music with traditional Celtic sounds played on an eclectic mix of instruments that includes brass, bagpipes, fiddles and congas. Salsa Celtica’s stunning combination of unusual repertoire and hard-driving energy makes it one of the most exciting groups on the world music circuit today, said Kristine Bretall, of the Sun Valley Center.
  
  Tickets to Salsa Celtica are just $20 and $5 for kids 12 and under, and are available at www.sunvalleycenter.org or call (208) 726.9491 ext. 10 or stop by The Center in Ketchum. Gates open at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 18 at Hop Porter Park and the music starts at 7 p.m. Pick up a picnic at Atkinson’s’ Market before the concert or buy food and beverages (beer, wine, water, sodas) from local vendors onsite, and please, leave your high-backed chairs and pets at home.

Ketchum/Sun Valley

• Or if you’re staying north on Saturday, Sheryll Mae Grace will play at Penelope’s, the new beer, wine, coffee, dessert, piano bar in the Galleria in Ketchum, from 5-7 p.m.