Grupo Bohemio returns to the Idyllwild Summer Concert Series serving up a variety of Latin musical beats and styles, including Spanish rock, Cumbia, Reggaeton and Tejano. Cumbia and Reggaeton have Caribbean and African roots, with Reggaeton taking a more contemporary form with hip-hop influences. Tejano was born fusing Mexican vocal traditions, and Czech and German…

Idyllwild author Joanne Bischof presented her new book to a mostly young audience at a book signing at the Idyllwild Library last Thursday. Bischof has established a frontier romance and coming-of-age niche through her earlier books, which her latest novella, “This Quiet Sky,” (Heartfelt Press, 2014) continues. “When I started with my first book, ‘Be…

Hill resident Dave Pelham numbers the guitars he builds. Number one was completed in 1975 after an encounter with master guitar builder David Santo. “He was finishing a guitar for Kenny Loggins. He gave me quick verbal instructions [on building a guitar], said I probably didn’t need power tools for construction and that was it….