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D Ray Brings California Sounds Back to Nosara

By Fritz Elmendorf

Singer-guitarist Danny Ray (D Ray) has returned to the Nosara music scene, where he has been a regular since 2006, and you can catch him Saturday night at Marlin Bill’s restaurant. The smooth voiced D Ray mixes the flavor of classic folk and country rock with a blues and early surf rock that shaped his formative years from his perch in Southern California.

Already armed with guitar and a surfboard when the Beatles and surf rock exploded in the mid-60s, he spent his Orange County high school years chasing the blues with his band Blues Farm. 

 

Choosing a career in the food and beverage industry, his equipment got plenty of closet time until landing in Nosara in September, 2005, and the rest is a rock and roll history Nosara-style. Shortly after landing, while watching the Medicine Show Band perform, let’s just say an opportunity arose for him to step up and sing a song with the band. Guitarist and bass player Bill MacPherson, who kept the band performing through several seasons with different lineups of local talent, asked him to come to their rehearsal and play five songs, and then invited him to join them for some songs at Gilded Iguana.

D Ray sang and played with the Medicine Show through the next season but stateside matters made his schedule uncertain. His set list currently includes choice selections from artists including Van Morrison, John Prine, Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan and of course the Beatles.

 

More Entertainment News

Cañas Seniors Visit Nosara
Fifteen Again

On Friday, June 17, Nosara's David Kitson Library Senior Club hosted a group of sixty seniors from Cañas. More than eighty people in all enjoyed a day of activities that included a morning dance–exercise, a walk at Pelada Beach, lunch, games and a dance show at Rancho Tico.

Two Days, 40 Bikinis: The Annual Bikini Show of Nosara

On Friday, June 10th 2011, Honali Beachhouse hosted the annual bikini show of Nosara. It featured 40 pieces from the local bikini designer, Desi Morffe. The event, that more than 150 guests attended, started at 7:00 p.m. The same venue also held an after party. (with video)

New Horizons for Ballerinas of Guanacaste

Five-year-old Alana Peuker Neukirch hurried out of their rehearsal space to greet her instructor, Patricia Vargas Gonzales, in anticipation of her weekly ballet class on Sunday morning, May 15, at Carrillo Beach. Excited and ready to dance, Alana in her pink tutu gave a quick hug to Gonzales and ran back inside.

Intercultura Samara School book fair and film festival
"The Crazyness of Life" In Between Book Pages and Movies Screens

From Monday, July 4, to Friday, July 8, Intercultura in Samara will be hosting free movies each night at 7 p.m. The theme of the fair is La Locura de Vivir (the Craziness of Life).

Stuff To Do Besides Surfing and Yoga

If you are a surfer or a yoga practitioner, Guanacaste, especially Nosara, is a good destination for you to visit. In fact, for an outsider, Nosara and surrounding areas might even look like it is all about nothing but those two activities. Surely, there are other things to do such as zip lining, stand up paddling, horseback riding or kayaking.

Juan Rafael "Chanel" Mora, Farmer and Millonaire
"Don't give your efforts working for another person"

Juan Rafael Mora Madrigal, known as Chanel (as in the perfume, Chanel No. 5), is 81 years old. Still he leaves his house at 6 a.m. to work on his twenty-seven fincas. He says he wishes night would never come so he could keep right on working outside. Although he had very little education, he has made his millions, raised 10 sons and two daughters, been married 64 years to the same woman and still enjoys good health.

June Astrology Report

When Mercury enters Gemini on the 3rd, our thoughts quicken and we become surrounded by a multitude of options and variables. Take a moment to listen to your deepest truths before jumping headfirst. Get distracted by the sights and sounds; spend time appreciating this colorful world. Flirt a little, allowing curiosity to lead you towards new discoveries and opportunities for growth.



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