The 22nd annual Lake in the Sky Air Show takes flight Aug. 27 from 7am-4pm.

It features some of the world’s top aircraft performers. as well as radio-controlled demonstrations, Navy H-60 Seahawk helicopters and an Air Force C-17 Globemaster static display.

Flying legends Bill Cornick, former Air Force pilot; Jon Melby, 33-year freestyle aerobatic air show pilot; and Spencer Suderman, known for intense gyroscopic maneuvers on the Pitts S-2B Biplane, will entertain spectators with aerial stunts and demonstrations.

Pre-opening events include a 5K race/Kids Fun Run and a Kiwanis pancake breakfast.

Go online for more information.

The Lake Tahoe Paddle Festival is a solstice celebration of human powered watercraft featuring “Ancient Art to State of the Art” boats, boards and paddles.

The focus is the preservation of indigenous watercraft art and culture.

The paddle race through Emerald Bay starts in Meeks Bay on June 18 at 8am.

Interpretive exhibits will highlight sustainable recreation, healthy foods, yoga, healing arts and environmental awareness.

It is a weekend of workshops, clinics, fun, food and family entertainment. Try out the world’s fastest growing sport — standup paddling — on a demo, or paddle your canoe or kayak over to learn more about protecting Lake Tahoe’s clarity and efforts to prevent the proliferation of invasive species.

Go online for more information.

Diana Krall at Harveys Outdoor Summer Concert Series on June 18 at 8pm.

Tickets at www.ticketmaster.com.

As part of the Valhalla Arts, Music, and Theatre Festival, the Tahoe Tallac Association and 5th Age productions present the comedy “The Dixie Swim Club” by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten at the Boathouse Theatre, July 7-9, July 14-16 at 8pm and July 10 and July 17 at 2pm.

Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh and meddle in each others lives.

As their lives unfold and the years pass, these women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges (men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, aging) that life flings at them. And when fate throws a wrench into one of their lives in the second act, these friends, proving the enduring power of “teamwork,” rally around their own with the strength and love that takes this comedy in a poignant and surprising direction. “The Dixie Swim Club” is a hilarious and touching comedy about friendships that last forever.

The cast includes: Diana Arrington Evans, Ginger Nicolay Davis, Ann Swallow, Teri Levy and Amy Sando.

The production is directed by David Hamilton with Dave Anderson doing set design and technical direction.

Tickets at $18 general, $15 seniors over 65/children under 18 and are available online or at the door. Due to adult situations, the production is not recommended for children under 13.

The Boathouse Theatre is located at the Tallac Historic Site located 2 miles past the intersection of Highway 50 and Highway 89, just past Camp Richardson, on the lake side of Highway 89.

For more information, call (530) 541.4975.

Katerina Nash — Olympian, LUNA Pro rider and Truckee resident — is putting on the Third Annual Cross Country Skills Clinic June 28 from 5:30-7:30pm at Northstar-at-Tahoe.

Participants will work on technical mountain biking skills.

Meet at the gondola.

A $15 donation for the Breast Cancer Fund is requested.

For more information, email tahoelunachix@gmail.com.

Come to the 8th annual skate, bike, roller skate, 32 miles to create breast cancer awareness. Skate the Lake is Aug. 20 at 10am in Tahoe City.

Here is this year’s route.

Fireworks are shot off from a barge near the state line in South Lake Tahoe on July 4 starting about 9:45pm. The time can change.

To watch them from a beach, arrive early.

El Dorado Beach is currently under construction for Lakeview Commons and will not be available to view the fireworks.

The city recommends:

* Regan Beach located nearby to El Dorado Beach

* Ski Run Marina and beach

* Paddle-wheeler boats

* Tallac Historic site and any of the beaches along Emerald Bay Road

* Camp Richardson, Pope and Baldwin beaches

* Edgewood Tahoe (a few tickets are still available)

* Nevada beach in Zephyr Cove

* Kahle Community Park just off Kingsbury Grade

* Bijou Community Park.

Tour de Tahoe bike ride starts in Stateline and goes the whole 72 miles around Lake Tahoe on Sept. 11.

Click here for more information.

America’s Most Beautiful Bike Ride leaves from Stateline and goes the 72 miles around Lake Tahoe on June 5. Riders leave between 6:30-8:30am.

Click here for more information.

The 28th annual Carson City Rendezvous, the area’s largest special event, returns June 10–12 to celebrate the Wild West and Civil War era history.

The 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s presidential inauguration is one of many new events for the free three-day Civil War-era living history set at Mills Park.

The opening ceremony will be a special re-enactment of the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, the nation’s 16th president, at Mills Park that Saturday at 10am.

To commemorate the Lincoln presidency, Rendezvous participants and encampments will join in a pageant of costume and theater, followed by a special swearing in of U.S. citizens by the U.S. Naturalization and Immigration Department. The opening ceremony will feature a special re-enactment of the inauguration Abraham Lincoln.

The Rendezvous is noted for portraying the lifestyle of early Nevada settlers, complete with gun skirmishes, mountain man encampments and trapping demonstrations. Organizers this year have moved the famous Civil War-era gun battles from afternoon to dusk, to capture the backdrop of live-fire, flash-bang rounds exploded from muskets.

The event is where the authentic and re-enactment collide, whether it’s the lingering smell of gunpowder after musket battle demonstrations, the boom of Civil War-era cannons or the taste of beans and bacon cooked in cast-iron dutch ovens over an open fire.

The all-ages event runs Friday from noon-9pm, Saturday from 10am-9pm and Sunday, 10am-5pm.

For more information, go online or call (775) 687.7410.