Festival Fun: The Northern California Bluegrass Society’s FREE Bluegrass On Broadway Festival is this weekend, January 27, 28 & 30, 2017, at various venues in Redwood City. Here is All You Need To Know to enjoy the 10th Annual event:
The Festival: Bluegrass On Broadway includes both the Northern California Bluegrass Awards Show & Concert (Saturday) and the NCBS Bluegrass Film Festival (Monday), as well as other shows.
Tickets: NO tickets are needed. All shows are FREE and held in Redwood City.
Festival Schedule:
FRIDAY, January 27
8:00-10:00pm — Stoney Mountain Ramblers, Freewheel Brewing Company, 3737 Florence Street.
SATURDAY, January 28
Northern California Bluegrass Awards Show & Concert
10:00am-5:00pm — Veterans Memorial Senior Center Theatre, 1455 Madison Avenue.
10:00am — Special Film Presentation: The Waltz To Westphalia (Joe Weed, CA)
11:00 — 35 Years Of Trouble
Noon — The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers
1:00pm — The Blue Js
2:00pm — Bean Creek
3:00-5:00 — Northern California Bluegrass Awards Show with additional musical performances.
6:00-8:00pm — 27strings, Gourmet Haus Staudt, 2615 Broadway.
8:00-10:00pm — Edgewood Mountain Boys, Freewheel Brewing Company, 3737 Florence Street.
MONDAY, January 30
NCBS Bluegrass Film Festival
6:30-8:30pm — Community Room, Redwood City Main Library, 1044 Middlefield Road.
Banjos Bluegrass & Squirrel Barkers (Rick Bowman, Backyard Green Films, CA)
How To Make A Guitar In Two Minutes (Herb Moore, CA)
The Whippoorwill’s Cry (Curtis Leslie, CA)
Directions:
Bluegrass On Broadway is held at various venues in Redwood City (mid-Peninsula in the middle of the Bay Area), easily accessible from Freeways 101 and 280, via the Woodside Road exit.
Downtown Redwood City is about a half-mile north of Woodside Road via Middlefield Road. Little India, Gourmet Haus Staudt, and the Redwood City Main Library are located downtown.
The Veterans Memorial Senior Center is about 2 miles west of downtown off of Jefferson Avenue. Turn left on St. Francis, which leads directly into the VMSC parking lot.
To reach the VMSC from I-280, exit at Farm Hill Blvd. and go east, Farm Hill becomes Jefferson Avenue. Go past the Alameda de Las Plugas, then right on St. Francis, which leads directly into the VMSC parking lot.
To reach the VMSC from Woodside Road, go north on Alameda de Las Plugas then right (east) on Jefferson Avenue. Turn right on St. Francis, which leads directly into the VMSC parking lot.
The Freewheel Brewing Company is located in the Marsh Manor Shopping Center, not far from the Marsh Road exit off Highway 101 at the southern edge of Redwood City. From 101 go west a short distance, then right on Florence Street. The shopping center is on the left.
Redwood City Weather:
All festival events are INDOORS with close-in parking. High 72, Low 72.
FRI: Sunny, High 58 Low 37. SAT: Sunny, High 59 Low 38. MON: Partly Sunny, High 65 Low 42.
Community & Fun: Remember, All Of Your Friends Will Be There!