The Northern California Bluegrass Society has announced the nominees for the 2018 Northern California Bluegrass Awards:
1. Bluegrass Band
35 Years of Trouble
AJ Lee & Blue Summit
Bangers & Grass
Barwick & Siegfried
Bean Creek
Belle Monroe & Her Brewglass Boys
Blue & Lonesome
Blue J’s
Bow Ties
Brookdale Bluegrass Band
California Tallboys
Central Valley Boys
Cliff Compton & Mountain Top
Crying Shame
Cryin’ Uncle
Dark Hollow
Faux Renwah
Glad To Be Here
Goat Hill Girls
Grasskickers
High Country
Hot October
Jones Gang
Loganville
Mighty Crows
Naked Bootleggers
Pacific Drive
Old Belle
One Button Suit
Rogue River
Rusty Stringfield
Shepherd Canyon Band
Sidesaddle & Co
Snap Jackson & The Knock On Wood Players
Stoney Mountain Ramblers
Town Howlers
Wendy Burch Steel & Redwood
Wildcat Mountain Ramblers
Windy Hill
2. Male Vocalist
Eric Antrim
Jerry Barush
Ryan Breens
Eric Burman
Larry Chung
Larry Cohea
Cliff Compton
Glenn Dauphin
Rick Ednie
Tomas Enguidanos
Jesse Fichman
David Field
Avram Frankel
John Gooding
Josh Gooding
Joe Helm
Pete Hicks
Rob Horgan
Snap Jackson
Travis Jones
John Kornhauser
Matt Lauer
Jerry Logan
John McKelvy
Jim Mintun
Dan Newitt
Billy Pitrone
Bradley Richter
Tom Shewmake
Victor Skidanenko
Bob Smith
Chris Smith
Yoseff Tucker
Sullivan Tuttle
Butch Waller
Robert Waller
Henry Warde
Thomas Wille
Robert Zeien
3. Female Vocalist
Kathy Barwick
Pam Brandon aka Belle Monroe
Sarah Eblen
Kim Elking
Stacy Erdman
Rainy Escobar
Helen Foley
Dana Frankel
Jessica Furui
Penny Godlis
Daisy Kerr
Jennifer Kitchen
AJ Lee
Melissa Lincoln
Linda Maki
Louise Mintun
Tonya Newstetter
Angela Personeni
Hailey Pexton
Jody Richardson
Nell Robinson
Amy Sher
Tessa Schwartz
Carolyn Sills
Wendy Burch Steel
Chris Stevenson aka Prairie Flower
Suzanne Suwanda
Ella Warde
Karen Wilhoyte
Ida Winfree
4. Guitar
Eric Antrim
Kathy Barwick
Brian Burke
Eric Burman
Larry Chung
Glenn Dauphin
Rick Ednie
Tomas Enguidanos
Ian Epstein
Jesse Fichman
David Field
Avram Frankel
John Gooding
Daisy Kerr
John Kornhauser
Matt Lauer
Jerry Logan
Linda Maki
Alex Mayers
Tonya Newstetter
Jim Nunally
Billy Pitrone
Mitch Polzak
Steve Pottier
Victor Skidanenko
Bob Smith
Matthew Songmaker
Yoseff Tucker
Michael Tuttle
Sullivan Tuttle
Marty Varner
Yvonne Walbroehl
Mike Wilhoyte
Thomas Wille
Robert Zeien
5. Mandolin
Tom Bekeny
TJ Carskadon
Kim Elking
Bill Foss
Lucas French
Josh Gooding
John Gwinner
Pete Hicks
Mark Hogan
Shane Kalbach
Kara Kundert
AJ Lee
Wendy Molin
Ed Neff
Andy O’Brien
Steve Pottier
Teo Quale
Bradley Richter
Tom Shewmake
Victor Skidanenko
Michael Tuttle
Butch Waller
Henry Warde
Ida Winfree
6. Banjo
Ryan Breen
Chris Caputo
Larry Chung
Paul Clarke
Larry Cohea
Robert Cornelius
Scott Dailey
Tim Edes
Dave Guarente
Rob Horgan
Snap Jackson
Ted Kuster
Chad Manning
BanjerDan Mazer
Billy Moore
Tom Naiman
Jesse Personeni
Max Schwartz
Sonia Shell
Victor Skidanenko
Tyler Stegall
Larry White
Christine Wilhoyte
7. Fiddle
Tom Bekeny
Cactus Bob Cole
Dennis English
Dana Frankel
Brandon Godman
Margaret Green
Pete Hicks
Shane Kalbach
Jack Kinney
Melissa Lincoln
Helen Lude
Chad Manning
Ed Neff
Jan Purat
Miles Quale
Teo Quale
Jody Richardson
Alisa Rose
Tessa Schwartz
Paul Shelasky
Amy Sher
Matthew Songmaker
Ella Warde
Mark Wardenburg
Lee Anne Welch
8. Dobro
Leslie Abbott
Kathy Barwick
Cliff Compton
Gary Anwyl
Tomas Enguidanos
Will Forte
Avram Frankel
John Gwinner
Ralph Hendricks
Jim Mintun
Charlie Wallace
9. Bass
Lisa Burns
Brian Clark
Isaac Cornelius
Glenn Dauphin
Tom Drohan
Matt Dudman
Sarah Eblen
Helen Foley
Vicki Frankel
Dave Gooding
Jacob Gooding
Megan January
Jennifer Kitchen
Paul Knight
Meghan Leslie
Deb Livermore
Jerry Logan
Linda Maki
Kyle McCabe
Louise Mintun
Andrew Osborn
Angela Personeni
Steve Pottier
Max Schwartz
Chris Stevenson aka Prairie Flower
Suzanne Suwanda
Allegra Thompson
James Touzel
Karen Wilhoyte
Ida Winfree