One Week Reminder: The deadline for Applications for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s 2025 Leadership Bluegrass Class is November 18, 2024.
The 2025 class will be held March 10-12 in Nashville.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society is a longtime organizational member of the IBMA. NCBS Members are encouraged to apply.
Veteran’s Day wishes from your friends in the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
Your membership in the Northern California Bluegrass Society supports bluegrass music in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Monterey Bay Area, and in all of Northern California.
Two Peninsula-area radio broadcasters that feature bluegrass music were included in an article about local non-commercial radio stations in the Menlo Park Almanac newspaper. Both KKUP-Cupertino and KZSU-Stanford have significant bluegrass programming. The full article is here:
All ears: Tune in to these 8 noncommercial Peninsula radio stations – The Almanac
KKUP has several bluegrass radio shows, including Monday Night Bluegrass, 6:00-9:00pm every Monday since 1980. The show has different hosts each week, with the Northern California Bluegrass Society Board’s Mike Russell & Michael Hall hosting live bands on the second Monday each month. The article has photos of October 14’s musical guests, The Johnny Campbell Band, and of Russell at the microphone and Lars Bourne doing sound. Bourne is also the MNB show host on the third Mondays.
KZSU has the “That’s Not Bluegrass” show every Wednesday, Noon-2:00pm with Sarah Bellum, who is better known as NCBS Board Member Lois Kellerman. She has been hosting her program on the station since 1998.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes the FREE 19th Annual Holiday Hootenanny on Friday, December 13 at 4:00pm. The gathering will be presented by the Devil’s Canyon Brewing Company, 935 Washington Street in San Carlos.
The Stoney Mountain Ramblers and other bands will perform. Fine beer will be served. A variety of food trucks will be there. There will be two stages and space for jamming. Thanks to Scott Dailey for booking this fun bluegrass evening.
The NCBS Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival will be held the second weekend of August, Thursday-Sunday August 7-10, 2025 at the San Benito County Historical Park in Tres Pinos.
Two Week Reminder: The deadline for Applications for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s 2025 Leadership Bluegrass Class is November 18, 2024. The 2025 class will be held March 10-12 in Nashville.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society is a longtime organizational member of the IBMA. NCBS Members are encouraged to apply.
Make Voting Part Of Your Bluegrass Lifestyle.
A very important Election Day is TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2024.
Don’t miss out! Make your voice heard!
The NCBS National Bluegrass Stolen & Missing Instrument Page is on this website. It provides a central reporting location for the recovery of stolen or lost bluegrass instruments. This service is for both theft victims and used instrument buyers. The FREE page is searchable, and links can be added to connect additional information about the instrument. Please post again when the instrument is recovered.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society supports local bluegrass music.
The Society is a California Not-For-Profit Corporation with Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) status that is also known as the Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society. NCBS/SCBS accepts tax-advantaged donations.
The NCBS/SCBS Tax ID No. is 94-2907716.
Mail-In Donations: NCBS/SCBS, PO Box 390846, Mountain View, CA 94039-0846.
