The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes the Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival which will be held this weekend at the Plumas County Fairgrounds in Quincy, August 29-31. This is a fun, small, relaxed gathering in a lovely mountain town.
Stop by and say hello to the folks at the NCBS Information Booth at the festival!
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. Please post again when the instrument is recovered.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes the Snazzy Productions concert with the NCBS GOF favorite Water Tower. The show will be held on September 26 at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes the Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival which will be held this weekend at the Plumas County Fairgrounds in Quincy, August 29-31. This is a fun, small, relaxed gathering in a lovely mountain town. Our own Wildcat Mountain Ramblers from Los Gatos will be the host band. Many Bay Area bands and musicians will perform and attend.
Join The Society or Renew! Membership in the Northern California Bluegrass Society supports local bluegrass music in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Monterey Bay Area, and in all of Northern California.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes these festivals to our area this fall:
August 29-31 — Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival, Plumas County Fairgrounds, Quincy. With: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers, Poi Rogers, Mission Hill, and more.
October 4 — Jamesburg Schoolhouse Benefit Festival, Jamesburg Schoolhouse, Jamesburg. With: The Courthouse Ramblers, Eric Burman & The Brookdale Bluegrass Band, Alan Bond & Skedaddle, Briana Mai Colliard & The Desert Marigolds, and more.
Thanks for booking our area bands!
See the August 22, 2025 issue: <Hollister Free Lance Digital Editions>. Bluegrass story and pictures are on pages 1 and 10.
Gilroy Dispatch — more easily-accessed version of the article:
<Tres Pinos festival keeps bluegrass alive | Gilroy Dispatch | Gilroy, California>
Kathy Barwick of Grass Valley, a bluegrass performer on multiple instruments, a published bluegrass writer, and an instructor, has died after a long battle with kidney cancer. She played guitar, banjo, Dobro, mandolin, and bass after starting with piano lessons at a young age. She was 71 years old.
Kathy was best known to area bluegrass fans as a member of the All Girl Boys, Mountain Laurel, The Avocado Brothers, Mike Justis Band, and later in life as a duet performer with the late Pete Siegfried, although she was in many other bands during a long musical career that began in 1970. She performed at the Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival, the CBA Father’s Day Festival, the Strawberry Music Festival, and at many other festivals and venues in the Sacramento area and throughout Northern California.
Apart from music, she spent her career helping California industries avoid and reduce the use of materials that would eventually become toxic waste, thereby solving an environmental problem before it started. After retirement from the State of California, she retired to Grass Valley.
She was a Sacramento native and a graduate of Foothill High School and Sacramento State University. She was a columnist at Flatpicking Guitar Magazine and an instructor at various music camps and at the Fifth String in Sacramento.
Kathy was very supportive of young female musicians, acting as inspiration and as a mentor. She was always up for a good bluegrass jam at festivals and in the community. She is warmly remembered by her family, friends, and students. She was best known for her bluegrass & folk music, but also played Irish music.
Kathryn Ann Barwick is survived by her husband Jon Fox.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society accepts donations to support area bluegrass and 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. The NCBS/SCBS Tax ID No. is 94-2907716.
Mail-In Donations: NCBS/SCBS, PO Box 390846, Mountain View, CA 94039-0846.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes the Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival which will be held at the Plumas County Fairgrounds in Quincy, August 29-31. This is a fun, small, relaxed gathering in a lovely mountain town.
The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers are the host band. Mission Hill, Sourdough Slim, Poi Rogers, plus more bands round out the line-up. Excellent camping facilities and local vendors make camping enjoyable.
