UPDATE: This show has been CANCELED due to bad weather conditions.
The Summit House Thursday Bluegrass Series will present a performance by The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers on February 9.
The series is presented by the Summit House and welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
The FREE show is from 6:00-8:30pm at the Summit House Beer Garden & Grill, located six miles south of Los Gatos on Highway 17.
A Photo Essay of the tenth annual NCBS Bluegrass On Broadway Festival is now available online. The BOB includes the Northern California Bluegrass Awards Show & Concert and the NCBS Bluegrass Film Festival.
Bluegrass On Broadway Photo Essay
The essay was produced by Donna Pacini-Christensen and Tim Christensen of A Starry Night Productions. The festival was held in Redwood City on January 27, 28 & 30, 2017.
The BOB Festival is presented by the Northern California Bluegrass Society with grant support from the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission and additional support from other Redwood City area organizations, agencies, businesses and individuals.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society Walker Creek Music Camp Scholarship Fund is now accepting donations for the 2017 Spring Camp which will be held April 7-10 at the Walker Creek Ranch near Petaluma.
Donations can be sent to:
Northern California Bluegrass Society/Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society
PO Box 390846
Mountain View, CA 94039-0846
Attn: NCBS Walker Creek Music Camp Scholarship Fund
The Northern California Bluegrass Society, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization aka the Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society, accepts donations and disburses scholarships. Donations to the fund are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Donors should consult their tax advisors. The Federal Tax ID No. is 94-2907716. Donors who do not need a tax deduction may donate money directly to the camp.
Information: Walker Creek Music Camp. Ingrid Noyes runs the twice-yearly camp.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society/Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society Santa Cruz Bluegrass Fair is set for Saturday, May 6, 2017.
The FREE afternoon concert in San Lorenzo Park (next to the courthouse) will be held at the Duck Pond Stage.
The Rite Of Spring for area bluegrass fans has ben held since 1986 and is the oldest NCBS/SCBS event.
In a historic first, the video podcast “En Extremena En Silicon Valley“ gave the January 28, 2017 Northern California Bluegrass Awards Show & Concert its first known Spanish-Language Coverage.
Video: Una Extremeña En Silicon Valley: Redwood City (10:16)
The first festival segment begins at 2:55.
Host Carmen Del Solar Valdés previously reported about the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco.
The concert was part of the weekend-long 10th Annual Bluegrass On Broadway Festival in Redwood City, January 27-28 and January 30, presented by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
The video podcast covers several Redwood City & Palo Alto-area topics while Bill Monroe’s “Blue Moon Of Kentucky” plays softly in the background.
The two segments about the bluegrass concert include performances by Bean Creek, The Blue Js, The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers, and 35 Years Of Trouble.
Great live bluegrass music is coming up over the next few weeks at the Summit House Thursday Bluegrass Series.
The series is presented by the Summit House Beer Garden & Grill and welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
The Goat Hill Girls will perform on February 2, the Wildcat Mountain Ramblers on February 9, and Blue Summit on February 16.
The FREE shows run from 6:00-8:30pm at the Summit House Beer Garden & Grill, 23123 Santa Cruz Highway, located six miles south of Los Gatos on Highway 17.
The views are endless and the food and drink are good.
Robert Cornelius organizes these ongoing concerts.
The 2017 Stanley Sing will be welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society. It has a new home at La Promenade Cafe, 3643 Balboa Street, San Francisco.
Bluegrass musicians will gather to take turns singing Ralph & Carter Stanley-related songs to celebrate the memory of The Stanley Brothers band and and its progeny.
More information will be announced soon.
Thanks to everyone who came out for tonight’s NCBS Bluegrass Film Festival, especially folks who came all the way from Arizona and San Diego! Great films and excellent talks by the filmmakers. The 10th annual Bluegrass On Broadway Festival is now in the books. See you next year!
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Peter Rowan has been added to the line-up for the March 10-12, 2017 Brookdale Bluegrass Spring Festival.
An extra day has been added to the event, which will be held for the first time at the Mt. Cross Camp in Felton. The Northern California Bluegrass Society has welcomed this gathering to our area since the first festival was held in 1998.
Other bands at the event will include Snap Jackson & The Knock On Wood Players, Faux Renwah, Coffee Zombie Collective, Stoney Mountain Ramblers, Toby Gray & Hiway Budda, and the Brookdale Bluegrass Band.
A wide variety of accomodations is available onsite at reasonable prices. There will be plenty of jamming all around the place all weekend.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society will present the 10th Annual NCBS Bluegrass Film Festival on Monday, January 30 at the Redwood City Main Library from 6:30-8:30pm.
The FREE event will screen three films by California filmmakers.
San Diego filmmaker Rick Bowman of Backyard Green Films will premiere his newest project about the history of San Diego bluegrass music, “Banjos, Bluegrass & Squirrel Barkers” to open our show. He will Q&A with our audience. The festival previously screened Bowman’s “Herschel Sizemore: Mandolin in B” to an appreciative audience.
“How To Make A Guitar In Two Minutes” — a short that is, in fact, two minutes long — will be our second offering. Herb Moore will come up from Los Gatos to talk to our audience about his film.
Finally, we will screen Aptos-based Curtis Leslie’s “The Whippoorwill’s Cry,” a portrait of the master of Swampgrass music, Larry Gillis. South Georgia’s Gillis tours nationally with two bands. His West Coast unit includes local bluegrass luminaries Henry & Ella Warde and Curtis & Meghan Leslie and appears frequently at area festivals.
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NCBS Bluegrass Film Festival
6:30-8:30pm — Community Room, Redwood City Main Library, 1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood City.
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)
The film festival will conclude the 2017 Bluegrass On Broadway Festival, presented by NCBS and supported in part by a grant from the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission. The weekend-long event is held at the end of January each year.
National Press Coverage — Bluegrass Today
Spanish Language Video Coverage of Bluegrass On Broadway
Saturday evening offered an opportunity for everyone to relax after an all-day bluegrass concert and awards show. 27strings did the early show in the local German beer hall and then the Edgewood Mountain Boys closed out the evening at a local craft brewery. Everyone had a great time! We get Sunday off (due to a venue scheduling snafu) and then we close out the festival with an all-California bluegrass film festival on Monday night. It will be fun!
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In the midst of the Northern California Bluegrass Awards Show yesterday in Redwood City, I was the recipient of a surprise Lifetime Achievement Award that was presented by Joe Weed. I am deeply honored by this award, and want to thank Joe and his co-conspirators for their efforts.
My first reaction was “Hey, I’m the one who gives out the awards around here!” I didn’t really say everything that needed to be said yesterday — especially that absolutely everything that I have done for bluegrass has been done as part of a team of dedicated volunteers. Working together, I think we have made a difference for the music in our area and beyond. We can all be proud of that.
It is very nice to be thanked, and I am still enjoying the moment. Thank you!
— Michael Hall
