The Northern California Bluegrass Society/Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society is a California not-for-profit corporation that is a qualified IRC Section 501(c)(3) charitable organization. The Tax ID is 94-2907716. Your year-end tax planning can include a donation to support bluegrass music that is deductible as allowed by law.
Send checks to: NCBS/SCBS, PO Box 390846, Mountain View, CA 94309-0846 or Donate Online.
Three-Day Reminder: Band applications for the 2017 Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival are due on Saturday, December 31, 2016.
Redwood City’s Kitchen Help is set to perform at The Summit House, on Highway 17 six miles south of Los Gatos, on Thursday, December 29, 2016.
The popular FREE Every-Thursday Bluegrass Series began in January 2016 and is the home of bluegrass music in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Music will run 6:00-6:30pm in a program welcomed by the NCBS and presented by the Summit House Beer Garden & Grill, 23123 Santa Cruz Highway, Los Gatos 95033. Tasty food and drink will be served during the performance.
There will be plenty of bluegrass music for Northern California Bluegrass Music Fans all during New Year’s Week. Here are the listings:
TUESDAY, December 27
Slide Road, Sam’s BBQ, San Jose.
Glad To Be Here, Phil’s Fish Market, Moss Landing.
Edgewood Mountain Boys, Freewheel Brewing Company, Redwood City.
BanjerDan Mazer, Tognazzini’s Dockside Too, Morro Bay.
WEDNESDAY, December 28
High Country, Albany Taproom, Albany.
Loganville, Sam’s BBQ, San Jose.
Trail Rides Band, Phil’s Fish Market, Moss Landing.
Rattlebox, Iron Springs Pub, Fairfax.
WEDNESDAY-MONDAY, December 28-January 2
New Harmony New Year’s Camp, San Francisco Folk Music Club, Camp Newman, Santa Rosa.
THURSDAY, December 29
Kitchen Help, Summit House, Los Gatos. (NCBS-welcomed)
Mill Creek Ramblers, Mission Pizza, Fremont.
BanjerDan, Last Stage West BBQ, Atascadero.
FRIDAY, December 30
Mountain Fire Band, Plough & Stars, San Francisco.
The Brothers Comatose, The Coffis Brothers, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco.
Mill Creek Ramblers, Mission Pizza, Fremont.
NEW YEAR’S EVE, December 31
High Country, Dix Bruce & Julie Cline, and Hurricane Sam Rudin, The Back Room, Berkeley.
Edgewood Mountain Boys, Plough & Stars, San Francisco.
Hot Buttered Rum, Bad Apple String Band, Hopmonk Tavern, Sebastopol.
Whispering Smith, St. Charles Saloon, Columbia.
The Brothers Comatose, The T Sisters, The Rainbow Girls, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco.
Dirty Cello, Hopmonk Tavern, Sonoma.
NEW YEAR’S DAY, January 1, 2017
All Day Concert To Benefit Standing Rock With Laurie Lewis, Wendy Birch Steel & Redwood, and many more bands, The Back Room, Berkeley.
Santa Clara Valley Fiddlers Association, Hoover School, San Jose.
Dennis D Banjo Man, The Stork Club, Oakland.
MONDAY, January 2
Bean Creek, Phil’s Fish Market, Moss Landing.
Bearcat Duo, Amnesia, San Francisco.
Two Week Reminder: Final Round Ballots from Northern California Bluegrass Society Members for the 2017 Northern California Bluegrass Awards are due on Saturday, January 7, 2017.
The 10th annual Northern California Bluegrass Awards Show & Concert will be held on Saturday, Janury 28, 2017 in Redwood City, as part of the FREE NCBS Bluegrass On Broadway Festival, set for January 27-28 and January 30.
One Week Reminder: Band applications for the 2017 Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival are due Next Saturday, December 31, 2016.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society/Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society is a California not-for-profit corporation that is a qualified IRC Section 501(c)(3) charitable organization. The Tax ID is 94-2907716. Your year-end tax planning can include a donation to support bluegrass music that is deductible as allowed by law.
Send checks to: NCBS/SCBS, PO Box 390846, Mountain View, CA 94309-0846 or Donate Online.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society has announced the finalists for the 2017 Northern California Bluegrass Awards. The Awards Show & Concert will be held on January 28, 2017 in Redwood City, as part of the FREE 10th Annual NCBS Bluegrass On Broadway Festival, January 27-28 and January 30, 2017.
Congratulations to:
1. Bluegrass Band
35 Years of Trouble
Bean Creek
High Country
Snap Jackson & The Knock On Wood Players
Windy Hill
2. Male Vocalist
Luke Abbott
Glenn Dauphin
Jim Mintun
Billy Pitrone
Yoseff Tucker
Sullivan Tuttle
3. Female Vocalist
Kathy Barwick
Sarah Eblen
A. J. Lee
Louise Mintun
Hailey Pexton
4. Guitar
Kathy Barwick
Larry Chung
Billy Pitrone
Yoseff Tucker
Sullivan Tuttle
5. Mandolin
Kyle Abbott
Tom Bekeny
Josh Gooding
Pete Hicks
Michael Tuttle
Butch Waller
6. Banjo
Luke Abbott
Larry Chung
Larry Cohea
Snap Jackson
Avram Siegel
7. Fiddle
Luke Abbott
Tom Bekeny
Pete Hicks
Ed Neff
Jack Tuttle
Mark Wardenburg
8. Dobro
Leslie Abbott
Kathy Barwick
Tomas Enguidanos
Avram Frankel
Jim Mintun
9. Bass
Lisa Burns
Sarah Eblen
Paul Knight
Louise Mintun
Max Schwartz
The Northern California Bluegrass Society’s Bluegrass On Broadway Festival receives principal financial support from a base grant from the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission and from other Redwood City area busnesses, organizations, agencies, and individuals.
Ten Day Reminder: Band applications for the 2017 Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival are due on December 31, 2016.
Redwood Bluegrass Associates has set three Saturday evening concerts for the first quarter of 2017 at the Masonic Hall in Mountan View. They are:
January 21 — Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band
February 18 — Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley
March 18 — John Reischman & The Jaybirds
This is the final season in the 25-year run of these high-quality concerts, all welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
