Brookdale Bluegrass has announced the performance schedule for the Spring 2017 Festival, to be held at Mt. Cross Camp in Felton. All Brookdale Bluegrass events since 1998 have been welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
A Photo Essay of the tenth annual NCBS Bluegrass On Broadway Festival is now available online.Ā The BOB includes the Northern California Bluegrass Awards Show & Concert and the NCBS Bluegrass Film Festival.
Photo Essayists Donna Pacini-Christensen & Tim Christensen
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.
TheĀ Northern California Bluegrass Society Walker Creek Music Camp Scholarship Fund is now accepting donations for theĀ 2017 Spring Camp which will be heldĀ April 7-10 at theĀ Walker Creek Ranch nearĀ 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
TheĀ Northern California Bluegrass Society, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization aka theĀ 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.
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.
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 theĀ Summit House Beer Garden & Grill and welcomed by theĀ Northern California Bluegrass Society.
The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers
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 fromĀ 6:00-8:30pm at theĀ Summit House Beer Garden & Grill, 23123 Santa Cruz Highway, located six miles south ofĀ Los Gatos onĀ 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 Ā songs to celebrate the memory of The Stanley Brothers band and and its progeny.
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!
An extra day has been added to the event, which will be held for the first time at theĀ 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 theĀ 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.
Filmmaker Herb Moore
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. Ā 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.
Ella & Henry Warde
Finally, we will screen Aptos-basedĀ 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.
Filmmaker Curtis Leslie with Meghan Leslie
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NCBS Bluegrass Film Festival
6:30-8:30pm ā Community Room, Redwood City Main Library, 1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood City.
How To Make A Guitar In Two Minutes (Herb Moore, CA)
The Whippoorwillās 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.
