The 32nd Annual Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival will be held Thursday-Sunday, August 6-9, 2026.
Main Stage Band Applications are due on December 31, 2025.
The fun annual gathering of California bluegrass bands, friends and family is a benefit for the Northern California Bluegrass Society. The festival will take place at the San Benito County Historical Park in Tres Pinos.
A Go Fund Me Page has been established to help the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company following a high speed car crash on Thanksgiving evening that largely demolished the music performance space at the beloved bluegrass venue. The fund will help pay for non-insured losses such as support for workers who are unemployed while the establishment is rebuilt.
Thursday is a regular bluegrass evening, but the venue was closed for Thanksgiving. Otherwise, the high speed crash would have taken out the band and much of the audience.
Owner Terri Hope plans to reopen as soon as possible.
Your 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. Join or renew today!
The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes the FREE 20th Annual Holiday Hootenanny on Friday, December 12 at 4:00pm. This is a Bay Area holiday bluegrass tradition!
Performance Schedule:
FRIDAY, December 12
(Doors open at 4:00pm)
Main Stage
5:00 – String Slingers
6:00 – Bay Area Special
7:00 – Stoney Mountain Ramblers
8:15 – Pathetic Honey String Band
9:30 – All-Star Jam
Outdoor Stage (timing TBD)
T-Ranch & Friends
Ian Leonard & Bluegrass Valentine
Bruno & His Blind Boys
(And More TBA!)
There will be an array of excellent food trucks at the event, and the brewery will serve fine craft beer and root beer. Thanks to our own Scott Dailey for booking this event, which is presented by the Devil’s Canyon Brewing Company.
The Main Stage Band Application for the August 6-9, 2026 Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival are now available on this website.
Click this link to apply: https://ncbs.us/events/gof/2026-gof-band-application-forms/
The application will be due on December 31, 2025. California bluegrass bands are encouraged to apply!
The 32nd Annual event is a benefit for the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
One Month Reminder: The last day to make tax advantaged donations for this tax year is December 31, 2025. You can include bluegrass music in your year-end tax planning. 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 32nd Annual Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival will be held Thursday-Sunday, August 6-9, 2026. The fun annual gathering of California bluegrass bands, friends and family is a benefit for the Northern California Bluegrass Society. The festival will take place at the San Benito County Historical Park in Tres Pinos.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes the FREE 20th Annual Holiday Hootenanny on Friday, December 12 at 4:00pm. This has become a fun and enduring Bay Area bluegrass tradition!
The Stoney Mountain Ramblers will be the host band. Other bands will be announced soon. Thanks to our own Scott Dailey for booking this event, which is presented by the Devil’s Canyon Brewing Company.
There will be an array of excellent food trucks at the event, and the brewery will serve fine craft beer and root beer.
Happy Thanksgiving from your friends in the Northern California Bluegrass Society!
The Main Stage Band Application for the August 6-9, 2026 Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival are now available on this website (Thanks to our hardworking band committee for getting it up early!).
Click this link to apply: https://ncbs.us/events/gof/2026-gof-band-application-forms/
The application will be Due on December 31, 2025.
California bluegrass bands are encouraged to apply!
The 32nd Annual event is a benefit for the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
