Author: Michael Hall

The Main Stage Band Application for the August 6-9, 2026 Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival will be available on this website on December 1, 2025. 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.

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 City of Redwood City has approved the demolition of the Veterans Memorial Senior Center, formerly the home of the Northern California Bluegrass Music Awards, part of the Northern California Bluegrass Society’s Bluegrass On Broadway Festival. That event ended in January 2020, just before the pandemic.

The site will become the new home of the YMCA of Silicon Valley. The new Veterans Memorial Senior Center is across the street and will open by the end of this year.

Seven Week 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.

NCBS Online Donations

The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes the 20th Annual Holiday Hootenanny on Friday, December 12 at 4:00pm. This has become a FREE Bay Area Bluegrass Tradition!

The Stoney Mountain Ramblers will be the host band. Other bands will be announced soon.

Thanks to 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.

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!

Use this link to join today: <NCBS Membership>.

The Main Stage Band Application for the August 6-9, 2026 Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival will be available on this website on December 1, 2025.

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.

Happy Veterans Day from your friends in the Northern California Bluegrass Society!

A breakdown at the KKUP tower on Loma Prieta Mountain has left the station temporarily off the airwaves, but Monday Night Bluegrass will stream as usual on <www.kkupfm.org>.

The show is 6:00-9:00pm on Monday, November 10, 2025.

NCBS favorite Enrico Burmano And Friends will perform beginning at 6:15pm and The Stragglyrs will follow at 7:30pm.

The program host is NCBS Vice President Mike Russell, with NCBS President Michael Hall serving as live music emcee. Lars Bourne will engineer the broadcast.

Monday Night Bluegrass has been broadcast on the station every Monday night since 1980.

So, don’t Tune In this week — instead Stream In And Turn On! You will be glad you did.

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.

NCBS Online Donations