The Northern California Bluegrass Society Board Of Directors has elected officers for 2016-2017. They are:
President — Michael Hall (Redwood City)
Vice-President — Mike Russell (San Mateo)
Secretary — Bruce Bellochio (Brookdale)
Treasurer — Bruce Edmundson (Sunnyvale)
The Foundation For Bluegrass Music (Nashville) has awarded one of only four 2016 grants to support children’s bluegrass education to the Northern California Bluegrass Society’s Walker Creek Music Camp Scholarship Fund.
The prestigious nationwide grant was announced at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards Luncheon at the World Of Bluegrass in Raleigh, NC on September 29, 2016.
The NCBS fund accepts donations and awards partial or full scholarships to deserving young students at the Walker Creek Music Camp, which is held each Spring & Fall at the Walker Creek Environmental Education Center & Ranch near Petaluma. A NCBS committee manages the four-year-old fund.
The Walker Creek Music Camp was established in 2013 by Camp Director Ingrid Noyes. The residential camp educates both adults and children in instrumental and vocal instruction, with nationally-recognized instructors.
The FBM also awards a college scholarship each year to a student studying bluegrass music. Palo Alto’s Molly Tuttle was one of the past recipients.
Thanks to all the donors, now including the Foundation For Bluegrass Music, as well as all the NCBS volunteers, for making this scholarship fund available to young aspiring bluegrass students in Northern California.
Information: Walker Creek Music Camp.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society’s 2016 Volunteer Thank You Party will be held on Saturday, October 29 at an undisclosed location.
Volunteers and bands from all NCBS events and other projects over the past year will receive their invitations with all the exciting details in early October.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society’s 2016 Volunteer Thank You Party will be held on Saturday, October 29 at an undisclosed location.
Volunteers and bands from all NCBS events and other projects over the past year will receive an invitation soon.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society loves its volunteers!
Each year, the Society hosts the Bluegrass Party Of The Year to honor the folks that step up all year long to Make The Music Happen!
Information about the 2016 party will be announced very soon and all volunteers will receive their coveted invitations.
The party is for all Society volunteers and bands on any NCBS event or project in the past year.
The 2016-2017 Northern California Bluegrass Society Board of Directors was elected on August 13 at the Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival in Tres Pinos. The new board will serve until elections are held in August 2017.
Incumbents Bruce Bellochio, Eric Burman, Bruce Edmundson, Mike Fisher, Penny Godlis, Michael Hall, & Mike Russell were re-elected.
Longtime Society volunteers David Field of Santa Cruz and Allan French of Mountain View were elected to the nine-member board.
Uriah Langmeyer and Alison Steele from the 2015-2016 board did not run again, but will continue to be involved in NCBS activities.
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Benitolink Coverage of the Good Old Fashioned Festival (8/15/16)
Northern California Bluegrass Society president Michael Hall is running for a seat on the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Board Of Directors.
Hall is a Redwood City attorney and a bluegrass organizer at the national and local levels. If elected, he will serve a three-year term beginning in October, representing Bluegrass Associations. The NCBS is a longtime organizational member of the IBMA.
The Nashville-based IBMA is the organization of professionals promoting bluegrass music worldwide. It presents the World Of Bluegrass convention each September in Raleigh, NC.
