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 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.
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.