Two Month Reminder: Nominations for the 11th Annual Northern California Bluegrass Awards are due from NCBS Members by October 21, 2017.
Category: Bluegrass on Broadway
Northern California Bluegrass Awards Nominations Now Accepted & Due By October 21
Nominations for the 11th Annual Northern California Bluegrass Awards are due from NCBS Members by October 21, 2017.
Nominations honoring Northern California’s primarily non-touring bluegrass bands & musicians are being accepted in 9 categories: Band, Male Vocalist, Female Vocalist, Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo, Fiddle, Dobro, and Bass. Paper nomination forms will be available at the NCBS Information Booth at fall events and e-mail nominations can be sent to Michael Hall. Each member may nominate up to 3 in each category.
NCBS members will receive two rounds of ballots over the winter. The awards ceremony will be held on January 27, 2018 as part of the FREE NCBS Bluegrass On Broadway Festival in Redwood City.
The awards show and January 26-28 festival are supported by a base grant from the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission and by other Redwood City-area businesses, agencies, and organizations.
2018 NCBS 11th Annual Bluegrass On Broadway Festival Is Set For January 26-28 In Redwood City
The 11th Annual FREE Bluegrass On Broadway Festival will be held January 26-28, 2018 at various venues in Redwood City. The festival is presented by the Northern California Bluegrass Society with principal financial support from the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission.
Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission Awards Grant To Support The January 26-28 NCBS Bluegrass On Broadway Festival
The City Of Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission has awarded a grant that provides base funding for the Northern California Bluegrass Society’s 11th Annual Bluegrass On Broadway Festival.
The event will be held at various Redwood City venues the weekend of January 26-28, 2018.
The FREE community event includes the Northern California Bluegrass Awards on January 27 and the NCBS Bluegrass Film Festival on January 28. Other live music is presented in the restaurants, bars, and other venues around the city, creating a fun, affordable bluegrass weekend for residents and visitors alike. The grant is subject to final approval by the Redwood City Council.
Redwood City is the Pennisula Home Of Bluegrass Music, with frequent shows in the city’s music clubs and the inclusion of bluegrass music in civic celebrations and public concerts.
Photo Essay Of The Tenth Annual Bluegrass On Broadway Festival Is Now Available
A Photo Essay of the tenth annual NCBS Bluegrass On Broadway Festival is now available online. The BOB includes the Northern California Bluegrass Awards Show & Concert and the NCBS Bluegrass Film Festival.
Bluegrass On Broadway Photo Essay
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.
Spanish Language Video Coverage Of The 2017 Bluegrass On Broadway Festival
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.
Video: Una Extremeña En Silicon Valley: Redwood City (10:16)
The first festival segment begins at 2:55.
Host Carmen Del Solar Valdés previously reported about the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco.
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.
10th Annual NCBS Bluegrass Film Festival Set For Monday Evening, January 30 In Redwood City
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.
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. 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.
Finally, we will screen Aptos-based 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.
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NCBS Bluegrass Film Festival
6:30-8:30pm — Community Room, Redwood City Main Library, 1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood City.
Banjos Bluegrass & Squirrel Barkers (Rick Bowman, Backyard Green Films, CA)
How To Make A Guitar In Two Minutes (Herb Moore, CA)
The Whippoorwill’s 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.
National Press Coverage — Bluegrass Today
Spanish Language Video Coverage of Bluegrass On Broadway
Surprise Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Michael Hall Says Thank You!
Saturday evening offered an opportunity for everyone to relax after an all-day bluegrass concert and awards show. 27strings did the early show in the local German beer hall and then the Edgewood Mountain Boys closed out the evening at a local craft brewery. Everyone had a great time! We get Sunday off (due to a venue scheduling snafu) and then we close out the festival with an all-California bluegrass film festival on Monday night. It will be fun!
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In the midst of the Northern California Bluegrass Awards Show yesterday in Redwood City, I was the recipient of a surprise Lifetime Achievement Award that was presented by Joe Weed. I am deeply honored by this award, and want to thank Joe and his co-conspirators for their efforts.
My first reaction was “Hey, I’m the one who gives out the awards around here!” I didn’t really say everything that needed to be said yesterday — especially that absolutely everything that I have done for bluegrass has been done as part of a team of dedicated volunteers. Working together, I think we have made a difference for the music in our area and beyond. We can all be proud of that.
It is very nice to be thanked, and I am still enjoying the moment. Thank you!
— Michael Hall
Bean Creek Repeats As Top Northern California Bluegrass Band, While Young & Old Split Individual Honors
Bluegrass Traditionalists Bean Creek of Santa Cruz repeated as Best Bluegrass Band at the Tenth Annual Northern California Bluegrass Awards, held on January 28, 2017 in Redwood City, California. Meanwhile, younger and older musicians split the individual honors at the ceremony.
Two college students from Santa Cruz took the vocalist honors. Sullivan Tuttle was named Best Male Vocalist, while A. J. Lee was named Best Female Vocalist. The two were longtime bandmates in The Tuttles With A. J. Lee and are now in the newly-organized Blue Summit.
Sullivan Tuttle also won Best Guitar Player, while his younger brother Michael Tuttle, also a college student, won Best Mandolin Player. Santa Cruz’s Luke Abbott was named Best Banjo Player.
More mature musicians were also tapped by the voters. Jim Mintun added to his burgeoning collection of Dobro awards, while family patriarch Jack Tuttle won for Best Fiddle Player. Bassist Paul Knight was named the top player on that instrument.
Knight was also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. He was joined by fellow bluegrass sound specialists Dave Nielsen, Mike Russell, & Joe Weed. All have made many other contributions to the bluegrass world.
In the midst of the scheduled program, NCBS president and awards program organizer Michael Hall was surprised with a special Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Joe Weed.
The Northern California Bluegrass Awards are presented by the Northern California Bluegrass Society as part of the Bluegrass On Broadway Festival in Redwood City. The festival is supported by the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission and by other Redwood City-area businesses, agencies, organizations and individuals. NCBS would like to thank these partners for their steady support of bluegrass music in Redwood City over the initial decade of the BOB venture.
The BOB festival also includes the NCBS Bluegrass Film Festival. That event will conclude this year’s festival on January 30, ending a fun weekend of free bluegrass music all around Redwood City.
Winners — 2017 Northern California Bluegrass Awards
Band — Bean Creek, Santa Cruz
Male Vocalist — Sullivan Tuttle, Santa Cruz
Female Vocalist — A. J. Lee, Santa Cruz
Guitar — Sullivan Tuttle, Santa Cruz
Mandolin — Michael Tuttle, San Luis Obispo
Banjo — Luke Abbott, Santa Cruz
Fiddle — Jack Tuttle, Palo Alto
Dobro — Jim Mintun, Santa Cruz
Bass — Paul Knight, Marshall
Lifetime Achievement Awards:
Paul Knight, Marshall
David Nielsen, Gilroy
Mike Russell, San Mateo
Joe Weed, Los Gatos
Michael Hall, Redwood City
National Press Coverage — Bluegrass Today
Saturday At The FREE Bluegrass On Broadway Festival In Redwood City
Friday night was a fun time at the BOB kickoff show with the Stoney Mountain Ramblers. Great crowd and great music! Looking forward to day 2!
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SATURDAY, January 28
Northern California Bluegrass Awards Show & Concert
10:00am-5:00pm — Veterans Memorial Senior Center Theatre, 1455 Madison Avenue.
10:00am — Special Film Presentation: The Waltz To Westphalia (Joe Weed, CA)
11:00 — 35 Years Of Trouble
Noon — The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers
1:00pm — The Blue Js
2:00pm — Bean Creek
3:00-5:00 — Northern California Bluegrass Awards Show with additional musical performances.
6:00-8:00pm — 27strings, Gourmet Haus Staudt, 2615 Broadway.
8:00-10:00pm — Edgewood Mountain Boys, Freewheel Brewing Company, 3737 Florence Street.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society’s 10th annual Bluegrass On Broadway Festival runs January 27, 28, and 30, 2017. All programs are FREE and in Redwood City.