Two Week Reminder: The deadline for 2024 Donations to the Northern California Bluegrass Society to support local bluegrass music is December 31. The Society 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.
NCBS/SCBS accepts tax-advantaged donations. The NCBS/SCBS Tax ID No. is 94-2907716.
Mail-In Donations: NCBS/SCBS, PO Box 390846, Mountain View, CA 94039-0846.
The deadline for 2024 Donations to the Northern California Bluegrass Society to support local bluegrass music is December 31. The Society 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. NCBS/SCBS accepts tax-advantaged donations. The NCBS/SCBS Tax ID No. is 94-2907716.
Mail-In Donations: NCBS/SCBS, PO Box 390846, Mountain View, CA 94039-0846.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society supports local bluegrass music. The Society 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.
NCBS/SCBS accepts tax-advantaged donations. The NCBS/SCBS Tax ID No. is 94-2907716.
Mail-In Donations: NCBS/SCBS, PO Box 390846, Mountain View, CA 94039-0846.
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 about the instrument. Please post again when the instrument is recovered.
You can include bluegrass music in your 2024 tax planning. The Northern California Bluegrass Society supports local bluegrass music. The Society 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. NCBS/SCBS accepts tax-advantaged donations. The NCBS/SCBS Tax ID No. is 94-2907716.
Mail-In Donations: NCBS/SCBS, PO Box 390846, Mountain View, CA 94039-0846.
The KALW On-Air Folk Festival is this Saturday, November 23. The live in-studio music will include Northern California Bluegrass Society favorite Bean Creek (Santa Cruz) at 4:00pm and the old-time Plaid Strangers — Karen Heil (fiddle, guitar) and Maxine Gerber (banjo, guitar) at 4:45pm. Live music will run from 2:00 to 7:00pm with other folk and Celtic bands.
The festival will be hosted by JoAnn Mar, Peter Thompson, & Kevin Vance.
The San Francisco station is at 91.7FM in the North Bay and Central Bay Areas, or Online.
You can include bluegrass music in your 2024 tax planning. The Northern California Bluegrass Society supports local bluegrass music. The Society 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. NCBS/SCBS accepts tax-advantaged donations.
The NCBS/SCBS Tax ID No. is 94-2907716.
Mail-In Donations: NCBS/SCBS, PO Box 390846, Mountain View, CA 94039-0846.
One Day Reminder: The deadline for Applications for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s 2025 Leadership Bluegrass Class is November 18, 2024.
The 2025 class will be held March 10-12 in Nashville. The Northern California Bluegrass Society is a longtime organizational member of the IBMA. NCBS Members are encouraged to apply.
Three-Day Reminder: The deadline for Applications for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s 2025 Leadership Bluegrass Class is November 18, 2024. The 2025 class will be held March 10-12 in Nashville.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society is a longtime organizational member of the IBMA. NCBS Members are encouraged to apply.
The famed home of several bluegrass-related music and film businesses since 1976 in El Cerrito may be sold unless the businesses can raise 1.2 million dollars to purchase the property.
The venue is home to the music store Down Home Records (global roots music), the Arhoolie Foundation (some of the archives from the Arhoolie Records music recording and publishing house founded by the late Chris Strachwitz), and Les Blank Films (music-related independent films founded by the late Les Blank as Flower Films).
Strachwitz purchased the building with money earned from the publishing royalties on Country Joe & the Fish’s anti-war rag “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die.”
Harrod Blank, Les Blank’s son, who is continuing his father’s documentary film work, has the first right to purchase the building from the Strachwitz trust at market value, estimated at 2.4 million dollars, half of which still needs to be raised. A Go Fund Me campaign to bring in a portion of the needed funds is currently underway.
