It’s time to join your friends who have joined the NCBS!
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!
The last day to make Tax Advantaged Donations for 2025 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.
The Northern California Bluegrass SocietyĀ welcomes the FREE 20th Annual Holiday Hootenanny on Friday, December 12Ā at 4:00pm. This has become a fun and enduring Bay Area bluegrass tradition!
Thanks to Scott Dailey for booking this event. The Stoney Mountain Ramblers will be the host band. More information will be available soon.
It’s important that bluegrass folks make their voices heard in upcoming elections. We need you!
The next election is on Tuesday November 4, 2025 and voting is already underway. If you are a bluegrass fan and have received your ballot in the mail, now is a good time to return it.
If you are not yet registered, the deadline is Monday October 20.
TheĀ 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 bothĀ theft victimsĀ andĀ used instrument buyers.Ā The FREE page is searchable, and links can be added to connect additional information.
Please post again when the instrument is recovered.
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!
This will be a big weekend of bluegrass in Northern California — coming at a time of year when major events are usually few and far between. But not in 2025! We have two good ones for you:
October 17-19 — Strawberry Fall Music Festival, Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley. This will mark the return of the fall gathering for the first time in 8 years! Great bluegrass including Del McCoury, Laurie Lewis, Becky Buller, and more.
October 13-19 — CBA Fall Campout, Lodi Wine Festival Fairgrounds, Lodi. This event has been going since Monday, but will hit its peak starting Friday. Stop by and say hello to our own Bruce Champion, who will be there to record bands and individual musicians after a long season of hard times. His newly-repaired recording truck is a testament to the generosity of his fellow bluegrassers. (NOTE: The repairs on the truck have been delayed and Bruce will have to miss this event. Dang it!) Plenty of good jamming all around at this gathering.
TheĀ Northern California Bluegrass SocietyĀ accepts donations to support area bluegrass and is aĀ California Not-For-ProfitĀ CorporationĀ withĀ Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3)Ā status that is also known as theĀ Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society.Ā TheĀ NCBS/SCBS Tax ID No.Ā isĀ 94-2907716.
The Donation Deadline for your 2025 taxes is December 31.
Mail-In Donations: NCBS/SCBS, PO Box 390846, Mountain View, CA 94039-0846.
The Northern California Bluegrass SocietyĀ welcomes the FREE 20th Annual Holiday Hootenanny on Friday, December 12Ā at 4:00pm. This has become a fun and enduring Bay Area bluegrass tradition! Thanks to Scott Dailey for booking this event. The Stoney Mountain Ramblers will be the host band.
The gathering will be presented by the Devil’s Canyon Brewing Company,Ā 935 Washington Street in San Carlos. Fine beer will be served and a variety of food trucks will be there. There will be two stages and plenty of space for jamming.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes Noam Pikelny & Friends to the Presidio Theater in Presidio National Park, San Francisco.
Pikelny is widely recognized as the preeminent banjoist of his generation. Noam is a founding member of Punch Brothers. Pikelny was awarded the first annual Steve Martin Prize For Excellence In Banjo And Bluegrass and is a two-time International Bluegrass Music Association Banjo Player Of The Year. In 2019, Noam was awarded the āBest Folk Albumā Grammy for the Punch Brothersā release, “All Ashore.” Most recently, Noam has been performing with the new bluegrass band, Mighty Poplar. The theater-presented concert will feature NCBS favorite Teo Quale of Alameda on mandolin.
The NCBS will have its Information Table at the show. Stop by and say hello!
