The California Bluegrass AssociationĀ has created a fund to help bluegrass musicians who are wildfire victims and need our help to replace lost instruments.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society supports this important effort and encourages your donation to the fund.
Our sister organization, the California Bluegrass Association,Ā has created a fund to help bluegrass musicians who are wildfire victims and need our help replacing lost instruments.
The NCBS supports this important effort and encourages your support. Here are the details:
Bluegrass musicians who are wildfire victims need your help and our sister organization — the California Bluegrass Association — has created a fund to help.
The NCBS supports this important effort and encourages your support. Here are the details:
Bluegrass musicians who are wildfire victims need your help and our sister organization — the California Bluegrass Association — has created a fund to help. The NCBS supports this important effort and encourages your support. Here are the details:
The western town area of theĀ Paramount Ranch in Augora Hills, longtime home of the Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest & Folk Festival, has been destroyed by the Woolsey Fire.
The bluegrass, old-time and folk festival has been held at various locations in Southern California since 1961, and for the past two decades at the ranch. Topanga is widely regarded as the most influential bluegrass gathering in the Southland. The next event was scheduled for May, 2019.
The ranch has a rich movie and TV set history, hosting the TV program M*A*S*H, Dr. Quinn — Medicine Woman, and most recently,Ā Westworld, among many others.
The 2018Ā Winter Brookdale Bluegrass Festival, presented by Brookdale BluegrassĀ and welcomed by the NCBS, will bring the Wildcat Mountain Ramblers to the stage.
The festivals have been held twice a year since 1998, The winter event is set forĀ Thursday, December 6 atĀ Michaelās On MainĀ inĀ Soquel.
Freebo & Alice Howe & The Brookdale Bluegrass Band complete the evening’s musical line-up.
TheĀ December 6, 2018Ā Winter Brookdale Bluegrass Festival, presented by Brookdale Bluegrass, is set forĀ Michaelās On MainĀ inĀ Soquel.
All Brookdale festivals since 1998 have been welcomed by theĀ Northern California Bluegrass Society. The events have been held all over the Santa Cruz area. (Recently, the springtime fests only have been held in Tres Pinos.)
The performers will includeĀ Freebo & Alice Howe, The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers, & The Brookdale Bluegrass Band.
The one-day gathering is presented byĀ Brookdale Bluegrass, and will take place for the first time atĀ Michael’s On Main,Ā 2591 Main St,
Soquel.
Former Northern California Bluegrass Society President Keith Rollag has been named the new Dean of the Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.
Rollag was a key NCBS volunteer and popular mandolin player 1995-2001 while he pursued his Ph.D from the Stanford Business School and then served as an assistant professor of management.
After joining the faculty at Babson in 2001, he continued his bluegrass involvement by creating a website for the Boston Bluegrass Union using the NCBS website as a guide.
Babson College is a private business school in Boston, specializing in entrepreneurship. Dr. Rollag also continues in his role as Professor Of Management.
The 25th Annual Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival will present The Quitters at the August 9-12 gathering of the bluegrass community.
Although this will be the first time for this duo at the GOF, both Stevie Coyle and Glenn Houston have played the festival many times (as members of such bands as The Waybacks and Houston Jones) over the past quarter century.
The fun, relaxed showcase of top California bluegrass bands and fans will be held at the San Benito County Historical Park in Tres Pinos (7 miles south of Hollister).
TODAY is the last day to purchase Discount Advance Tickets. (There will be plenty of tickets at the gate.)
Joyce Clark, a key early volunteer who helped bring bluegrass music to the South Bay and Santa Cruz and brought new supporters to the fledgling band Sidesaddle, died on January 30, 2018. She was 75 years old.
Joyce and her husband Dick Clark were among the founders of the Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society and helped organize concerts, campouts, meetings, and bluegrass bowling fundraisers, and helped host popular social gatherings at the Society camp at bluegrass festivals throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The couple traveled nationally to support Sidesaddle, Northern California bluegrass and the SCBS. They were regular volunteers at the SCBS membership and information booth.
Joyce Clark was at the core of the SCBS, the glue of its fellowship and the heart of its activities. Her warmth, kindness, cheerfulness and general good humor were felt by everyone who knew her. Her smile, good heart, laugh, and gentle wit enlivened every occasion. For many new bluegrass fans of that era, their first and fondest memories of the bluegrass community were of Joyce welcoming them to the music and to the SCBS camp at festivals. She never met a stranger, and was always wickedly funny, warm and understanding. She became everyone’s confidant and showed unconditional love. Her personality influenced the developing cultural of the early bluegrass society and guided those who took charge of the organization long after she moved away.
Dick & Joyce Clark received Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Northern California Bluegrass Awards.
The couple loved the all-women South Bay bluegrass band Sidesaddle and were fixtures at almost all early performances. They were two of the organizers of the Sidesaddle Fan Club, and Joyce was the band’s den mother.
After retirement, “DicknJoyce” moved from their longtime home in Santa Clara to Mountain Ranch, where they have lived for almost two decades. There, they began volunteering at the California Bluegrass Association’s Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival in Grass Valley. Joyce will be remembered by VIP visitors to that event from across the country as the smiling lady, embodying hospitality, at the festival’s backstage gate.
She was born Joyce Brown in Riverbank, CA. She is survived by her husband, son Richard and his wife Sophia, and daughter Laura. Her grandchildren are Josh and TC. Her grandchild is Little Josh. Her daughter Candice predeceased her.
— Craig Nelson & Michael Hall (Thanks to Barb Scott, Richard & Sophia Clark)
