Happy New Year 2019 from your friends in the Northern California Bluegrass Society!
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Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays From The Northern California Bluegrass Society!
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from your friends in the Northern California Bluegrass Society!
The CBA Wildfire Victims Instrument Fund Deserves Your Support
The California Bluegrass Association 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.
NCBS Encourages Support For The CBA Musicians Wildfire Instrument Fund Drive
Our sister organization, the California Bluegrass Association, 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:
Support The CBA Wildfire Victims Bluegrass Instrument Fund
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:
NCBS Encourages Your Support Of CBA Fire Victims Instrument Replacement Fund
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:
Paramount Ranch, Home Of Topanga Fiddle Banjo Contest & Festival, Is Destroyed By Fire
The western town area of the 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, Westworld, among many others.
Wildcat Mountain Ramblers Set For Winter Brookdale Bluegrass Festival In Soquel December 6
The 2018 Winter Brookdale Bluegrass Festival, presented by Brookdale Bluegrass 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 for Thursday, December 6 at Michael’s On Main in Soquel.
Freebo & Alice Howe & The Brookdale Bluegrass Band complete the evening’s musical line-up.
Brookdale Bluegrass Festival Set For Thursday December 6 At Michael’s On Main In Soquel
The December 6, 2018 Winter Brookdale Bluegrass Festival, presented by Brookdale Bluegrass, is set for Michael’s On Main in Soquel.
All Brookdale festivals since 1998 have been welcomed by the 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 include Freebo & Alice Howe, The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers, & The Brookdale Bluegrass Band.
The one-day gathering is presented by Brookdale Bluegrass, and will take place for the first time at Michael’s On Main, 2591 Main St,
Soquel.
Former NCBS President & Mandolin Player Keith Rollag named Dean Of The Olin Graduate School of Business, Babson College
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 program led by Dr. Rollag is very successful. U.S. News & World Report has ranked Babson’s MBA program #1 for entrepreneurship for the past 25 years.