NCBS National Bluegrass Stolen Instrument Page Is Free, On This Website

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. Please post again when the instrument is recovered.

NCBS Welcomes This Weekend’s Plumas Americana Festival In Quincy

The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes the Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival which will be held this weekend at the Plumas County Fairgrounds in Quincy, August 29-31. This is a fun, small, relaxed gathering in a lovely mountain town. Our own Wildcat Mountain Ramblers from Los Gatos will be the host band. Many Bay Area bands and musicians will perform and attend.

The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers

NCBS Welcomes Fall Festivals In Quincy & Jamesburg

The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes these festivals to our area this fall:

August 29-31 — Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival, Plumas County Fairgrounds, Quincy. With: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers, Poi Rogers, Mission Hill, and more.

October 4 — Jamesburg Schoolhouse Benefit Festival, Jamesburg Schoolhouse, Jamesburg. With: The Courthouse Ramblers, Eric Burman & The Brookdale Bluegrass Band, Alan Bond & Skedaddle, Briana Mai Colliard & The Desert Marigolds, and more.

The Jamesburg Schoolhouse

Thanks for booking our area bands!

Kathy Barwick, Bluegrass Performer, Writer, Instructor, & Toxic Waste Reducer

Kathy Barwick of Grass Valley, a bluegrass performer on multiple instruments, a published bluegrass writer, and an instructor, has died after a long battle with kidney cancer. She played guitar, banjo, Dobro, mandolin, and bass after starting with piano lessons at a young age. She was 71 years old.

Kathy Barwick on Dobro.

Kathy was best known to area bluegrass fans as a member of the All Girl Boys, Mountain Laurel, The Avocado Brothers, Mike Justis Band, and later in life as a duet performer with the late Pete Siegfried, although she was in many other bands during a long musical career that began in 1970. She performed at the Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival, the CBA Father’s Day Festival, the Strawberry Music Festival, and at many other festivals and venues in the Sacramento area and throughout Northern California.

Pete Siegfried & Kathy Barwick

Apart from music, she spent her career helping California industries avoid and reduce the use of materials that would eventually become toxic waste, thereby solving an environmental problem before it started. After retirement from the State of California, she retired to Grass Valley.

She was a Sacramento native and a graduate of Foothill High School and Sacramento State University. She was a columnist at Flatpicking Guitar Magazine and an instructor at various music camps and at the Fifth String in Sacramento.

Kathy Barwick at The Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival.

Kathy was very supportive of young female musicians, acting as inspiration and as a mentor. She was always up for a good bluegrass jam at festivals and in the community. She is warmly remembered by her family, friends, and students. She was best known for her bluegrass & folk music, but also played Irish music.

Kathryn Ann Barwick is survived by her husband Jon Fox.

Jon Fox & Kathy Barwick on a tour of Ireland.