The Northern California Bluegrass Society officially welcomes the Steve Martin-Edie Brickell-penned Americana/Bluegrass musical Bright Star to the Lucie Stern Center Theater in Palo Alto for its September run. Tickets for the Palo Alto Players‘ show are on sale now.
NCBS‘s own Dan Mazer will perform with the show’s orchestra on banjo and local bluegrass musicians will jam outside on the plaza courtyard before each show.
Performance Dates:
Friday-Sunday: September 13, 14, & 15
Thursday-Sunday: September 19, 20, 21, & 22
Thursday-Sunday: September 26, 27, 28, & 29.
Welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society
The essay was produced by Donna Pacini-Christensen and Tim Christensen of A Starry Night Productions. The festival was held at the San Benito County Historical Park in Tres Pinos on August 8-11, 2019.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society is a California Not-For-Profit Corporation with Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) status and is also known as the Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society. The Society accepts donations which may be tax deductible. NCBS promotes bluegrass music in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Monterey Bay Area, and in all of Northern California.
The NCBS/SCBS Tax ID No. is 94-2907716. The most convenient way to make a donation is online: Online NCBS Donations.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society is now collecting donations for the upcoming November 1-4, 2019 Walker Creek Music Camp. The NCBS Walker Creek Scholarship Fund will make awards to deserving students.
Ingrid Noyes runs the camp is run each spring and fall at the Walker Creek Ranch, Petaluma. Camp Information: Walker Creek Music Camp.
Send donations to: Northern California Bluegrass Society/Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society, PO Box 390846, Mountain View, CA 94039-0846. Donations may be tax-advantaged. NCBS is a Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) Organization.
The famed Goat Hills Girls play the first Thursday of each month (Next: September 5) at the Northern California Bluegrass Society-welcomed Thursday Bluegrass Series, which is presented by the Summit House Beer Garden & Grill at the top of Highway 17.
The FREE music at the establishment six miles south of Los Gatos runs 6:00-8:30pm. Good food and drink is served. Great mountaintop views frame the band.
The Summit House offers fine music and fine views every Thursday evening.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society officially welcomes the Steve Martin-Edie Brickell-penned Americana/Bluegrass musical Bright Star to the Lucie Stern Center Theater in Palo Alto for its September run. Tickets are on sale now.
NCBS‘s own Dan Mazer will perform with the show’s orchestra on banjo and local bluegrass musicians will jam outside on the plaza courtyard before each show. Jam participants will enjoy free admission to the show — Jammer Sign-Up Information.
Miles and Teo Quale will perform at the Grand Ole Opry for the very first time this Saturday, August 31, as guests of Opry Star Connie Smith.
The duo will appear twice — on each of the Smith-hosted portions of the Saturday Opry Broadcast. These program portions begin at 5:00 and 7:30pm Pacific Time. Within these segments, the Miles and Teo appearances are timed for 5:30 and 8:00pm Pacific Time.
The Opry is broadcast on 650AM WSM Radio. Californians will find the stream online on the WSM Website.
The Quale boys (of Alameda) are half of two different Bay Area bluegrass bands, Crying Uncle and Jubilee. They have performed multiple times at the Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival and Bluegrass On Broadway, both presented by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
Teo Quale and Miles Quale perform at the 2018 NCBS Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival. (Robin Frenette photo).
The premier of the new PBS program “Big Family: The Story Of Bluegrass Music” will be this Friday, August 30, 2019 all across the country.
The program will air on Channel 9, KQED-San Francisco at 9:00pm on Friday. Check local listings for public stations in other areas of California.
The program was produced by Kentucky Educational Television. It examines the history of bluegrass music, from its origins to its eventual worldwide popularity. It presents dozens of musicians, including locals Laurie Lewis and Peter Rowan who explain the ways bluegrass music transcends generational, cultural and geographic boundaries.
PBS says that “Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music” provides a comprehensive look at a distinctly American genre of music. The film explores what bluegrass music is, what makes it unique, and key musicians who have shaped its sound. Historical segments trace the beginnings of bluegrass in the traditions of Scots-Irish immigrants and African-Americans and how these influences coalesced in the music of a young rural Kentuckian, Bill Monroe, in the 1920s.
Laurie Lewis from the program “Big Family: The Story Of Bluegrass Music”
