The Northern California Bluegrass Society will welcome the 2019 Pick & Gather Festival at Riverdance Farms, Livingston, near Merced. The gathering will take place June 1-2. Note that the new festival dates will be on the weekend after Memorial Day.
The event will feature bluegrass and other music, camping, information about farm-to-table food, water quality, organic farming, swimming in the Merced River and other charming bucolic pursuits. More information will be available soon.
Multi-instrumentalist Luke Abbott will make a rare appearance at the FREE Santa Cruz Bluegrass Fair on Sunday, May 5, 2019. The Noon-6:00pm program presented by the Northern California Bluegrass Society/Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society will be held at the Duck Pond Stage in San Lorenzo Park near the courthouse in Santa Cruz.
The fun afternoon program will also feature Blue Summit, Mission Blue, The Down Beets & The Harmony Grits.
The Spring 2019 Brookdale Bluegrass Festival will present Blue Summit (Santa Cruz).
The gathering is set for the San Benito County Historical Park in Tres Pinos on the weekend of April 19-21, 2019. Free camping is included in all weekend tickets. Day tickets are also available.
Here is the Festival Performance Schedule. The event is staged by Brookdale Bluegrass and welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
The NCBS Walker Creek Music Camp Scholarship Fund awarded tuition assistance to help some young and old Northern California musicians to attend this weekend’s spring camp near Petaluma.
The scholarships will assist one adult viola player in attending the camp, as well as two young sisters who play the fiddle. These students would not have been able to be at the camp without the fund’s help.
Also, an award was made from the NCBS fund to add to the camp’s new Young Adult Scholarship Fund, which is intended to help impecunious attendees in an age group that is underrepresented at the camp. The support for Young Adults was suggested by NCBS Board of Directors Member Jesse Fichman. There is one recipient this spring.
Thanks to the Generous Donors and to the NCBS Walker Creek Music Camp Scholarship Committee. The fund will soon begin collecting donations to help deserving students who want to attend the upcoming fall camp. Thanks for your support of local bluegrass music education!
Ingrid Noyes runs the camp each spring and fall.
The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse has announced the line-up for the 4th Annual Berkeley Bluegrass Festival, set for May 16-19, 2019.
The festival is welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
Berkeley Bluegrass Festival
Thursday, May 16 — Festival Kickoff Party: North Country Blue, The High Water Line, Lela and Rainy Miatke.
Friday, May 17 — Hot Buttered Rum, Front Country, Blue Summit. Gallery Stage: The High Water Line.
Saturday, May 18 — The Earls Of Leicester, The Kathy Kallick Band, Fog Holler. Gallery Stage: Lela and Rainy Miatke.
Sunday, May 19 — Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands, Jerry Douglas, Amy Scher & Hailey Pexton. Gallery Stage: North Country Blue.
The Down Beets will perform at the NCBS/SCBS’s FREE Santa Cruz Bluegrass Fair on Sunday, May 5, 2019. The FREE Noon-6:00pm program will be held for FREE at the lovely Duck Pond Stage in San Lorenzo Park (near the courthouse in Santa Cruz).
The FREE afternoon bill will also feature Luke Abbott, Blue Summit, Mission Blue, & The Harmony Grits. Admission is FREE.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society has announced the Main Stage Line-Up for the 26th Annual Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival, set for August 8-11, 2019 at the San Benito County Historical Park.
Barwick & Siegfried
Bean Creek
Ben Greenberg
Bloomfield Bluegrass
Blue Summit
Bluegrass Element
Dark Hollow
Fog Holler
Goat Hill Girls
Grasskickers
Highway One
Kids On Stage
Muleskinner Stomp
Nell & Jim Band
North Country Blue
Red Dog Ash
Rita Hosking Trio
Rose Valley Thorns
Stoney Mountain Ramblers
The Gilly Girls
The Town Howlers
Wendy Burch Steel
Windy Hill
Bluegrass favorite Peter Rowan will perform at the Spring 2019 Brookdale Bluegrass Festival, April 19-21, 2019 at the San Benito County Historical Park in Tres Pinos.
Free camping and jamming is included in all weekend tickets, which are now on sale. The new April dates should bring pleasant weather. All performances will be held indoors. Here is the complete Festival Performance Schedule.
The festival is presented by Brookdale Bluegrass and welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
The Summit House will bring The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers to the top of the mountain on April 11 as part of the FREE Northern California Bluegrass Society-welcomed Thursday Bluegrass Series.
Fine pub food and drink will be served during the 6:00-8:30pm Performance. The weekly series is presented by the Summit House Beer Garden & Grill on Highway 17, in the Santa Cruz Mountains 6 miles south of Los Gatos.
Next: April 18 — Blue Summit.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society/Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society has announced that the Santa Cruz Bluegrass Fair has been set for Sunday, May 5, 2019, Noon-6:00pm.
Blue Summit, Luke Abbott, The Down Beets, Mission Blue, & The Harmony Grits will perform at the FREE afternoon gathering.
The long-running Rite Of Spring for bluegrass folks will be held at the Duck Pond Stage in San Lorenzo Park, near the courthouse in Santa Cruz.
