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The Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival will be held at the Plumas County Fairgrounds in Quincy on Labor Day Weekend, August 30-September 1. NCBS welcomes this fun, small, relaxed gathering.
The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers are the host band. Ramblin’ Jack Elliott will headline, along with Keith Little & Sweet Sally, Cactus Bob & The Prairie Flower, and the Marin County Breakdown, plus more!
Your membership in the Northern California Bluegrass Society supports bluegrass music in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Monterey Bay Area, and in all of Northern California. Join or renew your NCBS Membership on this website or by mail.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society is a California Not-For-Profit Corporation with Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) status that is also known as the Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society. The NCBS/SCBS Tax ID No. is 94-2907716. NCBS accepts tax-advantaged donations according to law.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society supports local bluegrass music.
Mail-In Donations: NCBS/SCBS, PO Box 390846, Mountain View, CA 94039-0846.
The Sonia Shell Band (Santa Cruz) and the Johnny Campbell Band (Nashville) will perform at Sam’s BBQ in San Jose on Wednesday October 16 and at the Live Oak Grange near Santa Cruz on Saturday October 19. NCBS will welcome the October 19 show. The bands will also appear on KKUP Monday Night Bluegrass on Monday October 14.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes the First Annual Frankly Bluegrass Music Festival which will honor the late Frank Solivan, Sr., founder of Kids On Bluegrass & Kids On Stage.
The Amador County Fairgrounds in Plymouth, site of several bluegrass festivals over the past 40 years, but none in the past decade, will host the new festival October 9-13, 2024. The event is presented by members of the Solivan family.
The line-up: Frank Solivan & Chris Luquette, Kids On Bluegrass, Broken Compass Bluegrass, Special Consensus, Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa, Crying Uncle, Central Valley Boys, David Adkins & Mountain Soul, Kentucky Sky, and The Honey Buckets.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes the Second Annual Jamesburg Community Schoolhouse Bluegrass Festival on Saturday, September 14, 2024. The Noon-7:00pm gathering will take place at the former school, 40379 Tassajara Road in Carmel Valley.
The line-up: Eric Burman & The Brookdale Bluegrass Band, The Courthouse Ramblers, Brianna Colliard, Willow Street, and The Gilroy Drifters.
Bring a bluegrass festival chair or blanket to this charming outdoor mountain event in the highlands above Carmel Valley. Food & drink will be available.
The event will benefit the Jamesburg Community Schoolhouse. More information will be available soon.
John Paul Dabney, a longtime supporter of area bluegrass music and a Northern California Bluegrass Society member, has died. He enabled the Dabney Hicks Festivals (and campouts) at Bolado Park in Tres Pinos and the NCBS Bluegrass On Broadway Festivals in Redwood City with his financial and moral support.
In his younger years, he attended many bluegrass and other festivals and enthusiastically supported the arts in and near his hometown of San Carlos. In his later years, he livestreamed many musical events at home and occasionally made appearances at live music gatherings. He enjoyed all musical genres, especially bluegrass, traditional jazz, Fado, and Rebetica (urban Greek jazz). His principal non-arts-related hobby was rock and mineral collecting, a passion he actively pursued until his death.
He lived in San Carlos all of his life. John’s career was as a social worker with San Mateo County. He spent his career working with people with mental illness and counseling children and families. He also developed a program to assess seniors with depression and dementia. His wife of 42 years, Jane Dabney, was a social worker and computer programmer before her death in 2007. The adventurous couple traveled throughout the world after their retirement.
Peter Hicks & John Dabney at Bolado Park. (Photo: Lora Ellen Landregan)
The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes the Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival to the Plumas County Fairgrounds in Quincy on Labor Day Weekend.
The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers are the host band. Ramblin’ Jack Elliott will headline, along with Keith Little & Sweet Sally and the Marin County Breakdown, plus more!
Gateway to the Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival.
