The Spring 2018 Brookdale Bluegrass Festival will be held at the San Benito County Historical Park in Tres Pinos on March 9-11.
This is the same venue that will host the August 9-12 NCBS Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival. (The 2018 Brookdale event was previously announced for the Mount Cross Camp in Ben Lomond.)
The festival will be held indoors and both tent and RV camping will be available. Some shows will be held indoors and others outdoors.
The Brookdale Bluegrass Festivals are presented by Brookdale Bluegrass and have been held at various San Lorenzo Valley venues since 1998. All Brookdale festivals have been welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers at The Summit House.
The Thursday Bluegrass Series at The Summit House brings FREE bluegrass music to the Santa Cruz Mountains every week.
The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers are headed for the top of Highway 17 this Thursday, February 22. The music program is from 6:00-8:30pm. Good food and drink will be served. The venue is 6 miles south of Los Gatos.
The performance is presented by The Summit House Beer Garden & Grill and welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
The Riverdance Farms blueberry crop.A relaxing swim in the Merced River at the Pick & Gather Festival.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society will welcome the 2018 Riverdance Farms’ Pick & Gather Festival on Memorial Day Weekend in Livingston.
You can plan your May 25-27 holiday weekend around a camping trip, fruit-picking, music festival, kid-entertaining, and great food event on the farm and the Merced River.
The Brookdale Bluegrass Festival will be held March 9-11, 2018 at the San Benito County Historical Park, Tres Pinos (note new location).
The line-up: AJ Lee & Blue Summit, The Honeysuckle Possums, Jeff Baldwin & The Harmony Grits, The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers, The Stoney Mountain Ramblers, The Lonely Bird Band, Toby Gray & His Harlan County Covey, Crying Uncle, Laura Lind, Brent Pierce Family & Friends, The Naked Bootleggers, Ben Lomond & The Highway Niners, BanjerDan, plus host band The Brookdale Bluegrass Band.
The festival is presented by Brookdale Bluegrass and welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
The 2018 Santa Cruz Bluegrass Fair is set for May 5, Noon-6:00pm at the Duck Pond Stage in San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz.
The FREE Saturday afternoon of music, sunshine, and good friends is presented by the Northern California Bluegrass Society/Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society.
The view of the hills from the Historical Village Plaza, San Benito County Historical Park.
At the March 9-11, 2018 Brookdale Bluegrass Festival and at the August 9-12, 2018 Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival, the bluegrass music will come with some historical fun.
Both gatherings will be held at the San Benito County Historical Park in Tres Pinos (7 miles south of Hollister).
Our hosts are the members of the San Benito County Historical Society. Over a half-century, these folks have collected and rebuilt original buildings from around the county to create a circa-1880s village — the perfect complement to our handmade music.
The village will be open for fans to enjoy throughout both festivals. Enjoy!
The Cottage Saloon at the San Benito County Historical Park.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society Walker Creek Music Camp Scholarship Fund is now collecting donations to assist students who need financial help for the Spring 2018 camp.
Donations can be sent to: Northern California Bluegrass Society/Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society, PO Box 390846, Mountain View, CA 94039-0846, Attention: NCBS Walker Creek Music Camp Scholarship Fund.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization aka the Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society, accepts donations and disburses the scholarships. Donations to the fund are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Donors should consult their tax advisors. The Federal Tax ID No. is 94-2907716. Donors who do not need a tax deduction may donate money directly to the camp.
The Spring Brookdale Bluegrass Festival, presented by Brookdale Bluegrass and welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society, will be held at a new venue — the San Benito County Historical Park in Tres Pinos. The festival will be held March 9-11, 2018.
Welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
The Thursday Bluegrass Series at The Summit Housebrings FREE bluegrass music to the Santa Cruz Mountains every week and will present AJ Lee & Blue Summit this February 15.
The Summit House Beer Garden & Grill show will run from 6:00-8:30pm. Good food and drink will be served at the top of Highway 17, 6 miles south of Los Gatos.
The performance is presented by the The Summit House and welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
Longtime Northern California bluegrass artists Molly Tuttle and Keith Little are the recipients of the Whippoorwill Arts/FreshGrass Artist Awards for their musical accomplishments, extraordinary talent, community spirit and creative souls.
Tuttle and Little will each receive a $25,000 unrestricted grant, awarded by the FreshGrass Foundation and made possible by generous donations from Whippoorwill Arts.
Honorees were selected by a committee of roots musicians and music industry executives. The awards will be formally presented at a special event co-hosted by Nell Robinson and Jim Nunally of Whippoorwill Arts and Chris Wadsworth of the FreshGrass Foundation. Presentations will be announced at a later date.
Emerging Artist winner Tuttle, a Palo Alto native now based in Nashville, won the 2017 International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Award for Guitarist of the Year, becoming the first woman to win the award. Her latest album is titled Rise. She is best known to NCBS members as a performer with The Tuttles With AJ Lee.
Keith Little
Master Artist winner Little lives in the Sierra Foothills where he is known as “the bluegrass voice of gold country.” He has performed on Grammy Award-winning recordings The Grass is Blue and Little Sparrow by Dolly Parton. Along with leading The LittleBand, he operates Slate Mountain Music.
Whippoorwill Arts supports creativity, respect and love for artists in the the roots music community. It reached out to the FreshGrass Foundation for the new Artists Awards. Other projects include Music Home Project, Banjo Boy Coffee, and the Nell & Jim Band which has performed at festivals and venues across the U.S. and Canada.
The FreshGrass Foundation is dedicated to preserving, promoting and creating innovative grassroots music. The foundation publishes “No Depression,” the quarterly journal of roots music and online hub for roots music fans; awards grants and commissions to emerging and established writers and performers; and produces FreshGrass, an annual festival of bluegrass and roots music in North Adams, Massachusetts.
Tuttle and Robinson are both longtime members of the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
The Spring 2018 Brookdale Bluegrass Festival will be held at the San Benito County Historical Park in Tres Pinos on March 9-11.
The Brookdale Bluegrass Festivals are presented by Brookdale Bluegrass and have been held at various San Lorenzo Valley venues since 1998. All Brookdale festivals have been welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
