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.
More details will be announced soon.
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:Ā 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 bandĀ The Brookdale Bluegrass Band.
The festival is presented by Brookdale Bluegrass and welcomed by the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
Note New Date: SUNDAY, May 6, 2018.
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The 2018Ā Santa Cruz Bluegrass Fair is set forĀ May 5, Noon-6:00pm at theĀ Duck Pond Stage inĀ San Lorenzo Park, Santa Cruz.
The FREE Saturday afternoon of music, sunshine, and good friends is presented by theĀ Northern California Bluegrass Society/Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society.
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!
TheĀ Northern California Bluegrass Society Walker Creek Music Camp Scholarship Fund is now collecting donationsĀ to assist students who need financial help for the Spring 2018 camp.
Donations can be sent to:Ā Northern California Bluegrass Society/Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society,Ā PO Box 390846,Ā Mountain View, CA 94039-0846,Ā Attention: NCBS Walker Creek Music Camp Scholarship Fund.
TheĀ Northern California Bluegrass Society, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization aka theĀ 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.
TheĀ Spring Walker Creek Music Camp will be heldĀ April 12-15, 2018.
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.
The Thursday Bluegrass Series atĀ The Summit House brings FREE bluegrass music to theĀ Santa Cruz Mountains every week and will presentĀ AJ Lee & Blue Summit thisĀ February 15.
TheĀ Summit House Beer Garden & Grill show will run fromĀ 6:00-8:30pm. Good food and drink will be served at the top ofĀ Highway 17,Ā 6 miles south ofĀ Los Gatos.
The performance is presented by theĀ The Summit House and welcomed by theĀ 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.
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.
TheĀ Spring 2018 Brookdale Bluegrass Festival will be held at a new, but familiar, location — theĀ San Benito County Historical Park inĀ Tres Pinos.
The historic park venue will once again host the NCBS Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival (August 9-12), so bluegrass fans will enjoy a visit to lovely Tres Pinos twice in 2018.
The long-running Brookdale event, presented by Brookdale Bluegrass, was previously set for the Mount Cross Camp in Ben Lomond.
TheĀ March 9-11, 2018 dates are unchanged.Ā The festival will be held indoors and camping will be available.
The Brookdale Bluegrass Festivals have been held at various San Lorenzo Valley venues several times each year since 1998.
All Brookdale festivals have been welcomed by theĀ Northern California Bluegrass Society.
The 2108 Bluegrass Folk & Country Marathon to support bluegrass and related programming on community radio station KKUP – Cupertino will be held February 8-12 at 91.5FM in the South Bay & Monterey Bay Areas, and online at www.kkup.org.
Among the many premiums that await your donation are tickets to the Northern California Bluegrass Society’s 25th Annual Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival (August 9-12, 2018).
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