The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes all new, renewing, and returning members as we get ready for festival season!
You can join or renew your NCBS Membership on this website or by mail! Your support of bluegrass music in our area is much appreciated.
The performance schedule for the NCBS-welcomed Brookdale Bluegrass & American Roots Festival has been announced by the presenters Brookdale Bluegrass & The Brookdale Lodge. The festival will be held March 24-26 at the Brookdale Lodge on Highway 9 in Brookdale.
Late additions: Sunny Side Of The Mountain will close the afternoon show on Saturday and Acidgrass will close the festival on Sunday.
Ingrid Noyes runs the Walker Creek Music Camp each spring and fall at the Walker Creek Ranch, Petaluma. There are some openings left in the class for the April 13-16, 2023 camp. Registration is now open.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society is now collecting donations for the NCBS Walker Creek Music Camp Scholarship Fund. NCBS/SCBS is an Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) Organization. The NCBS Walker Creek Scholarship Fund Committee awards scholarships twice each year to assist deserving students. The next round of scholarships will benefit attendees at the 2023 spring session.
Send donations to: Northern California Bluegrass Society/Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society, PO Box 390846, Mountain View, CA 94039-0846. Donations may be tax-advantaged.
Camp Information: Walker Creek Music Camp
The NCBS Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival will have No Special Covid Rules in 2023.
The festival will follow the requirements, if any, of state and local authorities that are in effect at the time of the festival.
The 29th Annual GOF will be held August 10-13, 2023 at the San Benito County Historical Park in Tres Pinos, 7 miles south of Hollister. The event is a benefit for the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes all new, renewing, and returning members. Click for NCBS Membership Information.
You can join or renew your NCBS Membership on this website or by mail! Your support of bluegrass music in our area is much appreciated.
Pisgah Banjos is excited to offer another chance to win a unique custom banjo! Raffle tickets are $20 each. The raffle ends on FEBRUARY 28, 2023. All proceeds will benefit the Arnold Shultz Fund, a scholarship fund dedicated to people of color pursuing traditional, old-time, and bluegrass music. The first $10,000 raised in the raffle will be gifted to the Black Banjo Reclamation Project of Oakland from the Arnold Shultz Fund to support a gourd banjo building workshop in the black banjo community.
The prize is a custom-built Pisgah Banjo made from blonde Curly Maple, featuring a Dobson tone ring, 12″ pot, slotted headstock, and brass plated s-scoop with an engraved image of Arnold Shultz. Pisgah Banjos chose to benefit the Arnold Shultz fund as a way to help re-appropriate the history of the banjo.
The Arnold Shultz Fund is a project of the IBMA Foundation, which is affiliated with the International Bluegrass Music Association. NCBS is a longtime organizational member of the IBMA and NCBS past president Michael Hall is a member of the Foundation’s board of directors.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes the 2023 Brookdale Bluegrass Festival presented by Brookdale Bluegrass & The Brookdale Lodge!
The 2023 NCBS Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival will be held at the San Benito County Historical Park in Tres Pinos on August 10-13.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society is now collecting donations for the NCBS Walker Creek Music Camp Scholarship Fund. NCBS/SCBS is an Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) Organization.
The NCBS Walker Creek Scholarship Fund Committee awards scholarships twice each year to assist deserving students. The next round of scholarships will benefit attendees at the April 13-16, 2023 spring session. Camp registration is now open.
Send donations to: Northern California Bluegrass Society/Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society, PO Box 390846, Mountain View, CA 94039-0846. Donations may be tax-advantaged.
Ingrid Noyes runs the Walker Creek Music Camp each spring and fall at the Walker Creek Ranch, Petaluma.
The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes all new, renewing, and returning members.
You can join or renew your NCBS Membership on this website or by mail! Your support of bluegrass music in our area is much appreciated.
