CONCERTS & FESTIVALS
Be sure to listen to "Bluegrass Signal," broadcast every Saturday (5-6 pm Pacific) on KALW (91.7 FM in the Bay Area).
All KALW local music programs are archived for one week and can be heard on demand. Just go HERE and select 'Bluegrass Signal' to hear that week's show.
Every Saturday on KALW, there's more acoustic music broadcast before "Bluegrass Signal" on "Folk Music & Beyond" (3 pm) and "A Patchwork Quilt" (4 pm).
Thanks for listening!
NOTE: most of these events require proof of vaccination and the wearing of face masks.
-> -> -> ALL TIMES PACIFIC <- <- <-
CONCERTS
Sept. 27 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Sept. 28: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
Sept. 30: Girard/Russell/Davis with Bobby Black; Stadler Gibbons Band - The Lost Church, Santa Rosa
Billy Strings -
- Sept. 28: Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
- Sept. 30: Frost Amphitheater, Stanford
HSBG Out Of the Park -
- Sept. 30: Premier of "Don't Put Her Down," a new documentary film about Hazel Dickens, plus performances by The Waco Brothers and Bob Schneider - Sweetwater, Mill Valley
- Sept. 30: Aoife O'Donovan - Little Saint, Healdsburg
- Oct. 1: Cedric Watson - Ashkenaz, Berkeley
Oct. 3: Bela Fleck & the Gang of Twang (Jacob Jolliff, Stuart Duncan, Bryan Sutton, Mark Schatz, and Justin Moses) - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Oct. 4 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Oct. 4: John Prine Celebration - Kathy Kallick, Crying Time, Steve Baughman, Danny Carnahan with Wake the Dead lite, Tré Burt, Two Runner, others - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Oct. 5: Bean Creek - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
Oct. 6: The Goat Hill Girls - Summit House, Los Gatos
Oct. 6: Blue & Lonesome / Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Oct. 8 (9 am - 5 pm): Bluegrass Day at Smith Family Farms Pumpkin Patch - 4350 Sellers Ave., Brentwood
High Country (2:30pm); Young & Up Too Late (12:30pm); Skillet Licorice (10:30am); JimBo Trout (9:30am); farm animals, corn maze, food trucks, pumpkins
Oct. 8 (10 am): Santa Barbara Old-Time Fiddlers' Festival - Stow House, Goleta
Performers, Instructors, and Jam Leaders: Bruce Molsky, Spencer & Rains, David Bragger & Susan Platz, SLO County Stumblers, Rafe Stefanini, Peter Feldmann (Festival Founder), Harry & Cindy Liedstrand, Jim Mueller, Joe Wack, Smoke Holler, The String Bean Serenaders
Oct. 8 (noon): Birches Bend - Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
Oct. 9 (noon): Red Dog Ash; Dead Winter Carpenters; Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys - Berryessa Brewing, Winters
Oct. 11 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Oct. 13: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers - Summit House, Los Gatos
Oct. 13: Blue & Lonesome / Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Oct. 13: Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley; Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Jeff Hanna, Jimmie Fadden, Bob Carpenter, Jim Photoglo, Ross Holmes, and Jaime Hanna) - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project (Tristan Scroggins, Megan Lynch Chowning, and Adam Hurt) -
- Oct. 13: house concert in Red Bluff
- Oct. 14: The Side Door, Sacramento
- Oct. 15: Out West Garage, Petaluma (text 707-477-6309 to RSVP)
- Oct. 16 (12:30 pm): Instrument-specific workshops for John Hartford fiddle tunes - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- Oct. 16: The Back Room, Berkeley
Kathy Kallick Band -
- Oct. 13 (6 pm): house concert (outside) in Mountain View; info & res: scvfa-dot-susan-at-gmail-dot-com
- Oct. 14: house concert in Oakland; info & res: houseconcert-at-att-dot-net
Oct. 14 (noon): Thompsonia - Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
Oct. 15 (1 pm): Bangers & Grass reunion (Bill Evans, Tom Bekeny, Chad Maning, Jim Nunally, Steve Pottier) - Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
Clean Heat (Evie Ladin, Lila Goehring, Jody Richardson) -
- Oct. 15 (11:30 am): Salesforce Park, SF
- Oct. 16 (2 pm): Horse & Plow, Sebastopol
- Oct. 18 (12 pm): Battery Bridge Plaza, SF
Oct. 16: All Wigged Out (film plus performance + Q&A with Marcy Marxer & Cathy Fink) - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Oct. 18 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Oct. 20: Purple Mountain Majesty Band - Summit House, Los Gatos
Oct. 20: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Oct. 21: Evie Ladin & Erik Pearson - Devil Mountain Coffee House, Walnut Creek
Oct. 22 (noon): Buffalo Gals - Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
Oct 22 (1 pm): Skillet Licorice - Filoli Garden, Woodside
Oct. 20-23: Hangtown Music Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Railroad Earth, Yonder Mountain String Band, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, many others
Oct. 25 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Oct. 27: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Broken Compass Bluegrass -
- Oct. 28: SacYard Community Tap House, Sacramento
- Oct. 29 (1 pm): Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands -
- Nov. 3: Trinity Alps Performing Arts Center, Weaverville
- Nov. 4: The Old Steeple, Ferndale, CA
- Nov. 5: Arena Theater, Point Arena
Laurie Lewis & Men of Note (Mark Shatz, Sam Reider, and Brandon Godman) -
- Nov. 10: Ripon Arts League, Ripon
- Nov. 11: The Barn, Gilroy
- Nov. 12: Weil Hall Loft at The Green Center, Sonoma
Nov. 9: Black Opry Revue with Julie Williams, Tae Lewis, Tylar Bryant, and Jett Holden - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
California Bluegrass Reunion (Darol Anger, Bill Evans, Jim Nunally, Chad Manning, John Reischman, Sharon Gilchrist) -
- Nov. 10: The Side Door, Sacramento
- Nov. 12: Sonoma County Folk & Bluegrass Festival, Sebastopol
- Nov. 13: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley (includes afternoon workshops)
- Nov. 15: Otter Opry, Monterey
Nov. 12 (1 pm): Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Music Festival - Sebastopol Community Center
Ramblin’ Jack Elliot; Waddie Mitchell; California Bluegrass Reunion; Rita Hosking; Cowboy Scott Gerber; film screening; workshops; jamming
Nov. 15: Jake Blount - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Nov. 26: Laurie Lewis & Friends - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Sara Watkins -
- Dec. 1: JaM Cellars, Napa,
- Dec 2: The Guild Theatre, Menlo Park
Dec. 6: Nefesh Mountain - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Jan. 9-13: Danny's Stewart's Bluegrass Cruise - Florida > Bahamas
Danny Paisley & Southern Grass, Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike, Monroe Crossing, Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band, Seth Muldar & Midnight Run, Dave Atkins Band, others
Jan. 27-28: Yonder Mountain String Band - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Feb. 10: The Jake Eddy Trio - The Back Room, Berkeley
FESTIVALS
Sept. 21-25: Berkeley Old Time Music Convention
Alice Gerrard with Tatiana Hargreaves & Reed Stutz; Earl White Stringband; Piedmont Bluz; Skillet Licorice Orchestra; New Vintage Revelers; Corn Potato String Band; Ann Savoy with Thompsonia; Evie Ladin; Robin Fischer; Clinton Davis; Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco; Right To Parlay; The Propagators; Sigelstein & Horowitz Duo (of Veretski Pass)
Wed., Sept. 21 -
8:00 pm: Welcome Party & Dance: Square dance with the Corn Potato String Band (Mike Lewinski calling) and Cajun dancing to the music of Ann Savoy, backed by Thompsonia; jamming in the back room, hosted by Harry and Cindy Liedstrand - Ashkenaz, Berkeley
Thur., Sept. 22 -
- afternoon jam (1-4 pm): email BOTMCAfternoonJam-at-gmail-dot-com for NEW location
- workshops (4:30 pm) with Earl White (fiddle) and Clinton Davis (banjo) - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- jam session (5 pm): hosted by Jim and Amber Mueller in front of the Freight (outside)
- concert (7 pm): Corn Potato String Band; Piedmont Blūz; New Vintage Revelers - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Fri., Sept. 23 -
- afternoon jam (1-4 pm): email BOTMCAfternoonJam-at-gmail-dot-com for NEW location
- concert (1 pm): The Propagators (Rowan McAllister, Evie Ladin and friends) - Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
- workshops (4:30 pm) with Lindsay McCaw (fiddle) and Aaron Jonah Lewis (banjo) - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- jam session (5 pm): hosted by Mark Olson and Penny Critchow in front of the Freight (outside)
- concert (7 pm): Alice Gerrard with Tatiana Hargreaves & Reed Stutz; Earl White Stringband; Skillet Licorice Allsorts Orchestras - The Freight
Sat., Sept. 24 -
- concert for children & families (10:15 am): Piedmont Blūz (Valerie and Benedict Turner) - Civic Center Park, Berkeley
- stringboard contest (11 am): Civic Center Park, Berkeley; opening set by Manning Music Fiddlers, jam with Thomas Angell & Mike Lewinski
- square dance (8 pm): Ashkenaz, Berkeley - Earl White Stringband; Tatiana Hargreaves; Right To Parlay; callers: Robin Fischer & Evie Ladin; clogging lesson with Mark Schatz; open jam in the back room, hosted by BOTMC performers
Sun., Sept. 25 -
- workshops (11 am) with Tatiana Hargreaves (fiddle), Jonah Aaron Lewis (fiddle), Andrew Norcross (banjo), Valerie Turner (guitar)
- special events -
11 am: A visit with Alice Gerrard
12:30 pm: Earl White's "Black Americans in Old Time Music: Then & Now"
- concert (1 pm): Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco; Clinton Davis; Cookie Segelstein & Joshua Horowitz (Veretski Pass Duet) - Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
Sept. 30 - Oct. 2: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass - Golden Gate Park, SF
AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Alison Brown, Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah, Aoife O’Donovan, Asleep At The Wheel, Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart, Black Opry Revue, Cedric Watson, Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Emmylou Harris, Jake Blount, Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, Phil Salazar & the Kin Folk, Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi, Sam Bush, The Travelin’ McCourys, and ... Andy Shauf, Antibalas, Arooj Aftab, Blackie & the Rodeo Kings, Bob Schneider, Bonny Light Horseman, The Brothers Comatose, Buddy Miller's Cavalcade of Stars, Charley Crockett, Cymande, Danielle Ponder, DaShawn Hickman w/ Charlie Hunter, Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore w/ The Guilty Ones, The Dead Tongues, Drive-By Truckers, Elvis Costello, Fare Thee Well (the Songs of John Prine, Nancy Bechtle, Justin Townes Earle & More), Galactic f: Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph, The Go To Hell Man Band, Ismay, Jaime Wyatt, Jay Som, Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew, Jesse Colin Young, Jim Lauderdale, Joseph, Joy Oladokun, Kelsey Waldon, Kevin Welch, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams, Las Cafeteras, Lucius, Marco and The Polos, Marcus Mumford, Marlon Williams, Meklit, Michaela Anne, Moonalice, The Quitters, Rainbow Girls, S.G. Goodman, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Satya, Seratones, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Steve Poltz, The Tallest Man on Earth, Tré Burt, Waco Brothers w/ The Mekons, Waxahatchee, The Whitmore Sisters, Wreckless Strangers, and Yasmin Williams
Oct. 7-9: Huck Finn Jubilee - Bonelli Bluffs RV Resort & Campground, San Dimas
Old Salt Union, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, Mile Twelve, many others
2023 -
Jan. 27-29: Winter Music Festival - Florence OR
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper; Jake Blount; The Slocan Ramblers; AJ Lee & Blue Summit; Never Come Down; Crary, Evans & Barnick; Josh Goforth; Cabin Fever NW
Feb. 23-26: Wintergrass - Bellevue, WA
Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass; Cedric Watson & Dirk Powell; Allison De Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves; Ben Hunter & Joe Seamons; Tray Wellington Band; The Slocan Ramblers; Darrell Scott Bluegrass Band; Tommy Emmanuel; Jerry Douglas Band; Dan Tyminski Band; Hawktail; Pasdecinq (Anger, Haas, Haas, Hakenson, Gareiss); Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms Country Band; Sonny Landreth & Cindy Cashdollar; Joe Craven & Joe Troop; Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore; Miles & Karina Band; Julian Smedley & Alison Odell; Henhouse Prowlers; Nick Dumas & Branchline; Fiddlers Four; Jacob Jolliff Band; Runaway Train; The Cactus Blossoms; The Deslondes; Bella White; Anna Tivel
Be sure to listen to "Bluegrass Signal," broadcast every Saturday (5-6 pm Pacific) on KALW (91.7 FM in the Bay Area).
All KALW local music programs are archived for one week and can be heard on demand. Just go HERE and select 'Bluegrass Signal' to hear that week's show.
Every Saturday on KALW, there's more acoustic music broadcast before "Bluegrass Signal" on "Folk Music & Beyond" (3 pm) and "A Patchwork Quilt" (4 pm).
Thanks for listening!
NOTE: most of these events require proof of vaccination and the wearing of face masks.
-> -> -> ALL TIMES PACIFIC <- <- <-
CONCERTS
Sept. 27 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Sept. 28: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
Sept. 30: Girard/Russell/Davis with Bobby Black; Stadler Gibbons Band - The Lost Church, Santa Rosa
Billy Strings -
- Sept. 28: Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
- Sept. 30: Frost Amphitheater, Stanford
HSBG Out Of the Park -
- Sept. 30: Premier of "Don't Put Her Down," a new documentary film about Hazel Dickens, plus performances by The Waco Brothers and Bob Schneider - Sweetwater, Mill Valley
- Sept. 30: Aoife O'Donovan - Little Saint, Healdsburg
- Oct. 1: Cedric Watson - Ashkenaz, Berkeley
Oct. 3: Bela Fleck & the Gang of Twang (Jacob Jolliff, Stuart Duncan, Bryan Sutton, Mark Schatz, and Justin Moses) - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Oct. 4 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Oct. 4: John Prine Celebration - Kathy Kallick, Crying Time, Steve Baughman, Danny Carnahan with Wake the Dead lite, Tré Burt, Two Runner, others - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Oct. 5: Bean Creek - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
Oct. 6: The Goat Hill Girls - Summit House, Los Gatos
Oct. 6: Blue & Lonesome / Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Oct. 8 (9 am - 5 pm): Bluegrass Day at Smith Family Farms Pumpkin Patch - 4350 Sellers Ave., Brentwood
High Country (2:30pm); Young & Up Too Late (12:30pm); Skillet Licorice (10:30am); JimBo Trout (9:30am); farm animals, corn maze, food trucks, pumpkins
Oct. 8 (10 am): Santa Barbara Old-Time Fiddlers' Festival - Stow House, Goleta
Performers, Instructors, and Jam Leaders: Bruce Molsky, Spencer & Rains, David Bragger & Susan Platz, SLO County Stumblers, Rafe Stefanini, Peter Feldmann (Festival Founder), Harry & Cindy Liedstrand, Jim Mueller, Joe Wack, Smoke Holler, The String Bean Serenaders
Oct. 8 (noon): Birches Bend - Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
Oct. 9 (noon): Red Dog Ash; Dead Winter Carpenters; Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys - Berryessa Brewing, Winters
Oct. 11 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Oct. 13: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers - Summit House, Los Gatos
Oct. 13: Blue & Lonesome / Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Oct. 13: Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley; Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Jeff Hanna, Jimmie Fadden, Bob Carpenter, Jim Photoglo, Ross Holmes, and Jaime Hanna) - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project (Tristan Scroggins, Megan Lynch Chowning, and Adam Hurt) -
- Oct. 13: house concert in Red Bluff
- Oct. 14: The Side Door, Sacramento
- Oct. 15: Out West Garage, Petaluma (text 707-477-6309 to RSVP)
- Oct. 16 (12:30 pm): Instrument-specific workshops for John Hartford fiddle tunes - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- Oct. 16: The Back Room, Berkeley
Kathy Kallick Band -
- Oct. 13 (6 pm): house concert (outside) in Mountain View; info & res: scvfa-dot-susan-at-gmail-dot-com
- Oct. 14: house concert in Oakland; info & res: houseconcert-at-att-dot-net
Oct. 14 (noon): Thompsonia - Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
Oct. 15 (1 pm): Bangers & Grass reunion (Bill Evans, Tom Bekeny, Chad Maning, Jim Nunally, Steve Pottier) - Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
Clean Heat (Evie Ladin, Lila Goehring, Jody Richardson) -
- Oct. 15 (11:30 am): Salesforce Park, SF
- Oct. 16 (2 pm): Horse & Plow, Sebastopol
- Oct. 18 (12 pm): Battery Bridge Plaza, SF
Oct. 16: All Wigged Out (film plus performance + Q&A with Marcy Marxer & Cathy Fink) - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Oct. 18 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Oct. 20: Purple Mountain Majesty Band - Summit House, Los Gatos
Oct. 20: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Oct. 21: Evie Ladin & Erik Pearson - Devil Mountain Coffee House, Walnut Creek
Oct. 22 (noon): Buffalo Gals - Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
Oct 22 (1 pm): Skillet Licorice - Filoli Garden, Woodside
Oct. 20-23: Hangtown Music Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Railroad Earth, Yonder Mountain String Band, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, many others
Oct. 25 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Oct. 27: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Broken Compass Bluegrass -
- Oct. 28: SacYard Community Tap House, Sacramento
- Oct. 29 (1 pm): Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands -
- Nov. 3: Trinity Alps Performing Arts Center, Weaverville
- Nov. 4: The Old Steeple, Ferndale, CA
- Nov. 5: Arena Theater, Point Arena
Laurie Lewis & Men of Note (Mark Shatz, Sam Reider, and Brandon Godman) -
- Nov. 10: Ripon Arts League, Ripon
- Nov. 11: The Barn, Gilroy
- Nov. 12: Weil Hall Loft at The Green Center, Sonoma
Nov. 9: Black Opry Revue with Julie Williams, Tae Lewis, Tylar Bryant, and Jett Holden - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
California Bluegrass Reunion (Darol Anger, Bill Evans, Jim Nunally, Chad Manning, John Reischman, Sharon Gilchrist) -
- Nov. 10: The Side Door, Sacramento
- Nov. 12: Sonoma County Folk & Bluegrass Festival, Sebastopol
- Nov. 13: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley (includes afternoon workshops)
- Nov. 15: Otter Opry, Monterey
Nov. 12 (1 pm): Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Music Festival - Sebastopol Community Center
Ramblin’ Jack Elliot; Waddie Mitchell; California Bluegrass Reunion; Rita Hosking; Cowboy Scott Gerber; film screening; workshops; jamming
Nov. 15: Jake Blount - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Nov. 26: Laurie Lewis & Friends - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Sara Watkins -
- Dec. 1: JaM Cellars, Napa,
- Dec 2: The Guild Theatre, Menlo Park
Dec. 6: Nefesh Mountain - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Jan. 9-13: Danny's Stewart's Bluegrass Cruise - Florida > Bahamas
Danny Paisley & Southern Grass, Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike, Monroe Crossing, Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band, Seth Muldar & Midnight Run, Dave Atkins Band, others
Jan. 27-28: Yonder Mountain String Band - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Feb. 10: The Jake Eddy Trio - The Back Room, Berkeley
FESTIVALS
Sept. 21-25: Berkeley Old Time Music Convention
Alice Gerrard with Tatiana Hargreaves & Reed Stutz; Earl White Stringband; Piedmont Bluz; Skillet Licorice Orchestra; New Vintage Revelers; Corn Potato String Band; Ann Savoy with Thompsonia; Evie Ladin; Robin Fischer; Clinton Davis; Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco; Right To Parlay; The Propagators; Sigelstein & Horowitz Duo (of Veretski Pass)
Wed., Sept. 21 -
8:00 pm: Welcome Party & Dance: Square dance with the Corn Potato String Band (Mike Lewinski calling) and Cajun dancing to the music of Ann Savoy, backed by Thompsonia; jamming in the back room, hosted by Harry and Cindy Liedstrand - Ashkenaz, Berkeley
Thur., Sept. 22 -
- afternoon jam (1-4 pm): email BOTMCAfternoonJam-at-gmail-dot-com for NEW location
- workshops (4:30 pm) with Earl White (fiddle) and Clinton Davis (banjo) - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- jam session (5 pm): hosted by Jim and Amber Mueller in front of the Freight (outside)
- concert (7 pm): Corn Potato String Band; Piedmont Blūz; New Vintage Revelers - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Fri., Sept. 23 -
- afternoon jam (1-4 pm): email BOTMCAfternoonJam-at-gmail-dot-com for NEW location
- concert (1 pm): The Propagators (Rowan McAllister, Evie Ladin and friends) - Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
- workshops (4:30 pm) with Lindsay McCaw (fiddle) and Aaron Jonah Lewis (banjo) - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- jam session (5 pm): hosted by Mark Olson and Penny Critchow in front of the Freight (outside)
- concert (7 pm): Alice Gerrard with Tatiana Hargreaves & Reed Stutz; Earl White Stringband; Skillet Licorice Allsorts Orchestras - The Freight
Sat., Sept. 24 -
- concert for children & families (10:15 am): Piedmont Blūz (Valerie and Benedict Turner) - Civic Center Park, Berkeley
- stringboard contest (11 am): Civic Center Park, Berkeley; opening set by Manning Music Fiddlers, jam with Thomas Angell & Mike Lewinski
- square dance (8 pm): Ashkenaz, Berkeley - Earl White Stringband; Tatiana Hargreaves; Right To Parlay; callers: Robin Fischer & Evie Ladin; clogging lesson with Mark Schatz; open jam in the back room, hosted by BOTMC performers
Sun., Sept. 25 -
- workshops (11 am) with Tatiana Hargreaves (fiddle), Jonah Aaron Lewis (fiddle), Andrew Norcross (banjo), Valerie Turner (guitar)
- special events -
11 am: A visit with Alice Gerrard
12:30 pm: Earl White's "Black Americans in Old Time Music: Then & Now"
- concert (1 pm): Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco; Clinton Davis; Cookie Segelstein & Joshua Horowitz (Veretski Pass Duet) - Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
Sept. 30 - Oct. 2: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass - Golden Gate Park, SF
AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Alison Brown, Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah, Aoife O’Donovan, Asleep At The Wheel, Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart, Black Opry Revue, Cedric Watson, Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Emmylou Harris, Jake Blount, Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, Phil Salazar & the Kin Folk, Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi, Sam Bush, The Travelin’ McCourys, and ... Andy Shauf, Antibalas, Arooj Aftab, Blackie & the Rodeo Kings, Bob Schneider, Bonny Light Horseman, The Brothers Comatose, Buddy Miller's Cavalcade of Stars, Charley Crockett, Cymande, Danielle Ponder, DaShawn Hickman w/ Charlie Hunter, Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore w/ The Guilty Ones, The Dead Tongues, Drive-By Truckers, Elvis Costello, Fare Thee Well (the Songs of John Prine, Nancy Bechtle, Justin Townes Earle & More), Galactic f: Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph, The Go To Hell Man Band, Ismay, Jaime Wyatt, Jay Som, Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew, Jesse Colin Young, Jim Lauderdale, Joseph, Joy Oladokun, Kelsey Waldon, Kevin Welch, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams, Las Cafeteras, Lucius, Marco and The Polos, Marcus Mumford, Marlon Williams, Meklit, Michaela Anne, Moonalice, The Quitters, Rainbow Girls, S.G. Goodman, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Satya, Seratones, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Steve Poltz, The Tallest Man on Earth, Tré Burt, Waco Brothers w/ The Mekons, Waxahatchee, The Whitmore Sisters, Wreckless Strangers, and Yasmin Williams
Oct. 7-9: Huck Finn Jubilee - Bonelli Bluffs RV Resort & Campground, San Dimas
Old Salt Union, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, Mile Twelve, many others
2023 -
Jan. 27-29: Winter Music Festival - Florence OR
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper; Jake Blount; The Slocan Ramblers; AJ Lee & Blue Summit; Never Come Down; Crary, Evans & Barnick; Josh Goforth; Cabin Fever NW
Feb. 23-26: Wintergrass - Bellevue, WA
Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass; Cedric Watson & Dirk Powell; Allison De Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves; Ben Hunter & Joe Seamons; Tray Wellington Band; The Slocan Ramblers; Darrell Scott Bluegrass Band; Tommy Emmanuel; Jerry Douglas Band; Dan Tyminski Band; Hawktail; Pasdecinq (Anger, Haas, Haas, Hakenson, Gareiss); Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms Country Band; Sonny Landreth & Cindy Cashdollar; Joe Craven & Joe Troop; Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore; Miles & Karina Band; Julian Smedley & Alison Odell; Henhouse Prowlers; Nick Dumas & Branchline; Fiddlers Four; Jacob Jolliff Band; Runaway Train; The Cactus Blossoms; The Deslondes; Bella White; Anna Tivel
