CONCERTS & FESTIVALS
Be sure to listen to "Bluegrass Signal," broadcast every Saturday (4:00 - 5:30 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 and after "Bluegrass Signal." The schedule:
2 pm: "Folk Music & Beyond"
4 pm: "Bluegrass Signal"
5:30 pm: "A Patchwork Quilt"
Thanks for listening!
NOTE: some of these events require proof of vaccination and/or the wearing of face masks.
-> -> -> ALL TIMES PACIFIC <- <- <-
CONCERTS
Jan. 27: Ted Silverman & the Sunday Drivers - Plough & Stars, SF
Jan. 28 (5:30 pm): Birches Bend - Taco Jam - Baja Tacqueria, Oakland
Jan. 31 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Jan. 27-28: Yonder Mountain String Band - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Feb. 1: Bean Creek - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
Feb. 2: Blue & Lonesome / Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Feb. 3: Birches Bend - Kensington Circus Pub
Feb. 3-4: Water In the Kettle - Evie Ladin’s MoToR/dance - Rhythmix Cultural Works, Alameda
Every Friday & Saturday in February: Hillbilly Robot - Plough & Stars, SF
Feb. 9: Blue & Lonesome / Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Feb. 10: The Jake Eddy Trio - The Back Room, Berkeley
Feb. 10: Clean Heat (Evie Ladin, Lila Goehring & Jody Richardson); The Vivants - The Lost Church, SF
Feb. 11: Valentine's Square Dance - Ashkenaz, Berkeley; music: Right to Parlay; calling: Evie Ladin & Robin Fischer
Feb. 11: Head For the Hills; Stillhouse Junkies - The Back Room, Berkeley
Newberry & Verch -
- Feb. 14: house concert in Chico; pffice-at-aprilverch-dot-com
- Feb. 15: Miners Foundry Cultural Center, Nevada City
- Feb. 16: Cloverdale Arts Alliance
- Feb. 17: The Sebastopol Community Center (double bill with the Kathy Kallick Band); info/res: hogiemoon-at-comcast-dot-net
- Feb. 18: The Strum Shop, Roseville
- Feb. 19: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley (double bill with the Kathy Kallick Band)
- Feb. 22: house concert in Mountain View; info/res: scvfa-dot-susan-at-gmail-dot-com
- Feb. 26: Crazy J Ranch, Topanga
Feb. 14 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Feb. 15: Riders In the Sky - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Feb. 16: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Molsky's Mountain Drifters (Bruce Molsky, Allison deGroot, and Reed Stutz) -
- Feb. 16: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- Feb. 17: Clendenen Barn Concerts, Healdsburg; clendenen-dot-kathy-at-gmail-dotcom * 3 pm: fiddle/banjo/guitar workshops * 7 pm: concert
- Feb. 18: house concert in Santa Cruz; info/res: Concerts-at-InstantHarmony-dot-com
Hawktail -
- Feb. 16: Little Saint, Healdsburg
- Feb. 17: Felton Music Hall
- Feb. 18: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- Feb. 19: Hopmonk Novato
- Feb. 21: The Old Steeple, Ferndale
Kathy Kallick Band -
- Feb. 17: The Sebastopol Community Center (double bill with Joe Newberry & April Verch); info/res: hogiemoon-at-comcast-dot-net
- Feb. 18: The Otter Opry, Monterey
- Feb. 19: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley (double bill with Joe Newberry & April Verch)
Feb. 17: Black Opry Review - with Serafia, Destinie Lynn, Autumn Nicholas, and Deidra Hall - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Feb. 18: Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band - Side Door, Sacramento
Feb. 21 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Feb. 21: "Fat Tuesday" Mardi Gras Party with Aux Cajunals plus Billy, Willie, & Lloyd from Motordude Zydeco - Ashkenaz, Berkeley
Feb. 23: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
AJ Lee & Blue Summit -
- Feb. 24: Almost Famous Wine, Livermore
- Feb. 25: Sierra Meadows, Ahwahnee
Feb. 26: Ray Bierl - The Back Room, Berkeley
Feb. 28 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
March 1: Bean Creek - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
March 2: Blue & Lonesome / Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands; Vivian Leva & Riley Calgano -
- March 3: The Sweetwater, Mill Valley
- March 4: Center for the Arts, Grass Valley
March 3: Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys - The Side Door, Sacramento
March 4 (9 am): Sweet Sally - Grand Lake Farmer’s Market
March 5: Evie Ladin Band - Rose Avenue Acoustic Delights, Oakland
March 7 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
March 9: Blue & Lonesome / Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma * 25th Anniversary Party for the WAH residency *
March 14 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
March 16: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
March 18 (11 am): Sweet Sally - Gather, Berkeley
March 18: Eric & Suzy Thompson, Mitch Greenhill & Mitch's Kitchen - The Back Room, Berkeley
March 19 (8 am): Sweet Sally - Marin Farmer’s Market
March 21 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
March 23: Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands - The Otter Opry, Monterey
March 23: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
March 25 (noon-6 pm): Grassroots Bluegrass Gathering - Port Costa School & Museum; with the Bloomfield Bluegrass Band and others; fundraiser for the Historic 1911 Port Costa School and Museum
March 26: Mark O'Connor - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley; 1st set: Music from Mark & Maggie O’Connor / 2nd set: Mark talks about his book, Crossing Bridges (retrospective on his childhood years in music) and takes questions from the audience
NOTE: Mark & Maggie O’Connor are also performing at The Old Steeple, Ferndale (March 22) and Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga (March 24).
March 28 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
AJ Lee & Blue Summit -
- April 14: Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz
- April 15: Sweetwater, Mill Valley
April 19: Dom Flemons; Dustbowl Revival - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
April 27: Iris DeMent - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
May 6 (11 am): Sweet Sally - Gather, Berkeley
May 20 (11 am): Sweet Sally - Gather, Berkeley
FESTIVALS
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; others
Feb. 17-19: Olympia Old-Time Music Festival - Olympia, WA
Joseph Decosimo, Cleek Shrek & Luke Richardson; Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller; Elizabeth LaPrelle & Brian Dolphin; Dry & Dusty; The Horsenecks; The Waysiders; The Friendship Quilt; Devils Club Darlin’s; Shnoll Family Band; Paul Silveria
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
March 31 - April 2: Winter Wondergrass - Palisades Tahoe, CA
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway; Della Mae; Tray Wellington Band; AJ Lee & Blue Summit; Lindsay Lou; Greensky Bluegrass; many others
April 21-23: Berkeley Bluegrass Festival - Freight & Salvage
Laurie Lewis;
May 25-29: Strawberry Music Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Yonder Mountain String Band, North Mississippi All-Stars, Della Mae, Laurie Lewis, Mr. Sun, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Tray Wellington, Sam Grisman Project, The Rainbow Girls, The Way Down Wanderers, Mumbo Gumbo, Handmade Moments, Banana Slug String Band
NOTE: No Fall Festival in 2023.
June 15-18: CBA's Father’s Day Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway; Rhonda Vincent & the Rage; Kody Norris Show; Alison deGroot & Tatiana Hargreaves; Jake Blount; Seth Muldar & Midnight Run; Mile Twelve; Blue Highway; Never Come Down; East Nash Grass; CA Showcase: Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys; Clinton Davis Band; Hot October; West 45; Vern’s Stage bands tba
June 29 - July 2: High Sierra Music Festival - Plumas County Fairgrounds, Quincy
The Del McCoury Band, Sierra Hull, The Travelin’ McCourys, The Infamous Stringdusters, ...
Aug. 10-13: Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival - San Benito County Historical Park, Tres Pinos
Sept. 20-25: 20th(!) Berkeley Old Time Music Convention
Hubby Jenkins & Jackson Lynch; Slate Valley Ramblers (Richard & Barbara Bowman + Ivy & David Sheppard; Nokosee Fields Trio, Cajun dance w/ Ed Poullard; Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer; Squirrelly Stringband; Karen Celia Heil; ...
Be sure to listen to "Bluegrass Signal," broadcast every Saturday (4:00 - 5:30 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 and after "Bluegrass Signal." The schedule:
2 pm: "Folk Music & Beyond"
4 pm: "Bluegrass Signal"
5:30 pm: "A Patchwork Quilt"
Thanks for listening!
NOTE: some of these events require proof of vaccination and/or the wearing of face masks.
-> -> -> ALL TIMES PACIFIC <- <- <-
CONCERTS
Jan. 27: Ted Silverman & the Sunday Drivers - Plough & Stars, SF
Jan. 28 (5:30 pm): Birches Bend - Taco Jam - Baja Tacqueria, Oakland
Jan. 31 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Jan. 27-28: Yonder Mountain String Band - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Feb. 1: Bean Creek - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
Feb. 2: Blue & Lonesome / Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Feb. 3: Birches Bend - Kensington Circus Pub
Feb. 3-4: Water In the Kettle - Evie Ladin’s MoToR/dance - Rhythmix Cultural Works, Alameda
Every Friday & Saturday in February: Hillbilly Robot - Plough & Stars, SF
- Feb. 3: The Truckaderos and JonEmery
- Feb. 4: Hank Maninger & Jukebox Charlies, Chickens on Wood, Jee-Hee & Jesse
- Feb. 10: Leaping Blennies and Porkchop Express
- Feb. 11: False Bottom Band and Riley Hill & Brand New Still
- Feb. 17: Muleskinner Stomp and Lonesome Still
- Feb. 18: EmeryVillains and Richard March
- Feb. 24: Mike Hellman Band and Benton Vaughan
- Feb. 25: Nashville Honeymoon and Alabaster Adams
Feb. 9: Blue & Lonesome / Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Feb. 10: The Jake Eddy Trio - The Back Room, Berkeley
Feb. 10: Clean Heat (Evie Ladin, Lila Goehring & Jody Richardson); The Vivants - The Lost Church, SF
Feb. 11: Valentine's Square Dance - Ashkenaz, Berkeley; music: Right to Parlay; calling: Evie Ladin & Robin Fischer
Feb. 11: Head For the Hills; Stillhouse Junkies - The Back Room, Berkeley
Newberry & Verch -
- Feb. 14: house concert in Chico; pffice-at-aprilverch-dot-com
- Feb. 15: Miners Foundry Cultural Center, Nevada City
- Feb. 16: Cloverdale Arts Alliance
- Feb. 17: The Sebastopol Community Center (double bill with the Kathy Kallick Band); info/res: hogiemoon-at-comcast-dot-net
- Feb. 18: The Strum Shop, Roseville
- Feb. 19: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley (double bill with the Kathy Kallick Band)
- Feb. 22: house concert in Mountain View; info/res: scvfa-dot-susan-at-gmail-dot-com
- Feb. 26: Crazy J Ranch, Topanga
Feb. 14 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Feb. 15: Riders In the Sky - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Feb. 16: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Molsky's Mountain Drifters (Bruce Molsky, Allison deGroot, and Reed Stutz) -
- Feb. 16: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- Feb. 17: Clendenen Barn Concerts, Healdsburg; clendenen-dot-kathy-at-gmail-dotcom * 3 pm: fiddle/banjo/guitar workshops * 7 pm: concert
- Feb. 18: house concert in Santa Cruz; info/res: Concerts-at-InstantHarmony-dot-com
Hawktail -
- Feb. 16: Little Saint, Healdsburg
- Feb. 17: Felton Music Hall
- Feb. 18: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
- Feb. 19: Hopmonk Novato
- Feb. 21: The Old Steeple, Ferndale
Kathy Kallick Band -
- Feb. 17: The Sebastopol Community Center (double bill with Joe Newberry & April Verch); info/res: hogiemoon-at-comcast-dot-net
- Feb. 18: The Otter Opry, Monterey
- Feb. 19: Freight & Salvage, Berkeley (double bill with Joe Newberry & April Verch)
Feb. 17: Black Opry Review - with Serafia, Destinie Lynn, Autumn Nicholas, and Deidra Hall - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Feb. 18: Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band - Side Door, Sacramento
Feb. 21 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
Feb. 21: "Fat Tuesday" Mardi Gras Party with Aux Cajunals plus Billy, Willie, & Lloyd from Motordude Zydeco - Ashkenaz, Berkeley
Feb. 23: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
AJ Lee & Blue Summit -
- Feb. 24: Almost Famous Wine, Livermore
- Feb. 25: Sierra Meadows, Ahwahnee
Feb. 26: Ray Bierl - The Back Room, Berkeley
Feb. 28 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
March 1: Bean Creek - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
March 2: Blue & Lonesome / Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands; Vivian Leva & Riley Calgano -
- March 3: The Sweetwater, Mill Valley
- March 4: Center for the Arts, Grass Valley
March 3: Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys - The Side Door, Sacramento
March 4 (9 am): Sweet Sally - Grand Lake Farmer’s Market
March 5: Evie Ladin Band - Rose Avenue Acoustic Delights, Oakland
March 7 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
March 9: Blue & Lonesome / Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma * 25th Anniversary Party for the WAH residency *
March 14 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
March 16: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
March 18 (11 am): Sweet Sally - Gather, Berkeley
March 18: Eric & Suzy Thompson, Mitch Greenhill & Mitch's Kitchen - The Back Room, Berkeley
March 19 (8 am): Sweet Sally - Marin Farmer’s Market
March 21 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
March 23: Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands - The Otter Opry, Monterey
March 23: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
March 25 (noon-6 pm): Grassroots Bluegrass Gathering - Port Costa School & Museum; with the Bloomfield Bluegrass Band and others; fundraiser for the Historic 1911 Port Costa School and Museum
March 26: Mark O'Connor - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley; 1st set: Music from Mark & Maggie O’Connor / 2nd set: Mark talks about his book, Crossing Bridges (retrospective on his childhood years in music) and takes questions from the audience
NOTE: Mark & Maggie O’Connor are also performing at The Old Steeple, Ferndale (March 22) and Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga (March 24).
March 28 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
AJ Lee & Blue Summit -
- April 14: Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz
- April 15: Sweetwater, Mill Valley
April 19: Dom Flemons; Dustbowl Revival - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
April 27: Iris DeMent - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
May 6 (11 am): Sweet Sally - Gather, Berkeley
May 20 (11 am): Sweet Sally - Gather, Berkeley
FESTIVALS
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; others
Feb. 17-19: Olympia Old-Time Music Festival - Olympia, WA
Joseph Decosimo, Cleek Shrek & Luke Richardson; Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller; Elizabeth LaPrelle & Brian Dolphin; Dry & Dusty; The Horsenecks; The Waysiders; The Friendship Quilt; Devils Club Darlin’s; Shnoll Family Band; Paul Silveria
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
March 31 - April 2: Winter Wondergrass - Palisades Tahoe, CA
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway; Della Mae; Tray Wellington Band; AJ Lee & Blue Summit; Lindsay Lou; Greensky Bluegrass; many others
April 21-23: Berkeley Bluegrass Festival - Freight & Salvage
Laurie Lewis;
May 25-29: Strawberry Music Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Yonder Mountain String Band, North Mississippi All-Stars, Della Mae, Laurie Lewis, Mr. Sun, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Tray Wellington, Sam Grisman Project, The Rainbow Girls, The Way Down Wanderers, Mumbo Gumbo, Handmade Moments, Banana Slug String Band
NOTE: No Fall Festival in 2023.
June 15-18: CBA's Father’s Day Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway; Rhonda Vincent & the Rage; Kody Norris Show; Alison deGroot & Tatiana Hargreaves; Jake Blount; Seth Muldar & Midnight Run; Mile Twelve; Blue Highway; Never Come Down; East Nash Grass; CA Showcase: Matt & George & Their Pleasant Valley Boys; Clinton Davis Band; Hot October; West 45; Vern’s Stage bands tba
June 29 - July 2: High Sierra Music Festival - Plumas County Fairgrounds, Quincy
The Del McCoury Band, Sierra Hull, The Travelin’ McCourys, The Infamous Stringdusters, ...
Aug. 10-13: Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival - San Benito County Historical Park, Tres Pinos
Sept. 20-25: 20th(!) Berkeley Old Time Music Convention
Hubby Jenkins & Jackson Lynch; Slate Valley Ramblers (Richard & Barbara Bowman + Ivy & David Sheppard; Nokosee Fields Trio, Cajun dance w/ Ed Poullard; Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer; Squirrelly Stringband; Karen Celia Heil; ...
