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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.
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CONCERTS

May 19: Purple Mountain Majesty Band - Summit House, Los Gatos
May 19: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma

AJ Lee & Blue Summit -
- May 20: Castoro Cellars, Templeton; with The Coffis Brothers
- May 21: Winstons Beach Club, San Diego
- May 26: Strawberry Music Festival - Nevada Fair Grounds, Grass Valley
- May 27 (6 pm): Ruhstaller Farm, Dixon
- May 28: Ember Stomp (wildfire prevention festival) - Marin Civic Center, San Rafael

May 21: Mission Blue (Dana & Avram Frankel w/ David Thiessen, Jesse Personeni, Tom Sours) - Back Room, Berkeley
May 21: The High Water Line - HopDogma, Half Moon Bay
May 22 (2 pm): Mo B. & Dick - The Monkey House, Berkeley
May 22: Evie Ladin Band; Rita Hosking Trio - Hopmonk Tavern, Novato
May 24 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
May 24: Ray Fest: honoring Ray Edlund, longtime (48 years!) host of KPFA's Pig in a Pen - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley 
   Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick; Thompsonia; High Country; The Road Oilers; High Water Line; North Country Blue
May 26: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
May 28 (6 pm): Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Cooperage Brewing, Santa Rosa
May 29: Jim Kweskin with Meredith Axelrod & Suzy Thompson - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
May 31 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF

June 2: Goat Hill Girls - Summit House, Los Gatos
June 2: Blue & Lonesome / Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma

Mission Blue - 
- June 3: Smiley’s Saloon, Bolinas
- June 4: HopDogma Brewing Company, Half Moon Bay

Birches Bend -
- June 5 (11:40 am): Redwood Mountain Faire - Roaring Camp, Felton
- June 12 (6 pm): Ruhstaller Farm, Dixon

June 7 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
June 7-8: Tommy Emmanuel - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley​
June 9: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers - Summit House, Los Gatos
June 9: Blue & Lonesome / Ed Neff & Friends - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
June 14 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
June 15: Skillet Licorice (vinyl release), Meredith Axelrod, Le Jazz Hot Trio - Armado’s, SF
June 16: Purple Mountain Majesty Band - Summit House, Los Gatos
June 16: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
June 21 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
June 23: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
June 26 (5 pm): AJ Lee & Blue Summit - Piccolo Pavilion, Corte Madera
June 28 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice - The Page, SF
June 30: Black Opry Revue featuring Rissi Palmer, Miko Marks, Stephanie Jacques, and Leon Timbo - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
July 4 (1 pm): AJ Lee & Blue Summit - Community Park, Davis

Molly Tuttle -
- July 12: Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa
- July 13: Mountain Winery, Saratoga 

Stern Grove Festival - Sigmund Stern Grove, 19th Ave. & Sloat Blvd, SF
​- July 10: Molly Tuttle and Old Crow Medicine Show
- July 24: Amythyst Kiah and LeAnn Rimes

July 30: Eric Thompson & Friends - The Back Room, Berkeley

Punch Brothers -
- Aug. 5: Mountain Winery, Saratoga
- Aug. 6: Green Music Center, Rohnert Park
- Aug. 7: Ford Amphitheater, LA 

Aug. 16 - Sept. 11: Oklahoma! - Golden Gate Theatre, SF; pit band includes Justin Hiltner

Billy Strings -
- Sept. 28: Sacramento
- Sept. 30: Stanford​

Oct. 3: Bela Fleck & the Gang of Twang (Jacob Jolliff, Stuart Duncan, Bryan Sutton, Mark Schatz, and Justin Moses) - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley
Oct. 4: John Prine Celebration - with Kathy Kallick, Tony Marcus, Crying Time, Steve Baughman, others - Freight & Salvage, Berkeley

FESTIVALS

May 26-30: Strawberry Music Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Sam Bush Band; Sierra Hull; Steep Canyon Rangers; AJ Lee & Blue Summit; Watkins Family Hour; Evie Ladin Band; Phil Salazar & The Kin Folk; David Bromberg Quintet; Allison Russell; Lindsay Lou; Rita Hosking; Samantha Fish; John Craigie; Marley’s Ghost; Ron Artis Ii; Rainbow Girls; Steve Poltz; David Jacobs-Strain & Bob Beach; Small Glories; Barbaro; Mumbo Gumbo; Sunny War; The Risky Biscuits; Pathetic Honey

June 16-19: Father's Day Bluegrass Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Della Mae ​(Sat/Sun); Dom Flemons (Th/Fri); John Reischman & the Jaybirds (Th/Fri); Kathy Kallick Band (Th/Fri); Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands (Fri/Sat); Michale Cleveland & Flamekeeper (Fri/Sat); The Onlies ​(Sat/Sun); Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band ​(Sat/Sun); Special Consensus (Th/Fri); Emerging Artist: AJ Lee & Blue Summit (Sat/Sun); California Showcase Bands: Blue & Lonesome (Sat/Sun); Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band (Th/Fri); North Country Blue (Sat/Sun); Sheri Lee & Blue Heart (Fri/Sat); Skillet Licorice (Sat/Sun);
Vern's Stage (Thursday): The Goat Hill Girls, Old Corn Lickers, Pacific Drive, Solid Gold Strangers, Young & Up Too Late
Vern's Stage (Friday): GrassKickers, Jee-Hee & Jesse, The Rose Valley Thorns, Smoke Holler, Who’s Feeling Young Now
Vern's Stage (Saturday): Birches Bend, Gayle Schmitt & Toodala Ramblers, Green Mountain Bluegrass, Muleskinner Stomp, Plaid Strangers
Vern's Stage (Sunday): The BettyJacks, Miss Leo & Her Bluegrass Boys

June 17-19: Wenatchee River Bluegrass Festival - Cashmere, WA 
Appalachian Roadshow; Po' Ramblin’ Boys with Laura Orshaw; Dave Adkins; Fast Track; Rusty Hinges Bluegrass

June 23-26: Kate Wolf Music Festival - Black Oak Ranch - Hwy 101, 5 miles north of Laytonville
Tim O’Brien Band (Fri/Sat); Laurie Lewis, Kathy Kallick & Nina Gerber (Sat/Sun); AJ Lee & Blue Summit (Thur/Fri); Iris Dement (Thur); Phil Salazar & The Kin Folk (F/S/S); plus Taj Mahal, Ani DiFranco, Bruce Cockburn, Darlene Love, Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Ruthie Foster, Greg Brown, Hot Tuna (acoustic), The Wood Brothers, Ranky Tanky w/ Lisa Fischer, Calexico, The Blues Broads, Leftover Salmon, Madeleine Peyroux, Cris Williamson, Tom Paxton & The Don Juans, Marcia Ball, Chris Smither, Carrie Rodriguez, Old Blind Dogs, Ruth Moody Band, Charlie Musselwhite, David Lindley, Eliza Gilkyson, Jorma Kaukonen, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, Sarah Lee Guthrie, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Joe Craven, Hills to Hollers, Billy Prine & The Prine Time Band, Mary Gauthier, John Craigie, Poor Man’s Whiskey, Guthrie Girls, Sam Chase & the Untraditional, Mamajowali, Lucy Kaplansky, Tim Bluhm, Keith Greeninger, Rainbow Girls, Dayan Kai, The Coffis Brothers, The Two Tracks, Paul Kamm & Eleanore MacDonald, David Jacobs-Strain and Bob Beach, Alisa Fineman & Kimball Hurd, Hugh Shacklett, Mouths of Babes, Don Coffin, The Black Feathers, Bill Griffin, Tommy Prine, Alice Howe & Freebo, Jimbo Scott & Late For The Train, Berkley Hart, Mike Mullins

June 30 - July 3: High Sierra Music Festival - Quincy
Peter Rowan with Railroad Earth (performing Old & In the Way), Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band, Birches Bend, Watkins Family Hour, Greensky Bluegrass, Lindsay Lou, The California Honeydrops, many others

July 21-24: Northwest String Summit – North Plains, OR
Del McCoury Band, Travelin’ McCourys, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Infamous Stringdusters, Leftover Salmon, Yonder Mountain String Band, Larry Keel Experience, Greensky Bluegrass, many others

July 21-24: Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival - Stevenson, WA
The Price Sisters; The Slocan Ramblers; The Special Consensus; Farmstrong; Sunny South; Dennis Berck Band with Annie Staninec; Bill Jolliff; Ellie Hakanson 

July 29-31: Bluegrass From the Forest Festival - Shelton, WA
John Reischman & the Jaybirds; Jim Hurst; AJ Lee & Blue Summit; Nick Dumas & Branchline; Runaway Train

Aug. 11-14: Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival - San Benito County Historical Park, Tres Pinos
Bean Creek; Birches Bend; Dan & Laurel; Dark Hollow Bluegrass Band; Eric Burman & the Brookdale BG Band; Festival Speed Bluegrass; Jubilee; Lucky Drive BG Band; Marin County Breakdown; Mission Blue; Muleskinner Stomp; Open Heartstrings; Solid Gold Stranger; The Goat Hill Girls; The High Water Line; The Mother Corn Shuckers; The Ramblers; The Rose Valley Thorns; The Storytellers; Who’s Feeling Young Now; Young & Up Too Late

Aug. 12-14: Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival - Medical Lake, WA
John Reischman & the Jaybirds, Lonesome Ace Stringband, The Onlies, Ben Winship & Eli West, West Coast Bluegrass Trio (w/ Nick Dumas & Chris Luquette), Northbound, Riders of the Rockin' B Ranch, Buck 99, King Trouble & The Cherry Pickers, Eyer Family Band, A Tribute to John Hartford

Aug. 19-21: Summergrass San Diego - Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, Vista
Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass; Moore-Cowan-Block-Davis; Fast Track (with Jesse Brock); Phil Salazar & The Kin Folk; Front Porch Music Preservation Society; Vulcan Mountain Boys

Aug. 19-21: Bowers Mansion Bluegrass Festival - Washoe Valley, NV
Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band
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Sept. 2-4: North Cascades Bluegrass Festival - Bellingham, Wa
The Special Consensus, Kody Norris Show, Blue Canyon Boys, Stillhouse Junkies, Rebekah Spear, Lonesome Town Painters, Runaway Train

Sept. 22-25: 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; Evie Ladin; Robin Fischer; Clinton Davis; Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco; Sigelstein & Horowitz Duo (of Veretski Pass); …

Oct. 7-9: Huck Finn Jubilee - Bonelli Bluffs RV Resort & Campground, San Dimas

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