Festivals
Jan. 17-19: Blythe Bluegrass Festival
Appalachian Roadshow; Greg Blake Band; Kenny & Amanda Smith; Bluegrass Patriots; Bar D Wranglers; Old Blue Band; Marty Warburton & Home Girls; Rusted Spurs West
Jan. 26-27: Bluegrass On Broadway - Redwood City
Jan. 26
Veterans Memorial Senior Center Theatre, 1455 Madison Ave., RC
- 10 am: film presentation - The Eventful Life Of Al Hawkes
- 11 am: The Gilroy Drifters
- noon: The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers
- 1 pm: Mission Blue
- 2 pm: AJ Lee & Blue Summit
- 3 pm: Northern California Bluegrass Awards Show
Freewheel Brewing Company, 3737 Florence St., RC
- 8 pm: The Stoney Mountain Ramblers
Jan. 27
The Hub, 2650 Broadway, RC
- 3 pm: The Open Heart Strings
- 4 pm: Bear Grass Creek
- 5 pm: The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers
- 6 pm: 27strings
Feb. 20-23: Wintergrass - Bellevue, WA
Red Wine; Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn; Kruger Brothers; The Special Consensus; Lonesome Ace Stringband; John Reischman & the Jaybirds; Darrell Scott; Che Apalache; Darol Anger’s Intergalactic Republic of Strings; I Draw Slow; Väsen; The Barefoot Movement; Larry Keel Experience; Joe Craven & the Sometimers; many others
March 6-8: Bluegrass On The Beach - Lake Havasu City, AZ
Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass; Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out; Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road; Junior Sisk; Dave Adkins; Larry Gillis & West Coast Swampgrass; The Kody Norris Show; Flint Hill Special; Mark Phillips & IIIrd Generation; Country Current
March 7: Cloverdale Fiddle Festival
March 14: Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival - Sebastopol
Kathy Kallick Band; Bryan Bowers; The Town Howlers; Phil Salazar Band; Three Acre Holler (Cori Wood & Layne Bowen); Rita Hosking
April 2-5: Berkeley Bluegrass Festival - Freight & Salvage
- April 2: The Town Howlers; Mission Blue; Daisy Kerr
- April 3: Peter Rowan & Dave Nelson & Friends featuring Eric and Suzy Thompson; Trout Steak Revival; Missy Raines; Daisy Kerr
- April 4 (1 pm): Artist in Residence: Peter Rowan interviewed by KPFA's Tim Lynch
- April 4: Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands; Michael Daves Jam with Tony Trischka, Missy Raines, Tatiana Hargreaves, & Laurie Lewis; Windy Hill; Mission Blue
- April 5 (1 pm): Films at The Freight: "You Gave Me A Song - The Life and Music of Alice Gerrard"
- April 5: Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band; Alice Gerrard with Hasee Ciaccio, Tatiana Hargreaves, & Laurie Lewis; AJ Lee & Blue Summit: The Town Howlers
April 17-18: String Fling Acoustic Guitar Festival - Auburn
April 17-19: Brookdale Bluegrass & American Roots Festival - San Benito County Historical Park, Tres Piños
May 3: Santa Cruz Bluegrass Fair - San Lorenzo Park
May 7-10: Parkfield Bluegrass Festival
Lonely Heartstring Band; Bruce Molsky & Alison DeGroot; Lonesome Ace Stringband; ...
May 15-17: Bluegrass From the Forest - Shelton, WA
May 21-24: Strawberry Spring Music Festival - Grass Valley
Sam Bush, Sierra Hull, Steep Canyon Rangers, The Rita Hosking Band, Samantha Fish, Steve Poltz, Ron Artis II, Rainbow Girls, The Way Down Wanderers, The Risky Biscuits, The Brothers Strong, John Craigie, …
June 18-21: Father's Day Bluegrass Festival - Grass Valley
Lonesome River Band; Tim O'Brien Band; Kathy Kallick Band; Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands; John Reischman & the Jaybirds; Dom Flemons; Newberry & Verch; The Special Consensus; The Bucking Mules; Skillet Licorice; North Country Blue; Blue & Lonesome; Crying Uncle; ...
June 19-21: Wenatchee River Bluegrass Festival - Cashmere, WA
Appalachian Roadshow, Po’ Ramblin' Boys with Laura Orshaw, Dave Adkins, The Kody Norris Show, Rusty Hinges Bluegrass
June 25-28: Kate Wolf Music Festival - Laytonville
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Phil Salazar & The Kin Folk, Cache Valley Drifters, Laurie Lewis Band, Iris Dement, David Lindley, Western Centuries, The Mammals, Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Angelique Kidjo, Marcia Ball, Lisa Fischer & Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Ozomatli, Madeleine Peyroux, The Black Feathers, The Wood Brothers, The Brothers Comatose, The Sam Chase & the Untraditional, Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Allman Betts Band
June 26-28: Susanville Bluegrass Festival
July 17-19: Darrington Bluegrass Festival - Darrington, WA
Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, The Gibson Brothers, Kevin Pace & Early Edition, The Chapmans, Lonesome Town Painters, Kentucky Sky, Modern Tradition, Kenny Stinson & Perfect Tym’n, North Country
July 24-26: Gorge Grass - Stevenson, WA
Aug. 6-9: Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival - Tres Piños
Aug. 7-9: Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival - Medical Lake, WA
Aug. 7-9: Mount St. Helens Bluegrass Festival – Toldeo, WA
The Kevin Prater Band, Annie Staninec & Whiskey Deaf, The Central Valley Boys, Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band, Kentucky Sky
Aug. 14-16: Summergrass - Vista
Sept. 3-6: Strawberry Fall Music Festival - location tba
Sept. 5-6: North Cascades Bluegrass Festival – near Bellingham, WA
Sept. 5-6: Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival - Quincy
Sept. 23-27: Berkeley Old Time Music Convention – Berkeley
Sept. 29 - Oct. 3: IBMA (World Of Bluegrass, Bluegrass Ramble, Wide Open Bluegrass) - Raleigh, NC
Sept. 25-26: Huck Finn Jubilee – Ontario
Oct. 2-4: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival - San Francisco
Oct. 10-11: Santa Barbara Old Time Fiddlers Convention - Goleta
Jan. 17-19: Blythe Bluegrass Festival
Appalachian Roadshow; Greg Blake Band; Kenny & Amanda Smith; Bluegrass Patriots; Bar D Wranglers; Old Blue Band; Marty Warburton & Home Girls; Rusted Spurs West
Jan. 26-27: Bluegrass On Broadway - Redwood City
Jan. 26
Veterans Memorial Senior Center Theatre, 1455 Madison Ave., RC
- 10 am: film presentation - The Eventful Life Of Al Hawkes
- 11 am: The Gilroy Drifters
- noon: The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers
- 1 pm: Mission Blue
- 2 pm: AJ Lee & Blue Summit
- 3 pm: Northern California Bluegrass Awards Show
Freewheel Brewing Company, 3737 Florence St., RC
- 8 pm: The Stoney Mountain Ramblers
Jan. 27
The Hub, 2650 Broadway, RC
- 3 pm: The Open Heart Strings
- 4 pm: Bear Grass Creek
- 5 pm: The Wildcat Mountain Ramblers
- 6 pm: 27strings
Feb. 20-23: Wintergrass - Bellevue, WA
Red Wine; Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn; Kruger Brothers; The Special Consensus; Lonesome Ace Stringband; John Reischman & the Jaybirds; Darrell Scott; Che Apalache; Darol Anger’s Intergalactic Republic of Strings; I Draw Slow; Väsen; The Barefoot Movement; Larry Keel Experience; Joe Craven & the Sometimers; many others
March 6-8: Bluegrass On The Beach - Lake Havasu City, AZ
Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass; Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out; Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road; Junior Sisk; Dave Adkins; Larry Gillis & West Coast Swampgrass; The Kody Norris Show; Flint Hill Special; Mark Phillips & IIIrd Generation; Country Current
March 7: Cloverdale Fiddle Festival
March 14: Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival - Sebastopol
Kathy Kallick Band; Bryan Bowers; The Town Howlers; Phil Salazar Band; Three Acre Holler (Cori Wood & Layne Bowen); Rita Hosking
April 2-5: Berkeley Bluegrass Festival - Freight & Salvage
- April 2: The Town Howlers; Mission Blue; Daisy Kerr
- April 3: Peter Rowan & Dave Nelson & Friends featuring Eric and Suzy Thompson; Trout Steak Revival; Missy Raines; Daisy Kerr
- April 4 (1 pm): Artist in Residence: Peter Rowan interviewed by KPFA's Tim Lynch
- April 4: Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands; Michael Daves Jam with Tony Trischka, Missy Raines, Tatiana Hargreaves, & Laurie Lewis; Windy Hill; Mission Blue
- April 5 (1 pm): Films at The Freight: "You Gave Me A Song - The Life and Music of Alice Gerrard"
- April 5: Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band; Alice Gerrard with Hasee Ciaccio, Tatiana Hargreaves, & Laurie Lewis; AJ Lee & Blue Summit: The Town Howlers
April 17-18: String Fling Acoustic Guitar Festival - Auburn
April 17-19: Brookdale Bluegrass & American Roots Festival - San Benito County Historical Park, Tres Piños
May 3: Santa Cruz Bluegrass Fair - San Lorenzo Park
May 7-10: Parkfield Bluegrass Festival
Lonely Heartstring Band; Bruce Molsky & Alison DeGroot; Lonesome Ace Stringband; ...
May 15-17: Bluegrass From the Forest - Shelton, WA
May 21-24: Strawberry Spring Music Festival - Grass Valley
Sam Bush, Sierra Hull, Steep Canyon Rangers, The Rita Hosking Band, Samantha Fish, Steve Poltz, Ron Artis II, Rainbow Girls, The Way Down Wanderers, The Risky Biscuits, The Brothers Strong, John Craigie, …
June 18-21: Father's Day Bluegrass Festival - Grass Valley
Lonesome River Band; Tim O'Brien Band; Kathy Kallick Band; Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands; John Reischman & the Jaybirds; Dom Flemons; Newberry & Verch; The Special Consensus; The Bucking Mules; Skillet Licorice; North Country Blue; Blue & Lonesome; Crying Uncle; ...
June 19-21: Wenatchee River Bluegrass Festival - Cashmere, WA
Appalachian Roadshow, Po’ Ramblin' Boys with Laura Orshaw, Dave Adkins, The Kody Norris Show, Rusty Hinges Bluegrass
June 25-28: Kate Wolf Music Festival - Laytonville
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Phil Salazar & The Kin Folk, Cache Valley Drifters, Laurie Lewis Band, Iris Dement, David Lindley, Western Centuries, The Mammals, Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Angelique Kidjo, Marcia Ball, Lisa Fischer & Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Ozomatli, Madeleine Peyroux, The Black Feathers, The Wood Brothers, The Brothers Comatose, The Sam Chase & the Untraditional, Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Allman Betts Band
June 26-28: Susanville Bluegrass Festival
July 17-19: Darrington Bluegrass Festival - Darrington, WA
Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, The Gibson Brothers, Kevin Pace & Early Edition, The Chapmans, Lonesome Town Painters, Kentucky Sky, Modern Tradition, Kenny Stinson & Perfect Tym’n, North Country
July 24-26: Gorge Grass - Stevenson, WA
Aug. 6-9: Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival - Tres Piños
Aug. 7-9: Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival - Medical Lake, WA
Aug. 7-9: Mount St. Helens Bluegrass Festival – Toldeo, WA
The Kevin Prater Band, Annie Staninec & Whiskey Deaf, The Central Valley Boys, Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band, Kentucky Sky
Aug. 14-16: Summergrass - Vista
Sept. 3-6: Strawberry Fall Music Festival - location tba
Sept. 5-6: North Cascades Bluegrass Festival – near Bellingham, WA
Sept. 5-6: Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival - Quincy
Sept. 23-27: Berkeley Old Time Music Convention – Berkeley
Sept. 29 - Oct. 3: IBMA (World Of Bluegrass, Bluegrass Ramble, Wide Open Bluegrass) - Raleigh, NC
Sept. 25-26: Huck Finn Jubilee – Ontario
Oct. 2-4: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival - San Francisco
Oct. 10-11: Santa Barbara Old Time Fiddlers Convention - Goleta