Festivals
NOTE:
Because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, there is now a Shelter-In-Place directive for the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Non-essential gatherings of any size are banned, along with non-essential travel. So ... concerts, festivals, jams, classes, and dances will not be happening until further notice.
Online concerts and lessons, gift certificates and Patreon memberships, bandcamp and artist web sites, and woodshedding and other at-home music-related activities are encouraged. This, of course, includes listening to bluegrass and old time music on the radio. I've attempted to collect a list of stations and programs that might be of interest during these trying times. Thanks for your additional suggestions and ... stay safe!
April 17-18: String Fling Festival - Randy Peters Event Center, Roseville CANCELLED; possibly rescheduled in fall, 2020
Kathy Kallick Band; Hannah Jane Kile; Gary Bowman; Toni Land; John Massey; Carla Fontanilla; Mariann Smith
April 17-19: Brookdale Bluegrass & American Roots Festival - San Benito County Historical Park, Tres Piños CANCELLED
Sidesaddle & Co.; Cactus Bob & Prairie Flower; Stoney Mountain Ramblers; Wildcat Mountain Ramblers; Open Heart String Band; Dave Holodiloff; The Poor Carters; Banjar Dan; Laura Lind; Tina Louise Barr; Brookdale Bluegrass Band
May 3: Santa Cruz Bluegrass Fair - San Lorenzo Park CANCELLED
May 7-10: Parkfield Bluegrass Festival CANCELLED; possibly rescheduled in fall, 2020
Lonely Heartstring Band; Bruce Molsky & Alison DeGroot; Lonesome Ace Stringband; Joe Craven & Dead on Grass with Snap Jackson; Gina Furtado Project; Jeff Scroggins & the Scroggdogs; AJ Lee & Blue Summit; The High Water Line; Jubilee; Honeysuckle Possums; SLO County Stumblers; Blah Blah Stringband; Amber Cross; Stan Sharp
May 15-17: Bluegrass From the Forest - Shelton, WA -> Postponed to Sept. 11-13, 2020 - South Mason Youth Soccer Park, Shelton, WA
Volume Five; Crying Uncle; Kristen Grainger & True North; Whiskey Deaf; Salzer Creek; Runaway Train; Bar K Buckaroos; Mountain Williams
May 21-24: Strawberry Spring Music Festival - Grass Valley CANCELLED
Sam Bush; Sierra Hull; Steep Canyon Rangers; Watkins Family Hour; Evie Ladin Band; Rita Hosking Band; David Bromberg Quintet; Samantha Fish; Sweet Water Warblers; Delbert McClinton; Marley’s Ghost; Rainbow Girls; Ron Artis II & the Truth; Way Down Wanderers, Risky Biscuits; Brothers Strong; John Craigie; Steve Poltz; Mumbo Gumbo; Barbaro
June 18-21: Father's Day Bluegrass Festival - Grass Valley CANCELLED
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; AJ Lee & Blue Summit; plus California Showcase Bands Skillet Licorice; North Country Blue; Blue & Lonesome; Crying Uncle; Sheri Lee & Blueheart; Vern's Stage: The BettyJacks; Birches Bend; Boston Ravine; Gayle Schmitt & the Toodala Ramblers; The GillyGirls; The Goat Hill Girls; GrassKickers; Green Mountain Bluegrass; Have More Fun Stringband; Jee-Hee and Jesse; Jim Walter Jamboree; Pacific Drive; Plaid Strangers; The Rose Valley Thorns; Salt Martians; Solid Gold Stranger; Young and Up Too Late
June 19-21: Wenatchee River Bluegrass Festival - Cashmere, WA CANCELLED
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 CANCELLED
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 2-5: High Sierra Music Festival - Quincy CANCELLED
Railroad Earth w/ Peter Rowan performing Old & In The Way; Molly Tuttle; AJ Lee & Blue Summit; Crying Uncle; Birches Bend; dozens of others
July 17-19: Darrington Bluegrass Festival - Darrington, WA CANCELLED
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
Kathy Kallick Band; Carolina Blue; The Price Sisters; Slocan Ramblers; Central Valley Boys; Runaway Train; Hardshell Harmony; Sunny South
Aug. 6-9: Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival - Tres Piños
Aug. 7-9: Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival - Medical Lake, WA
Lonesome Ace Stringband; John Reischman & the Jaybirds; Ben Winship & Eli West; The Onlies; A Tribute to John Hartford; Nick Dumas & Chris Luquette; Northbound; Riders of the Rockin' B Ranch; Buck 99; King Trouble & The Cherry Pickers; The Eyer Family Band
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
NOTE: No Strawberry Fall Music Festival this year.
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 CANCELLED
Eddie Bond & Alice Gerrard & Band; Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin; Jake Blount; Slate Mountain Ramblers; The Horsenecks; Evie Ladin Band; Plaid Strangers; Charmaine Slaven; Tony Thomas; Birches Bend; David Greely; Skillet Licorice; Bearcat Stringband; New Vintage Revelers; Hook N Line
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
NOTE:
Because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, there is now a Shelter-In-Place directive for the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Non-essential gatherings of any size are banned, along with non-essential travel. So ... concerts, festivals, jams, classes, and dances will not be happening until further notice.
Online concerts and lessons, gift certificates and Patreon memberships, bandcamp and artist web sites, and woodshedding and other at-home music-related activities are encouraged. This, of course, includes listening to bluegrass and old time music on the radio. I've attempted to collect a list of stations and programs that might be of interest during these trying times. Thanks for your additional suggestions and ... stay safe!
April 17-18: String Fling Festival - Randy Peters Event Center, Roseville CANCELLED; possibly rescheduled in fall, 2020
Kathy Kallick Band; Hannah Jane Kile; Gary Bowman; Toni Land; John Massey; Carla Fontanilla; Mariann Smith
April 17-19: Brookdale Bluegrass & American Roots Festival - San Benito County Historical Park, Tres Piños CANCELLED
Sidesaddle & Co.; Cactus Bob & Prairie Flower; Stoney Mountain Ramblers; Wildcat Mountain Ramblers; Open Heart String Band; Dave Holodiloff; The Poor Carters; Banjar Dan; Laura Lind; Tina Louise Barr; Brookdale Bluegrass Band
May 3: Santa Cruz Bluegrass Fair - San Lorenzo Park CANCELLED
May 7-10: Parkfield Bluegrass Festival CANCELLED; possibly rescheduled in fall, 2020
Lonely Heartstring Band; Bruce Molsky & Alison DeGroot; Lonesome Ace Stringband; Joe Craven & Dead on Grass with Snap Jackson; Gina Furtado Project; Jeff Scroggins & the Scroggdogs; AJ Lee & Blue Summit; The High Water Line; Jubilee; Honeysuckle Possums; SLO County Stumblers; Blah Blah Stringband; Amber Cross; Stan Sharp
May 15-17: Bluegrass From the Forest - Shelton, WA -> Postponed to Sept. 11-13, 2020 - South Mason Youth Soccer Park, Shelton, WA
Volume Five; Crying Uncle; Kristen Grainger & True North; Whiskey Deaf; Salzer Creek; Runaway Train; Bar K Buckaroos; Mountain Williams
May 21-24: Strawberry Spring Music Festival - Grass Valley CANCELLED
Sam Bush; Sierra Hull; Steep Canyon Rangers; Watkins Family Hour; Evie Ladin Band; Rita Hosking Band; David Bromberg Quintet; Samantha Fish; Sweet Water Warblers; Delbert McClinton; Marley’s Ghost; Rainbow Girls; Ron Artis II & the Truth; Way Down Wanderers, Risky Biscuits; Brothers Strong; John Craigie; Steve Poltz; Mumbo Gumbo; Barbaro
June 18-21: Father's Day Bluegrass Festival - Grass Valley CANCELLED
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; AJ Lee & Blue Summit; plus California Showcase Bands Skillet Licorice; North Country Blue; Blue & Lonesome; Crying Uncle; Sheri Lee & Blueheart; Vern's Stage: The BettyJacks; Birches Bend; Boston Ravine; Gayle Schmitt & the Toodala Ramblers; The GillyGirls; The Goat Hill Girls; GrassKickers; Green Mountain Bluegrass; Have More Fun Stringband; Jee-Hee and Jesse; Jim Walter Jamboree; Pacific Drive; Plaid Strangers; The Rose Valley Thorns; Salt Martians; Solid Gold Stranger; Young and Up Too Late
June 19-21: Wenatchee River Bluegrass Festival - Cashmere, WA CANCELLED
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 CANCELLED
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 2-5: High Sierra Music Festival - Quincy CANCELLED
Railroad Earth w/ Peter Rowan performing Old & In The Way; Molly Tuttle; AJ Lee & Blue Summit; Crying Uncle; Birches Bend; dozens of others
July 17-19: Darrington Bluegrass Festival - Darrington, WA CANCELLED
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
Kathy Kallick Band; Carolina Blue; The Price Sisters; Slocan Ramblers; Central Valley Boys; Runaway Train; Hardshell Harmony; Sunny South
Aug. 6-9: Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival - Tres Piños
Aug. 7-9: Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival - Medical Lake, WA
Lonesome Ace Stringband; John Reischman & the Jaybirds; Ben Winship & Eli West; The Onlies; A Tribute to John Hartford; Nick Dumas & Chris Luquette; Northbound; Riders of the Rockin' B Ranch; Buck 99; King Trouble & The Cherry Pickers; The Eyer Family Band
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
NOTE: No Strawberry Fall Music Festival this year.
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 CANCELLED
Eddie Bond & Alice Gerrard & Band; Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin; Jake Blount; Slate Mountain Ramblers; The Horsenecks; Evie Ladin Band; Plaid Strangers; Charmaine Slaven; Tony Thomas; Birches Bend; David Greely; Skillet Licorice; Bearcat Stringband; New Vintage Revelers; Hook N Line
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
