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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). There are often musical previews of some of these events! 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!
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CONCERTS and a few dances
Saturdays (11:30 am - 1:30 pm): Bluegrass Breeze - Salesforce Park, 425 Mission St., SF
May 9: Mission Hill
May 16: Sweet Sally Duet
May 23: Sibling Revelry (Bethany Sorkey & Siblings)
May 30: Alisa Rose & Friends
June 6: San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival (11:15am - 6pm, 2 stages)
June 13: The Jasper Manning Band
June 20 - The Good Bad
June 27: Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band
July 4: Rare Company
July 11: Charlie Torch
July 18: Evie Ladin & Sophie Wellington
July 25: Miraculous Weekend
Aug. 1: The Buckeye Boys
Aug. 8: David Thom, Billy Moore & Scotty Gates
Aug. 15: The Rounder Circle
Aug. 22: Significant Otter
Aug. 29: Hey Lonesome
Sept. 5: Critical Grass
Sept. 12: Bluegrass Holiday
Sept. 19: Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band
Sept. 26: Burl Haggard
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May 7: Foghorn Stringband; Le Vent du Nord - The Freight, Berkeley
May 7: Blue & Lonesome (with Yoseff Tucker & Helen Foley) - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
May 7: The Whiskey Squirrels - The Liberties, SF
May 8: Feral Friday Square Dance - The Polish Club, SF; KC & the MooNshine Band; Mike Lewinski calling; preceded (6:45 pm) by old time jam
May 9 (13:30 pm): Buckeye Boys - Mother’s Day Tea - Gather Petaluma
May 11: The Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion - Blondies, SF
May 12 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice (and guests) - The Page, SF
May 12: Shelby Means Band - Otter Opry, Monterey
May 12: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
Foghorn Stringband -
- May 13: Tower Theater, Fresno
- May 14: The Pearl, Locke
May 14: Blue & Lonesome (with Yoseff Tucker & Helen Foley) - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
May 14: Tom Bekeny & Friends - The Liberties, SF
May 14: Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem - house concert in Oakland; res: houseconcert-at-att-dot-net
May 15: Johnny Campbell Band - Plough & Stars, SF
May 15: East Bay Square Dance - Hillside Club, Berkeley; Round Top Stringband, Jordan Ruyle calls; preceded (at 6:45 pm) by old time jam
May 16 (2 pm): Bearcat Stringband - Cato's Alehouse, Oakland
May 16: Shelby Means Band; Mission Blue - Occidental Center for the Arts
May 18: Sibling Revelry (Bethany Sorkey + sibs) - Blondies, SF
May 19 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice (and guests) - The Page, SF
May 19: Purple Mountain Majesty Band - Sam's BBQ, San Jose
May 20: East Bay Square Dance - Hillside Club, Berkeley; Band: Round Top Stringband; Caller: TBA; preceded by an old time jam
May 21: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
May 21: Alan Bond & Skedaddle - The Liberties, SF
May 22: Tribute to Rambling Jack Elliot featuring Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Band (Sean Allen, Paul Knight, Kendrick Freemen, & Friends), Jason Crosby, Maria Muldaur, Eric & Suzy Thompson, Mike Beck Lowell, ‘Banana' Levinger, Jessie DeNatale, Kathy Kallick, others - The Freight, Berkeley
May 23 (2 pm): Taylor Mountain - Farmer's Market - Walnut Park, Petaluma
May 23 (4 pm): Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Blue Barn, Novato
May 23: Goat Hill Girls - Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Co., LG
May 23: Sweet Sally - Live on the Lawn, Chico
May 24 (2 pm): Goat Hill Girls - Cooper-Garrod Winery, Saratoga
May 24 (4 pm): Alan Bond & Skedaddle - Depot Cafe & Bookstore, Mill Valley
May 25 (noon): The Rocky Wheels - Rio Nido Roadhouse
May 25: Tony Trischka’s Earl Jam - Tribute To Earl Scruggs - The Freight, Berkeley
May 25: The High Water Line - Blondies, SF
May 26 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice (and guests) - The Page, SF
May 27: Bay Area Special - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
May 28: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
May 28: The Lickety Split String Band - The Liberties, SF
May 30-31: Redwood Mountain Faire - Roaring Camp, Felton - w/ AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Jim Lewin & Grass Planets, Brookdale Bluegrass Band
May 31 (2 pm): Alan Bond & Skedaddle - Armistice Brewing, Richmond
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June 1: Hey Lonesome - Blondies, SF
June 2 (4 pm): Taylor Mountain - Farmer's Market - Downtown Novato
June 2: John Kornhauser & Dark Hollow - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
June 3: Bean Creek - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
June 4: Blue & Lonesome - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
June 4: The Deep Thicket Dwellers - The Liberties, SF
June 5: Natalie & Brittany Haas - The Freight, Berkeley
June 5: Buckeye Boys - Aqus, Petaluma
June 8: The Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion - Blondies, SF
June 9: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
June 11: Blue & Lonesome - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
June 11: The Jasper Manning Band - The Liberties, SF
June 12: Eric Thompson's Dead Roots Revival (with Paul Kotapish, Corbin Pagter, Mark Schatz, Keith Terry, Sam Reider, Suzy Thompson) - Ashkenaz, Berkeley
June 12: Feral Friday Square Dance - The Polish Club, SF; KC & the MooNshine Band; Mike Lewinski calling; preceded (6:45 pm) by old time jam
June 12: Mission Blue trio - Bee Kind Bakery, Dunsmuir
June 13: Mission Blue - Dunsmuir Railroad Days
June 13: Hard Drive (Tatiana Hargreaves, Aaron Tacke, Sonya Badigian, Nokosee Fields) - Fifth St. Farms, Berkeley
June 14 (5 pm): Sweet Sally - Sailing Goat Restaurant, Richmond
June 14: The Far Out Johnnies - The Lucky Horseshoe, SF
June 15: The Deep Thicket Dwellers - Blondies, SF
June 18: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
June 18: TBA - The Liberties, SF
June 20: Taylor Mountain - Cloverdale Veterans Memorial Building (for Cloverdale Senior Center)
June 22: TBA - Blondies, SF
June 25: Rhiannon Giddens - Fillmore, SF
June 25: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
June 25: TBA - The Liberties, SF
June 26 (4 pm): Sweet Sally - Woodhouse Blending and Brewing, Santa Cruz
June 26: Crying Uncle - Otter Opry, Monterey
June 27 (2 pm): Bearcat Stringband - Cato's Alehouse, Oakland
June 27: Iris Dement - The Freight, Berkeley
June 27: Crooked Jades (concert) + square dance with Skillet Licorice (band) & caller Robin Fischer - Point San Pablo Harbor
June 29: Burl Haggard - Blondies, SF
*****
July 1: Bean Creek - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
July 2: Blue & Lonesome - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
July 2: The Jacob Joliff Band - The Freight, Berkeley
July 2: The Johnny Campbell Band - The Liberties, SF
July 3: Sweet Sally - Live on the Avenue, San Anselmo
July 3: Buckeye Boys - Aqus, Petaluma
July 3: Charlie Torch - The Side Door, Sacramento
July 4: Charlie Torch - World One Festival, El Cerrito
July 6: Bluegrass Holiday - Blondies, SF
July 7: John Kornhauser & Dark Hollow - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
July 8: Chis Stapleton's All-American Road Show with special guest Molly Tuttle - Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View
July 9: Blue & Lonesome - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
July 9: Sweet Sally - The Liberties, SF
July 9: Charlie Torch - The Bistro, Hayward
July 9: Barkley Cove - Otter Opry, Monterey
July 10 (3 pm): Taylor Mountain - Penngrove Pub
July 11 (11:30 am): Charlie Torch - Salesforce Park, SF
July 10 (5 pm): Taylor Mountain - Matanzas Creek Winer, Santa Rosa
Sweet Sally -
- July 12 (5 pm): Hopmonk Sebastopol; with Broken Compass Bluegrass
- July 15 (6 pm): Golden Gate Park Bandshell, SF
- July 17: Ruhstaller Farm, Dixon
- July 18 (4 pm): Park Station, Alameda
July 12 (4 pm): Alan Bond & Skedaddle - Windchaser Winery, Richmond
July 13: The Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion
July 14: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
July 16: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
July 16: Molly Tuttle - Hopmonk Novato
July 16: TBA - The Liberties, SF
July 17: Sierra Hull - HopMonk Novato Cookout Concert Series
July 17: Stillhouse Junkies - The Back Room, Berkeley
July 18: Dan Tyminski - Sweetwater, Mill Valley
July 20: Rare Company - Blondies, SF
July 23: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
July 23: Marin County Breakdown - The Liberties, SF
July 27: The High Water Line - Blondies, SF
July 28 (12:30 pm): Taylor Mountain - Hopmonk Sebastopol
July 30: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
July 30: TBA - The Liberties, SF
Kathy Kallick & the Windfalls -
- July 30: The Torch Club, Sacramento
- July 31: The Freight, Berkeley
- Aug. 1: The Lost Church, Santa Rosa
*****
Aug. 1 (4 pm): Taylor Mountain - Fogbelt Brewing Company, Santa Rosa
Aug. 1: Alan Bond & Skedaddle - house concert in Montclair (Oakland); ne_swik-at-yahoo-dot-com
Aug. 2: Daley & Vincent - The Freight, Berkeley
Aug. 3: David Thom, Billy Moore & Scotty Gates - Blondies, SF
Aug. 4: John Kornhauser & Dark Hollow - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
Aug. 5: Bean Creek - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
Aug. 6: Blue & Lonesome - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Aug. 6: David Thom, Billy Moore & Scotty Gates - The Liberties, SF
Aug. 7: Buckeye Boys - Aqus, Petaluma
Aug. 10: The Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion - Blondies, SF
Aug. 13: Blue & Lonesome - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Aug. 13: Sweet Sally - The Liberties, SF
Aug. 14: Sweet Sally - Rancho Nicasio
Aug. 14: Taylor Mountain - The Yard at Altamont General Store, Occidental
Aug. 15 (8:30 am): Taylor Mountain - Farmer's Market, Healdsburg Farmers Market
Aug. 15: Sweet Sally - house concert in Berkeley
Aug. 15: Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick Band - McCloud River Inn
Aug. 17: The Rounder Circle - Blondies, SF
Aug. 20: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Aug. 20: The Deep Thicket Dwellers - The Liberties, SF
Aug. 23: Charlie Torch - Old St.Hilary’s, Tiburon
Aug. 24: The High Water Line - Blondies, SF
Aug. 27: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Aug. 27: Twang Peaks - The Liberties, SF
Aug. 29: Charlie Torch - The Otter Opry, Monterey
Aug. 30 (1 pm): Taylor Mountain - The California, Santa Rosa
Aug. 31: Hey Lonesome - Blondies, SF
*******
Sept. 3: Significant Otter - The Liberties, SF
Sept. 7: Twang Peaks - Blondies, SF
Sept. 10: The Nesters - The Liberties, SF
Sept. 14: The Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion - Blondies, SF
Sept. 17: Critical Grass - The Liberties, SF
Sept. 19 (noon): Sweet Sally - Whale Rock Music & Arts Festival, Templeton
Sept. 21: The Deep Thicket Dwellers - Blondies, SF
Sept. 23: Martha Spencer Trio (with Lucas Pasley & Jake Dwyer) - Otter Opry, Monterey
Sept. 24: Rare Company - The Liberties, SF
Eric & Suzy Thompson -
- Sept. 25: Folsom Opry, Folsom
- Sept. 26: house concert in Davis
Sept. 28: The High Water Line - Blondies, SF
Oct. 1: The Whiskey Squirrels - The Liberties, SF
Oct. 2: Billy Strings - Oakland Arena
Oct. 5: Smoky Wine Dream - Blondies, SF
Oct. 12: The Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion - Blondies, SF
Oct. 16: Bronwyn Keith-Hynes - HopMonk Sebastopol
Oct. 18 (late afternoon): "Suzy Sings Siebel" with Eric & Suzy Thompson - St. Albans Church, Albany
Newberry & Verch -
- Oct 29: The Back Room, Berkeley
- Oct. 30: Otter Opry, Monterey
Dec. 5: The Crooked Jades - Otter Opry, Monterey
Feb. 12, 2027: Lonesome Ace Stringband (John Showman & Chris Coole) - Otter Opry, Monterey
FESTIVALS
May 7-10: Parkfield Bluegrass Festival - V6 Ranch, Parkfield
Foghorn Stringband, Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra, Vickie Vaughn Band, Damn Tall Buildings, Shelby Means, Dave Stamey, Water Tower, SLO Country Stumblers, Critical Grass, Kings River Boys, Amber Cross
May 21-25: Strawberry Spring Music Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Della Mae, Darrell Scott String Band w/ Rob Ickes, Mr Sun, Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band, Flatpick Hotel, Caltucky, Deep Thicket Dwellers, Larry & Joe, Evie Ladin Band, Bill Kirchen Band w/ Nina Gerber, Eliza Gilkyson w/ Nina Gerber, Keith Greeninger w/ Nina Gerber, Duo Quartet, Abby Posner & the Big Fall, Las Cafeteras, Tom Rigney & Flambeau, Marley’s Ghost, Peter Case, Sugarcane Jane, The Real Sarahs, Puffball Collective
June 6 (11:15 am - 6 pm): The San Francisco Bluegrass & Old TIme Festival - Salesforce Park, 425 Mission St., SF
BG Stringband, The Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion, Bitchcraft, Critical Grass, Bluegrass Holiday, square dance (Robin Fisher calling), ...
June 18-21: California Bluegrass Association’s Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Main Stage: The Bluegrass Cardinals, The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, The Price Sisters, Sam Grisman Project, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Missy Raines & Allegheny, Hard Drive, Caleb & Reeb & the Cali Cutups, Bruce Molsky & Darol Anger, California Bluegrass Reunion, Broken Compass Bluegrass;
California Showcase: Sweet Sally, Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion, Critical Grass, Bay Area Special, Deep Thicket Dwellers; Vern's Stage:
Alan Bond & Skedaddle, Cantara Loop, Crooked Jades, Evie Ladin Band, The Far Out Johnnies, Frog Face, Grass Valley Stringband, Honey Buckets, Lillies Of the West, Long Forgotten, Mission Blue, The New Acoustic Collective, Redwood Flat, The Rounder Circle, Significent Otter, Silver City, Stoney Mountain Ramblers.
Also:
- Artist In Residence: Scott Gates
- June 19: The Black Banjo Project presentations: “Exploring Banjo Reclamation as a Pathway to Black Liberation,” plus showcase performance commemorating Juneteenth with Hannah Mayree, Kele Nitoto, Tula B. Strong, Deidra Hall, and Anne Harris.
- June 19 & 20: Square dances in the Whitney Pavilion
- Workshops, late-night jamming, and family activities throughout the weekend
June 19-21: Wenatchee River Bluegrass Festival - Cashmere, WA
Appalachian Roadshow, Southern Legacy, Rick Faris Band, Vickie Vaughn, Westbound Sky
June 19-21: Cowichan Valley Bluegrass Festival - Laketown Ranch Music Park, 30 km west of Duncan, BC (on Vancouver Island)
The Alum Ridge Boys and Ashlee, Showman & Coole, Big Richard, The Eli West Quartet, The Barrel Boys, Shari Ulrich with The Unfaithful Servants, The Western Thistles, ...
June 26-28: Ten Mile Creek Revival (continuing the legacy of the Kate Wolf Music Festival) - Black Oak Ranch, Laytonville
Iris DeMent Trio, Dom Flemons & The Traveling Wildfires, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, The Brothers Comatose, Paul Thorn, Las Cafeteras, Dustbowl Revival, Jerry & Dawg Revisited (Joe Craven, Jim Kerwin, Stu Allen, Andrew Collins), T Sisters, Late For The Train, ...
July 2-5: High Sierra Music Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
no bluegrass this year :(
July 11 (1-8 pm): Cline County Bluegrass Festival - Cline Family Cellars, Sonoma
Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick Band, Fog Holler, The Deep Thicket Dwellers, Sweet Sally, Mission Blue, Joy Louise & Laura Orshaw
July 17-19: Darrington Bluegrass Festival - Darrington, WA
Sister Sadie, Appalachian Road Show, Slocan Ramblers, Shelby Means Band, Authentic Unlimited, ...
July 23-26: Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival - Stevenson, WA
Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Never Come Down, Oly Mountain Boys, Whiskey Deaf, ...
Aug. 6-9: Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival - San Benito County Historical Park, Tres Piños
Bay Area Special, Bean Creek, Bluegrass Holiday, Brianna Mai Colliard & the Desert Marigolds, Brookdale Bluegrass Band, Bubba Pickens Band, Cantara Loop, Dark Hollow, Deep Thicket Dwellers, Honey Buckets, Hoss Farm, Marin County Breakdown, Mission Blue, Red Dog Ash, Redwood Flat, Riley Hill & Brand New Still, Sweet Sally, Corn Likkers, Kings River Boys, New Acoustic Collective, Rounder Circle, West Coast Ramblers
Aug. 7-9: Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival - Medical Lake, WA
Aug. 14-16: Summergrass San Diego - Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, Vista
Po' Ramblin' Boys, John Moore & Friends, John Jorgensen Bluegrass Band, Special Consensus, Ten Dollar Wedding, ...
Aug. 21-23: Bowers Bluegrass Festival - Washoe Valley, NV
Aug. 29-30: Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival
Sept. 17-20: Berkeley Old Time Music Convention - Berkeley
Oct. 2-4: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival - Golden Gate Park, SF
Oct. 2-4: Huck Finn Jubilee - Bonelli Bluffs RV & Camping Resort, San Dimas (30 miles east of Los Angeles)
Oct. 15-18: Strawberry Fall Music Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Steep Canyon Rangers, Lindsay Lou, Trey Hensley, Henhouse Prowlers, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Tony Furtado Quartet, The Last Wild Buffalo, The Crooked Jades, Ordinary Elephant, Tanasi, ...
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). There are often musical previews of some of these events! 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!
-> -> -> ALL TIMES PACIFIC <- <- <-
CONCERTS and a few dances
Saturdays (11:30 am - 1:30 pm): Bluegrass Breeze - Salesforce Park, 425 Mission St., SF
May 9: Mission Hill
May 16: Sweet Sally Duet
May 23: Sibling Revelry (Bethany Sorkey & Siblings)
May 30: Alisa Rose & Friends
June 6: San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival (11:15am - 6pm, 2 stages)
June 13: The Jasper Manning Band
June 20 - The Good Bad
June 27: Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band
July 4: Rare Company
July 11: Charlie Torch
July 18: Evie Ladin & Sophie Wellington
July 25: Miraculous Weekend
Aug. 1: The Buckeye Boys
Aug. 8: David Thom, Billy Moore & Scotty Gates
Aug. 15: The Rounder Circle
Aug. 22: Significant Otter
Aug. 29: Hey Lonesome
Sept. 5: Critical Grass
Sept. 12: Bluegrass Holiday
Sept. 19: Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band
Sept. 26: Burl Haggard
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May 7: Foghorn Stringband; Le Vent du Nord - The Freight, Berkeley
May 7: Blue & Lonesome (with Yoseff Tucker & Helen Foley) - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
May 7: The Whiskey Squirrels - The Liberties, SF
May 8: Feral Friday Square Dance - The Polish Club, SF; KC & the MooNshine Band; Mike Lewinski calling; preceded (6:45 pm) by old time jam
May 9 (13:30 pm): Buckeye Boys - Mother’s Day Tea - Gather Petaluma
May 11: The Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion - Blondies, SF
May 12 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice (and guests) - The Page, SF
May 12: Shelby Means Band - Otter Opry, Monterey
May 12: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
Foghorn Stringband -
- May 13: Tower Theater, Fresno
- May 14: The Pearl, Locke
May 14: Blue & Lonesome (with Yoseff Tucker & Helen Foley) - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
May 14: Tom Bekeny & Friends - The Liberties, SF
May 14: Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem - house concert in Oakland; res: houseconcert-at-att-dot-net
May 15: Johnny Campbell Band - Plough & Stars, SF
May 15: East Bay Square Dance - Hillside Club, Berkeley; Round Top Stringband, Jordan Ruyle calls; preceded (at 6:45 pm) by old time jam
May 16 (2 pm): Bearcat Stringband - Cato's Alehouse, Oakland
May 16: Shelby Means Band; Mission Blue - Occidental Center for the Arts
May 18: Sibling Revelry (Bethany Sorkey + sibs) - Blondies, SF
May 19 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice (and guests) - The Page, SF
May 19: Purple Mountain Majesty Band - Sam's BBQ, San Jose
May 20: East Bay Square Dance - Hillside Club, Berkeley; Band: Round Top Stringband; Caller: TBA; preceded by an old time jam
May 21: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
May 21: Alan Bond & Skedaddle - The Liberties, SF
May 22: Tribute to Rambling Jack Elliot featuring Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Band (Sean Allen, Paul Knight, Kendrick Freemen, & Friends), Jason Crosby, Maria Muldaur, Eric & Suzy Thompson, Mike Beck Lowell, ‘Banana' Levinger, Jessie DeNatale, Kathy Kallick, others - The Freight, Berkeley
May 23 (2 pm): Taylor Mountain - Farmer's Market - Walnut Park, Petaluma
May 23 (4 pm): Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Blue Barn, Novato
May 23: Goat Hill Girls - Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Co., LG
May 23: Sweet Sally - Live on the Lawn, Chico
May 24 (2 pm): Goat Hill Girls - Cooper-Garrod Winery, Saratoga
May 24 (4 pm): Alan Bond & Skedaddle - Depot Cafe & Bookstore, Mill Valley
May 25 (noon): The Rocky Wheels - Rio Nido Roadhouse
May 25: Tony Trischka’s Earl Jam - Tribute To Earl Scruggs - The Freight, Berkeley
May 25: The High Water Line - Blondies, SF
May 26 (5 pm): Skillet Licorice (and guests) - The Page, SF
May 27: Bay Area Special - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
May 28: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
May 28: The Lickety Split String Band - The Liberties, SF
May 30-31: Redwood Mountain Faire - Roaring Camp, Felton - w/ AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Jim Lewin & Grass Planets, Brookdale Bluegrass Band
May 31 (2 pm): Alan Bond & Skedaddle - Armistice Brewing, Richmond
******
June 1: Hey Lonesome - Blondies, SF
June 2 (4 pm): Taylor Mountain - Farmer's Market - Downtown Novato
June 2: John Kornhauser & Dark Hollow - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
June 3: Bean Creek - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
June 4: Blue & Lonesome - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
June 4: The Deep Thicket Dwellers - The Liberties, SF
June 5: Natalie & Brittany Haas - The Freight, Berkeley
June 5: Buckeye Boys - Aqus, Petaluma
June 8: The Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion - Blondies, SF
June 9: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
June 11: Blue & Lonesome - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
June 11: The Jasper Manning Band - The Liberties, SF
June 12: Eric Thompson's Dead Roots Revival (with Paul Kotapish, Corbin Pagter, Mark Schatz, Keith Terry, Sam Reider, Suzy Thompson) - Ashkenaz, Berkeley
June 12: Feral Friday Square Dance - The Polish Club, SF; KC & the MooNshine Band; Mike Lewinski calling; preceded (6:45 pm) by old time jam
June 12: Mission Blue trio - Bee Kind Bakery, Dunsmuir
June 13: Mission Blue - Dunsmuir Railroad Days
June 13: Hard Drive (Tatiana Hargreaves, Aaron Tacke, Sonya Badigian, Nokosee Fields) - Fifth St. Farms, Berkeley
June 14 (5 pm): Sweet Sally - Sailing Goat Restaurant, Richmond
June 14: The Far Out Johnnies - The Lucky Horseshoe, SF
June 15: The Deep Thicket Dwellers - Blondies, SF
June 18: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
June 18: TBA - The Liberties, SF
June 20: Taylor Mountain - Cloverdale Veterans Memorial Building (for Cloverdale Senior Center)
June 22: TBA - Blondies, SF
June 25: Rhiannon Giddens - Fillmore, SF
June 25: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
June 25: TBA - The Liberties, SF
June 26 (4 pm): Sweet Sally - Woodhouse Blending and Brewing, Santa Cruz
June 26: Crying Uncle - Otter Opry, Monterey
June 27 (2 pm): Bearcat Stringband - Cato's Alehouse, Oakland
June 27: Iris Dement - The Freight, Berkeley
June 27: Crooked Jades (concert) + square dance with Skillet Licorice (band) & caller Robin Fischer - Point San Pablo Harbor
June 29: Burl Haggard - Blondies, SF
*****
July 1: Bean Creek - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
July 2: Blue & Lonesome - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
July 2: The Jacob Joliff Band - The Freight, Berkeley
July 2: The Johnny Campbell Band - The Liberties, SF
July 3: Sweet Sally - Live on the Avenue, San Anselmo
July 3: Buckeye Boys - Aqus, Petaluma
July 3: Charlie Torch - The Side Door, Sacramento
July 4: Charlie Torch - World One Festival, El Cerrito
July 6: Bluegrass Holiday - Blondies, SF
July 7: John Kornhauser & Dark Hollow - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
July 8: Chis Stapleton's All-American Road Show with special guest Molly Tuttle - Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View
July 9: Blue & Lonesome - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
July 9: Sweet Sally - The Liberties, SF
July 9: Charlie Torch - The Bistro, Hayward
July 9: Barkley Cove - Otter Opry, Monterey
July 10 (3 pm): Taylor Mountain - Penngrove Pub
July 11 (11:30 am): Charlie Torch - Salesforce Park, SF
July 10 (5 pm): Taylor Mountain - Matanzas Creek Winer, Santa Rosa
Sweet Sally -
- July 12 (5 pm): Hopmonk Sebastopol; with Broken Compass Bluegrass
- July 15 (6 pm): Golden Gate Park Bandshell, SF
- July 17: Ruhstaller Farm, Dixon
- July 18 (4 pm): Park Station, Alameda
July 12 (4 pm): Alan Bond & Skedaddle - Windchaser Winery, Richmond
July 13: The Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion
July 14: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
July 16: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
July 16: Molly Tuttle - Hopmonk Novato
July 16: TBA - The Liberties, SF
July 17: Sierra Hull - HopMonk Novato Cookout Concert Series
July 17: Stillhouse Junkies - The Back Room, Berkeley
July 18: Dan Tyminski - Sweetwater, Mill Valley
July 20: Rare Company - Blondies, SF
July 23: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
July 23: Marin County Breakdown - The Liberties, SF
July 27: The High Water Line - Blondies, SF
July 28 (12:30 pm): Taylor Mountain - Hopmonk Sebastopol
July 30: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
July 30: TBA - The Liberties, SF
Kathy Kallick & the Windfalls -
- July 30: The Torch Club, Sacramento
- July 31: The Freight, Berkeley
- Aug. 1: The Lost Church, Santa Rosa
*****
Aug. 1 (4 pm): Taylor Mountain - Fogbelt Brewing Company, Santa Rosa
Aug. 1: Alan Bond & Skedaddle - house concert in Montclair (Oakland); ne_swik-at-yahoo-dot-com
Aug. 2: Daley & Vincent - The Freight, Berkeley
Aug. 3: David Thom, Billy Moore & Scotty Gates - Blondies, SF
Aug. 4: John Kornhauser & Dark Hollow - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
Aug. 5: Bean Creek - Sam’s BBQ, San Jose
Aug. 6: Blue & Lonesome - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Aug. 6: David Thom, Billy Moore & Scotty Gates - The Liberties, SF
Aug. 7: Buckeye Boys - Aqus, Petaluma
Aug. 10: The Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion - Blondies, SF
Aug. 13: Blue & Lonesome - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Aug. 13: Sweet Sally - The Liberties, SF
Aug. 14: Sweet Sally - Rancho Nicasio
Aug. 14: Taylor Mountain - The Yard at Altamont General Store, Occidental
Aug. 15 (8:30 am): Taylor Mountain - Farmer's Market, Healdsburg Farmers Market
Aug. 15: Sweet Sally - house concert in Berkeley
Aug. 15: Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick Band - McCloud River Inn
Aug. 17: The Rounder Circle - Blondies, SF
Aug. 20: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Aug. 20: The Deep Thicket Dwellers - The Liberties, SF
Aug. 23: Charlie Torch - Old St.Hilary’s, Tiburon
Aug. 24: The High Water Line - Blondies, SF
Aug. 27: Bloomfield Bluegrass Band - Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma
Aug. 27: Twang Peaks - The Liberties, SF
Aug. 29: Charlie Torch - The Otter Opry, Monterey
Aug. 30 (1 pm): Taylor Mountain - The California, Santa Rosa
Aug. 31: Hey Lonesome - Blondies, SF
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Sept. 3: Significant Otter - The Liberties, SF
Sept. 7: Twang Peaks - Blondies, SF
Sept. 10: The Nesters - The Liberties, SF
Sept. 14: The Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion - Blondies, SF
Sept. 17: Critical Grass - The Liberties, SF
Sept. 19 (noon): Sweet Sally - Whale Rock Music & Arts Festival, Templeton
Sept. 21: The Deep Thicket Dwellers - Blondies, SF
Sept. 23: Martha Spencer Trio (with Lucas Pasley & Jake Dwyer) - Otter Opry, Monterey
Sept. 24: Rare Company - The Liberties, SF
Eric & Suzy Thompson -
- Sept. 25: Folsom Opry, Folsom
- Sept. 26: house concert in Davis
Sept. 28: The High Water Line - Blondies, SF
Oct. 1: The Whiskey Squirrels - The Liberties, SF
Oct. 2: Billy Strings - Oakland Arena
Oct. 5: Smoky Wine Dream - Blondies, SF
Oct. 12: The Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion - Blondies, SF
Oct. 16: Bronwyn Keith-Hynes - HopMonk Sebastopol
Oct. 18 (late afternoon): "Suzy Sings Siebel" with Eric & Suzy Thompson - St. Albans Church, Albany
Newberry & Verch -
- Oct 29: The Back Room, Berkeley
- Oct. 30: Otter Opry, Monterey
Dec. 5: The Crooked Jades - Otter Opry, Monterey
Feb. 12, 2027: Lonesome Ace Stringband (John Showman & Chris Coole) - Otter Opry, Monterey
FESTIVALS
May 7-10: Parkfield Bluegrass Festival - V6 Ranch, Parkfield
Foghorn Stringband, Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra, Vickie Vaughn Band, Damn Tall Buildings, Shelby Means, Dave Stamey, Water Tower, SLO Country Stumblers, Critical Grass, Kings River Boys, Amber Cross
May 21-25: Strawberry Spring Music Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Della Mae, Darrell Scott String Band w/ Rob Ickes, Mr Sun, Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band, Flatpick Hotel, Caltucky, Deep Thicket Dwellers, Larry & Joe, Evie Ladin Band, Bill Kirchen Band w/ Nina Gerber, Eliza Gilkyson w/ Nina Gerber, Keith Greeninger w/ Nina Gerber, Duo Quartet, Abby Posner & the Big Fall, Las Cafeteras, Tom Rigney & Flambeau, Marley’s Ghost, Peter Case, Sugarcane Jane, The Real Sarahs, Puffball Collective
June 6 (11:15 am - 6 pm): The San Francisco Bluegrass & Old TIme Festival - Salesforce Park, 425 Mission St., SF
BG Stringband, The Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion, Bitchcraft, Critical Grass, Bluegrass Holiday, square dance (Robin Fisher calling), ...
June 18-21: California Bluegrass Association’s Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Main Stage: The Bluegrass Cardinals, The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, The Price Sisters, Sam Grisman Project, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Missy Raines & Allegheny, Hard Drive, Caleb & Reeb & the Cali Cutups, Bruce Molsky & Darol Anger, California Bluegrass Reunion, Broken Compass Bluegrass;
California Showcase: Sweet Sally, Jimmy Touzel Bluegrass Explosion, Critical Grass, Bay Area Special, Deep Thicket Dwellers; Vern's Stage:
Alan Bond & Skedaddle, Cantara Loop, Crooked Jades, Evie Ladin Band, The Far Out Johnnies, Frog Face, Grass Valley Stringband, Honey Buckets, Lillies Of the West, Long Forgotten, Mission Blue, The New Acoustic Collective, Redwood Flat, The Rounder Circle, Significent Otter, Silver City, Stoney Mountain Ramblers.
Also:
- Artist In Residence: Scott Gates
- June 19: The Black Banjo Project presentations: “Exploring Banjo Reclamation as a Pathway to Black Liberation,” plus showcase performance commemorating Juneteenth with Hannah Mayree, Kele Nitoto, Tula B. Strong, Deidra Hall, and Anne Harris.
- June 19 & 20: Square dances in the Whitney Pavilion
- Workshops, late-night jamming, and family activities throughout the weekend
June 19-21: Wenatchee River Bluegrass Festival - Cashmere, WA
Appalachian Roadshow, Southern Legacy, Rick Faris Band, Vickie Vaughn, Westbound Sky
June 19-21: Cowichan Valley Bluegrass Festival - Laketown Ranch Music Park, 30 km west of Duncan, BC (on Vancouver Island)
The Alum Ridge Boys and Ashlee, Showman & Coole, Big Richard, The Eli West Quartet, The Barrel Boys, Shari Ulrich with The Unfaithful Servants, The Western Thistles, ...
June 26-28: Ten Mile Creek Revival (continuing the legacy of the Kate Wolf Music Festival) - Black Oak Ranch, Laytonville
Iris DeMent Trio, Dom Flemons & The Traveling Wildfires, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, The Brothers Comatose, Paul Thorn, Las Cafeteras, Dustbowl Revival, Jerry & Dawg Revisited (Joe Craven, Jim Kerwin, Stu Allen, Andrew Collins), T Sisters, Late For The Train, ...
July 2-5: High Sierra Music Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
no bluegrass this year :(
July 11 (1-8 pm): Cline County Bluegrass Festival - Cline Family Cellars, Sonoma
Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick Band, Fog Holler, The Deep Thicket Dwellers, Sweet Sally, Mission Blue, Joy Louise & Laura Orshaw
July 17-19: Darrington Bluegrass Festival - Darrington, WA
Sister Sadie, Appalachian Road Show, Slocan Ramblers, Shelby Means Band, Authentic Unlimited, ...
July 23-26: Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival - Stevenson, WA
Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Never Come Down, Oly Mountain Boys, Whiskey Deaf, ...
Aug. 6-9: Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival - San Benito County Historical Park, Tres Piños
Bay Area Special, Bean Creek, Bluegrass Holiday, Brianna Mai Colliard & the Desert Marigolds, Brookdale Bluegrass Band, Bubba Pickens Band, Cantara Loop, Dark Hollow, Deep Thicket Dwellers, Honey Buckets, Hoss Farm, Marin County Breakdown, Mission Blue, Red Dog Ash, Redwood Flat, Riley Hill & Brand New Still, Sweet Sally, Corn Likkers, Kings River Boys, New Acoustic Collective, Rounder Circle, West Coast Ramblers
Aug. 7-9: Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival - Medical Lake, WA
Aug. 14-16: Summergrass San Diego - Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum, Vista
Po' Ramblin' Boys, John Moore & Friends, John Jorgensen Bluegrass Band, Special Consensus, Ten Dollar Wedding, ...
Aug. 21-23: Bowers Bluegrass Festival - Washoe Valley, NV
Aug. 29-30: Plumas Homegrown Americana Festival
Sept. 17-20: Berkeley Old Time Music Convention - Berkeley
Oct. 2-4: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival - Golden Gate Park, SF
Oct. 2-4: Huck Finn Jubilee - Bonelli Bluffs RV & Camping Resort, San Dimas (30 miles east of Los Angeles)
Oct. 15-18: Strawberry Fall Music Festival - Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley
Steep Canyon Rangers, Lindsay Lou, Trey Hensley, Henhouse Prowlers, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Tony Furtado Quartet, The Last Wild Buffalo, The Crooked Jades, Ordinary Elephant, Tanasi, ...