Brown Barn Bluegrass Festival and more bluegrass news
Michael Hall
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7/22/06
- New Brown Barn Bluegrass Festival In San Martin
- Circle R Boys Visit Petaluma This Thursday
- NCBS Free National Stolen Instrument Web Page
- Armando's: New Eclectic Music Club In Martinez
Plus, NCBS Johnson Farm Pickin' Party Sept. 9th
and the rest of this week's bluegrass news, below.
Always Thinkin' At The End: Our Founding Fathers
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Next Weekend's New Festival: Brown Barn At The Country Park
The brand new Brown Barn Bluegrass Festival hits south Santa Clara
County next weekend, July 29-30. Small, short, close-to-home, cheap,
fun. Jake Quisenberry has The MaCrae Brothers, Carl Pagter, The Three
Stoolies, Lone Prairie, The Mighty Crows and more. Begins 1:00pm
Saturday and ends Sunday night. Onsite camping at the San Martin
Country Park in San Martin (nice facilities) is Saturday night ONLY.
This date & location are the same as last year's Wolf Mountain
Bluegrass Festival. (Wolf 2006 is now set for early October in
Watsonville.)
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Petaluma Welcomes The Circle R Boys This Thursday Night
Berkeley's Circle R Boys will be making a rare North Bay appearance
this coming Thursday, July 27, filling in for Ed Neff and Friends at
the Willowbrook Ale House, 3600 Petaluma Blvd. North, Petaluma. FREE.
Be there!
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NCBS National Stolen Instrument Web Page For Victims & Buyers
The Northern California Bluegrass Society's National Stolen Instrument
Page is a online service linked off the NCBS Main Web Page
http://ncbs.us and is available nationwide. It allows any musician to
instantly report any stolen or missing instrument. It allows any used
instrument buyer to check posted reports about used instruments prior
to purchase. There is no charge for this service.
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Armando's, New Eclectic Music Venue, Opens In Martinez
Roy Jeans, a stalwart of the East Bay's "Two Day Town" Festival, has
opened a new music club in Martinez. The intimate venue will feature
acts from TDT plus many others with its "random booking policy." (We
think that includes bluegrass -- or it should!) Armando's, 707 Marina
Vista, Martinez. Join the Armando's e-mail list:
eloise...@sbcglobal.net . First victims of Random Booking: hammered
dulcimer and saxophone with Patrick Kelly and Doug Yates tonight at
8:30pm. $5 cover. Take the last Martinez northbound I-680 exit.
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This Week's Bluegrass News:
- Johnson Farm
- NCBS Board
- Four Finger String Band
- Marty Stuart
- Join the Society
- The NCBS Johnson Farm Pickin' Party, the most enjoyable and most
glorious afternoon in bluegrass, has been set for Saturday, September
9, 2006. All the delightful details soon.
- NCBS Board 2006-2007: In an election held at the Good Old Fashioned
Bluegrass Festival, Society members elected Jim Cossey (San Jose) as
the new member of the NCBS board of directors, joining returning member
Penny Godlis (Santa Cruz), and 7 incumbents: Mike Fisher (Boulder
Creek), Michael Hall (Redwood City), Brenda Hough (San Jose), Mary
Kennedy (Santa Clara), Gary Mansperger (San Jose) Mike McKinley (Bonny
Doon), and Susy Varian (Palo Alto). Mark Varner left the board to
become the new editor of the CBA's Bluegrass Breakdown and past
president Lora Hicks retired to work on promoting the band Bean Creek.
To celebrate, the old and new Board members performed on the 'tweener
stage at the festival as the "Tower of Power," to overwhelmingly,
exceedingly, over-the-top, well, OK, very modest applause. It will
never, ever happen again -- we promise.
- The Four Finger Stringband plays bluegrass and old-time music this
week:
SANTA CRUZ, Monday, July 24, Bocci's Cellar, 140 Encinal Street,
8:00pm.
SANTA CLARA, Friday, July 28, Mission City Coffee Roasting Co., 2221
The Alameda, 8:00pm. http://www.fourfingerstringband.com
- Marty Stuart will host the September 28 IBMA Awards Show in
Nashville.
- Join the folks who have joined the Northern California Bluegrass
Society. http://ncbs.us
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Always Thinkin' At The End: The Founding Fathers Do It Again
Carl Pagter (CBA member #1), Jake Quisenberry (#2), and Jack Sadler
(#3) founded the California Bluegrass Association and the CBA Grass
Valley festival. Now, decades later, they have done it again. The Brown
Barn Bluegrass Festival brings the founders back with their current
bands (Jake - MaCrae Brothers, Jack - Lone Prairie, & Carl Pagter &
Friends), plus the the trio themselves, performing as "The Three
Stoolies." Who needs all these new young folks running around promoting
bluegrass? These mature guys already know how to do a little start-up
festival of their own. We are there...mh
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