Wolf Mountain New Home, RBA, Secret Life Of Banjos, Brookdale, and more bluegrass news
Michael Hall
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- NEW: Fall Wolf Mountain Bluegrass Festival, Oct. 6-8
- RBA Fall Concert Schedule Begins September 9
- Friday At The Freight: The Secret Life Of Banjos
- NCBS Winter Brookdale Bluegrass Festival Dec. 1-2
Plus, Mountain View House Concerts This Week..
and the rest of this week's bluegrass news, below.
Always Thinkin' At The End: How To Get Your Nashville Star
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The "Fall" Wolf Mountain Bluegrass Festival In Watsonville
Wolf Mountain -- one of the most influential Northern California
bluegrass festivals -- will be held for the first time at the Santa
Cruz County Fairgrounds in Watsonville on October 6-8. The festival was
best known as a mid-summer, Sierra foothills event, but the festival is
now a FALL, CENTRAL COAST event held in south Santa Cruz County. Host
Dave Baker will keep the focus on traditional bluegrass and good camp
jamming. We think the moderate-sized "strictly bluegrass" Wolf Mountain
gathering will be a perfect alternative to the huge Hardly Strictly
Bluegrass Festival held in San Francisco on the same weekend. We think
both events will do just fine. http://www.wolfmt.com
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NCBS-Sponsored RBA Concert Series Set For Mountain View
Mark your calendars for these fall Redwood Bluegrass Associates
concerts:
September 9 -- A Tribute To Bill Monroe, Butch Waller & Friends
October 14 -- Mac Martin & The California Travelers
November 4 -- Chris Stuart & Backcountry
December 16 -- Darol Anger & The Republic of Strings with Scott Nygard,
Brittainy Hass & Chris Webster
All shows 8:00pm at the First Presbyterian Church, Mountain View. All
shows $15 adv/$18 door. Fall series tickets $45 adv. http://www.rba.org
NCBS has sponsored all RBA shows since 1995. We highly recommend these
concerts.
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The Secret Life Of Banjos -- Jody Stecher & Bill Evans -- Friday At The
Freight
Jody Stecher and Bill Evans will join together on the Freight & Salvage
stage this Friday night, bent on the single-minded pursuit of their
shared passion: banjo music. Between them, they own every kind of banjo
there ever was and they know every musical style ever attempted on the
instrument. Rare fun; historical whimsey; very entertaining. Be there
to share the moment. Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 1111 Addison
Street, Berkeley. August 18, 8:00pm. $18.50 adv.
http://www.freightandsalvage.org
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NCBS Winter Brookdale Bluegrass Festival Set For Friday-Saturday, Dec.
1-2
The NCBS Winter Brookdale Bluegrass Festival presented by Eric & Barbra
Burman has been set for Friday & Saturday, December 1-2, 2006 at the
Brookdale Lodge. This twice-a-rainy-winter festival is for a very good
cause: The ongoing charitable "cabin fever" relief effort. All victims
of bluegrass cabin fever will be offered emergency rations of excellent
bluegrass bands, open mikes, 'tweener sets, the annual Underwater Banjo
Contest, and endless jamming. We know these poor souls will probably
never be completely cured, but it seems to help. Advance weekend ticket
is $25, on sale now, or at the door: $10/Fri, $20 Sat. New festival
website: http://www.brookdalebluegrassfestival.com (Note: Spring
Brookdale will be on the second weekend of March.)
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This Week's Bluegrass News:
- Mountain View:
The Clarridge Fiddlers
Donner Mountain BG
- NCBS Volunteers
- Hardly Strictly Line-Up
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- Mountain View House Concerts (RBA-sponsored):
THURSDAY: The Clarridge Fiddlers (Tristan & Tashina) with guitarist
Kyle Sanna will perform at a Mountain View House concert on August 17.
Cost: $15 including intermission refreshments. Reservations (required):
Annie Zacanti at (650) 965-7936 or azac...@pacbell.net . Concert at
7:30pm.
SATURDAY: The Donner Mountain Bluegrass Band will perform at a Mountain
View house concert on August 19th. Show: $20, Dinner & Show $25 (kids
under 10, half price). Reservations (required): Annie Zacanti at (650)
965-7936 or azac...@pacbell.net . Dinner at 6:00pm, Concert at 7:00pm.
- Did you do volunteer work for NCBS this past year? Did your band play
at any NCBS event? The big volunteer party is this weekend. You should
have received your invitation by now. If not, just e-mail Michael Hall
hal...@gmail.com and, yup, we will fix it pronto.
- Hardly Strictly Bluegrass will expand to Friday 10/6 with a 2:00pm
show by Elvis Costello. Here is the line-up for Saturday-Sunday,
October 7-8: A.J. Roach,
Alejandro Escovedo, Alison Brown Quartet, Allison Moorer, Annie & The
Vets,
Austin Lounge Lizards, Banjo Extravaganza with Bill Evans, Tony
Trischka, and Alan Munde, Barbary Coast Cloggers, Billy Bragg, Chatham
County Line, Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez, Dale Ann Bradley & Coon
Creek, Danny Barnes Collective, David Gans Trio, Doyle Lawson &
Quicksilver, Drive-By Truckers,
Dry Branch Fire Squad, Earl Scruggs, Emmylou Harris, Etienne de Rocher,
Flying Other Brothers, Four Year Bender, Freakwater, Gillian Welch, Guy
Clark & Verlon Thompson, Hazel Dickens, Heidi Clare & AtaGallop, Hot
Tuna (acoustic),
Iris DeMent, Jerry Douglas & Best Kept Secret, Jody Stecher & Kate
Brislin,
.....and (TAKE A DEEP BREATH HERE) (Whew!) and.....
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison, Kevin Welch, Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin,
Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands, Linda Ronstadt & Ann Savoy, Nashville
Bluegrass Band, North Mississippi Allstars, Pine Leaf Boys, Poor Man's
Whiskey, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Richard Thompson (solo acoustic),
Richie Furay, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Robert Earl Keen, Scott
Miller & The Commonwealth, SF Opera Bluegrass Dukes, Steve Earle & The
Bluegrass Dukes, T Bone Burnett, The Avett Brothers, The Del McCoury
Band, The Devil Makes Three, The Lee Boys,The Stairwell Sisters, The
Steel Drivers, The Waybacks w/ special guest Bob Weir, Tim O'Brien's
Cornbread Nation with special guest Mollie O'Brien, Todd Snider, Willy
Mason...and more.
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Always Thinkin' At The End: How To Get Your Nashville Star
At a press conference featuring Earl Scruggs and other musical
luminaries, Nashville civic leaders announced last week that Music City
sidewalks will soon feature stars embedded in the pavement, just like
the sidewalks in Hollywood. So, after your bluegrass career takes you
all the way from the NCBS Good Old Fashioned 'tweener stage to under
the bright lights on the Grand Ole Opry stage, how do you get your very
own Nashville Walk of Fame star?
You can jumpstart the process by using this handy nomination form:
http://www.visitmusiccity.com/walkoffame . Upon approval by (1) an
anonymous committee of members of the Nashville entertainment
community, (2) you, and (3) your management, you will be billed $7,500
plus a $50 processing fee. Of course, nomination does not guarantee
approval.
This procedure mirrors that of the Hollywood version, except that (due,
no doubt, to higher California sidewalk real estate prices) the
Hollywood stars cost a cool $15,000. However, the Hollywood Chamber of
Commerce does graciously waive the $50 processing fee. Our sage advice:
Shop carefully. For many bluegrass musicians, the sidewalk star
purchase will be one of the largest ego investments these artists will
make in their music careers. (And, in Nashville, don't forget to ask
your management if its OK to have one.)
See you where the music is...mh
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