Time For Some Indoor Bluegrass Throughout Northern California In November
Joe Craven
November marks the beginning of the rainy season and the beginning of the full-out indoor bluegrass season in Northern California.
Here are the highlights for enjoyment by NCBS Members and their friends — and by you.
Please join us! More details are in the NCBS Calendar on this website.
Grange Performing Arts Center, Sacramento
NOVEMBER
2 — Snap Jackson & The Knock On Wood Players, Grange Performing Arts Center, Sacramento Preparatory Music Academy, Sacramento.
2 — 50 Years In The Bluegrass Celebration With Peter Feldman & Friends, Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara.
3 — The Crooked Jades with clogger Gordon Clegg (CD Release), Freight & Salvage, Berkeley.
3 – Dan Crary, Keith Little, & Hugh Hoeger, Cozmic Cafe, Placerville.
3 — Pioneer Folk Festival, Sunol-Ohlone Regional Wilderness, Sunol.
3 — Drifter Sisters, Oak Grove, KALW On Air Folk Festival, 91.7FM — San Francisco.
3 — Shoestring Music Festival, Shoestring City Ranch, Long Beach.
The Foghorn Stringband
3 – Bev Barnett & Greg Newlon, Woodshed Kick Off Concert (New South Bay Concert Venue), Keith Holland Guitars, 16905 Roberts Road, Los Gatos.
4 – Santa Clara Valley Fiddler’s Association Youth Fiddle Contest, Hoover Middle School, San Jose.
4 — Bill Evans: The Banjo In America, Joe’s Garage, San Mateo.
5 — Foghorn Stringband, Belle Monroe & Her Brewglass Boys, Amnesia, San Francisco.
5 — The Infamous Stringdusters, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Chico.
6 — Bean Creek, Sam’s BBQ, San Jose.
6 — Election Night From The Freight & Salvage (News Broadcast — open to the public), KALW Radio, 91.7FM, San Francisco.
8 — Bangers & Grass, Kensington Circus Pub, Kensington.
8 — Misisipi Mike Wolf Concert Poster Exhibition Reception (Opening of week-long exhibition), Art Beat Foundation, Oakland.
8 – Almost Perfect Strangers (Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin, Peter McLaughlin & Chris Brashear), Studio 55 Marin, San Rafael.
9 — Foghorn Stringband, The Palms, Winters.
9 – Aprylle Gilbert, Cafe Cuesta, La Honda.
9-11 — Four Corner States Bluegrass Festival and Fiddle Championship, Wickenburg, AZ.
Peter Feldman
10 — Foghorn Stringband, Redwood Bluegrass Associates, First Presyterian Church of Mountain View. (NCBS-sponsored)
10 — Joe Craven, Mamadou Sidibe, Walter Strauss, Mighty Fine Guitars, Lafayette.
10 – Bronnie Griffin & Cary Novatny, House Concert, Salinas.
10 – Lacy J. Dalton, The Mountain Girls, Piper’s Opera House, Virginia City, NV.
10 — Houston Jones, Armandos, Martinez.
10 – Almost Perfect Strangers (Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin, Peter McLaughlin & Chris Brashear), Occidental Center For The Arts, Occidental. (Reservations) paul (at) paulknightsound (dot) com.
10 — Old Tire Swingers, Central Valley Boys, Fox Theater, Hanford.
The Central Valley Boys
11 – Soldier Stories With Nell Robinson & Friends, Freight & Salvage, Berkeley.
11 — Paul Jacob & Friends, San Gregorio Store, San Gregorio.
12 — Almost Perfect Strangers (Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin, Peter McLaughlin & Chris Brashear), Freight & Salvage, Berkeley.
14 – Little Black Train, The Abbott Brothers, Don Quixote’s, Felton.
Red Dog Ash
14 — Mr. Banjo & The Lonesome Wailers, Phil’s Fish Market, Moss Landing.
15 — Blue & Lonesome, Willowbrook Ale House, Petaluma.
16 — Red Dog Ash, Westside Theater, Newman.
16 — Banjo Extravaganza (Bill Evans, Alan Munde, Bill Keith), The Palms, Winters.
Melody Walker
16 — Melody Walker & Jacob Groopman, Freight & Salvage, Berkeley.
16 — The David Thom Band, Murphy’s Irish Pub, Sonoma.
16 – North Pacific String Band, Windy Hill, Left Coast Country, Moe’s Alley, Santa Cruz.
16 — The Drifter Sisters, (House Concert) mblas (at) charter (dot) net, Morgan Hill.
17 – Banjo Extravaganza (Bill Evans, Alan Munde, Bill Keith), Freight & Salvage, Berkeley.
17 — The Wakerobins, The Abbey, Santa Cruz.
18 – Banjo Extravaganza (Bill Evans, Alan Munde, Bill Keith), Don Quixote’s, Felton.
18 — Houston Jones, Dana Street Roasting Company, Mountain View.
18 — Circle R Boys, San Gregorio General Store, San Gregorio.
18 — Snap Jackson & The Knock On Wood Players, The Get Down Boys, Bigfoot Lodge, Los Angeles.
20 — Billy & Sarah & Friends, Phil’s Fish Market, Moss Landing.
21 – Sidesaddle & Co, Sam’s BBQ, San Jose.
23 — Mill Creek Ramblers, Mission Pizza, Fremont.
23 — Windy Hill, Club Fox, Redwood City.
23-25 — Sonora Christmas Faire, Mother Lode Fairgrounds, Sonora.
Iris Dement
24 — Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands, Freight & Salvage, Berkeley.
24 — Sequoia, Frogstooth Winery, Murphy’s.
26 — The Earl Brothers, Kendl Winter & Joe Capoccia, Amnesia, San Francisco.
27 — Windy Hill, Sam’s BBQ, San Jose.
28 — Homefire, Phil’s Fish Market, Moss Landing.
29 — Front Country, Jeanie & Chuck, Lost Church, San Francisco.
29 — Bill Evans: The Banjo In America, Stanford Continuing Studies, Geology Corner Room 105, Stanford University, Palo Alto. FREE.
30 – The Dim Lights, Moose Lodge, Pacifica.
30 — Small Town Therapy, Brendan Thomas, Delores Park Cafe, San Francisco.
30 — Iris Dement, Freight & Salvage, Berkeley.
30-December 1 — NCBS Winter Boulder Creek Bluegrass & Old Timey Festival, Boulder Creek.
The String Slingers
Posted Nov 1st, 2012
by Michael Hall in
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