Snap Jackson & The Knock On Wood Players will be honored at the Brookdale Bluegrass & Old Timey Festival At Costanoa this Friday, March 8 with the formal presentation of the award for 2013’s Best Northern California Bluegrass Band, an honor the KOWP shared with Bean Creek.

The award was originally announced during the Northern California Bluegrass Awards ceremony in Redwood City on January 26 following three rounds of nominations and voting by the members of the Northern California Bluegrass Society.

Snap Jackson & The Knock On Wood Players

The Awards are held as part of the annual NCBS Bluegrass On Broadway Festival. Nominations from NCBS Members for the 2014 awards will be accepted beginning at the August 8-11, 2013 NCBS Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival in Tres Pinos.

Bluegrass On Broadway receives principal financial support from the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission, the Redwood City Public Library, and the Tapestry Church, with additional support from other Redwood City businesses and organizations.

National coverage of the Northern California Bluegrass Awards is on the Cybergrass and Bluegrass Today news websites today. The awards were part of the Sixth Annual NCBS Bluegrass On Broadway Festival in Redwood City.

In Other Northern California Bluegrass News:

The Anderson Marsh State Park Interpretative Association, which postponed the September 2012 Old Time Bluegrass Festival at the park during the state budget crisis until September 2013, has now permanently canceled the event (held 2006-2011) to focus volunteer efforts on keeping the Clearlake area park open for visitors. NCBS regrets the loss of this festival, which was held in an underserved area for bluegrass performances.

All Bluegrass On Broadway Shows Are FREE and open to the public.

SUNDAY, January 27

NCBS International Bluegrass Music Museum Film Festival, Noon-5:00pm, Community Room, Redwood City Main Library, 1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood City. Host: Carl Pagter, IBMM Trustee.

Here is the order of films:

The Porchlight Sessions (Anna Schwaber, TN)

The Mountain Music Project (Tara Linhardt & Jacob Penchansky, VA)

Child Of Troubled Times (Paula & Dwayne Lane and Dave Richardson, CA) Special appearance by Paula & Dwayne Lane.

Bill Evans: Distance Between Two Points (Sarah Fisher, Blue Lotus Films, CA)

Bill Bollick Of The Blue Sky Boys (International Bluegrass Music Museum, KY)

Rollin’ On (James Reams, Redbird Mountain Music, AZ)  Special appearance by James Reams.

6:30-8:00pm — Bluegrass Gospel and Spirituals Concert with Dark Hollow, Woodside Road Youth Choir, Woodside Road United Methodist Church, 2000 Woodside Road, Redwood City.

The Northern California Bluegrass Society’s January 25-27 Sixth Annual Bluegrass On Broadway Festival is held at various venues in Redwood City, and receives principal financial support from the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission, the Redwood City Public Library, and the Tapestry Church.

The deeply traditional Bean Creek (Santa Cruz) and the eclectic  Snap Jackson & The Knock On Wood Players (Stockton) tied for Best Bluegrass Band at the Northern California Bluegrass Awards held in Redwood City on January 26, 2013. The Awards were part of the Northern California Bluegrass Society’s Bluegrass On Broadway Festival.

John Kornhauser of San Francisco and A. J. Lee of Tracy were named Best Male and Female Vocalists, while the voters named San Francisco’s Yoseff Tucker as Best Guitar Player.

Other winners: Ed Neff of Petaluma, Best Mandolin Player; Jim Mintun of Santa Cruz, Best Dobro Player; and Lisa Burns of Mountain View, Best Bass Player. There were ties in both the Best Banjo and Best Fiddle categories, with Luke Abbott (Santa Cruz) and Larry Cohea (Oakland) sharing the banjo honors and Pete Hicks (Aromas) and Lee Anne Welch (Saratoga) sharing the fiddle honors.

Four Bay Area women bluegrass music pioneers, Kim Elking, Laurie Lewis, Kathy Kallick and Beth Weil, received Lifetime Achievement Awards.

Bluegrass On Broadway receives principal financial support from the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission, the Redwood City Public Library, and the Tapestry Church, with additional support from other Redwood City businesses and organizations.

All Bluegrass On Broadway Shows Are FREE and open to the public.

SATURDAY, January 26

Tapestry Church Main Hall, 1305 Middlefield Road, Redwood City

9:45am — Special Film Presentation: Generation Bluegrass: The Next Generation Of Bluegrass Musicians (Corey Smith, NC).

11:00am — Bean Creek

Noon – The Abbott Brothers

1:00pm – Sidesaddle & Co

2:00pm — The Central Valley Boys

3:00-5:00pm — Northern California Bluegrass Awards (with additional musical performances by Bean Creek, Eric Burman, Jean Butterfield, Dark Hollow, A. J. Lee, and Lee Anne Welch).

5:00-ish to (?) — Award Winners Jam (ALL Jammers and Listeners are welcome), Little India Restaurant, 917 Main Street, Redwood City. (Jam hosts: Larry Cohea, Kim Elking, Dave Gooding, John Kornhauser, Yoseff Tucker, Lee Anne Welch).

6:00pm-8:30pm — 27strings, Gourmet Haus Staudt, 2615 Broadway, Redwood City (the pub and restaurant entry is in the rear).

The Northern California Bluegrass Society’s January 25-27 Sixth Annual Bluegrass On Broadway Festival is held at various venues in Redwood City, and receives principal financial support from the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission, the Redwood City Public Library, and the Tapestry Church.