SUNDAY, October 9

9:00am — Highway 65
10:00 — Pearly Blue
11:00 — Windy Hill
Noon — Red Rag Andy
1:00pm — Ragged But Right
2:00 — Kitchen Help
3:00 — TBA
4:00 — Red Dog Ash

The 6th Annual Jake’s Brown Barn Bluegrass Festival, October 7-9, 2011, Franklin Ranch, 170 Rucker Avenue, Gilroy, is presented by the late Jake Quesenberry’s Family and sponsored by the Northern California Bluegrass Society and The Music Medics.

SATURDAY, October 8

9:00am — Highway 65
10:00 — Oak Grove
11:00 — Red Dog Ash
Noon — Pleasant Valley Boys
1:00pm — Ragged But Right
2:00 — Windy Hill
3:00 — OMGG
4:00 — South County Special
5:00 — Red Rag Andy
6:00 — The Mighty Crows Reunion
7:00 — The Tuttles With A. J. Lee
8:00 — Bean Creek
9:00 — Snap Jackson & The Knock On Wood Players

The 6th Annual Jake’s Brown Barn Bluegrass Festival, October 7-9, 2011, Franklin Ranch, 170 Rucker Avenue, Gilroy, is presented by the late Jake Quesenberry’s Family and sponsored by the Northern California Bluegrass Society and The Music Medics.

The Quesenbery Family presents
The 6th Annual
Jake’s Brown Barn Bluegrass Festival
October 7-9, 2011
The Franklin Ranch, Gilroy, CA.

Fun: Jake’s Brown Barn Bluegrass Festival is now 6 years old and has a new location that is three miles south of the original — and it is now an October festival! Small, fun, and easy, this is a good way to enjoy bluegrass music with your bluegrass friends. The festival is sponsored by the Northern California Bluegrass Society and The Music Medics and is a memorial to festival founder and local bluegrass icon Jake Quesenberry.

Camping: Festival camping begins at Friday Noon, October 7 and ends on Sunday evening, October 9. (Please do not plan to camp on either Thursday or Sunday nights.) Free dry camping is included in your ticket. Dogs on a leash are allowed in camp, but not in the audience area.

Band Schedule:

The new Brown Barn stage at the Franklin Ranch

FRIDAY, October 7

6:00-10:00pm — Open Mike (Sign up in advance with  (Melissa Blas) mblas (at) charter (dot) net)

SATURDAY, October 8

9:00am — Highway 65
10:00 — Oak Grove
11:00 — Red Dog Ash
Noon — Pleasant Valley Boys
1:00pm — Ragged But Right
2:00 — Windy Hill
3:00 — OMGG
4:00 — South County Special
5:00 — Red Rag Andy
6:00 — The Mighty Crows Reunion
7:00 — The Tuttles With A. J. Lee
8:00 — Bean Creek
9:00 — Snap Jackson & The Knock On Wood Players

The Franklin Ranch

SUNDAY, October 9

9:00am — Highway 65
10:00 — Pearly Blue
11:00 — Windy Hill
Noon — Red Rag Andy
1:00pm — Ragged But Right
2:00 — Kitchen Help
3:00 — TBA
4:00 — Red Dog Ash

Molly Tuttle

The Foundation For Bluegrass Music has awarded its first Hazel Dickens Memorial Scholarship honoring the West Virginia/Baltimore/DC area songwriter, singer, guitarist, feminist, and activist who died earlier this year.

The recipient is Molly Tuttle of Palo Alto, CA., an NCBS member, songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist, who will attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston beginning in January, 2012. The scholarship was awarded in a special ceremony on September 30 in Nashville.

Molly Tuttle, of The Tuttles With A. J. Lee, will perform this weekend at the NCBS Jake’s Brown Barn Bluegrass Festival in Gilroy. She attended Palo Alto High School and is currently a student at Foothill College. She is the daughter of Jack Tuttle and Maureen Roddy. She was inspired to pursue bluegrass and folk music as a career while listening to the recordings of Hazel Dickens while in junior high school. Tuttle became an international musical YouTube star during her high school years, and has played with her family band in California and at the International Bluegrass Music Association World Of Bluegrass over the past six years. She plans to pursue a full time music career after college.

Molly was named Best Guitar Player and her band Best Bluegrass Band at the 2011 Northern California Bluegrass Awards.

The Foundation For Bluegrass Music (Nashville, TN), which was organized in 2007 at the suggestion of past NCBS president Michael Hall, is a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation that is a sister organization to the International Bluegrass Music Association, a trade organization. The Foundation uses tax-advantaged gifts to promote educational and other charitable goals of the international bluegrass music community.

The Mighty Crows, a powerful Bay Area traditional bluegrass band that broke up shortly after being named Northern California’s Best Bluegrass Band For 2009, will enjoy a rare reunion onstage at the NCBS Jake’s Brown Barn Bluegrass Festival October 7-9, 2011, in Gilroy. There will be plenty of tickets at the gate. Free dry camping for tents and RVs is included. The festival is now one month later and three miles south of past year’s gatherings.

Complete Festival Information

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The Mighty Crows