The Northern California Bluegrass Society will sponsor the April 10, 2010 Redwood Bluegrass Associates Mountain View concert of the Boston-based band Joy Kills Sorrow and the April 18, 2010 San Francisco Jazz Festival San Francisco concert of the Bowling Green, KY-based The Punch Brothers, both outstanding youthful, progressive bluegrass acts.

Come on out and enjoy these April NCBS shows!

Joy Kills Sorrow, a youthful progressive Boston-based bluegrass band, will make its first appearance on the Redwood Bluegrass Associates concert series in Mountain View on Saturday, April 10, in an NCBS-sponsored show. Here the band performs “We Will Have Our Day” featurng the amazing lead vocalist Emma Beaton, in a February 2009 Victoria, British Columbia concert on YouTube.

Redwood Bluegrass Associates presents the Boston-based bluegrass band Joy Kills Sorrow in a Northern California Bluegrass Society-sponsored concert on Saturday, April 10, 2010. The 8:00pm show will be preceded by an open jam at 5:00pm, both at the First Presbyterian Church of Mountain View, 1667 Miramonte Avenue at Cuesta Drive, Mountain View.

The youthful band’s name was the slogan for Indiana radio station WJKS, the first live on-air home of The Monroe Brothers.

Tickets: $18 advance/$20 at the door.

NCBS has sponsored and assisted with all RBA concerts since 1995.

Redwood Bluegrass Associates will present the Dry Branch Fire Squad in concert at 8:00pm on Saturday, March 6, 2010, at the First Presbyterian Church of Mountain View. All RBA concerts since 1995 have been sponsored and assisted  by the Northern California Bluegrass Society. A free pre-concert jam will begin at 5:00pm.

The Fall-Winter-Spring RBA series concludes with Joy Kills Sorrow (Boston) on April 10, and the Kathy Kallick Band (Oakland) on May 1.

Redwood Bluegrass Associates will present the Nashville Bluegrass Band in a Northern California Bluegrass Society-sponsored concert in Mountain View on February 13, 2010. The 8:00pm concert will follow a 5:00pm jam at the First Presbyterian Church of Mountain View.

Advance ticket purchase is suggested for this popular band’s only South Bay appearance.