Northern California Bluegrass Society Members will receive a discount to the IBMA Profesional Development Webinar “How to Recruit, Retain & Keep Your Volunteers Happy“ presented by the International Bluegrass Music Association.

The Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 5:30m (Pacific Time) online class will be taught by Dwight Worden, president of the San Diego Bluegrass Society and the Associations Representative on the IBMA Board.

Regular price: $40; NCBS Member Price: $20. NCBS is an International Bluegrass Music Association member organization and NCBS members receive the discount IBMA member price. The discount on a single monthly online seminar is equal to NCBS dues for the year.

Register: (615) 256-3222.

The String Cheese Incident will appear at Berkeley’s Greek Theater in Northern California Bluegrass Society-sponsored concerts set for Saturday, July 14 & Sunday, July 15, 2012.

The concerts on the University of California campus are produced by Another Planet Entertainment.

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The late Earl Scruggs sits in with the String Cheese Incident.

You can win valuable prizes by designing the T-Shirt for the 2012 Northern California Bluegrass Society Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival.

Two Week Reminder: T- Shirt design due date is May 31, 2012.

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The Festival: Roger & Rosemary Siminoff will host the NCBS Film Festival at their home  in Atascadero this Wednesday evening. Film Festival Director Michael Hall will emcee.

This is a 3-hour version of the festival held earlier this year as a part of the Northern California Bluegrass Society’s Bluegrass On Broadway Festival in Redwood City. The Atascadero showing is co-sponsored by the California Bluegrass Association. The event supports the artistic work of independent filmmakers and of the International Bluegrass Music Museum (IBMM) Oral History Project of Owensboro, KY.

The Films:

Fanning The Fire – Bluegrass For A New Generation (Alan Tompkins, Bluegrass Heritage Foundation, TX)

I Hear What You See – The Old Time World Of Kenny Hall (Chris Simon, Sageland Media, UT)

Bluegrass – A Documentary (Frank Grabowski, Mountain View High School, CA)

American Folk Dancing – A Week With Evo Bluestein (Chip Curry, Chrysalis Films, CA)

Strawberry Music Festival 30th Anniversary (Alec Oyung, CA)

Date & Time: Wednesday, May 16th, 2012, 7:00pm-10:00pm

RSVP Information & Directions: Roger and Rosemary Siminoff, Atascadero, CA, (805) 365-7111.

Admission: Free

Optional, But Useful: Bring a chair just in case we run out.

Weather: Inside: A pleasant 72 degrees! Outside: Sunny, High 95, Low 48.

The Northern California Bluegrass Society welcomes The Avett Brothers to the Greek Theater at UC-Berkeley for an Another Planet Entertainment concert on Saturday, June 23. Jackie Green will open the show.

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Scott Avett, The Avett Brothers

Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival Band 27strings will play live in the KKUP studios during Mike Russell’s Monday Night Bluegrass program, 6:00-9:00pm on May 14. The station can be heard in the South Bay and Monterey Bay areas at 91.5 FM.

27strings

Michael Hall of the Northern California Bluegrass Society will be a guest on the program and will have information about the upcoming NCBS Film Festival on May 16, the NCBS Boulder Creek Bluegrass & Old Timey Festival July 13-15, the NCBS Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival August 9-12, and about upcoming NCBS-sponsored concerts this summer with The Avett Brothers (June 23) and String Cheese Incident (July 14 & 15) at Berkeley’s Greek Theater.

Evie Ladin will be a call-in interview about her new CD on the show.

The weekend of July 13-15, 2012 will bring the NCBS Boulder Creek Bluegrass & Old Timey Festival to several venues throughout the small mountain town, 12 miles north of Santa Cruz on Highway 9.

The festival will begin on Friday night  in Barry Tanner’s  PASS Recording Studio, one block from the main drag in Boulder Creek. The cameras should be there from our local cable TV station, to be part of the Brookdale Bluegrass Hour that is  shown every Monday night.

On Saturday morning, a FREE concert will be held at Boulder Creek Park, next to the the local swimming hole. In addition to the music, the street will be lined with arts and crafts as this festival has invited the local artists to be part of the show.

Beginning Saturday afternoon, the festival moves to Scopazzi’s Restaurant, then from 7:00-11:00pm the show moves to the Boulder Creek Recreation Hall for the big evening show.

On Sunday, we will be back at PASS Studios, followed by an evening jam at the Boulder Creek Brewing Company.

The bands will include The Juncos, The String Slingers, The Driftless, Common Cents, Laura Lind, BanjerDan, Sons Of Jefferson, Cactus Bob & Praire Flower, Jean Butterfield, Regina Barlett, and more.

This will be the largest festival since we moved from the old Brookdale Lodge The weekend will be fun and we hope you will join us! More information is on the brookdalebluegrass.com website. NCBS has sponsored all Brookdale/Boulder Creek festivals several time each year since 1998.

– Eric Burman

“Fanning The Fire — Bluegrass For A New Generation,” a documentary about the launch of a young Mexican-American’s bluegrass music career in Texas, will be on the program for the repeat of the 5th Annual NCBS International Bluegrass Music Museum Film Festival that was held earlier in 2012 in Redwood City.

The Wednesday, May 16 film festival will be hosted by NCBS members Roger & Rosemary Siminoff at their Atascadero home from 7:00-10:00pm. This FREE event requires an (RSVP) siminoff (at) siminoff (dot) net.

Filmmaker Alan Tompkins

In the film, Lucas White of Corsicana, Texas talks about learning to play bluegrass music and meets and eventually performs with his favorite bluegrass musicians at the Bloomin’ Bluegrass Festival near his hometown.

Filming Lucas White

The film by Dallas attorney & CPA and bluegrass musician Alan Tompkins is a project of the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation of Farmer’s Branch, TX and is Tompkins’ first cinematic project.

Film Festival Director Michael Hall will moderate the event.

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