Sept 18-22, 2024
Maria Muldaur
with Candy Goldman, Suzy Thompson, Karen Celia Heil, Eric Thompson, Allegra Thompson
The Onlies
Cedric Watson & Edward Poullard
Bigfoot
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer
Black Banjo & Fiddle Fellows
Clean Heat
Propagators
Susan Michaels
Robin Fischer
The Berkeley Old Time Music Convention is a five day music gathering featuring a lovingly curated roster of local and national old-time music acts, with concert sets, rollicking square dances (and a Cajun dance too!), workshops, jams, an online crankie showcase, and the illustrious
string band contest in venues throughout Berkeley.
2024 artists
The Black Banjo & Fiddle Fellowship is a project of the Oakland Conservatory of Music in collaboration with the BOTMC. Click HERE for more info.
Berkeley Old Time Music COnvention
ANti-Racism Statement
As appreciators and torch bearers of early American traditional music, the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention actively questions what it means to share this music in the context of systemic racism. We wish to acknowledge the immense contribution of Black and Indigenous musicians to the music presented by the BOTMC, in the past and in the present. We acknowledge the forces that have historically denied these contributions and that worked to sever their living connections to this music. We also acknowledge our own complicity in this oppression. As we play this music, we are reckoning with our history and present condition. We hope to build a road toward reparation.
Adapted (with permission) from the Plaid Strangers (Thomas Angell, Maxine Gerber, Karen Heil and Allegra Yellin)
