[BOTMC_announcements] Upcoming events of oldtime interest part 1 of 2
Berkeley Old-Time Music Convention
botmc_announcments at berkeleyoldtimemusic.org
Sat Sep 24 01:30:41 EDT 2011
(oops - you can disregard the previous email about Art Rosenbaum - that was meant to go to the planning committee for next year.. But please free to send any suggestions of folks you would like to see to feedback at berkeleyoldtimemusic.org).
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As mentioned in the previous email (BOTMC Contest Winners & Call for Feedback), here is the latest monthly calendar of oldtime music happenings in the SF Bay Area (plus major events elsewhere on the west coast). The list includes recurring jams, pointers to venues, related organizations, and similar email lists.
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This will likely be the last email blast on this list until we have news about next year's BOTMC events - see you next year!
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News:
The instructor list for CBA Winter Camp (February 17-20 Friday-Monday,
President's Day weekend, at Walker Creek Ranch near Petaluma) is now
posted at http://www.cbamusiccamp.org/Instructors.html
CBA Music Camp now has a Facebook Page (replacing the existing Facebook Group) - visit http://www.facebook.com/cbamusiccamp and click Like.
Save the date:
Lisa Ornstein (who is a master Quebecois fiddler, as well
as an expert in Round Peak fiddling - she learned from Tommy Jarrell)
will be doing a house concert tour with guitarist Dan Compton at
the end of October (see below for dates) - stay tuned for details.
There will be workshops.
Shameless self-promotion department:
I will be playing with Uncle Dave (Kathrine Gardner, Dave Courchaine,
and myself) at the SF contra on Fri Nov 25. We'll also be at the
Hayward contra on Sept 25 as part of the BACDS Family Week Reunion.
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Upcoming events of interest:
Sept 23-25 2011
Evie Ladin & Evil Diane
King's River Bluegrass Festival (formerly Hobbs Grove, Sanger)
http://www.cbaontheweb.org
Sat Sept 24 11am
Skiffle Symphony
Petaluma Library
Sat Sept 24
Angell Brothers
caller: Celia Ramsay
Palo Alto contra
Saturday, September 24, 8 p.m.
Bill Evans - The Banjo in America
Schoenberg Guitars Tiburon, CA, 106 Main Street
Sat Sept 24
Eric & Suzy Thompson
"Sunset and Roots" house concert, Oakland (Montclair)
sylapresents AT gmail.com
Sun Sept 25 4-7pm
Uncle Dave & friends (BACDS Family Camp Reunion)
caller: Celia Ramsay
contact Kathrine Gardner if you would like to play
Hayward contra
Sun Sept 25 5pm-8pm
Ray Bierl Trio
Jupiter
Sept 30 7pm
Strictly Hardly Anything Goes!
Jeannie & Chuck's Country Roundup, Black Crown String Band
+ other VIMs
Velo Rouge
798 Arguello (@ McAllister) San Francisco, CA
http://www.velorougecafe.com/
Sept 30-Oct 2 2011 FREE
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
Frank Fairfield, Abigail Washburn
http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/
Sat Oct 1
New Omatics
Canyon Contra
Tues Oct 1
Abigail Washburn
Freight
Wed Oct 5
Evie Ladin & Evil Diane
Strings | Oakland, CA
Oct 7
First Friday Monthly Square Dance
Squirrelly Stringband & Jordan Ruyle
Niebyl-Proctor Library 6501 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, CA
Oct 7-9
Brown Barn Bluegrass Festival
Red Rag Andy, Ragged but Right, others
Franklin Ranch, 170 Rucker Avenue, Gilroy CA
http://www.scbs.org/events/brownbarn/
Sun Oct 9 2011 10am-5pm
Santa Barbara Old-Time Fiddlers' Convention
Stow House, 304 N. Carneros Road Goleta, CA, 93117
http://fiddlersconvention.org
Oct 9 4:30pm FREE
Black Crown Stringband
Bird & Beckett Books & Records
653 Chenery Street SF
Wed Oct 12 Noon
Evie Ladin & Evil Diane
SF Jazz Lunchtime Concerts | San Francisco, CA
Free Concert @ Levi Strauss Plaza
http://www.sfjazz.org/
Friday Oct 14 7:30pm
Paul Brown, Greg & Jere Canote
Big Sur Spirit Garden, 47540 Highway 1, Big Sur.
http://bigsurspiritgarden.com
info: Brendan Doyle brendanbjo AT gmail.com
Friday, Oct. 28 8-11:15pm
Ragtime Skedaddlers
First Street Cafe Benicia
http://www.firststcafe.com/
October 22 2011 FREE
El Cerrito Free Folk Festival
http://www.elcerritofolkfest.org/
Lisa Ornstein & Dan Compton house concert tour:
Oct. 22 - Santa Cruz
Oct. 23 - Grass Valley
Oct. 24 - Sebastopol (note date change)
Oct. 27 - Redding
Oct. 28 - Berkeley
Oct. 29 daytime - workshops in Berkeley/Albany
Oct. 29 - Redwood City
Oct. 30 - Arcata
Fri Oct 28
Square dance: Stairwell Sisters; caller Evie Ladin
Ashkenaz
Wed Nov 7
Road Oilers
caller: Erik Hoffman
Berkeley contra
Fri Nov 11
Evie Ladin & Evil Diane
Armando's | Martinez, CA
http://www.armandosmartinez/
Fri Nov 11
Suzy Thompson
Fiddling Cricket
Mission City Coffee Roasting Company Santa Clara
Sat. Nov. 12
Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur & Suzy Thompson
Freight
Sat November 12
Evie Ladin & Evil Diane
Wisteria Ways | Oakland, CA
http://www.wisteriaways.org/
Nov 17 2011
Blackberry Bushes Stringband
Freight
Nov 19
How to Homestead
Square dance - Stairwell Sisters, Evie Ladin calling
Tenderloin Recreation Center, 570 Ellis St, SF
http://www.howtohomestead.org/
Nov 19 2011
West Coast Ragtime Festival, Sacramento
Ragtime Skedaddlers, Craig Ventresco & Meredith Axelrod
http://www.westcoastragtime.com/11wcrf_home.htm
Fri Nov 25
Uncle Dave
SF contra
Saturday, December 3, 8 p.m.
Bill Evans - The Banjo in America
Fiddling Cricket Concerts
Mission City Coffee Roasting Company, 2221 The Alameda Santa Clara, CA
Dec 2-3
Brookdale Bluegrass Festival
http://www.brookdalebluegrass.com/
December 28, 2011 to January 2, 2012
(note corrected dates)
Camp New Harmony at Camp Newman (between Santa Rosa & Calistoga)
SF Folk Music Club
http://www.sffmc.org/harmony_body.html
Jan 11-15 2012 (MLK weekend)
Portland Old-Time Music Gathering
http://www.bubbaguitar.com/festival/
Last weekend of January 2012
Cloverdale Old Time Fiddle Contest & Festival
http://www.cloverdalehistory.org/Fiddle_Festival.html
Feb 2012: San Francisco Bluegrass & Old Time Festival
many venues
http://www.sfbluegrass.org
Feb 16-19 2012
Olympia Old-Time Music Festival
Olympia WA
dances, concerts, workshops, jamming
http://www.olyoldtime.org/
Feb 17-20 2012
CBA Music Camp West (Wintercamp)
Foghorn Trio (Sammy Lind, Caleb Klauber, Nadine Landry)
Heidi Clare, Chris Coole, Ivan Rosenberg, others
Walker Creek Ranch, Petaluma
http://www.cbamusiccamp.org
Mar 2012
Sonoma County Bluegrass & Folk Festival
Sebastopol Community Center, 390 Morris, Sebastopol
http://www.socofoso.com
Mar 16-18 2002
BACDS Spring Fever Weekend at Monte Toyon, Aptos
http://www.bacds.org/sw
April 2012
San Francisco Festival of the Mandolins
Croatian American Cultural Center
60 Onondaga Ave San Francisco, CA 94112
http://www.croatianamericanweb.org
Apr 2012?
Big Sur Fiddle Camp
http://bigsurfiddlecamp.com/
Apr or May 2012
Berkeley Old-Time Music Convention Spring Situation:
http://www.berkeleyoldtimemusic.org
May 2012
Albany Arts & Green Festival
Memorial Park & Veterans Hall, Albany
http://www.albanyca.org/index.aspx?page=722
May 10-13 2012
Parkfield Bluegrass Festival
http://www.parkfieldbluegrass.com
May 2012
(same weekend as Topanga Contest)
LA Old Time Social
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.oldtimeisagoodtime.com/
May 20 2012 9am-6pm
Topanga Banjo & Fiddle Contest
Agoura Hills, CA
http://www.topangabanjofiddle.org/
May 17-20 2012
California Autoharp Gathering
St. Nicolas Ranch, Dunlap CA
http://calautoharp.com/
May 2012 ?
CBA Golden Gate Park Pickin' Picnic
Dahlia picnic area near Fulton & Stanyan
May 2012 ?
Bay Area Storytelling Festival
Kennedy Grove, El Sobrante
http://www.bayareastorytelling.org/
Memorial Day weekend:
Northwest Folklife Festival, Seattle Center.
http://www.nwfolklife.org/
Memorial Day weekend:
Sacramento Ragtime Society's Ragtime Corners
(part of the annual Sacramento Jazz Jubilee)
http://www.sacramentoragtime.com/rag_corner/rc_curr_sch.php
June 2013 or 2014?
Golden Toad Music & Dance Camp Occidental CA
http://www.goldentoadcamp.com
June 9-10 2012
San Francisco Free Folk Festival
Presidio Middle School (450 30th Ave. at Geary), San Francisco.
http://www.sffolkfest.org/
June 10-13 2012
CBA Music Camp, Grass Valley
http://www.cbamusiccamp.org
June 13-17 2012
CBA Bluegrass Festival, Grass Valley
http://www.cbaontheweb.org
http://www.fathersdayfestival.com/
June 2012 (3rd full week of June)
National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest & Festival
Weiser, ID
http://www.fiddlecontest.com/
http://www.stickerville.org/
June 2012
FiddleKids, Berkwood Hedge School, Berkeley
http://www.thefreight.org/fiddlekids
June 2012
Kate Wolf Festival, Laytonville CA
http://www.katewolfmusicfestival.com/
June 2012
Mandolin Symposium
University of California Santa Cruz
http://www.mandolinsymposium.com
June 25-July 1 2012
Voice Works (vocal workshop week)
Port Townsend WA
http://www.centrum.org/voiceworks/voiceworks-a-workshop-for-singers.html
July 1-8 2012
Festival of American Fiddle Tunes
Port Townsend WA
http://www.centrum.org/fiddle/
July 1-6 2012
BACDS American Dance & Music Camp
Jones Gulch Camp, West of Palo Alto.
http://www.bacds.org/AmWeek
July 1-7 2012
BACDS Family Week Camp
Foothill Horizons Camp Sonora, CA
http://www.bacds.org/familyweek
July 2012?
Shasta String Summit
Weed CA
http://www.summerstringsummit.com
July 2012
California Coast Music Camp (CCMC)
near Auburn, Placer County
http://www.musiccamp.org
July 2012?
Rocky Mountain Old-Time Music Festival
Oskar Blues Brewery and The Stone Cup, Lyons Colorado
http://www.thecroma.org/festival.php
July 27 - August 4, 2012
Lark in the Morning Camp
Mendocino
http://www.larkcamp.com
July- Aug 2012 (three sessions):
Puget Sound Guitar Workshop - Bremerton, WA
http://www.langston.com/PSGW/
Summer 2012
Old Time Music Campout In The Country
Sebastopol
contact Renna: twocondors AT aol.com
Aug 2012 (1st weekend of Aug)
Pickathon Roots Music Festival
Pendarvis Farm near Portland.
http://www.pickathon.com
Aug 2012
(2nd weekend of August)
Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival, Hollister
http://www.scbs.org/events/gof/
Aug 2012
Centralia Campout
Centralia WA
http://www.centraliacampout.com/
Aug 2012
Balance the Bay (in-town contra dance weekend)
Janet Pomeroy Center, San Francisco (on Skyline Dr near Lake Merced)
http://www.bacds.org/camps/btb
Aug 2012
Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival
Sutter Creek CA
http://www.suttercreekragtime.com/festival_current_year.htm
Aug 2012
Subdued Stringband Jamboree
Bellingham WA
http://www.stringbandjamboree.com/
August 24-26 2012
2012 Siskiyou Strings and Threads Bluegrass Festival
Siskiyou Golden Fairground, Yreka, California
http://siskiyoubluegrass.com/StringsandThreads/festivalhomepage.htm
Aug 2012 Noon-7pm FREE
Annual Johnson Farm Bluegrass/Old-Time Picking Party
16385 Two Bar Road, Boulder Creek.
hosted by the Abbott Family, the Johnson Family, and
the Northern California Bluegrass Society.
http://www.ncbs.us/
August 2012
Palo Alto Festival of the Arts
http://www.mlaproductions.com/PaloAlto/index.html
Aug 2012
Freight Fiddle Summit
(Scottish Fiddle Camp faculty)
Aug 2012
Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddle Camp
Camp Campbell, Boulder Creek
http://www.valleyofthemoon.org
Mon Sept 3 2012 (Labor Day) Noon-4pm
Ladies Banjo Society of California Labor Day Picnic
Ohlone Park, Berkeley
http://spectacularopticals.com/LBSC.html
September 2012
American Banjo Camp
Fort Flagler State Park, in Nordland, Washington
http://www.americanbanjocamp.com/
Sept 2012
Old Time Bluegrass Festival
Anderson Marsh State Historic Park in Lower Lake, California
http://www.andersonmarsh.org/Bluegrass/AMIA-Bluegrass.htm
Sept 2012
Garin Apple Festival - usually has a Barn Dance
Garin/Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Parks, Hayward
http://www.ebparks.org/parks/garin#activities
Sept 2012
Fall Equinox Folk Music, Dance and Storytelling Festival
Rancho Cordillera del Norte, Northridge CA (southern Calif).
http://ctmsfolkmusic.org
Sept 2012
Berkeley Old Time Music Convention
Workshops, concerts, stringband contest, three square dances, old time cabaret,
kids' stuff, films, jamming, and more!
http://www.berkeleyoldtimemusic.org/
http://www.facebook.com/berkeleyoldtimemusic
September 2012 10am-5pm
Fiddler's Jam, Fiddletown, CA
http://www.fiddletownca.org/FCC-Events.htm
Fall 2012
Spice of Life (N. Shattuck street fair)
http://www.gourmetghetto.org/
Sept 2012?
Oregon Bluegrass Association Bluegrass and Old Time Pickers Festival
(no shows, no set schedules, just jamming)
Pendarvis Farm, 16581 SE Hagen Road, Happy Valley Oregon
(same site as Pickathon)
http://www.oregonbluegrass.org
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