Bluegrass on Broadway Festival This Weekend!

From the City of Redwood City:

The Sixth Annual Bluegrass On Broadway Festival, presented by the Northern California Bluegrass Society (NCBS), will bring a weekend of FREE music and fun to Redwood City.

The January 25-27, 2013 weekend event includes the Northern California Bluegrass Awards (Saturday) and the NCBS International Bluegrass Music Museum Film Festival (Sunday), plus many other events all around Redwood City. 

Bluegrass is acoustic music that originated in the Southeastern United States, but has spread around the world, with one of the most active bluegrass communities here in Northern California. The music is played on guitars, banjos, violins, mandolins, resonator guitars, and double bass instruments, accompanied by soulful vocals. 

ALL PROGRAMS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. No tickets are needed. More information is on the NCBS website.

Festival Performance Schedule:

FRIDAY, January 25:

An Evening Of Bluegrass Dining In Downtown Redwood City - Reservations Are Recommended:

• A. J. Lee & Friends - 7-9 p.m., Little India Restaurant (Indian), 917 Main Street, Redwood City / 650-361-8737
• Jean Butterfield - 7-9 p.m., Buri Tara (Thai), 911 Main Street, Redwood City / 650-257-7594.

SATURDAY, January 26:

Tapestry Church Main Hall, 1305 Middlefield Road, Redwood City

• 9:45 a.m. - Special Film Presentation: Generation Bluegrass: The Next Generation Of Bluegrass Musicians (Corey Smith, NC).
• 11 a.m. - Bean Creek
• Noon - The Abbott Brothers
• 1 p.m. - Sidesaddle & Co
• 2 p.m. - The Central Valley Boys
• 3-5 p.m. - Northern California Bluegrass Awards (with additional musical performances by Bean Creek, Jean Butterfield, Dark Hollow, A. J. Lee).
• 5 pm - Award Winners Jam (ALL Jammers and Listeners are welcome), Little India Restaurant, 917 Main Street, Redwood City. (Jam hosts: Larry Cohea, Kim Elking, Dave Gooding, John Kornhauser, Yoseff Tucker, Lee Anne Welch).
• 6-8:30 p.m. - 27strings, Gourmet Haus Staudt,  2615 Broadway, Redwood City (the pub and restaurant entry is in the rear).

SUNDAY, January 27:

NCBS International Bluegrass Music Museum Film Festival, Noon-5 p.m., Community Room, Redwood City Main Library, 1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood City.

The films:

• "The Porchlight Sessions" (Anna Schwaber, TN)
• "The Mountain Music Project" (Tara Linhardt & Jacob Penchansky, VA)
• "Child Of Troubled Times" (Paula & Dwayne Lane and Dave Richardson, CA) Special appearance by Paula & Dwayne Lane.
• "Bill Evans: Distance Between Two Points" (Sarah Fisher, Blue Lotus Films, CA)
• "Bill Bollick Of The Blue Sky Boys" (International Bluegrass Music Museum, KY)
• "Rollin' On" (James Reams, Redbird Mountain Music, AZ)  Special appearance by James Reams.

• 6:30-8 p.m. - Bluegrass Gospel and Spirituals Concert with Dark Hollow, Woodside Road Youth Choir: Woodside Road United Methodist Church, 2000 Woodside Road, Redwood City

Lifetime Achievement Awards will honor four pioneering women of the Bay Area bluegrass community: Kim Elking, Kathy Kallick, Laurie Lewis & Beth Weil.

The Northern California Bluegrass Society's Bluegrass On Broadway Festival receives principal financial support from the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission, the Redwood City Public Library, and the Tapestry Church.

For more information, call Michael Hall of the Northern California Bluegrass Society at 650-596-9332.