Please welcome Laurie Lewis & Nina Gerber to the Spring 2019 Strawberry lineup. We’ve added a special new Main Stage slot on Sunday afternoon to accommodate this dynamic duo. For more great media from both of these very talented artists, check out their profile on our website.
The two slots still to be determined for the Spring Festival are Saturday’s headliner and on Sunday early afternoon. With that said, the Spring Playlist is a nearly complete sampling of sounds from the upcoming festival. We can’t wait to hear these performers live and in person and even more so, we can’t wait to see you there!
The Spring 2019 Strawberry Music Festival is May 23 – 27 at Nevada County Fairgrounds, in Grass Valley, CA. To buy tickets, or for more information, visit the Ticket Information page, or call our office M-F, 9-5 at (209) 984-8630.
Who remembers seeing Peter Rowan, Mark O’ Connor, and Jerry Douglas at Strawberry in 1986?
We’re in the process of restoring videos like this one for our website archives and can’t wait to publish our vast library of media from over 30 years of festival! Thanks to the late great Dale Batchelor for posting this and other festival videos to his YouTube channel.
Join us this year to make the memories that Strawberry this throw back to in another 30 years! For more information about, or to buy tickets to, Strawberry’s Spring 2019 Music Festival, please browse our website or call our office M-F, 9-5 at (209) 984-8630.
The Early Bird discount on camping tickets to Strawberry Music Festival – Spring 2019 is ending soon.
This year’s lineup will feature The Wood Brothers, Richard Thompson Electric Trio, Peter Rowan’s Free Mexican Airforce with Los Texmaniacs, The California Honeydrops, Dustbowl Revival, Della Mae, David Myles, Marley’s Ghost, We Banjo 3, Molly Tuttle, Ron Artis II and many, many more.
Get your tickets while they last. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
UPDATE 2/7: Service has been restored and our phones are working again. Strawberry staff can be reached by phone M-F, 9-5 at (209) 984-8630. Thank you for your patience while our phones were not working, and our office was closed, this week due to winter weather.
The office is currently experiencing a phone service interruption that is expected to last from February 4th – 6th. In the meantime, you can still reach us at info@strawberrymusic.com.
Additionally, the Strawberry office will be closed on Tuesday, February 5th, due to a winter storm warning in our area. We hope everyone stays safe and warm during the storm.
For those of you who are interested in becoming a Strawberry Artisan, the details and application are now available online at https://tinyurl.com/SBArtisan2019. The Strawberry Artisan tent showcases a wide variety of handmade wares from a select group of featured artists. The community atmosphere in the Artisan tent embraces ‘The Strawberry Way,’ with a spirit of consideration, cooperation, kindness, and generosity that creates a unique vendor experience.
Richard Thompson is the best of his kind, and not just because he has spent his entire career defining genre rather than conforming to it. The British folk rock superstar seamlessly blends virtuosic fingerpicking guitar technique with an incredible gift for singing and song craft. The resulting sound resonates deeply with music enthusiasts in a way that leaves the listener simultaneously satiated, and always craving more. Such was the case with his first Strawberry appearance in 1990, when his epic encore performance of “Tear Stained Letter” continued to be sung by the audience for nearly half an hour after Thompson left the stage. Though the award-winning, Grammy nominated artist has gained the total adoration of a very large fan base, and is a complete legend in Berryland, he hasn’t stopped improving or exploring new corners of music. Thompson’s nineteenth solo album, 13 Rivers, was just released last fall and like a river, each of the thirteen original songs follows its own pace, while being bound together by signature musical buoyancy. We are thrilled that his incredibly talented ensemble, Richard Thompson Electric Trio, consisting of Richard Thompson (vocals/guitar), Michael Jerome (drums), and Taras Prodaniuk (bass), will make a special return to the Strawberry stage this spring.
The Spring 2019 Strawberry Music Festival takes place May 23 – 27 at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, CA. For more information, or to buy tickets, visit our website 24/7 or call us M-F, 9-5 at (209) 984-8630. See you there!
Each of Marley’s members (Dan Wheetman, Jon Wilcox, Mike Phelan, Ed Littlefield Jr., Jerry Fletcher, and Bob Nichols) play lead on too many instruments to list, and the collective Ghost performs a widely eclectic repertoire of roots and Americana genres. Most of them have been making music together for more than three decades, and the band has played a central role in the Strawberry story for just as long. Over the years, what was already a phenomenal pairing of vocals and instrumentation has only grown tighter and richer. Each of Marley’s Ghost twelve recordings released to date is its own unique homage to American culture and our deep connection to the arts, both past, present, and future. Now, fans and friends are anxiously awaiting the upcoming release of their latest LP, titled “Travelin’ Shoes”, on February 8th, 2019. Song premiers from the album, “Shadrack” and title track, “Travelin’ Shoes,” have further demonstrated Marley’s ability to breathe new contemporary life into traditional gospel classics and are performed with the vocal nuance and instrumental precision that is true to form. We’re looking forward to hearing the full collection in two weeks and then to see them perform live on Sunday evening on the Main Stage, as well as at other Strawberry venues throughout the holiday weekend.
The Spring Festival in 2019 will take place on May 23rd– 27th, at the Nevada County Fairgrounds, in Grass Valley, CA. For more information, or to buy tickets, please visit our website. You can also call the Strawberry office M-F, 9-5 at (209) 984-8630 for more details or to purchase tickets by phone.
