The Strawberry Music Festival community offers its deepest condolences to friends and family of beloved Sonora area photographer Dale Batchelor, who passed away at the age of 82, on Tuesday, December 11^th. Dale was known locally as a documentarian and historian whose treasure trove of images not only depict the beauty of Tuolumne County, but tell a story about the special place he chose to call home. Batchelor moved from his birth place in British Columbia, Canada to Southern California as a teenager, and later relocated to Tuolumne County in 1975. During that time, Dale worked as a logger, an electrician, sound engineer for notable artists (such as John Hartford, Steve Martin, Glenn Yarbrough, and Neil Young), proprietor of The “F” Stop photo shop in Sonora, as well as being the founding father of Tuolumne County public access television. He was also the videographer at Strawberry in the mid 80’s and his work documenting epic performances from the early days can be found on his Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL-0tSlmMChgbwx4Fo4LM0Q.  Dale was a passionate advocate for the audio and visual arts, for the environment, and for the community of Sonora and he will be dearly missed. R.I.P Dale

Read the Union Democrat article celebrating Dale Batchelor’s life.

Thanks to everyone who bought Wednesday Arrival tickets to next year’s Spring Festival. Both adult 4-Day with Wednesday Arrival, as well as the adult Wednesday Arrival upgrade, are now sold out, earlier than ever before. You can still buy your 2-, 3-, and 4-Day Camping tickets at winter discount prices now through January 16^th. Wednesday Arrival tickets for Children and Teens are still available for only $10 more than the Child/Teen 4-Day camping ticket price. The Spring 2019 Festival will be held at the scenic Nevada County Fairgrounds, in Grass Valley, CA on May 23rd – 27th. Strawberry Music Festival is the original in family friendly festival fun and we hope to see you there over Memorial Day weekend!

For more information, or to buy tickets, visit our website or call the Strawberry office M-F, 9-5 at (209) 984-8630.

Che Apalache (CHAY-op-uh-LAH-chay) is a four-man string band based in Buenos Aires with members from Argentina, Mexico and the United States. They started as a bluegrass band and eventually incorporated Latin American styles into their repertoire, creating an authentic and organic blend of genres. Che Apalache was fantastic at last year’s Fall Festival and gave a truly magical performance at the Sunday morning Revival. We are thrilled to welcome them back to Strawberry in the spring!

The Spring 2019 Strawberry Music Festival will be held at the beautiful Nevada County Fairgrounds, in Grass Valley, on May 23^rd – 27^th. You can buy camping tickets online 24/7 or by by phone M-F, 9-5 at (209) 984-8630. Take advantage of our special winter discount available now through January 16^th.

The coveted Wednesday Arrival ticket, for Spring Strawberry, is almost gone and will be sold out very soon. Next year’s Spring Festival will be held at the beautiful Nevada County Fairgrounds, on May 23^rd – 27^th. Gates will open, for Strawberry’s 4-Day Camping ticket holders, at 8am, on Thursday, May 23^rd,, while Wednesday Arrival ticket holders may enter, to camp, beginning at 3pm, on Wednesday, May 22^nd. We’ve only made enough of these special early entry tickets available to accommodate those folks who would have been waiting in line on Evergreen Road, while ensuring that Wednesday’s pre-festival camp out remains small, so the quantity is very limited. We’re now quickly approaching a sellout of the Wednesday Arrival ticket earlier than ever before!

For a short time longer, you can buy your 4-Day Camping ticket with Wednesday Arrival, to the Spring 2019 Strawberry Music Festival, 24/7 online. You can also buy this ticket, or upgrade four day camping to include Wednesday Arrival, by calling our office M-F, 9-5 at (209) 984-8630. Four day camping tickets can also be upgraded to include Wednesday Arrival by calling the office. Turn your four day festival into five, with Wednesday Arrival, while supplies last, and we’ll see you there!

We’re pleased to announce that David Myles, Molly Tuttle Band, Hawktail, Cosmic Twang, and Cheryl Wheeler will perform at the Strawberry Music Festival, next year. There is a lot of great material available from each of these talented performers on our Spring Festival Lineup Page.

Strawberry’s Spring Festival will take place in Grass Valley, Ca, on May 23^rd – 27^th. Set on 100 beautifully forested acres, the Nevada County Fairgrounds is an ideal location to see your favorite music.  For more information or to buy tickets visit our website or give us a jingle at M-F, 9-5 at (209) 984-8630.

The Spring Festival is already shaping up to be something special and there is much more to come. We hope to see you there!

We are very pleased to announce that Peter Rowan’s Free Mexican Airforce will be joined by Grammy winning Tex-Mex masters, Los Texmaniacs, at next year’s Spring Strawberry. News of this special pairing came in right after last week’s lineup announcement, so our email blast was sent without the updated billing. The combination of Rowan’s nuanced roots style of singing and songwriting, with Los Texmaniacs’ authentic and energetic conjunto fusion, is sure to bring down the house. The Free Mexican Airforce will fly on the first night of festivities during Strawberry’s Spring 2019 Music Festival, taking place on May 23^rd – 27^th, at the Nevada County Fairgrounds. We can’t wait to see them, and you, there!

Stay tuned for our next round of lineup announcements set to be released on Friday, December 7^th.  

For more information or to buy tickets to Strawberry please visit our website at http://strawberrymusic.com/ or call us M-F, 9-5 at (209) 984-8630.

Full and partial RV hook-up sites for the Spring 2019 Festival have sold out. We really enjoyed hearing from RV site customers yesterday! And we especially appreciate everyone’s patience, and perseverance, navigating busy signals and then waiting for our return call. For those of you who wanted an RV hook-up site, but didn’t get one, don’t let that discourage you from attending the Spring Festival! Strawberry’s super inclusive camping ticket allows you to dry camp with a car, truck, trailer or RV, without any additional vehicle impact fees. More and more of our audience is choosing to enjoy the four day festival experience, with their home away from home on wheels. There are lots of camping areas at the Nevada County Fairgrounds that will accommodate trailers and RVs. In fact, many of the folks featured in these photos, of Spring Festivals past, are quite content without hook-ups. So, buy get your super inclusive camping tickets to Spring Festival, and when you’re there, you can scope out your preferred hook-up site for the future. Whatever your preference, we strive to manage camping with recreational vehicles at the festival like everything else, first come, first served, and by making it as fair as possible for everyone. So, RV or no RV, we hope to see you there, on May 23rd – 27th, in Grass Valley, for Strawberry Music Festival- Spring 2019!

Buy camping tickets now at the Winter discount online or call us M-F, 9-5 at (209) 984-8630

RV Sites for the Strawberry’s Spring Festival will go on sale at 9:00 am, on Wednesday, November 28th. You can reserve your full (power, water & sewer) or partial (power & sewer) hook-up by calling the office at (209) 984-8630. Hook-up sites will be sold first come, first some and only one site can be reserved per call. For more information including prices and how to reserve your site, please read our Spring 2019 RV Site Reservation Guidelines. We expect to receive a high volume of calls, in the morning, so if you experience a busy signal, please try again. Initially, we’ll just be taking your name and number, in order to keep the lines clear for the next caller. Then, we’ll be returning calls, in the same order they were received to process your reservation. We look forward to this day, and to talking to our valued customers over the phone, all year long! So, we’ll talk to you folks tomorrow. and then we’ll see you there, in just about 6 months.