Thank you for your enthusiastic support of our first day of ticket sales! The earliest arrival available on Wednesday – Group A (noon) has sold out. There are still tickets available for Group B (2pm) and Group C (4pm) arrival on Wednesday, May 24^th. Group A was the most limited of the three, with more tickets offered in Group B. Group C is limited only to the total amount of camping tickets, so anyone who wants to buy a ticket to arrive on Wednesday night can do so as long as there are camping tickets available, and any camping ticket of a lesser length can now be upgraded to include Wednesday night. Do not forget to use coupon code SMF23 for 10% off your adult camping ticket total.

It is so nice to start this sales season with so much of the Spring Lineup already in place. We truly enjoy this annual tradition of talking to so many of you on the phone and being connected to the greater Strawberry community. We appreciate each and every opportunity we have to gather together, more than ever before. Thank you so much. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Buy tickets 24/7 online or call the office M-W, 10-2 at (209) 984-8630

Spring 2023 Strawberry Music Festival

May 24 – 29

Nevada County Fairgrounds

Grass Valley

Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, November 8^th at 10am, camping tickets to the Spring 2023 Strawberry Music Festival will be available to purchase online 24/7 or by calling the office at (209) 984-8630 from 10am – 2pm on Mondays – Wednesdays. Ticket types and prices are posted on the Ticket Information page of our website. Prices have been reduced from last year and an additional 10% discount is available until January 10th on all adult camping ticket types.

Use promo code SMF23 to redeem the discount on adult camping tickets.

This year, early arrival will take place on Wednesday and will be split into three groups with staggered arrival times. We start our sales day tomorrow with a very limited number of 5-Night Adult Camping – Group A tickets, allowed to arrive at 12noon on Wednesday, May 24^th, along with our festival staff. There are slightly more of the next 5-Night Adult Camping – Group B tickets available, with an arrival of 2pm on Wednesday. The remaining group of 5-Night campers can arrive at 4pm on Wednesday and is limited only to the total number of camping tickets available. Any adult camping ticket of lesser length can be upgraded to include 5 nights, either in advance of the festival or during Box Office business hours. The Box Office, and festival gates, will open officially at 4pm on Wednesday, May 24^th.

Please be willing to adhere to Strawberry’s complete list of Terms and Rules which are subject to change. Day tickets without camping will be available later in the season. Reserved RV Sites with hook-ups will go on sale at 10am on Tuesday, December 6^th. This year’s RV Site map and guidelines will be posted later this month. Let us know if you have questions by calling the office or by email at info@strawberrymusic.com.

Stay tuned for more lineup announcements and festival news. We cannot wait to see you there!

October 21, 2022

Greetings Festival Friends!

We are so happy to be back in touch with exciting news about next year’s Spring 2023 Strawberry Music Festival, scheduled for May 25 – 29 at Nevada County Fairgrounds.

Tickets for next year’s Spring Festival will go on sale at 10:00am on Tuesday, November 8^th. Ticket prices and details will be posted in advance of ticket sales and our first big lineup announcement will be made on Tuesday, November 1^st. Reserved RV Sites with hook-ups will go on sale at 10:00am on Tuesday, December 6^th. RV Site guidelines and prices for 2023 will be posted later in November.

It was so amazing to be together again at last year’s Spring Festival after such a long time apart. We are really looking forward to seeing those of you who could not be there with us in person. While it was difficult on so many levels, the long break between festivals also gave us an opportunity to look at things from a different perspective and make a few changes, such as the new locations of the main stage and our entry procedure. We are so excited to fine tune the new layout and continue to make improvements to the overall Strawberry experience. As always, we welcome your feedback on this and any other festival related topic as we begin the preparations for next year’s gathering. Feel free to fill out our festival survey or email us at info@strawberrymusic.com.

Thank you so much for your support. We hope to see you there!

Strawberry office staff is in the final phase of Spring 2022 post festival wrap up and the office will be closed for the summer, starting on Thursday, July 14^th. You can still reach us if you have a question about Lost & Found from this year’s Spring Festival. We will be checking messages and returning calls regularly at (209) 984-8630 and at info@strawberrymusic.com.

We have really enjoyed reading all the surveys completed both during and after the Spring Festival. You can still share your input by filling out the Spring 2022 Survey online. We are so anxious to use your feedback to make additional improvements to the festival experience. Please also note that there are still unclaimed Lost & Found items. Photos from the Spring 2022 Strawberry Music Festival are being processed now and will be posted soon.

After three years off it was amazing and magical to be able to gather again with the Strawberry community. We are so grateful to all involved and in attendance and are looking forward to seeing you again next year!

We are shocked to hear the sad news that Dancin’ John Lonczak danced off to that big festival in the sky this last week. The Strawberry office and community offers our deepest condolences to his family and immense circle of friends and admirers.
 
Dancin’ John was a staunchly vocal advocate for dancers’ rights at festivals near and far, and he danced his truth for more hours, of more days, in more places, and at more festivals than anyone else we know. A fiercely independent and retired tech engineer, Lonczak tailored his entire lifestyle around doing what he loved to do. His sacred steps were a rhythmic tribute to physical activity, endurance, and connectivity. He danced at every single Strawberry Music Festival to this date, including the one that just passed. 
 
His absence is being felt acutely right now throughout an entire region and calendar of intersecting festival communities. It is just not going to be the same without him, but the legend of the bearded gentle giant known as Dancin’ John will be impossible to forget. He will be remembered every time we feel our feet connecting with the earth through the soles of our shoes. In fact, we are pretty sure that a nearly-continuous year-long remote relay of dance is already underway.
 
May you dance in peace dear friend….

At long last, the Strawberry community finally reunited this past Memorial Day weekend, at the Nevada County Fairgrounds. Four generations of family and friends gathered for five glorious days in the spirit of kindness, cooperation, and consideration for others. We are grateful beyond words for the love and support we received.

Our office has just re-opened for business and our office staff can be reached Monday – Wednesday, 10am – 2pm at (209) 984-8630 or info@strawberrymusic.com. We are still in the process of unpacking this past Spring Festival, both literally and figuratively. Thank you for your patience while we return to normal business mode and begin to address the following post-festival wrap up items:

• Lost & Found:  The transport of Info Booth supply including Lost and Found has been delayed, so we will not be able to process found belongings until next week. Please let us know if you lost something and haven’t already submitted a lost and found form, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
• Problem Box (tickets lost/stolen/left at home):  Customers who left their tickets at home can avoid the gate charge by mailing unused tickets to the office postmarked by Monday, June 20^th. Tickets that were lost or stolen will be reviewed and reconciled in the order they were received, and customers will be contacted as soon as possible.
• Surveys:  Thank you for your patience regarding all of the big changes that were implemented at this past festival. We are so excited to read your surveys and receive your input as we work together to improve the festival experience each and every year. If you did not have a chance to do so at the festival, or just have something to add, please click here fill out Strawberry’s Spring 2022 Survey.
• COVID-19 Policy & Ticket Exchange:  Patrons who did not attend due to illness are eligible to exchange for tickets to next year’s festival. Customers who uploaded a positive COVID-19 test result to CrowdPass are eligible to receive a refund of their ticket value. To request a refund or exchange of Spring 2022 tickets per Strawberry’s COVID-19 policy please mail unused tickets, and a brief explanation, to the Strawberry office by June 30, 2022. Thank you for your consideration of others and willingness to cooperate with Strawberry’s COVID-19 policy.
• No Fall 2022 Strawberry:  Strawberry’s Fall Festival is on hold for the time being while we assess the risk from the changing fire climate in California, and so we can put all our effort into making one annual event the best it can be.
• Donations:  You may have noticed how money came pouring into the Info Booth after Steve Poltz’s spontaneous call for donations to the local fire department, during his Main Stage set on Sunday afternoon. It came as quite a surprise to us, as well as to the firefighters manning Grass Valley Fire Department Station 1 when we dropped off the $899 cash contribution after the festival ended. Thank you all, and especially to Steve Poltz, for allowing us to be the ambassador of your goodwill!

It is clear that the Strawberry Way is alive and well. Whether you were there in person, or with us in spirit, we can all continue to embrace the energy that culminated at this year’s Strawberry Music Festival after four decades in the making. We hope your festival experience was as memorable as ours and look forward to seeing you in 2023!

1-Day tickets for Saturday, May 28^th are now sold out for this year’s Spring Strawberry. Thank you so much for your support and enthusiasm

Thursday, Friday, and Sunday 1-Day tickets, as well as most adult Camping ticket types are still available for a limited time. Tickets can be purchased online 24/7 or by calling the office M-F, 10-4 at (209) 984-8630.