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SAVE5 can be used for $5 off Fall 2025 Adult Camping tickets until 11:59 pm PDT on Monday, June 30th — that’s tonight! Get your tickets at the link below.
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FALL SAVE5 DISCOUNT ENDS SOON!
The perfect time to buy tickets to the Fall 2025 Strawberry Music Festival? Well, really, anytime between now and October 16th . . . but it’s an especially good time right now! Our SAVE5 Discount ends soon!
🍓 SAVE5 can be used for $5 off Fall 2025 Adult Camping tickets until 11:59 pm PDT on Monday, June 30th. Don’t miss out!
PERFORMER SPOTLIGHT – ALASDAIR FRASER & NATALIE HAAS
The musical partnership between consummate performer Alasdair Fraser, “the Michael Jordan of Scottish fiddling”, and brilliant Californian cellist Natalie Haas spans the full spectrum between intimate chamber music and ecstatic dance energy.
Fraser and Haas “[…] make the fiddle and cello – or as Alasdair puts it ‘wee fiddle’ and ‘big fiddle’ – sound like they were made for each other.” – Dave McNally, KLOF Mag
Fraser has a concert and recording career spanning over 30 years, with a long list of awards, accolades, radio and television credits, and feature performances on top movie soundtracks (Last of the Mohicans, Titanic, etc.). In 2011, he was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame. Haas, a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, is one of the most sought after cellists in traditional music today. She has performed and recorded with a who’s who of the fiddle world including Mark O’Connor, Natalie MacMaster, Irish supergroups Solas and Altan, and many more.
Over the last 20 years of creating a buzz at festivals and concert halls across the world, they have truly set the standard for fiddle and cello in traditional music. They continue to thrill audiences internationally with their virtuosic playing, their near-telepathic understanding, and the joyful spontaneity and sheer physical presence of their music.
Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas will join us at Strawberry on Friday, October 17 at 5:45 pm. Listen and learn more here!
SPRING 2025 PHOTO GALLERY
The Spring 2025 Photo Gallery is here!
Please enjoy a selection of photos from the Spring 2025 Strawberry Music Festival here.
Thank you to the Strawberry photographers who worked the whole festival to capture and create moments of magic, fun, music, and love!
📸 Dave Bonnot, Evan Thompson, Kate Skogen, Robin Frenette, Tim Konrad, Tim Van Raam
TICKET UPDATE: FALL 4-DAY SOLD OUT!
FALL 4-DAY CAMPING TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT!
Worry not! We still have other ticket options available, including 4-Night, 3-Day/Night, and 2-Day as well as ALL 1-Day tickets! Get yours HERE 24/7 or call us at (209) 984-8630, M-Th, 10:00 am-3:00 pm.
Please note that our 4-Day Camping Ticket is the earliest admittance available for Fall and is also the most limited in quantity. The next in arrival time and quantity is the 4-Night. As a reminder, the 4-Day arrival time for pre-banding is 10:30 am and the entry time is NOON, while the 4-Night arrival time for pre-banding is 1:30 pm and the entry time is 3:00 pm. Both the 4-Day and 4-Night Camping Tickets are guaranteed entry on Thursday, October 16.
PHOTO CREDIT: Shelby McAuliffe
PERFORMER SPOTLIGHT – LAURIE LEWIS & THE RIGHT HANDS
Laurie Lewis has carved out a unique, superlative niche in American roots music occupied by almost no other musicians or creators. A multi-GRAMMY nominee, Lewis is a forebear and contemporary of so many bluegrass, old-time, and folk greats. Over more than fifty years in music she has established herself as a truly singular voice, instrumentalist, and frontwoman in genres that lionize tradition, “authenticity,” and emulation.
“Bay Area music icon Laurie Lewis has been captivating her fans for the last five decades. With timely and timeless tunes, her voice and songs have captured moments in time of lives well lived and challenged, beauty in nature that is changing all around us, and a spit and fire that rises up and denies victory to opposition.” – Brenda Hough, California Bluegrass Association
Her latest album, Trees, finds Lewis’s music-making rooted in the natural world – as on many past recordings – with a measured and often melancholy view of life, loss, and grief that’s resplendent and complicated.
“Lewis’s lyrical ear is evident, whether catching songs from other songwriters or collecting lines for songs of her own. Music lovers, particularly John Prine fans, will find “Why’d You Have to Break My Heart So Early in the Day?” […] poignant, inspired by a comment from the late singer-songwriter as Lewis exited the stage after a morning set at the Strawberry Music Festival. The line eventually found its way into a song after she heard the news of Prine’s death on a morning years later.” – Nancy Posey, No Depression
An avid walker, Lewis is both an urban explorer and a wilderness wanderer – plus a self-taught naturalist and conservation activist. Her skillset in songwriting and recording is usually looking outward, text-painting to evoke the landscapes she adores and to relay their speaking to us. On Trees, Lewis looks inward instead, utilizing all of the literary and naturalist skills at her disposal to observe and process seasonal, organic, inevitable life changes.
Please join us in welcoming back the incomparable Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands! Don’t miss them on the Main Stage at 7:15pm on Friday, October 17. Listen and learn more here.
LOW INVENTORY: 4-DAY CAMPING TICKETS
Fall 4-Day Camping Tickets are almost sold out!
Please note that our 4-Day Camping Ticket is the earliest admittance available for Fall and is also the most limited in quantity.
Luckily, we still have other ticket options available, including 4-Night, 3-Day/Night, and 2-Day as well as ALL 1-Day tickets! Get yours here 24/7 or call us at (209) 984-8630, M-Th, 10:00 am-3:00 pm.
FINAL MAIN STAGE SCHEDULE
Friday the 13th is NOT unlucky over here at Strawberry! The FINAL Main Stage Schedule is here.
We are also excited to announce David Jacobs-Strain & Bob Beach on Friday at the Play Stage and an initial lineup for the Sunday Morning Revival!
Stay tuned here, through our email list, and on our Instagram and Facebook — more announcements for the Fall 2025 Strawberry Music Festival are coming soon! ALL ticket types for Fall 2025 are on sale now. Tickets can be ordered online 24/7 or by phone at (209) 984-8630, M–Th, 10:00 am–3:00 pm.
FALL 2025 LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT
Please give a warm welcome to Poi Rogers! They will join us at the Sunday Morning Revival on October 19th.
Somewhere in-between the tropical lounges of 1930s Los Angeles and the honky tonk beer joints of rural 1950s California, you’ll find Poi Rogers. Hailing from Santa Cruz, CA, the duo performs original and vintage American roots music, with Gerard Egan doubling on acoustic guitar and triple neck steel and Carolyn Sills on standup bass, their timeless harmonies anchoring the show.
What began as a fun way for the couple to explore the vintage musical styles they love turned into an in-demand touring act, with Poi Rogers ‘accidentally’ playing almost 200 shows since 2023. Their debut album, Twilight Blues, is out in June of 2025, a collection of eight songs that are both cinematic snapshots from Gerard and Carolyn’s life together and witty odes to their antiquated passions.
SPRING 2025 SURVEY
We would love to hear from you about the Spring 2025 Strawberry Music Festival! Please find our Spring 2025 Survey here.
