As another year comes to a close, we’d like to wish you and yours a happy, musical, and magical holiday season!

The Strawberry Office will be closed for the next two weeks. We will reopen on Monday, January 6th, eager and ready for the 2025 festival season to begin!

Starting at 10:00 am on January 7th, tickets will be available for purchase on our website here strawberrymusic.com/tickets or by calling us at (209) 984-8630, M–Th, 10:00am–3:00pm. 

RV Site reservations will be available in late January. Details regarding 2025 RV Site reservations will be posted at least one week in advance.  

Check out the link above for more information, and stay tuned for an important ticket announcement coming next week!!

We had so much fun resurrecting the Strawberry calendar last year, we simply had to bring it back again! 

There is a significant twist! We have returned to our traditional 12-month May 2025–April 2026 format for all you procrastinators out there.

Featuring photos from the Spring 2024 festival, the calendar will be available to purchase for $25 each, shipping and sales tax included. Starting on Tuesday, January 7th, the calendar will be available to purchase here.

We’d like to give a big thank you to our talented photographers: Dave Bonnot, Robin Frenette, Tim Konrad, Adam Metterville, Kate Skogen, Evan Thompson, and Tim Van Raam. And a special thanks to Dave Bonnot for his creative eye and design work on the calendar!

We hope you enjoy this snapshot of Strawberry!

November 26, 2024

We hope you have a lovely week, full of food, music, and laughter, spent with family and friends! 

This year, we are thankful for you all—for your passion, enthusiasm, and dedication to The Strawberry Way!

Photo Credit: Robin Frenette, Tim Konrad, Kate Skogen, Tim Van Raam

We come to you, hat in hand, with a very important correction to our lineup announcement. We would like to extend our sincerest apologies to The Banana Slugs and our gratitude to Katie Hoschouer, née Parsons, who pointed out our unfortunate error.

The Banana Slug String Band has not only performed on the Main Stage, they have performed THREE TIMES on the Main Stage! These truly epic appearances include:

🍌 A full set in Spring 1988

🐌 A 3-song “tweener” in Fall 2001

🍓 A full set in Fall 2002

Katie, who also provided the photo documentation, explained that she knows for a fact that the Banana Slugs have played the Main Stage before because she was invited on stage to play a lobster claw harmonica as “Blind Lemon Pledge” with her fellow BSSB Groupies, her sister Lizz and childhood best friend Catherine (AKA “The Slime Trax”) in 1988. They even had a theme song they would walk around camp singing!

So there you have it. We can’t wait to have the Banana Slug String Band on the Main Stage AGAIN to celebrate their 40th anniversary as a band!

The artists in this first round of lineup announcements are first-rate, superb, splendid, insanely talented. . . we could keep going. We are so excited to announce Main Stage performers for Spring AND Fall!

Spring 2025 performers include Dan Tyminski Band, East Nash Grass, John Reischman & The Jaybirds, The Slocan Ramblers, Water Tower, and—performing on the Main Stage for the first time ever—the Banana Slug String Band, celebrating their 40th anniversary as a band! 

Fall 2025 performers include Laurie Lewis, Becky Buller, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, and Broken Compass Bluegrass!

Visit our Spring Lineup and Fall Lineup pages to listen to and learn more about each performer!

Stay tuned here and on our website so you won’t miss a single lineup announcement. Camping tickets for 2025 go on sale Tuesday, January 7th. Tickets will be available to order online or by calling us at (209) 984-8630, M-W, 10:00am-2:00pm.

We can’t wait to be together TWICE next year!

It is with great pleasure that we announce the return of the Fall Strawberry Music Festival in 2025! One Strawberry Music Festival a year is not enough. We hope you are as excited as we are to be together twice next year!

Next year’s fall festival will take place October 17th–20th at the Nevada County Fairgrounds. The format for next year’s fall festival will be almost exactly the same as in the spring, with one big exception—the events will start one day later. We hope this change makes it easier for all Strawberrians to attend. 

While this re-inaugural fall event will only last four days total, with early entry on Thursday, October 16th, and Main Stage entertainment from Friday through Sunday, there will still be plenty of time for music to be played, memories to be made, and for The Strawberry Way to shine!

Strawberry times two means TWICE the good news! Please stay tuned for more details regarding tickets, RV sites, lineup, and general public service announcements for both the Spring and Fall 2025 Festivals. 

In the meantime, what do you say?!? Will you plan to be there at the Fall 2025 Strawberry Music Festival? For more information and to let us know your thoughts, reach out to us at info@strawberrymusic.com or (209) 984-8630 M–W, 10:00am–2:00pm.

Tickets for 2025 will go on sale at 10:00am on Tuesday, January 7th! While this is much later than our usual on-sale date, waiting until January will give us more time to prepare and to initiate volunteer coordination in advance of ticket sales.

Stay tuned for exciting news about next year’s Fall Festival, as well as more information about ticket prices, merchandise, RV site reservations, and lineup announcements.

We are counting down the days, and we hope you are too! 🍓🎵🏕️

The Spring 2025 Strawberry Music Festival will be May 21st–26th at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, California. For more information, email us at info@strawberrymusic.com or give us a call at (209) 984-8630. 

Speaking of which. . . the Strawberry Office will be open soon! 

Office hours will return to Monday–Wednesday, 10:00am–2:00pm starting Monday, November 4th. 

Our office staff is looking forward to serving this collective effort for goodness sake. We cannot wait to be in touch with you more soon about all things Strawberry!

The 2024 Band Stand Concert Fundraiser is just around the corner! Join us Saturday, October 19th, at the Inner Sanctum Basecamp in Columbia, CA from 3:00–8:00pm for an afternoon of music, games, and libations! Tickets can be purchased at the link here.

This event, sponsored by Rock In Road, supports the purchase and repair of instruments for local schools in Tuolumne County and beyond.

The lineup includes. . .

Lucky CuZn Brass Band

Rockin’ Rick & The Wranglers

Ty McCarthy

Honey Run

The Brothers Strong

We can’t wait to see you all there! 🎺 🎼 📣

This beauty of a gold nugget is being fitted with a bell cap clasp and will be wearable as a pendant. Thank you to Blue Mountain Minerals for sponsoring this gold nugget grand prize!

We are so excited to see you all this Saturday, September 28th, for the 40th Annual Columbia Fiddle & Bango Contest. Join as at the Gazebo on Main Street at the Columbia State Historic Park from 10:30am-5:00pm. For more information, contact us at 209.352.7853 or columbiafiddlebango@gmail.com.

The Fiddle & Bango Contest is sponsored by Rock In Road, the non-profit partner of the Strawberry Music Festival. Rock In Road supports youth music instruction in Tuolumne County. Contest entry costs $15. Contest attendance and parking is free.

We hope you join our friends over at the Frankly Bluegrass Music Festival for five days of music and camping this October 9th-13th!

Bluegrass music returns to Plymouth, CA in honor of Frank Solivan Sr. as. . . Frankly Bluegrass Music Festival!

Come on out and support the return of the bluegrass music to Plymouth, California! Enjoy up to five days of pure fun, music, jamming, and camping, all in loving memory of the late great Frank Solivan Sr., who was a dear friend, Strawberry staff member, and an instrumental force in CBA’s Kids on Bluegrass.

Lineup includes Special Consensus, Honey Buckets, Frank Solivan and Chris Luquette, Broken Compass Bluegrass, Crying Uncle, Kentucky Sky, Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa, David Adkins and Mountain Soul, and Central Valley Boys. And featuring performances from Kids on Bluegrass.

Tickets are on sale now! For tickets and more information about the festival, visit their website here: http://plymouthfranklybg.com.