The Spring 2024 Photo Gallery is live! 🍓🏕️🪕
Check out all the photos here.
Thank you to the Strawberry photographers who worked the whole festival to capture and create moments of magic, love, music, and fun!
📸 : Kate Skogen, Dave Bonnot, Tim Van Raam, Tim Konrad, Robin Frenette, Evan Thompson, Adam Metterville
It is with a heavy heart that we share the sad news that longtime Strawberry volunteer and friend, Stan Stratton, passed away last week.
It has been difficult to find the words for this message and to acknowledge this unexpected loss. Stan was unable to attend this past festival, which was the first one he had missed since his first in 1991, because his camper van broke down and could not carry him to us from his home in Springfield, Oregon. None of us could imagine that there would not be another opportunity to share a Strawberry hug with our dear friend, to delight in the fresh strawberries or the homemade fudge (made using his grandmother’s recipe) that Stan would pass out at our festival staff meetings on Wednesday night, to admire the collection of wristbands he wore proudly affixed to his signature beret, or to hear one of many epic Strawberry stories that—like Stan—bettered with age.
To say that Stan was personally invested in the Strawberry festival family would be an understatement. Besides being a supportive ally year-round to his festival friends, he had endeavored to photo document most, if not all, festival camp banners. These photographs can be found in the Camp Photo Gallery available for all to enjoy on the Strawberry website. His contributions to the Strawberry experience through his work with the Camping Assistance crew, and as a force for good within our music loving community, are too numerous to name and will not be forgotten.
Our deepest condolences go out to Stan’s family and friends, as we hold you all in the sacred space of one loving Strawberry heart. We will imagine Stan’s spirit with our other lost loved ones in that big beautiful festival in the sky where, eventually, we all hope to continue to revel in love, laughter, peace-making, nature, frivolity, and music.
Here’s to you, and the life you lived, dearest Stan!
Photo Credit Dave Bonnot
Thank you to everyone who attended the Spring 2024 Strawberry Music Festival! We are grateful to be part of a passionate and caring community of music and art lovers who made this year’s Strawberry Music Festival such a memorable occasion!
We are especially eager to give accolades to the people who keep the festival running smoothly.
Thank you to our volunteers who are committed to contributing their time and skills AND to the devoted crew leaders and coordinators who dedicate many hours to organizing volunteers and managing various departments before, during, and after the event. We are also grateful for the diverse group of vendors, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and workshop presenters who provide delectable food and drink, activities and entertainment, essential services, and unique shopping opportunities at Strawberry. Their participation supports a program of non-stop festival fun and frivolity.
In addition, Strawberry is honored and enamored by the stellar musicians, representing a variety of genres, who played for us everywhere from the Main Stage to campground jams. This gathering would not be possible without an enthusiastic audience of patrons who literally and figuratively invest in cultivating a quality community experience. Last but not least, we would like to thank all of the fantastic folks working at the Nevada County Fairgrounds who have welcomed and supported Strawberry’s Spring Festival nine times over the last ten years.
Please note that Strawberry’s home office will reopen for business on Monday, June 3rd, and our office staff will be available 10:00am – 2:00pm, Monday – Wednesday at (209) 984-8630 or info@strawberrymusic.com. Thank you for your patience while we unpack our supplies and begin to address the following post-festival wrap-up items:
