We are pleased to announce that John McCutcheon, and David Jacobs-Strain & Bob Beach will be joining us in October for Fall 2025 Strawberry!
Visit our Fall Lineup page to listen to and learn more about each performer.
Stay tuned here and on our website — more lineup announcements for the Fall are coming soon! ALL ticket types for 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.
Lizzie No is a folk rock band, a singer-songwriter, and a revolutionary artist in the Black Womanist tradition. Their acclaimed genre-defying third studio album, ‘Halfsies,’ was released in 2024. Rolling Stone named Lizzie one of their “Future 25” artists of the year, and country ballad “The Heartbreak Store” was nominated for International Song of the Year at the Americana UK awards. The ‘Halfsies’ tour made stops all across the United States and Europe, including shows with Iron & Wine and Dispatch. In January 2025, they released the electrifying live album ‘Commie Country.’
As co-host of the Basic Folk podcast and contributing writer at the Bluegrass Situation, Lizzie has interviewed luminaries from across the roots music universe, including Ben Harper, Molly Tuttle, Swamp Dogg, and Billy Bragg.
Lizzie was born in the Bronx, raised in New Jersey, and now resides in North Nashville when off the road. They are funding their artistic pursuits via OnlyFans under the username handsomelizzie. No is a graduate of Stanford University, a dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and Berlin’s mom. Berlin is a dog and a wizard.
Don’t miss Lizzie No at Strawberry on May 23rd! Learn more here.
We are excited to announce that Lizzie No will be performing at 7:15pm on Friday, May 23rd! Visit Lizzie No’s performer profile here about this very talented artist on the rise.
Please note that Black Opry Revue will no longer be making an appearance at Strawberry this spring. Thank you!
Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan have been playing their unique blend of guitar and harmonica blues, rags, and good time music to widely diverse audiences for over 45 years.
Ball and Sultan “not only carry out traditions with respect and reverence, but they play with swift passion and fury, as good as it gets when you pair these two instruments.” – The Country Blues, thecountryblues.com
Together and separately they have worked on countless film scores, TV soundtracks, commercials and sessions. They’ve appeared on television internationally, have played for audiences of 300 million via Voice of America and are frequent guests of National Public Radio. Between them, they have issued 15 CDs, 12 instructional books, two novels and several DVDs. Ball has played on nearly 300 CDs, and Sultan was recently honored by Martin Guitars with his own Signature Model 000-18KS.
Please welcome Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan back for their sixteenth Strawberry since their 1984 debut on Thursday, May 22nd! Listen and learn more here.
When a stage four lymphoma diagnosis forced him off the road and into the hospital, Chuck Prophet didn’t know if he’d live long enough to see the end of the year, let alone get back on tour.
“I was going through a tunnel,” he recalls. “It was dark. But I had music: music to play, music to listen to, music to get me out of my head. Music was my savior.”
That much is plain to hear on Wake The Dead, Prophet’s extraordinary new album. Recorded with band of brothers ¿Qiensave?, the collection explores the world of Cumbia music, which consumed and comforted Prophet during his illness and subsequent recovery. The songs are intoxicatingly rhythmic, all but demanding you move your body, with arrangements that blur the lines between tradition and innovation. There are flashes of rock and roll, punk, surf, and soul, all filtered through the streets of San Francisco and wrapped up in a genre that traces its roots back to the jungles of South America.
“There’s something about dancing that’s life affirming,” says Prophet. “It’s a means of personal expression and celebration and human connection no matter where you come from or what language you speak.”
Like so many of life’s little joys, it’s something Prophet—who’s now in full remission—appreciates now more than ever. “It’s a good day to walk on water / Good day to swallow your pride,” he sings in the album’s final moments. “Good day to call your mother / Oh, it’s a good day to be alive.”
It’ll be a good day on Saturday, May 24th, when Chuck Prophet and His Cumbia Shoes take the stage at Strawberry! Listen and learn more here.
It is with a heavy heart and an abundance of fond memories that we share the sad news Linda Hinshaw (affectionately known as Miz Linda) passed away last weekend. Our collective Strawberry heart goes out to Linda’s family and wider circle of friends.
Miz Linda first attended Strawberry in 1984 as a member of the Gate crew with Ricky Chicky and her family friend, Caroline Gann. Later on, she was assigned to traffic management and stationed at the road to Birch Lake for the Monday exit. At some point along the way, Miz Linda brought co-worker Stan Stratton to Strawberry, who became a lifelong friend and festival campmate. When Strawberry moved to the Nevada County Fairgrounds in 2014, Linda and Stan joined the Camping Assistance crew, where they worked together with friends Barry (Big Bear) and Maline Hazle, helping campers find their spots and parking RVs.
Anyone who goes way back with Strawberry has a fun story about hanging with Miz Linda. One year, Linda saved up all her used purple lighters so she could plant them in and around Stan’s van throughout the festival. There was at least one epic night/morning spent at Rock in the Road with JD. Or when Linda helped serve food to firefighters when the Fall Festival was postponed, and Camp Mather became a fire camp for the ‘87 Stanislaus Complex Fire. There was also the time when Strawberry crews arrived at Camp Mather to find there were no mattresses in any of the cabins. When the mattresses were delivered the day before the gates opened, Linda, Ranger Roger, Ricky Chicky, Steve, Eloy, Mitch, and a few others distributed mattresses into the wee hours of the morning. Reportedly, not one of them complained.
Miz Linda was an absolute force of nature who was very passionate about the people and things she loved. Many Strawberrians will remember Linda as stylish and rugged, wearing her signature black cowgirl hat, as well as the years when a whip was part of the ensemble. We will never forget Miz Linda’s enthusiastic support of Strawberry, how she would whoop and cheer at the staff meetings on Wednesday night, and what that meant to us when times were tough. She will be loved, missed, and remembered as a cherished part of the Strawberry community.
Rest in peace, dear friend. We hope you are having fun with Stan, Big Bear, and many others at the big Strawberry in the sky. <3<3<3
Music fans know Chris Webster and Nina Gerber as two of the most skilled and artful musical talents. Webster’s voice is uniquely compelling while Gerber’s guitar is beautiful and powerful. Together, they’re magic.
Nina Gerber toured and recorded with the late Kate Wolf from 1978-1986. She has since worked with Karla Bonoff, Dave Alvin, Peter Rowan, Eliza Gilkyson, and Greg Brown, to name just a few. Nina has a distinct ability to completely free herself within an eclectic range of styles. Presented with folk, country, bluegrass, rock, or blues, she is able to fall into leads which have rare reverence for the true feeling of a song, always emphasizing taste over technical display. Gerber’s latest CD, Time is Funny That Way, is out now and features guest vocals by Chris Webster, Laurie Lewis, Peter Rowan and Duo Quartet.
Chris Webster has been a lead singer for one of the best known Northern Californian acts, Mumbo Gumbo, for over 25 years. Combining elegance and grace with a foot-shuffling manner, Webster has a purity and beauty about her that is seldom seen and never forgotten. She can cut to the bone with tender, unrequited songs of love-gone-wrong then slap you upside the head with a fistful of lyrics and a take-charge melody that makes you step aside, stand back, and listen.
Chris Webster and Nina Gerber will make magic on the Strawberry stage on Saturday, May 24! Listen and learn more here.
The Spring 2025 Strawberry Music Festival poster is here!
The poster was designed by longtime Strawberry collaborator and artist David Boring. Thank you!
Gorgeous jewelry, unique ceramics, stylish clothing, stunning woodwork, fine art prints, and more! The Strawberry Artisans Tent has a wide range of beautiful handmade arts and crafts. Read more about each Spring 2025 Artisan here!
Comprised of Don Mitchell, Auyon Mukharji, Harris Paseltiner and David Senft, Darlingside’s career has been defined by the elegance of their compositions and the unity of their four voices.
Everything is Alive, Darlingside’s fourth LP, decisively exposes and differentiates the individual voices of the four songwriters—a daring reinvention for a group known for ubiquitous vocal harmonies. Grappling with change both personal and universal, with quandaries domestic and existential, Everything Is Alive is an album about loss and the struggle for a semblance of redemption.
With the release of Everything Is Alive, the band will, for the first time, take to the road without Dave Senft. Instead of filling his spot directly, the band has wisely chosen to honor the special chemistry of the foursome by letting those arrangements live on the recordings without obligation to faithfully recreate them onstage.
In the words of Darlingside, they are: “‘A group of odd-but-approachable friends who make music that exists somewhere on the folk-Americana spectrum! Lots of harmonies, lots of instruments, no screaming.’” — Cameron Poole, House of Solo
It’s a rare thing and becoming rarer by the day: a group of musicians with that emulsifying magic to make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. And to see Darlingside perform live is to confirm this special chemistry.
Join us to witness this special chemistry on Thursday, May 22nd! Listen and learn more here.
