Don’t miss out on this discount for Fall 2025!
SAVE10 can be used for $10 off Fall 2025 Adult Camping tickets until 11:59 pm PDT on Wednesday, April 30th.
There are less than 30 days to get a FREE Strawberry May 2025–April 2026 calendar. One custom full-color calendar will be included per order when you purchase at least one Adult Camping ticket to BOTH Spring and Fall Festivals! The calendar is also available to purchase on our website for $25, shipping and sales tax included.
As the official voice of Strawberry, Hog Ranch Radio (“The Hog”) at 88.3 FM keeps the entire campground in tune, 24/7, with live music and up-to-the-minute information. In addition to being a vital source of all things Strawberry, festival goers also experience perhaps the most wonderful radio station they’ve ever heard.
HISTORY
It all began some 40 years ago when the festival founders recruited freeform radio legend Thom O’hair (KSAN) to create something completely new—a festival radio station.
Thom recruited fellow pirates Bix Beeman, Gregg McVicar and a few other clever tech heads to help launch Hog Ranch Radio, aka “The Hog”. The initial setup was a 10×10 pop-up tent in a Camp Mather meadow known as “Hog Ranch”. Long before Camp Mather became home to Strawberry (1983-2013), there was an old barn in the meadow with a large mural of a sheep painted across the side. Ranchers in the area said it looked more like a hog than a sheep, so the meadow became known as “Hog Ranch”. The name was a naturally funky fit, so the radio pirates adopted it as their own.
With the help of countless volunteers, including many brilliant engineers, Hog Ranch Radio has grown from a simple dirt-floor tent with an old mixer, a couple of Walkman cassettes and a small hand-made transmitter (see photo), into a sophisticated live broadcast recording studio.
WHY IT’S COOL
The Hog is tapped into all of the Strawberry stages and workshops, so the music comes to you wherever you are! Parents especially enjoy The Hog because they can still catch a new band while hanging in camp during nap time (or while participating in the many Strawberry Kids Activities). In between live performances, Hog radio hosts provide updates on schedule changes, lost children, festival safety tips, and more.
In addition to Main Stage performances, the Hog facilitates endless fun through the airwaves via The Breakfast Club, Band Scramble, Amy’s Orchid Lounge, live camp jams, open mic at the Hog Pickin’ Porch, artist interviews, as well as the voices of real Strawberrians captured “in the wild”.
The Hog also spins Strawberry flashbacks from the vast archive of previous shows, and this flow continues all night long.
IMPORTANCE
Over the years there have been many stories of The Hog coming to the rescue to help solve the problems which can arise in a village of several thousand people: lost kids, water shortages, fire danger… in fact, when a festival at Camp Mather was canceled because of an approaching forest fire, The Hog was already set-up, so CAL FIRE commandeered the airwaves to communicate with its firefighters up in the hills! Likewise, the CHP and other agencies have relied on The Hog for instant outreach to the festival. Usually the Hog is just pure fun, but you never know when a critically important message needs to reach the campgrounds. Radio is the original social media!
YOUR CAMPGROUND CONNECTION
The Hog adds peak value to the Strawberry experience when every camp tunes in. When all attendees are on the same wavelength, accurate information (not rumors) spreads quickly, as does maximum fun! Join the new generation of Hog hosts and listeners — keep that radio on and tuned to 88.3 FM!
THIS YEAR’S CONTEST
The Hog has several great contests planned this year. Each day of the festival there will be opportunities for listeners to win great prizes like Hog merch and Amy’s Orchid Lounge tickets, so don’t forget to pack your radio!
Honey Run is made up of husband-and-wife bluegrass duo Owen Ragland and Kat Baker. In 2020, Ragland and Baker found themselves playing live streams, and as the pandemic began to wind down, Honey Run started touring as a bluegrass duo playing across California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
In 2023, Honey Run released their first collection of recordings, Gluebrass, an EP of reworked traditional bluegrass and folk songs.Their first full length album, Days Gone By, is coming in Spring 2025 and tells the story of many lives through original songs assembled by the multi-instrumentalist duo.
Honey Run plays a variety of new takes on traditional songs as well as original bluegrass and folk music. The full sound that accompanies the thoughtful lyrics and catchy melodies ranges from tender to downright fun, and their storytelling and friendly banter brings the audience into the worlds of their songs.
Honey Run takes the Strawberry stage on Friday, May 23rd! Listen and learn more here.
The legendary Amy’s Orchid Lounge keeps the music going! Join us at Ponderosa Hall for Strawberry Late Night on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Doors at 11:00pm, music starts at 11:15pm.
Prefer to drift peacefully to sleep while listening to your radio? We got you. Hog Ranch Radio broadcasts the performances all three nights.
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Tickets for Amy’s Orchid Lounge can be purchased for $10 on-site at Hog Ranch Radio starting at 10am on the day of the show. Tickets to the festival @ link in bio.
Abby Posner has been a working musician in Los Angeles for more than eighteen years. She is best known for her ability to play nearly any instrument that she can get her hands on, twisting genres, and pushing the boundaries of folk, roots, electronic, and pop music — making her “Genre Fluid.”
Posner “…understands the craft & captivates through her concise vocals, with clarity & emotion. Words are chosen carefully, acoustic & banjo notes plucked with razzle-dazzle but no showboating. She turns out one lovely melody after another & with lyrical ingenuity.” — John Apice, Americana Highways
If you have seen Posner perform live, you know she can play a fierce lead-blues guitar solo, or throw down a complex Earl Scruggs banjo riff. You also may have spotted her playing drums, mandolin, or bass while using her looping pedal. In addition to her versatility, she puts passion and soul into everything she does. Posner’s live shows are simply mesmerizing, with songs ranging from intimate haunting folk songs, to upbeat festival/dance-your-pants-off hits.
Abby Posner will be joined by Paula Fong at Strawberry. Don’t miss the duo on Friday, May 23rd! Listen and learn more here.
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The Spring 2025 Strawberry Street Team Contest starts TODAY! See how to qualify and submit below for a chance to win ticket(s)! Two lucky contestants will be randomly selected from submitted entries and announced on Monday, May 5.
First place will receive one 4-Day Adult camping ticket (valued at $400) and second place will receive a pair of 1-Day passes (valued at $220) for the day of their choosing!
Please carefully read all entry requirements below.
TO QUALIFY
TO SUBMIT
Your photos can be submitted via email and Instagram. Please pick one platform, and do not duplicate submissions! Please submit your photos by 11:59PM on Sunday, May 4.
If you have questions, please call us at (209) 984-8630 or email list@strawberrymusic.com. Thank you for helping us to spread the word about Strawberry, and good luck!
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.
