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!
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!
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!
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.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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:
Lost & Found: We will use Lost Forms submitted at the Info Booth during the festival to contact those whose possessions we have found. Please let us know if you lost something and have not already submitted a Lost Form.
Problem Box (tickets lost/stolen/left at home): Customers who left their tickets at home can avoid the gate charge by mailing unused tickets to the office postmarked by Monday, June 17th. Tickets that were lost will be reviewed and reconciled in the order they were received.
Surveys: We are so excited to read your surveys and receive your input as we work together to improve the festival experience each year!
Fall Strawberry: The prospect of bringing back the Fall Strawberry Music Festival next year is the topic of the hour. Be on the lookout for a special survey coming later this summer to let us know your thoughts about the possibility of returning to a bi-annual festival format. You can also provide input by emailing info@strawberrymusic.com.
Stay tuned for a special post-fest contest to be presented by Strawberry’s Shuttle Crew.
