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TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE GATE

Our favorite way to start the week is with good news! 

We WILL have 2-Day, 3-Day/3-Night and 4-Day/Night camping as well as Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 1-Day tickets available at the gate! 

Strawberry is calling, and I must go.

📸: Adam Metterville, Evan Thompson, Robin Frenette, Tim Konrad

WEATHER FORECAST & WHAT TO PACK

We come before the weather gods, humble and optimistic…

The weather for the Spring 2025 Strawberry Music Festival is looking gorgeous! Forecast are in the mid-80s for the first two days of the festival and then cooling down slightly to the mid-70s for the weekend proper. Lows at night will stay pretty consistent in the mid to high 50s range. 

If you need any tips and suggestions on what to pack to make the most of your Strawberry, make sure to check out our list!

Forecast as of Friday, May 16 at 12:00pm

COMPOST BINS AT STRAWBERRY

From offering festival-wide recycling services and working to eliminate the internal use of single-use plastic, we are always striving to make Strawberry more environmentally sustainable. 

In this pursuit, we have added a new service — compost bins will be available to dispose of green waste this year! There are 5 different stations, and station locations can be found on the festival map here. Please refer to the signage at each station regarding what can and cannot be placed in compost bins. Unfortunately, items such as compostable bags and cutlery are NOT accepted as compost by Waste Management. 

Please also refer to the above graphic for information on what is accepted (Organics). We are unable to sort compost at this time, so please help us keep bins from being contaminated with unacceptable materials and sent to the landfill. If you are not sure an item can go into the bins, please err on the side of caution. Let’s work together to ensure this service is successful! 

Just remember: When on needles and pins, don’t place it in the bins!

Thank you!

SPRING 2025 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE AND FAMILY ACTIVITIES

Patience may be a virtue, but why keep our lovely Strawberrians waiting? The full Spring 2025 Performance and Family Activities schedules are here!

It is time to start planning your weekend, but first, we have to announce some changes to the schedules:

  • Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan will no longer be making an appearance at Amy’s. 
  • Jimbo Scott and Yesterday’s Biscuits and Darlingside will comprise the schedule for Amy’s on Thursday night!
  • The Nevada County Narrow Gauge Historical Model Railroad will be open on Friday and Saturday, not Saturday and Sunday. 

Check out the full-sized pages by clicking the images above, and find out more about our Family Activities here!

Thank you!

UPDATES TO AMY’S SCHEDULE

Let’s try this again!

We are excited to announce that Jimbo Scott & Yesterday’s Biscuits and Darlingside will play at Amy’s on Thursday night!

Join us at Ponderosa Hall for Strawberry Late Night on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Doors at 11:00pm, music starts at 11:15pm. 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 available here.

STROLL UPDATES & ONE WEEK UNTIL THE FESTIVAL

In approximately seven days, 18 hours, one minute, and four seconds, we will be back together again at the Spring 2025 Strawberry Music Festival! 

With only one week left, what better time than now to go over some updates to the Strawberry Stroll? Please carefully read the updates below:

The start time and location of the Stroll line has changed

  • Attendees may begin to line up at 2:00pm on Thursday and at 4:00am on Friday–Sunday. 
  • The line will be located ON the Music Meadow and can only be entered from the South Gate (Near the Med Tent)
  • One line will split into two at the front, and a coin toss will determine which group goes first.

As always, our goal is to make the Strawberry Stroll fun and fair. See you all next week, and thank you!

SING FOR YOUR BREAKFAST SIGN UPS

A favorite Strawberry tradition, Breakfast Club’s “Sing for Your Breakfast” is now easier to sign up for than ever — sign ups are now available on our website! While Thursday’s performances will be scheduled online exclusively, you can still visit Hog Ranch Radio the day before the show, starting when the Music Meadow opens, to sign up.

Breakfast is served by and proceeds go to support Strawberry’s sponsor,
Rock In Road.

2025 FALL POSTER & LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT — ROUND SIX

The Spring Festival starts next week, the official Fall 2025 Poster is here, AND we have a final Fall lineup announcement for you?! Strawberrians, this might be paradise. 

Please give a warm welcome to Marley’s Ghost, Carolyn Sills, and The Brothers Strong!

Visit our Fall Lineup page to listen to and learn more about each performer.

Stay tuned here and on our website for more festival announcements. 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.

ANNOUNCING TONY FURTADO WITH LUKE PRICE

Please welcome Tony Furtado with Luke Price to the Spring 2025 Strawberry Music Festival!

Very few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as Tony Furtado embodies Americana roots music. 

Tony is an evocative and soulful singer, a wide-ranging songwriter and a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist adept on banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele who mixes and matches sounds and styles with the flair of a master chef (he’s also an accomplished sculptor, but that’s another story). All of the music of America is in Tony’s music. Relix hit the nail on the head when writing about Tony: “True talent doesn’t need categories.” 

Tony has performed throughout the world at top venues and appeared at such prestigious music festivals as the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, High Sierra Music Festival, Jazz Aspen, Kerrville Folk Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Sisters Folk Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, and Strawberry Music Festival.

We are excited to welcome back Tony Furtado to Strawberry! Tony will be joined by Luke Price on the fiddle at Strawberry. Catch him on the Main Stage on Friday, May 23rd at 2:15pm and at the Play Stage at 4:30pm. Tickets and tunes at the link in our bio! 

Please note The Langan Band will no longer be making an appearance at Strawberry.