The Strawberry Office is located in Jamestown, California. All mail can be sent to:
P. O. Box 664
Jamestown, CA 95327
The office can be contacted at 209.984.8630 or info@strawberrymusic.com.
Regular office hours are Monday – Thursday, 10:00 am–3:00 pm.
We are closed the week after each festival. In 2025, we will be closed May 27th–May 30th and October 21st–October 24th.
The Strawberry Way has been a winding road through the forests of the Sierra Nevada to several magical venues. Our first production, the Strawberry Bluegrass Festival, was held Labor Day weekend in 1982, near the town of Strawberry, California.
In 1983, the name stayed the same, but the venue changed to Camp Mather, near Yosemite National Park. On Memorial Day weekend in 1986, the “Strawberry Spring Music Festival” was added to the lineup. With that addition, Strawberry had both a Bluegrass Festival and a Spring Music Festival from 1986 to 1988. The names were unified as the Strawberry Music Festivals in 1989, with Camp Mather being the venue for both.
The catastrophic Rim Fire caused the cancellation of the Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 festivals, and necessitated another change in venue. The Fall 2014 festival moved to the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, California, as did the Spring 2015 festival. Then, for the next four years, the Fall Festival moved to Westside, in the town of Tuolumne, while the Spring Festival remained at Grass Valley. Coming out of the pandemic, Strawberry restarted the Spring Festivals in 2022, and FallFestivals in 2025 (now in mid-October), both at the Nevada County Fairgrounds.
The Strawberry Way is also a shorthand for our festival ethos: the shared responsibility that comes from camping out with family and friends, and the persistence of a culture that comes from working together, learning the hard stuff, and listening—really listening.
Jodi Barnett, General Manager
Kim Curbelo, Business Manager
Bix Beeman, Creative Director
Jan Cokely, Performer Production Advance
Rachael Gabriel, Marketing Director and Volunteer Coordinator
