10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco. Hear
the songs, try a hand at shipboard work or create traditional arts & cra•s of the sea. Alisdair Fraser, Andy M.
Stewart and Gerry O’Beirne, Danny and Joyce McLeod,
The Johnson Girls, Holdstock & MacLeod, Oak Ash &
Thorn, Lintie, Shay & Shosi Black, Riggy Rackin, Richard
Adrianowicz & Peter Kasin & more. Info: (415) 556-6435,
www.nps.gov/safr/local/seafest_2005.html
Dana Point Tall Ships Festival
September 10-11
Ocean Institute, Dana Point, CA. Foggy Dew, When Pigs Fly,
Tom Lewis, Bill Dempsey & Connie Allen, Ken Graydon
& more. Demonstrations, crafts, food, ship tours. Info:
(949 496-2274, www.tallshipsfestival.com
Berkeley Old-Time Music Convention
September 15-18
Freight & Salvage, Berkeley Farmers Market, Ashkenaz,
The Jupiter & more. Squaredance, concerts, workshops,
old time cabaret, clogging workshop, jamming at all
times, & a stringband contest. Stairwell Sisters, Larry
Hanks, Mike Seeger, Roadoilers, Kenny Hall Band, Eric
& Suzy Thompson, and more. Info:www.berkeleyoldtimemusic.org
Jammin Tree Didgeridoo Festival
September 15-18
Northfork Community Center & Campground, North
Fork, CA. Workshops, performances, camping. Info: (559) 642-6434,
www.jtdidgefest.com
Millpond Music Festival
September 16-18
Millpond County Park, Bishop, CA. Sarah Lee Guthrie
& Johnny Irion, Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca, Paul
Stone, Ciunas, Elvin Bishop, Linda Tillery & The Cultural
Heritage Choir and more. Info: (760) 873-8014, (800) 874-0669,
www.inyo.org/millpond
9th Annual Cajun/Zydeco Festival
September 17
Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont CA. Traditional
Cajun & Zydeco music & dancing. The Lost Bayou
Ramblers & Tommy Michot with Edward Poullard,
Brian Jack & the Zydeco Gamblers & more. Food, vendors, dance lessons. Info: (510) 636-1684,
www.ebparks.org/spevents.htm#cajunzydeco
Julian Bluegrass Festival
September 17-18
Frank Lane Park, Julian, CA. Workshops: Guitar, Fiddle,
Mandolin, Banjo, Vocals. Castleberry Creek, Kahuna
Cowboys Jug Band, The Brombies, Lighthhouse,
Grassology, & more. Info: (760) 480-0086,
www.julianbluegrassfestival.com
KlezCalifornia
September 17-18
Berkeley/Richmond JCC. Saturday night concert with
Veretski Pass & local Klezmer bands, and dance party.
Sunday immersion: Klezmer for kids & families, dancing, literature, yiddish, crafts, Yiddishkayt, wonderful
Klezmer music classes with experts. Info: (415) 789-7679,
www.klezcalifornia.org
San Francisco Blues Festival
September 24-25
Great Meadow, Fort Mason, SF. Huey Lewis and the
News, Howard Tate, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Mavis
Staples, Angela Strehli, Campbell Brothers, Nora Jean
Bruso & more. Info: (415) 979-5588,
www.sfblues.com
Loch Lomond Highland Games
October 1
Highlands Park, Ben Lomond, CA. Celtic Music, games,
clans & societies, reenactment. Info: (831) 457-6716,
www.lochlomondceltic.org/games.htm
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
October 1-2
Speedway Meadows, Golden Gate Park, SF, CA. FREE!
Hazel Dickens, Gillian Welch, Dolly Parton, Be Good
Tanyas, Ralph Stanley, Wake the Dead, Doc Watson with
David Holt & Richard Watson & many more. Info:
www.strictlybluegrass.com
8th Annual Train Song Festival
October 1
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Old Poway Park, Poway, CA. 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Music
inspired by the history and culture surrounding railroads. Train-related vendors & displays, train robberies,
arts & crafts, and kids’ entertainment. Ride the 1907
Baldwin No. 3 Steam Engine. Info: (858) 668-4576,
www.powaymidlandrr.org/songfest.htm
WoMaMu Fall Retreat
Oct 7-9
Walker Creek Ranch, near Point Reyes, CA. Women of
all ages & abilities welcome. Singing, guitar, dulcimer,
washboard, comedy improv, & a great time for all.
Info: Lynne (541) 245-9540,
www.womamu.org
Central Valley Blues Festival
October 8-9
Courthouse Park, Merced, CA. Texas Blues. Smokin’ Joe
Kubek & Bnois King, Anson Funderburg & the Rockets
featuring Sam Meyers, & more. Info: (209) 383-4958,
www.centralvalleybluesfestival.com
BACDS Fall Weekend
October 14-16
Monte Toyon Camp, Aptos, CA. Family-friendly, highly
eclectic mix of dance, music, and singing workshops.
English Dance & Music, Contra Dance & Music, singing
and more. Info: (650) 365-2913,
www.bacds.org/camps/fallwk2005
Country Roads Weekend
October 14-16
Mount Madonna County Park, between Gilroy and
Watsonville, CA. Camping fee $15 and program fee $5
for adults, kids free. Relaxed play-music-together-sing
and-perform-around-the-campfire weekend.
Info: Anna Green (408) 379-4090,
www.sfbay.net/swmusic
West Coast Ragtime Festival
November 18-20
Red Lion Hotel, Sacramento, CA. 6 venues for listening
& dancing to every kind of ragtime & ragtime related
music. Jamming, dance instruction, seminars, open piano,
piano lessons, Ragtime Collectors Exchange.
Info:
(916) 457-3324,
www.westcoastragtime.com/05wcrf-home.htm
54th Kolo Festival
November 25-26
Russian Center, 2450 Sutter Street. Dance, singing and
music classes, culture lectures & a Saturday night concert.
Instructors in Turkish, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian
and Northern Greek dance and culture.
Info:(800) 730-5615,
www.balkantunes.org/kolofestival
Adam Miller Library Concerts
October 29, 30; December 15
Great, FREE family concerts in Bay Area public libraries,
with folk singer and autoharp virtuoso Adam Miller,
10/29 JFK Library, Vallejo, Halloween Concert; 10/30
Dublin Library, Dublin, Halloween Concert; 12/15 Ripon
Library, Ripon, Holiday Concert;
Info: (650) 804-2049,
www.Folksinging.org