RBA is an organizational member of the International Bluegrass Music Association

Bluegrass Music

• Cybergrass - The Internet Bluegrass Magazine
• iBluegrass Magazine
• Tom Tworek's Bluegrass Home Page - great photos including some from RBA concerts
• The Bluegrass Connection
• Bluegrass Village
• Bluegrass West! -- Bluegrass, Old Time, and Neo-Classic Country Music
• Bluegrassworks.com - from bluegrass to newgrass
• Bluegrass World
• DawgNet - David Grisman, Acoustic Disc - Mandolin information
• Mandolin Cafe - Mandolin information
• Barb Diederich's Bluegrass Lyric Index (and other bluegrass links) - a comprehensive index to all the major bluegrass lyrics sites on the Web.
• The Bluegrass Music Page (Karen Quick, very outdated)

Associations

• IBMA - International Bluegrass Music Association
• Northern California Bluegrass Society (aka Santa Cruz Bluegrass Society) - Acoustic music in the Monterey and San Francisco Bay areas.
  • NCBS Calendar - listing of bluegrass and acoustic music in Northern &Central California
• California Bluegrass Association (new)
• Santa Clara Valley Fiddlers' Association
• South Bay Folks - Bay Area music

• The British Bluegrass Music Association
• Intermountain Acoustic Music Association
• The Kentucky Friends of Bluegrass Music Club
• Minnesota Bluegrass Music Association
• Oregon Bluegrass Association
• Southern California Bluegrass (inTUNE News, BASC and SDBS)
• Southwest Bluegrass Association

Calendars

• NCBS Calendar - listing of bluegrass and acoustic music in Northern &Central California

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• FolkMusic.Org
• Folk Alliance
• Dirty Linen - Folk music magazine
• Nanci Griffith (nancigriffith.com)
• Nanci Griffith
• John McCutcheon (FolkMusic.com)
• Kate Wolf - Information on the late singer and memorial festival (June)

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• CMT (Country Music Television)

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• Music Resources on the Internet
• Bluegrass Music Profiles - Kentucky's Bluegrass Magazine
• BluegrassWorld
• Clarence White Chronicles - The Online Newsletter of Clarence White
• Flatpicking Guitar Magazine
• North West Bluegrass News (UK) newsletter

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• California Bluegrass Association - Father's Day Bluegrass Festival, SuperGrass, and more
• The Strawberry Music Festivals - 4 day camp out music festival features folk, bluegrass and other mostly acoustical music.
• L & S Promotions - several festivals including Bluegrassin' in the Foothills (Plymouth, CA) in September
• San Francisco Bluegrass & Old Time Festival in February in San Francisco.
• Wintergrass - February in Tacoma, WA
• Huck Finn Country and Bluegrass Jubliee - A country music and bluegrass festival with a Huck Finn theme that takes place in Southern California every summer around Father's Day
• Planet Bluegrass Home Page - Telluride and RockyGrass Festivals (Colorado)
• Wild Iris Folk Festival in May in Mendocino. Includes some bluegrass and jamming.

Local venues

• Fiddling Cricket concerts
• Fox Theater (and Little Fox) - Redwood City
• Villa Montalvo - Saratoga
• The Freight and Salvage - Berkeley

Radio/TV programs

• A Prairie Home Companion
• KKUP - Cupertino, CA, People's Radio
• KPIG Radio - CyberSwine World Headquarters - Freedom, CA (Monterey area) (Cuzin Al's Bluegrass show, Sundays, 6-9 PM, Pacific Time)
• NARAS: Grammy Awards (Yahoo link page)

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• Barb Diederich's Bluegrass Lyric Index - a comprehensive index to all the major bluegrass lyrics sites on the Web.
• JayBuckey.com - FREE bluegrass sheet music and tablature
• Mudcat Cafe / Digital Tradition Folk Song Full Text Search
• AcuTab Publications - Books of bluegrass banjo tablature. Product descriptions, sample page GIFs, and ordering info. Also, many photos GIFs of popular banjoists.
• WorldWideMusic - Sound Bites
• TablEdit - a guitar tablature editor that can also be used for just about any fretted, stringed instrument.

• MP3.com bluegrass audio files

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• Rounder Records - Roots oriented music. Cajun, bluegrass, folk, blues, raggae, surf, world and more.
• Sugar Hill Records
• Arhoolie Records
• The Bear Family Records (from Germany)
• Ceili Music
• DawgNet - Acoustic Disc
• Native & Fine Records
• Pinecastle Records
• RykoDisc
• Skaggs Family Records
• Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Tricopolis Records - "Bluegrass Music From The West Coast"

• Gryphon Stringed Instruments - Palo Alto, CA
• County Sales - world's largest selection of bluegrass and old-time music
• The Music Motel - Americana Music, lifestyle products and accessories
• Acoustic Music Supply
• CDnow! The Internet Music Store
• CDworld
• Harmony Ridge Music - Info resource specializing in female singer songwriter/musicians in folk, rock, avant-garde, blues, Celtic, world, country, and bluegrass music.

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• Austin Lounge Lizards
• JD Crowe
• The Dillards
• Dry Branch Fire Squad
• Bill Evans
• DawgNet - David Grisman
• Kathy Kallick Band
• Laurie Lewis
• Jimmy Martin
• Del McCoury Band
• Northern Lights
• Tim O'Brien
• Open Road
• Larry Rice
• Southern Rail
• Orrin Star
• Frank Wakefield
• Doc Watson
• Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group

Northern California Bands

• Acme String Ensemble
• The Bluegrass Intentions
• Crooked Jades
• Dark Hollow
• David Thom Band
• Dix Bruce and Jim Nunally - Grammy award winning acoustic flatpick guitarists who perform and teach traditional American, bluegrass, folk, and country music.
• Due West - California based bluegrass band of award winning musicians who add a touch of Bakersfield to traditional bluegrass and acoustic country music.
• Harmony Grits
• High Country
• MacRae Brothers - "brother" duets
• Mighty Crows
• SideSaddle & Company
• True Blue
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• International Bluegrass Music Museum (IBMM)
• BillMonroeStamp.org - information about the campaign to get the USPS to issue a stamp honoring Bill Monroe in 2006
• Frets.com - A guide to the repair and maintenance of acoustic instruments, from Gryphon's Frank Ford.
• OldTimeMusic.com
• Gibson USA

• Western Square Dancing

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