Sat, Nov 18. The Berkeley Free Folk Festival [www.ashkenaz.com/freefolk.html] at the Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center, 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley, 11am-1am. Includes bluegrass and old-time performances and workshops, and yes, the entire event is FREE. Also kids activities, dancing, jamming, and arts and crafts for all ages.
Sun, Nov 19. First bimonthly Santa Cruz Region Pickers & Singers Potluck, 12 to 5 PM - Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515 Broadway (near Ocean), Santa Cruz. Open to all acoustic styles; jam with other old-time and bluegrass musicians. Free soup and salad; potluck your own snacks & beverage (next time a full potluck). More info: 831/460-0112, or 831/335-7696.
Artist - Cut (Album) Label
Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters - Green Backed Dollar Bill (Nashville, The Early String Bands, vol 1) County CO-CD-3521
Uncle Dave Macon - Railroadin' and Gamblin' (Nashville, The Early String Bands vol 1) County CO-CD-3521
Paul Warmack & His Gully Jumpers - Robertson County (Nashville, The Early String Bands vol 1) County CO-CD-3521
Binkley Brothers' Dixie Clodhoppers - I'll Rise When the Rooster Crows (Nashville, The Early String Bands vol 1) County CO-CD-3521
Arthur Smith Trio - Sugar Tree Stomp (Nashville, The Early String Bands vol 1) County CO-CD-3521
Lowe Stokes & His North Georgians - Wave That Frame (Lowe Stokes, vol 1) Document DOCD-8045
Georgia Yellow Hammers - Kiss Me Quick (Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, vol 4) Yazoo 2048
Burnett & Rutherford - Billy in the Lowground (Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, vol 4) Yazoo 2048
Kentucky Mountain Chorusters - We'll Understand It Better Bye & Bye (The Half Ain't Never Been Told, vol 1) Yazoo 2049
Roscoe Holcomb - Hook & Line (The High Lonesome Sound) Smithsonian/Folkways SFCD 40104
Bruce Molsky - Lonesome John (Poor Man's Troubles) Rounder 0470
Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin - Don't Forget This Song (Songs of the Carter Family) Appleseed APR CD 1043
The Mysterious Redbirds - I'll Fly Away (The Mysterious Redbirds) Copper Creek CCCD-0188
Ginny Hawker & Tracy Schwarz - Step Out In the Sunshine (Good Songs for Hard Times) Copper Creek CCCD-0183
The Crooked Jades - Fly Around (The Unfortunate Rake, vol 1) Crooked 003
John McCutcheon - Ste Anne's Reel, Cricket on the Hearth, Kitchen Girl, Mississippi Sawyer (The Wind That Shakes the Barley) Rounder 0476
Monroe Brothers - In My Dear Old Southern Home (What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul?) Rounder 1073
John Duffey - Let Me BeYour Friend (Always in Style: A Collection) Sugar Hill SUG-CD-3926
Stanley Brothers - If I Lose; Rank Stranger (Riding that Midnight Train) West Side WESA 820
Melvin Goins & Windy Mountain - I'll Never Change My Mind (Bluegrass Blues) Hay Holler HH-CD-1346
Dan Tyminski - I Dreamed of an Old Love Affair (Carry Me Across the Mountain) Doobie Shea DS-CD-2002
Kenny Baker - Denver Belle (Cotton Baggin' 2000) OMS 25070-2
Hazel Dickens - Hills of Home (It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song) Rounder 0226
Mark Graham - Billy the Kid (Southern Old-Time Harmonica) Self-produced 80001
Mike Auldridge, Bob Brozman, & David Grisman - Trash Can Stomp (Tone Poems III) Acoustic Disc ACD-42
Big Bill Broonzy - Worrying You Off My Mind (Warm, Witty & Wise) Columbia/Legacy CK 65517
Rayna Gellert - Sugar in the Gourd (Ways of the World) Yodel-Ay-Hee 032
Nickel Creek [www.nickelcreek.com], recent winners of the International Bluegrass Music Association "Emerging Artist of the Year" award, will be playing bluegrass on Thurs, Nov 16, at 8pm at The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse [www.thefreight.org] in Berkeley; Mon Nov 20, 7:30pm at the Espresso Garden Cafe in San Jose (NOTE: this concert is sold out); and Tuesday, Nov 21, 8pm at Henfling's Tavern [www.henflings.com] in Ben Lomond
Nickel Creek - Ode to a Butterfly (Nickel Creek) Sugar Hill SUG-CD-1999
Don Rigsby - Don't Sell The Land (Empty Old Mailbox) Sugar Hill SUG-CD-3915
Laurie Lewis & Grant Street - When the Cactus is in Bloom (Singin' My Troubles Away) Flying Fish FF 70515
