{"id":25326,"date":"2018-08-05T16:15:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T23:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25326"},"modified":"2018-08-05T16:15:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T23:15:46","slug":"bluegrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/bluegrass\/","title":{"rendered":"No blues about it, Bluegrass is back in California!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/spoojug.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was feeling a kinda&#8217; blue with the prospects that California&#8217;s bluegrass scene was dwindling in 2018, one festival at a time. That&#8217;s because the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/victorville-huck-finn-jubilee.html\">Huck Finn (Bluegrass) Jubilee<\/a> pulled the plug in 2016 after serving up one of the nation&#8217;s biggest bluegrass shindigs for nearly 40 years. In its heyday it hosted top acts, had Huck Finn themed contests for kids and hosted the &#8220;Largest Bluegrass Jam in the World.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roll forward with the latest news &#8212; a husband-wife team who own an experiential marketing agency in L.A. are bluegrass fans. They purchased Huck Finn Jubilee, and are hosting a festival this fall, Oct. 5-7, at Cucamonga-Guasti Regional Park in Ontario. Yee-haw!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of bluegrass and similar genres such as the Saw Festival in Felton (pictured) then you better clear your calendar for many weekends of toe-tapping entertainment.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-bluegrass-festivals.html\">Bluegrass California<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>August<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HOLLISTER:\u00a0 Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival<\/li>\n<li>FELTON: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/felton-saw-festival.html\">Saw (Music) Festival and Contest<\/a><\/li>\n<li>VISTA:\u00a0Summergrass Bluegrass Festival<\/li>\n<li>SUTTER CREEK: Jug Band Festival<\/li>\n<li>TUOLUMNE: River Ranch Music Festival<\/li>\n<li>TUOLUMNE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/strawberry-music-festival.html\">Strawberry Music Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>September<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BISHOP:\u00a0Millpond Music Festival<\/li>\n<li>BERKELEY: Old Time Music Convention<\/li>\n<li>COLUMBIA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/concerts\/columbia.html\">Fiddle &amp; Bango Contest<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>October<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-bluegrass.html\">Hardly Strictly Bluegrass<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ONTARIO: Huck Finn Jubilee<\/li>\n<li>YUCAIPA: Mountain Music Day<\/li>\n<li>RAMONA:\u00a0Ramona Bluegrass and Old West Fest<\/li>\n<li>GOLETA:\u00a0Santa Barbara Old-Time Fiddlers&#8217; Convention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was feeling a kinda&#8217; blue with the prospects that California&#8217;s bluegrass scene was dwindling in 2018, one festival at a time. That&#8217;s because the Huck Finn (Bluegrass) Jubilee pulled the plug in 2016 after serving up one of the nation&#8217;s biggest bluegrass shindigs for nearly 40 years. In its heyday it hosted top acts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25326"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25327,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25326\/revisions\/25327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}