The California Bluegrass Association’s 50th Annual
Father's Day Bluegrass Festival
Nevada Country Fairgrounds - Grass Valley, CA
June 12-15, 2025
With dozens of talented bands and artists performing on three stages (four if you include late night sessions, ) it’s impossible to catch it all! This embarresment of riches is “par for the course, for those of us who attended the 50th Annual CB Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival!
Here’s just some of what TedToob caught wandering around the beautiful, tree-shaded Nevada County Fairgrounds:

(*CLICK the setlists to deploy a YouTube video.)
AJ Lee & Blue Summit - June 13, 2025
Down Along the Dixie Line, Solicitor Man, Seaside Town, Fishing in the Dark, The Weenie Dog Song, Tear My Stillhouse Down, (W Jack Tuttle): I Can’t Find You At All, Sick On A Plane, The Glendale Train, When You Change Your Mind, I’ll Come Back
E: Lemon Tree; AJ Solo: Sometimes I Need Someone (Solo)
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June 14, 2025
Faithful -> I Still Love You Still, Katie Holler, He Called Me Baby W Luke Abbott (Banjo), City of Glass, Rodney Dangerfield, Mountain Heartache, Bar Exam, The Weenie Dog Song, Bakersfield Clay, Who Walks When I Walk Out? (W Trey Hensley); Soak Up The Sun (W Laurie Lewis), Pretty Bird (Acapella)
E: Harvest Moon

Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band - Afternoon Set - June 12, 2025
Teo’s Tune, Don’t Think Twice It's Alright, Don’t Take Me Alive -> Key Signator, I Still Remembered June, Handsome Molly, Path of the Beam, Ruben’s Train, After You’ve Gone, I’ll Be Here Either Way, Fall On My Knees, Eat My Dust
E: Rockytop
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Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band - Evening Set - June 12, 2025
Graceland, 16-16, I’ll Be There Either Way, Tiger by the Tail, Blackberry, Years, Allegra Frost, John Anderson, I’ve Endured, I Wish That I Had Stayed, Solomon’s Dream, Do it Again, I Still Remembered June, All of Me, Old Man, Song for my Mother, Dawg’s Rag

Rob Ikes and Trey Hensley - June 14, 2025
You Can’t Judge a Book By Looking at the Cover, The Tennessee Stud, The Backstreets off of Broadway, Moonshine Run, Back Up & Push, Both Ends of My Rainbow, Pride & Joy, Big River, John Deere Tractor, Mama Tried, Blue Sky, Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
E: (w Sully Tuttle & Frank Solivan Jr.), Friend of the Devil: E2: Georgia on a Fast Train

The Traveling McCoury's - June 14, 2025
Saturday Night:
Runaway Train, Shady Grove, Gas and Oil, East Due-West Blues, Train 45, That’s Just The Way It Is, Let Her Go, Grass Valley #2, I Like Beer, The Fiery Gizzard, Lonely Night

Afternooon Set:
The Shaker, Borderline, Grapes On The Vine, Passin' Thru, A Deeper Shade Of Blue
& More….

Matt Michienzi Band - June 13, 2025 - Pioneer Stage
Delaware Gap, Sitting Alone in the Moonlight, Big Sciota, Dark Hollow - I Know You Rider, Mountain Air, California Home, Cold Rain & Snow, Another Night, Time, Breathe, Been All Around This World - For What It’s Worth, Been All Around This World - For What It’s Worth

High Country - Pioneer Stage - June 12, 2025
Rain Again Today, I Don’t Believe Ill Fall in Love Today, Dusty Miller, High Weeds and Rust, Nobody’s Love is Like Mine, The Lonesome Book of Time, Farewell Blues, Let’s Be Sweethearts Again, Blue Night, You Win Again (W Juniper Waller of the Gold Souls), Blues For Your Own, The Watson Blues, Crying Holy Unto the Lord
E: The Folks Back Home

Mission Blue - Pioneer Stage - June 13, 2025
Nellie Kane, Plant Some Flowers By My Graveside, I’m Leavin You For the Last Time Again, All I Want Is You, Katy Daly, Peggy-O, The Open Road
E: You Go To Your Church and I’ll Go To Mine
*Regrettably - I missed a few tunes at the start of this set.

Side Saddle - Pioneer Stage - June 12, 2025
Dos Picachos, The Vaquero, Rocky Road Blues, (W Diana Donnelly): A Hundred Years From Now, The Train That Carried Jimmy Rogers Home, Bluegrass in the Backwoods, The Whole World Around. On My Mind
E: Cheek to Cheek with the Blues

Bearcat String Band - Pioneer Stage - June 12, 2024
I’m Going Back to Jericho, I Love No One Else But You, (w Elise Engleberg): Old Cumberland, Rockingham City, Who Who Who - Come & Stay with Me, Lone County Blues, Five Miles
E: Kiss Me Quick

Bluebirds on a Wire - Vern’s Stage - June 14, 2025
Like a Bird on a Wire, Leonard Cohen, Squeaky Wheels, Martin 1943, If I Live Right, Golden Locket, Dream a Little Dream of Me, Behind Glass (Jasper original), Bury Me Beneath the Willow

Bay Area Special - Vern’s Stage - June 14, 2025
Knee Deep in Loving You, Runaway With Another Man, Train on the Island,
Baby Blue Eyes, I Guess It’s Only Right That I Should Pay, Simon Crutchfield,
I Will Always Be Waiting For You, Hold What Ya Got, I Could Change My Mind, Louisiana Hot Sauce

Critical Grass - Vern’s Stage -June 14, 2025
I Feel The Blues Moving In, Land’s End, Up on the Divide, The Dreamer, Walkin’ Boss, Call Me a Taxi, The Eighth of February, Steam Powered Aereoplane

Flatpick Hotel (Ian Ly, Owen Ragland)
Redwing, Satan’s Reel, Matterhorn, Buckaroos, The Sloop John B, Sugarfoot Rag,
Golden Slippers, Spencer Bias, Lost Indian, Angeline the Baker,

Jimmy Touzel's Bluegrass Explosion - Vern’s Stage June 14, 2025
When I Bid this World Goodbye, Sangaree, Were the Kind of People Who Make the Jukebox Play, Honey in the Rock, Jealous Lies, Ring the Bell, True Life Blues, I Need a Rainbow, The Bluegrass Explosion