Our festival strives to bring you some of the best in California and regional bluegrass and old time music. While many of the bands come from the Bay Area and as far away as Los Angeles, it is the festival's vision to also provide a venue for many of the excellent bands from the central and northern San Joaquin Valley. While we are billed as a bluegrass festival, homage is payed to old time music. At the Kings River Bluegrass festival, you will be treated to the traditional high-lonesome sound, the hard driving guitar and bass of progressive bluegrass, and the clog tapping rhythm of the claw-hammer banjo. For a glimpse of some of the bands playing Kings River in 2011, follow the links below:

The Get Down Boys

The Anderson Family Bluegrass Band

Red Dog Ash

The Central Valley Boys

Groundspeed The best of local traditional bluegrass. It just doesn't get any better than Sam Criswell.

Bean Creek

The Kings River Gospelaires Area gospel singers coming together for some good, old time bluegrass gospel Sunday morning.

The Grassfire Bluegrass Band

Evie Ladin and Evil Diane

Rock Ridge Bluegrass Band

The Grasskickers

Uncle Ephus

Baloney Creek