Togetherness is Beautiful!

The Northern Nevada Bluegrass Association (NNBA) and Northern Sierra Roots Music are joining together! Combining our resources and volunteers will help us serve the Bluegrass and roots music communities in the northern Sierra, and create many more events and activities. The music styles we all love are experiencing huge growth and popularity, thanks to the amazing energy brought by young artists such as Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, AJ Lee and many others! We want to ride this wave of enthusiasm, and hope you'll enjoy the ride, too!

We have sunsetted the Northern Sierra Roots Music website, incorporating its contents into the NNBA site, and merged the email lists of the two organizations. NNBA has a long history of providing great roots music education, events and the well-known Bowers Bluegrass Festival every August, and we're proud to join with them. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me, Cindy Gray, at bluegrasstramp@gmail.com (BTW, now that I've retired from school teaching, I've become the Secretary of NNBA, just gotta have something to keep me busy!)

NNBA Announces Headliners for

37th Annual Bowers Bluegrass Festival

Click below to learn more about the Headliners and Regional Bands.

Six more Bands will be announced soon!!

About NNBA

If you're not familiar with NNBA, it's been around since the 70's! Incorporated in 2004 as as a 501c3 non-profit arts and education organization, NNBA receives partial funding from the Nevada Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts as well as regional grant sources such as the Robert Z. Hawkins Foundation.

NNBA is also a membership organization, and memberships constitute a significant portion of our annual revenue. We've seen a decline in memberships in recent years, with the pandemic and all. So, we're striving to offer more bang for your buck, and hope you'll join (or re-join)! A 12-month membership is only $15, and you get significant discounts on events (up to $20 off Festival passes! free twice monthly Beginner classes! and more!). Click here for more membership information.