The San Diego Bluegrass Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of bluegrass music in the San Diego area.
2022 Annual Members Report
Access your annual report for 2022 here: 2022 annual report
SDBS’s goals include:
- Educating all those who are interested, especially young persons, about the history of bluegrass music in America.
- Organizing regular jam sessions and open mics on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month, an instructed slow jam on the 3rd Monday, with a featured band on the fourth Tuesday.
- Presenting bluegrass concerts by local and traveling bands.
- Working cooperatively with other bluegrass organizations, including IBMA and our sister organization in San Diego, The North County Bluegrass and Folk Club in promoting a variety of bluegrass related activities.
- Supporting Summergrass, a premier 3-day bluegrass festival held each August.
- Organizing an annual Bluegrass Day at the Fair, at the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar (see photo at right).
- Conducting a music outreach program with SDBS’s Emma’s Gut Bucket Band to bring bluegrass music and instruction to public and private schools, to senior centers, assisted living facilities, homeless centers and the like at no cost, Visit the Gut Bucket Band website for more info.
- Such other activities as deemed appropriate to promote bluegrass music in San Diego.
