Workshops

Parkfield Bluegrass Festival Red Star
Parkfield Bluegrass Festival Red Star

Enjoy Hands-on workshops with festival musicians and local experts cover instruments, singing, and more.
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Free with your admission ticket!

2026 workshop schedule to be announced soon!

2025 Schedule
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People gathered outdoors at the Parkfield Bluegrass Festival, watching a band give a workshop under trees, with some playing instruments and the audience sitting in chairs and standing.
Gospel Joy leading the kids on bluegrass workshop at the Parkfield Bluegrass Festival
A young man sitting on a chair outdoors, holding a banjo and talking, while three other people listen, at a Parkfield Bluegrass Festival workshop. The scene is in a grassy area with rocks, plants, and a fence background.
A man sits outdoors under a tree playing an acoustic guitar, with two other men and a woman nearby at a Parkfield Bluegrass Festival workshop. The scene is set in a grassy area with a stroller and a white van in the background.
Kids sitting outdoors, playing string instruments, and singing, at the kids on bluegrass workshop at the Parkfield Bluegrass Festival

  • Dinner Break (4:30–5:20 p.m.)

    • Banjo with Trevor Holder, Price Sisters

    • Guitar with Jason Winfree, Red Dog Ash

    • Mandolin with Lauren Price, Price Sisters

    • Fiddle with Leanna Price, Price Sisters

    • Earthquake Tour with Julian Lozos, CSU Northridge

    • 10 PM - Community Hall: Slow Jam with Julio Boisenberry, Local Musician

  • Lunch Break (12:30–1:20 p.m.)

    • Bluegrass Guitar Backup with Kenny Feinstein, Water Tower

    • Care & Feeding of the Banjo with John Erwin, Local Musician

    • 25th Anniversary with Ed Alston, Former Festival Director

    • Slow Jam with Julio Boisenberry, Local Musician

    • Fiddle with Shane Kalback, Red Dog Ash

    • Earthquake Tour with Julian Lozos, CSU Northridge

    Dinner Break (4:30–5:20 p.m.)

    • Guitar with Chris Luquette, Bushwick Mountain Boys

    • Banjo with Ellery Marshall, Bushwick Mountain Boys

    • Bass with Shane McGeehan, Bushwick Mountain Boys

    • Fiddle with Charletta Erb, Whole Hog

    • Mandolin with Cesar Moreno, Bushwick Mountain Boys

    • Community Hall: Flat Foot Dancing with Ruth Alpert, Honeysuckle Possums

  • Lunch Break (12:30–1:20 p.m.)

    • 25th Anniversary with Ed Alston, Former Festival Director

    • Banjo with Keith Frankel, Whole Hog

    • Accordion with Michael Gutin, Local Musician

    • Harmony Singing with Honeysuckle Possums

    • Multi-Instrument Clinic with Scott Conroy, Blue Birds on a Wire

    • Earthquake Tour with Julian Lozos, CSU Northridge

    Dinner Break (4:30–5:20 p.m.)

    • Guitar with Joy Louise, Blue Birds on a Wire

    • Banjo with Julio Boisenberry, Local Musician

    • Singing & Yodeling with Seth Andrey Oster, Whole Hog

    • Fiddle with John Showman, Showman & Coole

    • Clawhammer Banjo with Chris Coole, Showman & Coole

    • Community Hall: Dancing with Others with Evie Ladin, Evie Ladin Band

  • Lunch Break (12:30–1:20 p.m.)

    • Banjo with Victoria Glover, Mountain Highway

    • Bass with Cory Highberg, Whole Hog

    • Gospel Sing-A-Long with Amber Cross

    • Mandolin with Emily Glover, Mountain Highway

    • Earthquake Tour with Julian Lozos, CSU Northridge

2025 workshop Schedule

2026 Schedule to be announced soon!

Workshop map
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