Rubylox,
I can't speak for California, but in Florida a Bluegrass or folk festival is probably one of the safest, peaceful and family-oriented activities you can attend. Most festivals offer a variety of ethnic performers anyway. Try visiting an Americana festival. You will find a great mix of roots style performers: alternative country, folk, bluegrass, gospel, blues,and zydeco. I have been listening on the internet to a station out of Santa Cruz, CA. It's listed under the Country/Folk category as KPIGFreedom on AOL CDquality Radio. They do some great little festivals I hear. If you don't have AOL, you can Google them and subscribe for about $5.00 a month.

I have some thoughts about the Southern Cross that I would like to share, but it will have to wait. Duty calls.
Ron