So, richard, do you ever go to the world music fest in grass valley?
It is happening in a couple of weeks at the same fair ground/campground.
Do you ever come to the fiddlers contest in Oroville, a couple of hours
north of there? Lots and lots of picking there, too! I like festivals that have open mike stages or band scrambles where you get to inter act with the others there and make music and have fun, not just sit and watch!