
The Local Seam
Events around town

Lúnasa - Celtic Legends from Ireland
International Irish superstars play the Miners Foundry Cultural Center in historic Nevada City for a memorable evening of Celtic music!

Kyle Smith - Bad for Business 2025 Tour - Chico, CA
Kyle Smith is a Singer-Songwriter from Ventura, California. His blend of Southern California-style Reggae Rock is catchy, truthful, and humorous. He delivers original music laced with Cali-Roots, Reggae, Dub, Hip Hop, and Punk Rock.

YAIMA in Nevada City
Timeless soundscapes that blend electronic & organic music, inspired by nature. Discover YAIMA at the Miner’s Foundry in Nevada City, California.

2025 Grass Valley Car Show in Downtown Grass Valley
The Grass Valley Downtown Association, in partnership with Roamin’ Angels Car Club, presents the 38th Annual Car Show on April 26th!

Tahoe Truckee Earth Day Festival
The Earth Day festival recognizes, celebrates and promotes our unique environment by educating the public about the preservation and protection of our local and global natural resources. This is a free, family friendly event open to organizations and vendors that engage the community in a constructive and positive manner.

Celtic Festival
Step into the enchanting realm of the 27th annual KVMR Celtic Festival and Marketplace, the premiere gathering of Celtic music, heritage, and tradition in Northern California at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, CA.
Multiple curated stages feature world-class Celtic musicians, regional artists and Celtic Sessions players.
Experience a unique cultural immersion into the Celtic diaspora through Living History encampments combined with a full-scale music festival nestled amongst the picturesque Ponderosa Pines.

Celtic Festival
Step into the enchanting realm of the 27th annual KVMR Celtic Festival and Marketplace, the premiere gathering of Celtic music, heritage, and tradition in Northern California at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, CA.
Multiple curated stages feature world-class Celtic musicians, regional artists and Celtic Sessions players.
Experience a unique cultural immersion into the Celtic diaspora through Living History encampments combined with a full-scale music festival nestled amongst the picturesque Ponderosa Pines.

Nevada City Craft Fair 2025 Spring Show
The historic Miners Foundry will once again host the annual celebration of local creativity as the 14th Annual Nevada City Spring Craft Fair takes place on Sunday, May 4, 2025.

Spring 2025 Strawberry Music Festival
Strawberry is a multi-day, family-friendly campout with activities and entertainment for all ages. This festival is an annual reunion for a multi-generational community of music lovers whose roots date back to 1982. No matter where you land on Strawberry’s magical, musical timeline, we are grateful for your participation and look forward to seeing you at our upcoming 72nd festival!

Spring 2025 Strawberry Music Festival
Strawberry is a multi-day, family-friendly campout with activities and entertainment for all ages. This festival is an annual reunion for a multi-generational community of music lovers whose roots date back to 1982. No matter where you land on Strawberry’s magical, musical timeline, we are grateful for your participation and look forward to seeing you at our upcoming 72nd festival!

Spring 2025 Strawberry Music Festival
Strawberry is a multi-day, family-friendly campout with activities and entertainment for all ages. This festival is an annual reunion for a multi-generational community of music lovers whose roots date back to 1982. No matter where you land on Strawberry’s magical, musical timeline, we are grateful for your participation and look forward to seeing you at our upcoming 72nd festival!

Spring 2025 Strawberry Music Festival
Strawberry is a multi-day, family-friendly campout with activities and entertainment for all ages. This festival is an annual reunion for a multi-generational community of music lovers whose roots date back to 1982. No matter where you land on Strawberry’s magical, musical timeline, we are grateful for your participation and look forward to seeing you at our upcoming 72nd festival!

4th of July Celebration - Independence Day Parade and More!
Join us for a community pancake breakfast, parade through the historic Downtown, and evening street party!
We invite you to enjoy the day, from the Pre-Parade Pancake Breakfast to the Whoop-it-Up Dancing in the Streets evening celebration held within the charming streetscapes and charming background of our magnificent historic town
Stars, Stripes and Summertime Delights!

Spring 2025 Strawberry Music Festival
Strawberry is a multi-day, family-friendly campout with activities and entertainment for all ages. This festival is an annual reunion for a multi-generational community of music lovers whose roots date back to 1982. No matter where you land on Strawberry’s magical, musical timeline, we are grateful for your participation and look forward to seeing you at our upcoming 72nd festival!

Spring 2025 Strawberry Music Festival
Strawberry is a multi-day, family-friendly campout with activities and entertainment for all ages. This festival is an annual reunion for a multi-generational community of music lovers whose roots date back to 1982. No matter where you land on Strawberry’s magical, musical timeline, we are grateful for your participation and look forward to seeing you at our upcoming 72nd festival!

Spring 2025 Strawberry Music Festival
Strawberry is a multi-day, family-friendly campout with activities and entertainment for all ages. This festival is an annual reunion for a multi-generational community of music lovers whose roots date back to 1982. No matter where you land on Strawberry’s magical, musical timeline, we are grateful for your participation and look forward to seeing you at our upcoming 72nd festival!

Lebo and Friends Spring Jubilee
Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz is truly one of the most amazing versitile musicians to be found. He tours the world with his band ALO, Then hops on stage as part of Jack Johnson's Band - Who knows what he brings to Jam Cruise but he is part of everything.

12-week Constitution Course - Institute On The Constitution
Join your Friends & Neighbors for this highly acclaimed 12-week Constitution Course in Nevada City, California.

Marya Stark - Live in Grass Valley
Join songstresses Starling Arrow for an in-person, master singing class from 2:30 - 4:30pm on March 16th (also at Miners Foundry) that will explore a wide range of harmonization, songwriting and improvisation, toning and vocal play.

St Paddys Ceilidh Benefit for Nevada City Odd Fellows
Join in for a fun night of dancing, food, music, and fundraising at the St Paddy’s Ceilidh Benefit for Nevada City Odd Fellows!

Traviezoz de la Zierra, Jesús Ojeda y Sus Parientes in Auburn, CA
It’s that time of the year where everyone wants to have a musical breath! Your favorite, Traviezoz de la Zierra is hitting Gold Country Fairgrounds & Event Center on Sunday, March 9, 2025, and with a setlist that includes chart-toppers like Mi Pasado y Mi Presente, A Ver Que Opinan and Así es Mi Cartel and 1.3M+ fans backing them, you’re in for a night of epic proportions.
With multiple shows planned, this event is the one you don’t want to miss. Whether you’re a superfan or just curious, Traviezoz de la Zierra will take you on a ride that will leave you breathless.

Tyrus Live “What It Is” Comedy Tour
Tyrus is a Fox News personality, actor, and former professional wrestler.

Alaskan Open Snow Golf Tournament 2025
Join in for the ultimate winter golf experience at the Alaskan Open Snow Golf Tournament 2025!

The Wailin' Jennys in Grass Valley
The Wailin’ Jennys are more than just impeccable bluegrass harmonizers; they’re also terrific bandleaders who give their traditional roots music a sense of real reverence. — NPR

Mardi Gras Parade & Street Faire
Enjoy vibrant floats, live music, unique vendors, delicious food, and beads galore! Dress in your best Mardi Gras colors—purple, yellow, and green—and join the celebration.

Wild & Scenic Film Festival (2025)
SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival inspires environmental activism and a love for nature–through film. Wild & Scenic shares an urgent call to action, encouraging festival-goers to learn more about what they can do to save our threatened planet. The 23rd edition: February 13-17, 2025.

Bonnie Prince Billy in Grass Valley
There’s a time and a season for everything, they tell us – and now we find ourselves at the end of the Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You season. No, the new album won’t go away – and the Bonnie ‘Prince’ will continue to tour – but the cycle of release, the unboxing as it were, is drawing to a close. Fittingly, it goes out with a mighty soar: an epic reading of the title song to the album – a song, by-the-by that, for royal reasons, and no concern of ours, wasn’t included in the album. It isn’t still. It stands marvelously on its own. When heard in concert, it provokes questions like, where is that song and how can I have it?

Goon Jam Tour - Kingvale
The Goon Jam Tour will stop at the Kingvale Resort in Soda Springs on February 7th, 2024 from 10AM - 4PM. Tickets $13 - purchase of lift ticket required (additional).

The Nth Power at the Crazy Horse Saloon -Nevada City, Ca.
The Nth Power is a high-energy and soulful band that blends genres to create a sound that is as unique as it is powerful. Known for their infectious grooves and deeply spiritual approach to music, The Nth Power has carved out a space in the music world where funk, jazz, gospel, and soul come together seamlessly.

Ani DiFranco with Special Guest Joy Clark
Ani DiFranco performs at the Center of the Arts in Grass Valley, CA on January 28th, 2025. Special Guest: Joy Clark. Doors open at 6:30PM.

Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper
Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper - Center for the Arts (Grass Valley, CA). Jan 25, 2025 @ 7PM. Tickets start at $48.
Ballaké Sissoko is the greatest kora virtuoso in the world. Derek Gripper is changing the face of classical guitar and giving the instrument its very first African repertoire. When they play together, you won't believe your ears.

Ohana Comi Con Yuba City-Marysville
Ohana Comic Con will be in Yuba City on January 25th from 11AM to 4PM. Enjoy the Toy Anime and Comics that will be on display at the Yuba City Moose Lounge.

Petty Theft: Tribute to Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
The band consists of Dan Durkin as lead singer and guitarist, Django Bayless on bass and vocals, Monroe Grisman on guitar and vocals, Michael Papenburg on guitar, Adam Berkowitz on drums, and Steven Seydler on keyboards.

Mickey Avalon live in Auburn, CA
Mickey Avalon featuring DJ Macky live in Concert one night only on Friday January 17, 2025 with special guests Get Moneyyy and Glas Tung. This is happening at the ODD FELLOWS HALL #7 in Auburn, Ca for the 21+. Tickets are $25 in advance at Ticketweb.com or $30 day of show.

Tommy Emmanuel in Grass Valley
The real-time exuberance Tommy brings to every note of every song he plays is palpable and infectious. His fans are in love with his unbound talent as a guitarist of multitudes, his ability to play three parts at once, always with pure heart and real soul. He is a true virtuoso. But he seems as delighted always with the magic of the music as the audience, if not more, and his joy illuminates everything.

KR3TURE in Concert in Truckee, CA
Known for blending organic and electronic elements, KR3TURE creates a unique fusion of downtempo, chillstep, and experimental beats, often infused with world music influences and live instrumentation.

Dylan Scott at Thunder Valley Casino
Curb Records recording artist Dylan Scott is a triple threat — a powerful vocalist with a deep, unmistakable drawl; an old-soul songwriter with a young spirit; and a family man with a tender heart. The multi-Platinum singer has notched three No. 1 singles at radio (“My Girl," “Nobody” and "New Truck"), as well as Top 5 hit “Hooked.” Following his first career nomination for “Best New Country Artist” at the all-genre iHeartRadio Music Awards and a coveted spot among Country Radio Seminar’s New Faces of Country Music, his Platinum-certified ode to his wife, “Nobody,” earned him a 2021 CMT Music Award for Breakthrough Video of the Year. With career streams exceeding 1.8 billion, the Louisiana native has provided tour support for Garth Brooks, Luke Bryan, and Chris Young, among others, cementing him as an in-demand live act. Livin’ My Best Life, the highly-anticipated follow-up to his chart-topping Nothing To Do Town EP is out now.

Yächtley Crëw Live in Roseville, CA
Yachtley Crew is the nations #1 Yacht Rock band playing all the best soft rock hits from the Late 70's and early 80's.
Yachtley Crew is a Los Angeles area based band of talented and tenured musicians with a common set of goals: to entertain music lovers with some of the greatest songs ever written back in the late 70's and early 80's, and to have as much fun as possible while performing those hits. Some fans may know it as "soft rock", others may identify it as "yacht rock", a more recently coined phrase. One thing is for sure, Yachtley Crew takes their sound very seriously. "They pay tribute to the songs by nailing the performances, but also blow the crowds away with their live presence, group banter and on-stage antics", said one scribe... Be sure not to miss this first-class tribute coming soon to a club, ship or yacht near you!

Yächtley Crëw Live in Roseville, CA
Yachtley Crew is the nations #1 Yacht Rock band playing all the best soft rock hits from the Late 70's and early 80's.
Yachtley Crew is a Los Angeles area based band of talented and tenured musicians with a common set of goals: to entertain music lovers with some of the greatest songs ever written back in the late 70's and early 80's, and to have as much fun as possible while performing those hits. Some fans may know it as "soft rock", others may identify it as "yacht rock", a more recently coined phrase. One thing is for sure, Yachtley Crew takes their sound very seriously. "They pay tribute to the songs by nailing the performances, but also blow the crowds away with their live presence, group banter and on-stage antics", said one scribe... Be sure not to miss this first-class tribute coming soon to a club, ship or yacht near you!

Ritz-Carlton New Year's Eve Buffet in Grand Ballroom
New Year's Eve Buffet in Grand Ballroom - December 31st, 2024 from 6PM - 1AM.

Chuck Ragan - The Center for the Arts
Chuck Ragan’s bracing new release Till Midnight once again confirms what the iconoclastic singer-songwriter’s fans have known all along: that he’s a deeply compelling songwriter and an effortlessly charismatic performer, as well as a true believer in music’s ability to illuminate and inspire.

Learn to Communicate with Animals, Plants, or any being of Nature
Have two-way conversations with plants, animals, spirit guides, Gaia, and other beings of nature. Learn what they have to teach us and experience a deeper connection with the natural world around you.

Gold Vibe Sessions: Open Jam Night
Vision for Jam Night: for musicians across Nevada County to have a functional space for collaboration and cross-pollination leading to new and innovative musical projects.

Nevada City Victorian Christmas
The aroma of roasted chestnuts fills the air, along with cries of street vendors hawking their wares and lamp-lit streets filled with Christmas treasures. It’s the one & only Victorian Christmas.

56th Annual Cornish Christmas
Cornish Christmas invites you to “Mill” around downtown, stroll with your favorite hot beverage from the GVDA and Chamber Holiday Beverage Booths and visit a Winter Festival of Cornish Christmas favorites you know and love.

Donation Day Parade
Celebrate a cherished local tradition dating back to 1873! Hosted by the City of Grass of Valley and the Grass Valley Ladies Relief Society, the Donation Day Parade continues its mission of supporting western Nevada County residents in need.