High Sierra Music Festival is a multi-day music festival held in Quincy, California, a mountainous area about 80 miles north of Reno, Nevada. The festival is held each year the weekend of July 4th. The four-day festival features an eclectic mix of some of the most famous national and international names in jazz, newgrass, bluegrass and other improvisational music forms such as jamband music. Other represented genres include funk, afrobeat, electronica, and roots rock.
Headliners
Festival lineup
- BLVD
- Beats Antique
- Big Light
- Blitzen Trapper
- Carolyn Wonderland
- Chris Chandler & Paul Benoit
- Cornmeal
- Coryell Auger Sample Trio
- Darol Anger’s Republic Of Strings
- Dr. Dog
- Edgar Meyer
- Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
- Femi Kuti & Positive Force
- Great American Taxi
- Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons
- Johnny Vidacovich
- Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe
- Living Folklore
- Lotus
- March Fourth Marching Band
- Nathan Moore
- Nels Cline Strings
- New Fangled Wasteland
- Orgone
- Ozomatli
- Railroad Earth
- Robert Walter
- Telepath
- The Avett Brothers
- The Black Crowes
- The Infamous Stringdusters
- The Mother Hips
- The New Mastersounds
- The Pimps of Joytime
- The Slip
- Trampled By Turtles
- Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
- Truth & Salvage Co.
- Widespread Panic
- Zach Deputy
- Zakir Hussain
Festival News and Rumors
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