We all know there's no such thing as enough bluegrass! Tonight the San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival is back with an evening spotlighting some of the very finest woman bluegrass artists from the Bay Area. Featuring Belle Monroe and her Brewglass Boys, Nell Robinson & Red Level, and Rita Hosking & Cousin Jack, this is one feast that no self-respecting roots music fan should miss!

Belle Monroe and her Brewglass Boys have been wowing Bay Area audiences for years with their sparkling vocals, blazing instrumental skills, and inventive arrangements of bluegrass standards. With her strong, bluesy vocal style leading the way, Belle's guitar joins Ted Silverman's mandolin and Tom Drohan's bass to form the band's rhythm section. Add to this the incendiary steel guitar of Rick Hendricks, the 5-string banjo of Jordan Klein, and fiddler "boy" Diana Greenberg, and you've got fire and flash to spare!

Nell Robinson & Red Level serve up fresh, honky-tonk-infused bluegrass and country music with some alt-folk, originals, and "just plain cool stuff" thrown in for good measure. Rollicking high energy, sweet three-part harmonies, and hot pickin' distinguish this band, which features Nell's distinctive vocals, as well as Jacob Groopman on guitar, Adam Roszkiewicz on mandolin, Jonathan Schiele on banjo, and Dan Booth on bass.

Rita Hosking was raised in the mountains of eastern Shasta County, Northern California, where she internalized dusty woodsheds, the scent of springwater, and the troubles of rural economies. Her soulful, bluegrass-tinged songs convey mountain life in the West with a voice that evokes the power of people and place. Rita's band, Cousin Jack, includes Sean Feder (banjo, vocals, bass), Bill Dakin (bass, vocals, guitar), and fiddler Andy Lentz.