COMING UP:

Sat. March 6, 2021 from 10:30 am to 6:30 pm is the BOTMC online Spring Sitch, featuring the Crankie Cabaret, plus jams, workshops and performances. 

As always with the Spring Sitch, everything is free admission!

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NEW EVENT - Slow Jam Fizz every Friday 4pm-5pm PT.

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Looking further ahead, please SAVE THE DATES for next year's BOTMC: Sept. 21-26, 2021. We don't know yet whether it will be possible to hold the BOTMC in person or whether it will be online, so we're planning for both possibilities.  We'll know more by late spring. Our first priority is everyone's safety, of course.

Berkeley Old Time Music COnvention

ANti-Racism Statement

As appreciators and torch bearers of early American traditional music, the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention actively questions what it means to share this music in the context of systemic racism. We wish to acknowledge the immense contribution of Black and Indigenous musicians to the music presented by the BOTMC, in the past and in the present.  We acknowledge the forces that have historically denied these contributions and that worked to sever their living connections to this music. We also acknowledge our own complicity in this oppression. As we play this music, we are reckoning with our history and present condition. We hope to build a road toward reparation.

Adapted (with permission) from the Plaid Strangers (Thomas Angell, Maxine Gerber, Karen Heil and Allegra Yellin)

What an amazing experience to have the BOTMC online in 2020! Many thanks to all who attended and performed and taught and lectured and especially HUGE THANKS to our volunteers, who made the whole thing possible.

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