Longstock Festival 2026
15th Annual Benefit for Housing Matters
Free Family-oriented music festival in the Santa Cruz Mountains
Saturday June 20th, 2026 | Noon-9PM
Longstock Performance Center
14350 Long Ridge Rd., Los Gatos, CA 95033
Click here for directions
A celebration of community featuring 8 bands, Housing Matters guest speakers & staff and many local vendors, all in service of coming together to resolve homelessness in Santa Cruz County.
8 bands | Beer by Altered States | Taquizas Gabriel Foodtruck | Free Camping
About Longstock 2026
Longstock began not as an event, but as a feeling—somewhere between the curl of woodsmoke and the hum of a lazy guitar string drifting across a backyard in 1991. It was a gathering then, nothing more nor less: a few friends, a barbecue, the quiet understanding that music, like a sacrament, is better when shared. Time moved as it does—unannounced—and by 2001 the circle had widened. What had once been a single thread of melody became a tapestry of bands, each voice rising and falling like waves against a familiar shore.
Then, in 2009, a notion took hold—one of those simple, luminous ideas that seem to arrive from nowhere and everywhere all at once. A musician, inspired in that particular way only music can inspire, suggested that this gathering of sound and spirit might give something back. And so it did. The cause was Homeless Services Center, and the giving came first in the form of food—honest, tangible, sustaining. Later, in 2019, as the organization became Housing Matters, the giving changed shape, as all living things do, into the quiet power of monetary support.
But Longstock is not easily contained by dates or definitions. It has grown into something like a small, benevolent universe—family-oriented, yes, but in the broadest, most generous sense of the word. Artists and makers arrive as if called by some unspoken invitation. Brewers conjure their craft on site, turning grain and water into something celebratory. Night falls, and with it the soft promise of overnight camping beneath an open sky.
And then there is the morning—always the morning. Sunday unfolds gently, and with it comes the ritual blueberry pancake breakfast, spoken of in tones that hover somewhere between memory and myth. It is a simple thing, perhaps, but simplicity has always been the language of the sacred.
All of it—every note, every brushstroke, every shared meal—is carried forward by a quiet army of volunteers and believers, people who give not because they must, but because they understand something essential about being human.
Longstock, they say, is merely a canvas.
And perhaps it is.
But it is the kind of canvas that waits patiently for each soul to arrive with its colors—its music, its laughter, its bright offerings—and to leave behind, however briefly, your masterpiece.
Band Lineup
Noon - Cook 'n Fenny
1PM - Summit Boys
2PM - Hemmingway's Trout
3PM - Amy Sarver
4PM - Dorise & Throwing Roses
5PM - Webber Brothers
6PM Funkspace
7-9PM SPAM!
Directions
Option 1 (Recommended route):
• Take Hwy 17 to the Summit Road exit
• Turn right onto Summit Road and head east
• Turn right onto Old San Jose Rd
• Continue to Miller Cutoff
• Follow onto Miller Hill
• Continue to the intersection of Long Ridge and Stetson
Option 2 (From Soquel):
• Take Soquel San Jose Rd
• Turn right onto Stetson Rd
• Turn right onto Long Ridge
Final directions (from either route):
• Stay on Long Ridge
• Destination is the second place on the right
• Address: 14350 Long Ridge Road, Los Gatos, CA 95033
Important note:
• Please respect the privacy of residents on the property
• The main cabin and Casita are private homes and not open to guests
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