The Northwest String Summit has announced a special “Kinfolk Community Remembrance and Unification Gathering” to honor late Yonder Mountain String Band co-founder Jeff Austin.

“Please join us as we remember our brother Jeff Austin and celebrate the Kinfolk Community with Yonder Mountain String Band, along with their extended musical family, has helped to create and foster with a very special Kinfolk Community Remembrance & Unification Gathering,” the festival wrote in an official announcement.

Austin passed on June 24, 2019, after being hospitalized in the early morning hours of June 22.

The Northwest String Summit is scheduled for July 18-21, and the Jeff Austin gathering will take place that Sunday (July 21) at 10:45 a.m. on the Sierra Nevada Stage.