A fellow OBOD bard from Oregon (formerly from California) allowed me to post this here, for all who are interested.  It has been previously announced on the OBOD message board as well.

The North American Gorsedd Association

This new association will grow to encompass North America, the North Atlantic Islands, and the Caribbean Islands with regional, area, and local gorseddau. As with its sister associations in Europe, it is composed of Druids, Bards, and Ovates who serve in civic rituals and ceremonies at various Celtic events and festivals in North America and associated islands.

The North American Gorsedd Association is a voluntary-informal network of Celtic-cultural revivalists, groups, and events. Six regional Gorsedds coordinate civic and cultural activities as custodians of a Celtic impulse for events they are invited to assist with. Each of these member Gorseddau is a social association of Druids, Ovates, and Bards who serve various Celtic Festivals and Gatherings by helping to manage ceremonial functions at and for events such as announcing an upcoming event and awarding of prizes and tokens to contest winners. The first such cooperative event will be the 2010 (second) Left Coast Eisteddfod in Portland, Oregon, in early October. We look forward to expanding our Gorseddau throughout the six regions in North America and the Caribbean and to cooperating with our European counterparts in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Brittany, the Channel Islands, England, Wales, the Celtic revival movements in old Cymbria, Iberia, and elsewhere in Europe and Asia Minor.

Member Gorseddau of the North American Gorsedd Association will be composed of three grades, in ascending order, and similar to those in Britain and Brittany, Ovates who wear green, Bards who wear blue, and Druids who wear white. However, each constitutes a distinct and separate grade with specialties drawn from ancient practice, but adapted to contemporary needs of Civic Druidry in the twenty-first century.

The Six Regional Gorseddau.

A regional gorsedd, will itself have two or more sub-gorseddau to focus and promote Celtic events within their areas. While not required, local gorseddau may be formed to promote local activities and competitions, but only when these may be sustained over time. When the members of a regional, area, or local Gorsedd determine they want to establish bardic or other positions of honor for meritorious contributions to the bardic arts, they may elect to do so, providing each such competition is announced no less than a year and a day prior to holding the event..

Note: This tradition of announcing a competition a year and a day shall also be the rule for all competitions.

To contact the organizer, you can find him here:
http://americymru.ning.com/group/northamericangorsethassociation