Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this weekend in SF!

[Bennyboy]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO! http://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/ The best festival in the US. 5 stages in Golden Gate park! FREE! FREE! FREE!

They guy that puts this on just does it for the love. he puts the best artists, best sound, stages, presentation and puts them i the best setting and asks for nothing at all. there are no revenue sreams back to the festival. No shirts, cups, chairs, hats...no products. No beer sales, but you can take your own!

[Bennyboy]

1. The artists

FRIDAY The morning is a special educational program featuring The Abrams Brothers and PMW for local schools (and the general public) as part of the Daniel Pearl World Music Days. The afternoon features very special guests Augie March, Buddy Miller, T Bone Burnett, and Jeff Tweedy.

On Friday, October 5th, students from San Francisco middle schools will attend a special concert at opening day of the "Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival" an amazing concert for 4,000 middle school students. SF Connect Volunteers will chaperone the students and work with teachers to make the field trip go smoothly. It's a wonderful opportunity to help students enjoy a unique cultural experience! Click here for more info.


SATURDAY Alison Brown Quartet w/ Special Guest Joe Craven, Allison Moorer, Austin Lounge Lizards, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones feat. Victor Lemonte Wooten, Future Man & Jeff Coffin, Belle Monroe & Her Brewglass Boys, Blanche, Boz Scaggs & The Blue Velvet Band (feat. Buddy Miller, Jon Cleary, Ricky Fataar, Dennis Crouch & Greg Leisz), Chris Smither, Dale Ann Bradley & Coon Creek, Dan Reeder, Fionn Regan, The Flatlanders feat. Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock, Gillian Welch, Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson, James McMurtry, Jimmy LaFave, John Prine, Julay Brooks & Richard Brandenburg w/ The Cash Magnets, Keller Williams, The Knitters, Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands, Los Lobos, Michelle Shocked, New Lost City Ramblers, Nick Lowe, The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby w/ Kentucky Thunder, Robert Earl Keen, Symphony Bluegrass Ramblers, Shana Morrison & Caledonia, Steve Earle, the subdudes, T Bone Burnett, Teddy Thompson, The Whoreshoes


SUNDAY Bill Callahan, Bill Kirchen & The Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods, Charlie Louvin, Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men, David Grisman Bluegrass Experience w/ special guest Curly Seckler, The Del McCoury Band, Doc Watson w/ David Holt & Richard Watson, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Earl Scruggs, Emmylou Harris, Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams, The Hacienda Brothers, Hazel Dickens, Heartless Bastards, Hot Buttered Rum, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Jim Lauderdale, Jody Stecher & Bill Evans / The Secret Life of Banjos, Jorma Kaukonen, Kevin Welch, Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin, Marley's Ghost, Mekons, Moonalice, Mother Hips, Ned Sublette, Pete Wernick & Flexigrass, Poor Man's Whiskey, Railroad Earth, Red Wine, The Sadies, Songwriter Circle (w/ Chris Smither, David Olney, Ray Wylie Hubbard & Steve Young), Steep Canyon Rangers, The Wronglers

[idgiehkt]

2. um, wow

that is amazing!!

Just the Saturday line up blew my mind. That is going to be a great festival. I would wear myself out running around trying to see all of them...and it's FREE on top of it. Wow. You are lucky you get to go. And Earl Scruggs and Emmylou on Sunday...unreal.

:woohoo:

looks like my favorite bluegrass artist is gonna miss it though, she's here
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[Bennyboy]

3. Emmylou vs. Del McCourey ...decisions, decisions....

Got lots of conflicts....

Anyways, I will be sporting a fish hat. You will know it when you see it. I would love to meet some DUers there!

[Bake]

4. Hardly "strictly bluegrass" indeed!

Ain't a lot of Monroe in that lineup ... (said with best stern Monroe glare and Lester Flatt accent!).

Great lineup, though! Enjoy! Wish I was there.

Bake

[KG]

5. the festival boonaroo wishes it was...

all my faves are there! Dave Alvin, Jimmy Lave, Steve Earle... one of these years... :hi:

[Bennyboy]

6. I am so excitied!!!!!

I jut can't hide it!

[Bennyboy]

7. Back up!

Gonna be taking an RV and parking it down at the beach...riding the bikes in.

[Bennyboy]

8. Pickin and grinnin all weekend!