Has anyone ever been to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Fransisco?

[Cigar Cowboy]

This is the 10th year. So many of my favorite artist play this show. I really need to get up there and check it out.

Hardly Strickly Bluegrass Festival

Oct 1, 2 & 3 at Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park

No Ticket Needed - It is free


Gillian Welch, Jon Langford & Skull Orchard, Steve Earle and the Dukes, Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer, Emmylou Harris, Blue Highway, Kelly Willis, The Felice Brothers, Heidi Clare & AtaGallop, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Lucero, Guy Clark and Verlon Thompson, The Flatlanders featuring Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock, the subdudes, James McMurtry, Justin Townes Earle, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women, Martin Sexton, Richard Thompson, Mondo Cane, The Avett Brothers, Kate Gaffney, MC Hammer, Hot Tuna Electric, Buddy Miller, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, The Waybacks with Sarah Dugas of the Duhks, Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, Rosanne Cash, Carolyn Wonderland, Jonathan Richman, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Joan Baez, Jackie Greene, Kevin Welch, Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin, Robert Earl Keen, Poor Man's Whiskey, Evie Ladin, MarchFourth Marching Band, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, Anderson Family Bluegrass, The Wronglers, Jerry Douglas with Omar Hakim & Viktor Krauss, Patti Smith, Moonalice, Jenny & Johnny featuring Jenny Lewis & Johnathan Rice, Earl Scruggs, Patty Griffin, Exene, Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys, Doc Watson & David Holt, The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue featuring Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald & Boz Scaggs, Songwriter Circle with Steve Earle, Robert Earl Keen, John Doe & Justin Townes Earle, 7 Walkers featuring Bill Kreutzmann & Papa Mali with special guest George Porter Jr. , Keller & the Keels, Citigrass, Peter Himmelman, Nathaniel Rateliff, The Band of Heathens, Jerry Jeff Walker, Wendy Bird, The Magnolia Sisters, Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band, Elvis Costello and the Sugarcanes, Yonder Mountain String Band, Indigo Girls, Umphrey's McGee, Skip Gorman, Nick Lowe, The Ebony Hillbillies, Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs, Carolina Chocolate Drops, David Grisman Quintet, Basia Bulat, David Olney & Sergio Webb, Hazel Dickens, Bonnie Prince Billy & the Cairo Gang, Railroad Earth, Randy Newman, The Del McCoury Band, Kinky Friedman, Conor Oberst, T Bone Burnett featuring the Punch Brothers and special guests Karen Elson and the Secret Sisters, Fountains of Wayne

MORE ARTISTS & DAILY SCHEDULE TO BE ANNOUNCED!​

 

[BesstR]

I would love to make it to this event. What a great line up listening to Del McCoury right now.

 

[Cigar Cowboy]

I would love to make it to this event. What a great line up listening to Del McCoury right now.

Do you have that album with Steve Earle and the Del McCoury called "The Mountain"? That has got to be one of my all time favorites

 

[Cigar Cowboy]

That songwriter Circle with Steve Earle, Robert Earl Keen, John Doe & Justin Townes Earle sure would be fun to watch.

Steve Earle and Robert Earle Keen are two of the greatest songwritters on the planet.

Some of the other artist that stand out to me:

Gillian Welch
Jon Langford & Skull Orchard
Steve Earle and the Dukes
Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer
Kelly Willis
Guy Clark
The Flatlanders
James McMurtry
Buddy Miller
Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
Jonathan Richman
Jackie Greene
Earl Scruggs
The Band of Heathens
Jerry Jeff Walker
Elvis Costello and the Sugarcanes
The Del McCoury Band
Kinky Friedman

 

[BesstR]

No I have to check out that Album. Yes they are some of the best songwriters around. I have Pandora on and Del is one of my stations and Ralph Stanley.

 

[BesstR]

I find it funny people talk about the Delta blues being Americas music. Which do not get me wrong I like that also another Pandora station. But Bluegrass is always over looked. I went to a lot of festivals when I was stationed in North Carolina.

 

[Bass man]

Now THAT'S a hell of a line up. Don't miss Richard Thompson, Buddy Miller or Emmylou Harris. And to really rock out, catch Electric Hot Tuna.

 

[Cigar Cowboy]

I like Buddy Miller a lot.

 

[topher]

I went to this in '03 when I lived up there. It was a good time, and the music was excellent. That said, there was copious amounts of beer in the picture, so my memory of the music is mostly limited to the early stuff.. eh, make that my memory of the whole event!

 

[tobii3]

But Bluegrass is always over looked. I went to a lot of festivals when I was stationed in North Carolina.

Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro!!

MERLEFEST!!!!!!

:thumbsup:

 

[Cigar Cowboy]

I went to this in '03 when I lived up there. It was a good time, and the music was excellent. That said, there was copious amounts of beer in the picture, so my memory of the music is mostly limited to the early stuff.. eh, make that my memory of the whole event!

Did you have to sneak beer in or did they sell it back then? I did not think they sold beer at this event. Due to some stupid "no alcohol in the park" law.

Maybe I am wrong.

 

[Clint]

No, but I hear the grass is bluer on the other side....

 

[Cigar Cowboy]

What is MC Hammer doing on the bill? LOL

Must be some gospel thing???

 

[topher]

Did you have to sneak beer in or did they sell it back then? I did not think they sold beer at this event. Due to some stupid "no alcohol in the park" law.

Maybe I am wrong.

Its a BYOB event. You can bring coolers in..

 

[Cigar Cowboy]

Its a BYOB event. You can bring coolers in..

Oh very cool. Thanks for the info.

 

[CWS]

Its a BYOB event. You can bring coolers in..

and the Cigar Cowboy, finding heaven in the Bay area, was never heard from again....:guitar:

 

[Cigar Cowboy]

LOL - Great music in a beautiful park with an ice chest full of beer and a few cigars. I think you might be right Chuck.

We may have to make this a 3 day HERF next year with a few of the mid state and NoCal BOTL.