Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the yearly 3-day free music festival in Golden Gate Park's Speedway Meadow has announced their lineup for this year's event set to take place Friday, September 30th to Sunday, October 2nd. Some of the usual suspects like Robert Plant, Emmylou Harris, Bela Fleck and Kris Kristofferson will be returning, banjos in hand, but as with every year the lineup isn't strictly limited to the twangy genre (hence the name). A couple notable, non-bluegrass acts: Broken Social Scene, Kurt Vile & the Violators, MC Hammer (who does the yearly children's program) and Bright Eyes. The full lineup below, in no particular order:
Jonathan Wilson
A.A. Bondy
Dive Bar Dukes
Justin Townes Earle
Wendy Bird
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
Elbow
Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson
Thurston Moore
Cass McCombs
Dark Star Orchestra
South Memphis String Band
Seamus Kennedy
David Bromberg Quartet
Kris Kristofferson & Merle Haggard
Kieran Kane
Kevin Welch & Fats Kaplin
Blame Sally
Ricky Skaggs
Bill Kirchen
Jessica Lea Mayfield
Steve Earle and the Dukes (and Duchesses) featuring Allison Moorer
Gillian Welch
Seldom Scene
Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses
Bright Eyes
Emmylou Harris
Reckless Kelly
The Low Anthem
The Band of Heathens
Over the Rhine
Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
Gomez
Fitz & the Tantrums
PMW (Thursday Children's Program)
Chris Isaak
Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally & Their All-Star Band
Alison Brown Quartet
Hot Buttered Rum
Kurt Vile & the Violators
The Belle Brigade
Joe Purdy
John Prine
Otis Clay with special guest Chick Rodgers
M. Ward
Robert Earl Keen
Greensky Bluegrass
Jolie Holland
DeVotchKa
Conspiracy of Beards
Mekons
Those Darlins
The Felice Brothers
Irma Thomas
Charlie Musselwhite
River Whyless
The Wronglers with Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile
Moonalice
MC Hammer (Thursday Children's Program)
Robert Plant & the Band of Joy
The Devil Makes Three
Bela Fleck
Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer
Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands
Woods
The Mother Hips
Broken Social Scene
The Blind Boys of Alabama
Southern Culture on the Skids
Abigail Washburn
The Flatlanders featuring Joe Ely
Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock
AllofaSudden
Bill Orcutt
The Del McCoury Band & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Ollabelle
The Civil Wars
Dry Branch Fire Squad
Robyn Hitchcock
Patty Griffin
The Jayhawks
Buckethead
Bob Mould
Dr. John & the Lower 911
Buddy Miller
Simon Joyner
The Swanson Family Band
Earl Scruggs
Frank Fairfield
