Arts & Entertainment Photos: The 25th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Was Blessed With Great Music, Three Sunny Days It was a gorgeous late-summer weekend in Golden Gate Park as the beloved Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival rang in 25 years, with stars of bluegrass — and jazz, and rock, and country, and folk, and other genres — serenaded a grateful SF audience.
Arts & Entertainment What You Can Bring to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass — and How to Watch From Home San Francisco's season of music festivals wraps up this weekend with Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, which this year features The Reverend Horton Heat, Lucinda Williams, and regulars Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Releases Full 2025 Lineup, With Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Samara Joy, and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band The final acts have just been announced for next month's 25th anniversary Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, with Wilco vocalist Jeff Tweedy added to a lineup that already included String Cheese Incident, Reverend Horton Heat, and Dengue Fever.
Arts & Entertainment First Batch of 2025 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Acts Announced, Includes String Cheese Incident, Reverend Horton Heat This year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival is starting to take shape, and the first line-up of artists just confirmed Wednesday features the String Cheese Incident, Reverend Horton Heat, and Lucinda Williams.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Kicks Off In Full Sun; Friday Lineup Includes Cat Power, Sleater-Kinney Starting at 1 pm Friday, the music will be playing in Golden Gate Park as the 24th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass kicks off amid a persistent heatwave.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Releases Full Schedule for Next Weekend’s Festival Caltrain’s first day of all-electric train service was marred by electrical problems; there’s more prison high-jinks for the FTX crypto kids; and we now have the full three-day schedule for next weekend’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.
Arts & Entertainment Patti Smith Headlines the Just-Released Full Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup We already had an impressive Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival lineup with Sleater-Kinney, Devendra Banhart, and Cat Power on the bill, but the complete artist list just dropped and now includes punk poet Patti Smith and guitarist Chuck Prophet.
Arts & Entertainment Sleater-Kinney, Devendra Banhart Join 2024 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup The organizers of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have now released two segments of the roster of this year's free music festival in Golden Gate Park, and the second batch of names includes the great and marvelous Sleater-Kinney.
Arts & Entertainment This Year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Will Have a New 'General Store' Selling Ice, Snacks, Sunblock, and More Organizers of the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival just announced a new and welcome feature at this year's event: a 'General Store' selling a variety of picnic supplies and more.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Releases Full Schedule and Set Times for Next Weekend’s Festival You’ve got ten days to game-plan your 2023 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, and organizers just announced schedules and set times, so it’s time to get pickin’.
Arts & Entertainment Rufus Wainwright, Rickie Lee Jones, and Soul Legend Irma Thomas Added to Hardly Strictly Lineup A little less than half of the complete Hardly Strictly Bluegrass lineup for 2023 has been revealed, and this year is shaping up to be a stellar year for the free music festival in Golden Gate Park.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Early 2023 Lineup Reveal Includes Jason Isbell, John Doe, The Church While there are still many, many acts yet to be announced, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2023 festival teased its first ten artist announcements, highlighted by former Drive-By Truckers guitarist Jason Isbell.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Draws 500,000 People, 'As Many People As We’ve Ever Had' It may have been the biggest Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival ever, as an estimated half million people descended on Golden Gate Park this weekend for the glorious return of one of the largest free music festivals in the U.S.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2022 Starts Fiddlin’ Friday Afternoon, Will be Livestreamed, Weather Looks Awesome The first in-person Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in three years gets pickin’ Friday afternoon, and while it’s still free, here’s a Foggy Mountain breakdown of what you can and can’t bring to the festival grounds at Golden Gate Park.
Arts & Entertainment Full Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup and Schedule Released, Drive-By Truckers Added After weeks of teasing parts of the lineup in pieces, as has been the tradition of the last decade, organizers of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have now unveiled the full and complete lineup and schedule for the three-day free music festival in Golden Gate Park.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Announces More of the 2022 Lineup, Night Shows For the first time in three years, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass will return to the western meadows of Golden Gate Park the weekend of September 30, and we now have the full lineup of artists and "Out of the Park" night shows.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Unveils Complete Schedule for This Weekend’s Livestreams Here’s the bluegrass “breakdown” of who’s playing when on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, with Bob Mould, Fred Armisen, Ani DiFranco, Mavis Staples, and of course Emmylou Harris in the prime time spots.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Calls Off 2021 Festival, but Livestream Will Have Bob Mould, Ani DiFranco Delta has done in this year’s in-person Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, but there will be a three-day livestream with festival favorites Mavis Staples and Emmylou Harris.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Moves Online For 2020, Announces Grants For Music Venues and Artists Like just about everything else in 2020, this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival is going to be a digital happening, with organizers aptly naming this year’s theme "Let the Music Play On."
Arts & Entertainment Photos: A Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Roundup of the 2019 Festival Joan Osborne had a heat stroke collapse onstage, Robert Plant busted out plenty of old Zep, and new security restrictions did not damper the delight of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2019.
Arts & Entertainment Your Guide To Navigating The 19th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival SFist brings you our guide to getting around this weekend’s 19th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, in hopes of easing your transportation and security check-in woes. Yes, you will need a clear plastic backpack if you’re taking anything with you into the festival grounds.
Arts & Entertainment Judy Collins, Fantastic Negrito, Petra Haden, and (Many) More Complete the 2019 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup With this year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB) festival now just a month away, the final acts have been announced—and the wait was well, well worth it.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Bans Coolers, Adopts Clear Bag Policy For The Mass Shooting Era It will be an Outside Lands-style gated entrance with security at this year’s free bluegrass festival, and your cooler is no longer welcome, but your dog still is.
Arts & Entertainment Robert Plant, Emmylou Harris and Kurt Vile Round Out Hardly Strictly Lineup The organizers of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have released more of the 2019 lineup, which includes rock legend turned country rocker Robert Plant, and former War on Drugs guitarist Kurt Vile with his band The Violators.
Arts & Entertainment Tanya Tucker, Daniel Norgren and More Added To Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2019 Lineup The latest round of teasers for this year's lineup includes Mdou Moctar, Buddy Miller, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, and Nikki Lane.
