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 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 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 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 Rest In Peace, Corie Woods SFist was saddened to hear that Corie Woods, the author of this week's SFist Memoirs article paying tribute to the late Warren Hellman and his Hardly Strictly Bluegrass legacy, passed away suddenly on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Hardly Strictly Family [Updated] In honor of the big Warren Hellman tribute concert happening on Sunday, the schedule of which you can find over at SF Weekly, we've invited Corie Woods to talk about her experience as
Arts & Entertainment Warren Hellman Tribute Concert Announced, 2/19 [Updated] As City Insider reports, the Recreation and Park Commission announced it's organizing a Warren Hellman tribute concert honoring the beloved philanthropist and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass founder who passed away last month. Update: The
Arts & Entertainment Outer Sunset Business Wards Off Concert-Going Hippies Although this SFist contributor couldn't make it to the little bluegrass concert in the park last weekend, we kept hearing mention of lots of hippies saturating the event. To echo that sentiment, friend
Arts & Entertainment Scenes from Friday and Saturday at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Sunshine! Famous people making music! Other people also making music! Lots of people not making music! Food Vendors! Dr. House on a Piano! Mayor Ed Lee! All of those things were in Golden
misc Correction: Can You Spot the Heterosexuals? The Chronicle couldn't. And neither could we. That is, until we read today's most awesome "Corrections" on SFGate. -- In Saturday's story about the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, the sexual orientation of the
Arts & Entertainment Augie March Shines at Slim's Augie March, looking a bit haggard - maybe a little drunk, performed their second set of the day - earlier they made an appearance at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival at Golden Gate
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City - R.I.P. R.I.P. When The Lights Go Down In The City November 2004 - September 2007 It was SFist's first editor Jackson West who asked me to write a music column back in
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Lineup Announced They've just announced the line-up for this year's fest, taking place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 6, 7 & 8 in Golden Gate Park. Highlights include Elvis Costello, Alejandro Escovedo, Linda Ronstadt,
Arts & Entertainment The 'Fisties: Music Gillian Welch and Victoria Williams sat and watched Emmylou Harris perform, the guys from Los Super Seven hung out with some of the Knitters, and Patty Griffin stood by as Buddy Miller performed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Val's Restaurant & Lounge Amazing what getting in the wrong turning lane will do for you. After a movie at the Century 20 Daly City — about which theater, the less said, the better, but let's just note
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass How amazing is Dolly Parton? From "9 To 5" to "I Will Always Love You" and beyond, the woman has written a zillion classic songs and has sung them in a voice sweeter
