If you don’t know what to do the weekend of October 3-5, stop right there, I’ve got a suggestion…Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 14 music festival in San Francisco, CA. You’re going to have to try really hard to keep yourself from booking your travel arrangements right now. The whole shindig will take place at Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park. ALL FOR FREE!
The list of acts is impressive:
Peter Rowan’s Twang An’ Groove, Blackie and The Rodeo Kings, Chuck Cannon, John Prine, Justin Townes Earle, The Flatlanders Featuring Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock, Carlene Carter, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Tweedy, Chris Isaak, Cibo Matto, T Bone Burnett, X Acoustic, The Sam Chase, Robert Earl Keen, The Go To Hell Man Clan, Dwight Yoakam, Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, The Mastersons, The Lone Bellow, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Lucinda Williams, Alison Brown Quintet, Rising Appalachia, Mavis Staples, Holler Down The Hollow: A Hardly Strictly Salute To the Masters (Dickens, Hellman, Reed, Scruggs, Seeger, Watson & Winchester), Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The High Bar Gang, The Waybacks, The Time Jumpers Featuring Vince Gill, Kenny Sears, Dawn Sears and Ranger Doug Green, Caitlin Rose, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Poor Man’s Whiskey (Friday morning middle school program), Ryan Adams, Built To Spill, Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin with The Guilty Ones, Willie Watson, Buckwheat Zydeco, Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun, Emmylou Harris, The McCrary Sisters, Deltron 3030 with The 3030 Orchestra, Jerry Douglas Presents Earls of Leicester, Reckless Kelly, Malawi Mouse Boys, Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express ‘Strings In The Temple’, Bad Luck Jonathan, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Blue Rodeo, The Apache Relay, Moonalice, Buddy Miller’s Cavalcade of Stars: Kate York, Striking Matches, Nikki Lane, Shawn Colvin, Tony Joe White, Buddy Miller & Friends, Shelly Colvin, Yo La Tengo, Evolfo, Red Baraat, Rosanne Cash, The Felice Brothers, Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real, Sun Kil Moon, Hot Rize Featuring Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers, Jason Isbell, Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Parker Millsap, Kevin Welch, Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin, Rose’s Pawn Shop, Lake Street Dive, Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys, Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds, Bruce Cockburn, Sarah Jarosz, Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands, Johnnyswim, The Aquabats! (Friday morning middle school program), Dave Rawlings Machine, Robbie Fulks, Whograss, Jesse DeNatale, Conor Brings Friends For Friday Featuring: Waxahatchee, The Good Life, Jonathan Wilson, Sharon Van Etten, Dawes, Conor Oberst, Social Distortion, Chris Smither
Here’s the link for tickets, info, etc…http://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/2014/
