Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters perform at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 5, 2019. The producers of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have shared the next round of artists performing at the 2024 edition of the free music festival, which returns to…

Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters perform at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 5, 2019. The producers of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have shared the initial lineup for the 2024 edition of the free music festival, which returns to Golden Gate Park…

Kurt Vile and the Violators perform at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Dec. 12, 2018. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass has announced its second round of performers at the 2023 festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco The new additions include Kurt Vile & The Violators, Lilly…

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit perform at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on June 8, 2019. They will perform at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco this fall. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. The producers of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have shared the initial lineup for the 2023 edition of the free…

Incoming Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Executive Director John Caldon. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, San Francisco free music festival started by philanthropist Warren Hellman, has hired John Caldon to be its first executive director. Caldon comes to Hardly Strictly from San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center, where he is the…

Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell perform at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 6, 2013. Courtesy: Jay Blakesberg. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass has added Emmylou Harris, Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew of the Talking Heads and more artists to the lineup. The festival will…

Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell perform at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 6, 2013. Courtesy: Jay Blakesberg. The producers of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, who in 2020 raised more than $3 million in relief for the music community in the Bay Area, announced on…

Emmylou Harris performs at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 6, 2019. Martin Lacey/STAFF. The producers of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have canceled the annual free music festival for the second year in a row due to concerns around the rapidly spreading Delta variant…

Fantastic Negrito performs during Let the Music Play On, Courtesy: Ken Friedman. Let the Music Play On, the virtual festival produced by Hardly Strictly Bluegrass last weekend resulted in in more than $3 million in relief for the music community in the Bay Area and across the U.S., producers announced…

“Let The Music Play On” artists Boz Scaggs, Jim Lauderdale, Fantastic Negrito, Robert Earl Keen and Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi. Illustration courtesy: Mark Urliksen. Boz Scaggs, Jim Lauderdale, Fantastic Negrito, Robert Earl Keen and Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi have been added to the lineup of Let The Music…