“Let The Music Play On” artists Chuck Prophet, Patty Griffin, Birds of Chicago, Los Coast and Shakey Graves. Illustration courtesy: Mark Urliksen. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass veterans Chuck Prophet and Patty Griffin, as well as Birds of Chicago, Los Coast and Shakey Graves, have been announced as additional performers at “Let The Music Play…

Cheap Trick. Photos: Chloe Catajan and Paige K. Parsons SAN FRANCISCO — The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival brought out the “golden” in Golden Gate Park last weekend. Following a sullen week marked by the massacre at a Las Vegas country music festival and the death of rock icon Tom Petty,…