Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

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***We are hard at work booking the line-up for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass's 10th year & will be announcing it this summer (thank you for your patience!)***

The line-up for 2009:

FRIDAY - Lyle Lovett & His Large Band, John Prine, Tom Morello, MC Hammer, Poor Man's Whiskey, The Fireants.

SATURDAY- Abalone Dots, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Buddy Miller, Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson, The Tim O'Brien Band, Okkervil River , World Party, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, Nick Lowe, Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women, Pamela Rose with Wild Women (and Other Friends), Steve Earle & the Bluegrass Dukes, Eliza Gilkyson, The Duhks, Dr. Magpie, Rosie Flores with Jon Langford and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers, Reckless Kelly, Old 97's, Marshall Crenshaw, Songwriter Circle with Tom Morello/Dar Williams/Steve Earle & Allison Moorer, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Robert Earl Keen, The Barefoot Nellies, Richie Havens, Roger Knox - Too Deadly For America... Visa Denied: Jon Langford & the Sadies perform Australian Aboriginal Country & Western Songs, Great American Taxi, Hayes Carll, Billy Joe Shaver, The Wronglers, Gillian Welch, The Flatlanders featuring: Joe Ely & Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock, The Claire Lynch Band, Natalie MacMaster, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, Boz Scaggs & the Blue Velvet Band featuring James Cotton/Austin de Lone/Nick Lowe/Buddy Miller/Derek O'Brien/Jimmie Vaughan and Jack 'Applejack' Walroth, Jorma Kaukonen, Austin Lounge Lizards.

SUNDAY - Booker T. & the Drive-By Truckers, Allison Moorer, Galactic, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Emmylou Harris, Neko Case, Marianne Faithfull, Todd Snider, Mike Farris & the Roseland Rhythm Revue, Moonalice, Billy Bragg, Marley's Ghost with Special Guest Cowboy Jack Clement, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Knitters, Malo, Allen Toussaint, Red Wine, Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, Darrell Scott Band, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Amadou & Mariam, The Chieftains, Doc Watson & David Holt, The Brothers Comatose, Mavis Staples, ODC/Dance, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Aimee Mann, The Del McCoury Band, Kevin Welch & Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin, Hazel Dickens, Little Feat, Elizabeth Cook, Earl Scruggs, Dr. Dog, Kimmie Rhodes, Rodney Crowell.

***PLEASE VISIT WWW.HARDLYSTRICTLYBLUEGRASS.COM FOR COMPLETE INFO!***

We are an annual three day music festival specializing in roots music of all kind. We have six stages around the Speedway Meadow area of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and the festival is absolutely free to the public. You have read this correctly -- FREE!!!!

What began as Warren Hellman’s bluegrass fantasy in 2001 as a wonderful gift to the city has now grown into one of the world’s largest and most anticipated festivals for concert goers and musicians alike. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 10, the FREE festival in Speedway, Marx and Lindley Meadows in Golden Gate Park, will take place in 2010 on Friday, October 1 – Sunday, October 3.

Starting in 2001 with 2 stages and 9 bands, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass quickly grew by leaps and bounds over the next few years. Soon 3 stages turned into 5 (and now 6!) and everyone from Willie Nelson to Dr. Ralph Stanley to Dolly Parton has graced them. As the talent continues to impress, so do the crowds. 2009's attendance estimates were a staggering 800,000 over the three days.