It all began in 2001 with love and a dream: a financier’s love of bluegrass and his vision of hosting a free concert in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The first festival took place in October 2001, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steve Earle and the Hardly Strictly Dukes perform at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival on Saturday in San Francisco.

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the free multi-day music festival that has been a staple of San Francisco for two decades, will return to Golden Gate Park this weekend for the first time since 2019. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It’s time again to listen to the music in Golden Gate Park. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is back and underway; the free music festival is a fan favorite, and one of the big reasons why ...

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, founded in 2001, is a free three-day festival at Golden Gate Park that’s funded by a foundation set up by the late investment banker Warren Hellman. As the name implies, the ...

San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival will feature the likes of Emmylou Harris, Rufus Wainwright, Dawes, Jason Isbell and Steve Earle in 2023, to name just a few. It will also be free to ...