***IF YOU MISSED OUT ON PURCHASING AN HSB8 T-SHIRT, WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT YOU CAN STILL PURCHASE THEM! THEY ARE AVAILABLE IN PERSON AT SLIM'S BOX OFFICE FROM M-F FROM 10:30AM - 6PM OR BY EMAILING [email protected] FOR AN ORDER FORM. SHIRTS ARE $20 EACH (PLUS POSTAGE/HANDLING IF APPLICABLE.)***
***Booking submissions for 2009 may be sent to 333 11th St. SF, CA 94103 attn: Dawn Holliday***
***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 five 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 9, the FREE festival in Speedway, Marx and Lindley Meadows in Golden Gate Park, will take place in 2009 on Friday, October 2 – Sunday, October 4.
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 everyone from Willie Nelson to Dr. Ralph Stanley to Dolly Parton has graced them. As the talent continues to impress, so do the crowds. 2008's attendance estimates were a staggering 750,000 over the three days.
Please keep watching this space as the line-up for 2009 will be announced in the next few months!
The line-up for 2008 included: Earl Scruggs, Bad Livers, The Gourds, The Desert Rose Band, Jerry Jeff Walker, Laurie Lewis & Friends, Emmylou Harris, Hazel Dickens, The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, Gogol Bordello, The Waybacks, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss featuring T Bone Burnett, Iris Dement, Greg Brown, Asleep at the Wheel, The Del McCoury Band, Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band, Hot Rize, Heavy Trash, Carlene Carter, Jon Langford’s Skull Orchard featuring Sally Timms and the Burlington Welsh Male Chorus, Three Girls & Their Buddy, The Wronglers, Los Cenzontles featuring Santiago Jimenez, From the Jayhawks: Mark Olson & Gary Louris, The Infamous Stringdusters, Pegi Young, Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women, Loudon Wainwright III, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Mike Farris & the Roseland Rhythm Revue, Robert Earl Keen, Darrell Scott Band, Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Waco Brothers, Riders in the Sky, Ben Kweller, Elvis Costello's High Whines and Spirits, Kevin Welch & Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin, Poor Man’s Whiskey, Moonalice, Alison Brown Quartet with Joe Craven, Tea Leaf Green, Red Wine, Heidi Clare & AtaGallop, The Opera Dukes, Steve Earle & the Bluegrass Dukes, Dry Branch Fire Squad, John Jorgenson Quintet, Richard Thompson, Global Drum Project featuring Mickey Hart & Zakir Hussain, Nick Lowe, Iron & Wine, Tift Merritt, Samantha Robichaud, Marty Willson-Piper (of the church) & the Mood Maidens, Maura O’Connell, Joe Purdy, Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson, Justin Townes Earle, Bill Evans String Summit with Megan Lynch, Odetta, Ruby Jane Smith, MC Hammer, The Jerry Douglas Band, Sons & Brothers, Sharon Little, Cyndi Harvell, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Bill Kirchen, Band Joe & the Whyte Laydie!
