Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Unveils Daily Lineups

San Francisco’s favorite free festival has given us the full lineup for all three days of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival for 2017.

josh Weichman – Sturgill Simpson
Sturgill Simpson performs during Sloss Music & Arts Festival at Sloss Furnaces Nat’l Hist. Landmark in Birmingham, Ala., July 16.

The absolutely free event is being held in Golden Gate Park from Oct. 6-8. So if you like free things check it out.

The Friday, Oct. 6 docket includes Conor Oberst and friends, Brandi Carlile, Tracy Blackman, Jesse Harris, T Bone Burnett, Billy Bragg, Terri Hendrix with Lloyd Maines and plenty of others.

Saturday, Oct. 7 features The Wood Brothers, Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Patty Griffin, Dan Auerbach, Sturgill Simpson, Jamey Johnson, Ozomatli, Steve Earle & The Dukes,  The Brothers Comatose and many others.

The final day, Sunday, Oct. 8, will see John Prine, Lucinda Williams, Bob Mould Band, Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real, Cheap Trick, Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, Jello Biafra, Randy Newman, Golden Gate Park  and many more taking the stage.

Prior to this organizers unveiled the lineup in their traditional fashion of sharing medleys of confirmed acts.

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass was founded and subsidized by the late San Francisco venture capitalist Warren Hellman. The San Francisco Chronicle referred to the event as “the great gift of Warren Hellman, the one and only, to not only the City of San Francisco, but the world of music.”

For all things Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, check out the Pollstar festival page.