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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

Join record crowds & amazing weather at Golden Gate Park
By - posted 10/3/2013 No Comment

October 4th through the 6th marks the 2013 rendition of one of the largest (and free-est) music festivals in the country: San Francisco’s own Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.

Friday highlights:
– Bonnie Raitt (5:45p), First Aid Kit (4:20p), Conor Oberst (5:45), Manchester Orchestra (Noon)

Saturday highlights:
– Paul Kelly (12:10p), Steve Earle (5:45p), Los Lobos Disconnected (4:45p), Boz Scaggs (3:35p)

Sunday highlights:
– Tift Merrit (5:10p), Emmylou Harris (5:45p), The String Cheese Incident (5:45p), Gogol Bordello (5:30p), Chris Isaak (4p), Billy Bragg (3:30p)

Full 2013 Lineup

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2013
Three days, six stages – over 750,000 attendees and 90+ bands
– Friday-Sunday, October 4-6, 2013 | 11 am-7 pm
– Hellman Hollow, Lindley & Marx meadows in Golden Gate Park, SF
– FREE

2013 Highlights: Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Patty Griffin, Conor Oberst, Father John Misty, The String Cheese Incident, Chris Isaak, Boz Scaggs,Vince Gill, Paul Kelly, Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale, Richard Thompson, Mike Scott & Steve Wickham (of The Waterboys), First Aid Kit, and many more to be announced.

CONFIRMED FOR 2013:
Day-specific schedules and set times to be announced closer to the festival date.  Lineup subject to change

Manchester Orchestra
Emmylou Harris
G. Love & Special Sauce
Della Mae
Paul Kelly
Steve Earle & The Dukes
Calexico
Loudon Wainwright III
Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands
Elvin Bishop
Boz Scaggs
Mike Scott & Steve Wickham of The Waterboys
Bettye LaVette
Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band featuring Yungchen Lhamo
Tim O’Brien with Bryan Sutton & Mike Bub
Alison Brown
The Warren Hood Band
The Flatlanders featuring Joe Ely
Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock
Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers
Los Lobos Disconnected
Freakwater
Robert Ellis
Martha Wainwright
Jon Langford & Skull Orchard acoustic / FREAKONS
Father John Misty
Allah-Las
The Deep Dark Woods
Dave Alvin with Greg Leisz
Trampled By Turtles
Natalie Maines
Seldom Scene
Kieran Kane
Kevin Welch & Fats Kaplin
Sonny & The Sunsets
Justin Townes Earle
Pieta Brown
Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell
Kat Edmonson
The Devil Makes Three
Supermule
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside
Sturgill Simpson
LP
Jesse DeNatale
Jerry Douglas
Moonalice
Dry Branch Fire Squad
Tumbleweed Wanderers
Low
Nick Lowe
Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott
Gogol Bordello
Kate McGarrigle Tribute with Martha & Sloan Wainwright & Special Guests
Richard Thompson
Joy Kills Sorrow
Tift Merritt
Shovels & Rope
Jesse Dee
The Go To Hell Man Clan
The Handsome Family,Ryan Bingham
The Brothers Comatose
Mike Farris & The Roseland Rhythm Revue
Spirit Family Reunion
Billy Bragg
Mark Lanegan
Buddy Miller
Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale
The String Cheese Incident
The Forest Rangers with Katey Sagal
The Time Jumpers featuring Brad Albin
Larry Franklin
Paul Franklin
Vince Gill
“Ranger Doug” Green
Andy Reiss
Dawn Sears
Kenny Sears
Joe Spivey
Jeff Taylor & Billy Thomas
Conor Brings Friends For Friday Featuring: Whispertown
The Cave Singers
The Felice Brothers
The Evens
First Aid Kit
Conor Oberst
The Wood Brothers
Holler Down the Hollow: A Hardly Strictly Salute to the Masters
Robert Earl Keen
Bonnie Raitt
Poor Man’s Whiskey (Friday morning middle school program)
Patty Griffin
Chris Isaak
Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys
Evolfo Doofeht
MC Hammer (Friday morning middle school program)

Photo credit: San Francisco Sentinel