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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have delivered a windfall of final festival participants who signed up to perform during the October 4-6 gathering at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The 24th annual occasion will boast 70 artists performing on six different stages. Also included in today’s announcement is a daily breakdown of the concert schedule, which sets forth a three-day forecast of music steeped in the tradition of bluegrass and beyond to showcase contemporary favorites such as the newly tacked-on artist additions. 

According to the official press release, joining the lineup on Friday, Oct. 2, are fresh faces such as Charlie Overbey, Lindsay Lou, The Milk Carton Kids and Viv & Riley. The aforementioned artists join the first-day roster, which includes previously announced talents such as Cat Power, who will deliver her 1966 Bob Dylan homage, and separate sets from Devendra Banhart, Glen Hansard, Ibibio Sound Machine, Jessica Pratt, Matt the Electrician, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Sean McConnell, Sgt. Splendor, Sleater-Kinney, and special presentations billed as Songs from a Gravel Road: Kelly Willis, Chuck Prophet, Ismay & Steve Earle and Wonder Women of Country.

Saturday, Oct. 3, will see another heap of newly added names on the festival lineup, such as Alison Brown, Buddy Miller, Cunningham Bird, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Jackie Greene & Anders Osborne, Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands, Marco and The Polos, Moonalice, Nigel Wearne & The Spectres, Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Sam Reider and The Human Hands and Willi Carlisle. Those folks join already-announced acts such as Dave Alvin, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & The Guilty Ones, Fruition, Greensky Bluegrass, Levitation Room, Mavis Staples, Robyn Hitchcock and others. 

The event’s final day, Sunday, Oct. 4, includes a final offering of live entertainment from another batch of newly added musicians, including Abby Posner, Aoife O’Donovan, Cedric Burnside, James Hunter, Jon Muq and the great Patti Smith. Already featured on the final day bill are Alisa Amador, Bobby Rush, Big Star Quintet’s “Radio City” 50th Anniversary, Emmylou Harris, Tony Trischka’s Earl Jam, Rambling Jack Elliott, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Wood Brothers and Yo La Tengo, just to name a few. Scroll down to view the complete lineup for the 2024 edition of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. 

Learn more at www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com.

 

 

 

 

 

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HARDLY STRICTLY BLUEGRASS 24

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

October 4-6, 2024

Friday, October 4:

Cat Power Sings Dylan ’66

Charlie Overbey

Devendra Banhart

Glen Hansard

Ibibio Sound Machine

Jessica Pratt

Lindsay Lou

Matt the Electrician

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway

Sean McConnell

Sgt. Splendor

Sleater-Kinney

Songs from a Gravel Road: Kelly Willis, Chuck Prophet, Ismay & Steve Earle

The Milk Carton Kids

Viv & Riley

Wonder Women of Country

Saturday, October 5:

Alison Brown

Buddy Miller’s Cavalcade of Stars: The Red Dirt Boys, Jobi Riccio, Teddy Thompson, Dom, Flemons, Carlene Carter, & Buddy Miller

Cunningham Bird

Dave Alvin

Jimmie Dale Gilmore & The Guilty Ones

Dry Branch Fire Squad

Fruition

Greensky Bluegrass

Haley Heynderickx

Jackie Greene & Anders Osborne

John Cooper Clarke

Jon Langford & The Far Forlorn

Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands

Levitation Room

Marco and The Polos

Mavis Staples

Moonalice

Nigel Wearne & The Spectres

Oakland Rising F. Melodious & Friends

Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band

Robyn Hitchcock

Sam Reider and The Human Hands

Steve Earle F: Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway

Willi Carlisle

Sunday, October 6:

Abby Posner

AJ Lee & Blue Summit

Alice Gerrard

Alisa Amador

Aoife O’Donovan w/Hawktail & The San Francisco Girls Chorus

Bobby Rush

Brandy Clark

Big Star Quintet’s “Radio City” 50th Anniversary

Cedric Burnside

Chaparalle

DakhaBrakha

Combo Tezeta

Emmylou Harris

James Hunter

Jon Muq

Patti Smith

Tony Trischka’s Earl Jam

Miko Marks

Raining Chansaws

Rambler Jack Elliott

Songwriter Circle F: Peter Case, Carsie Blanton, Teddy Thompson & Melissa Carper

The Bones of J.R. Jones

The Infamous Stringdusters

The Wood Brothers

Ustad Noor Bakhsh

Wreckless Strangers

Yo La Tengo