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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.
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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
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