Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is an annual free and non-commercial music festival held the first weekend of October in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Conceived and subsidized by San Francisco venture capitalist Warren Hellman, the festival has been held every year since the first event in 2001.
Ticket Price: FREE
Headliners
Festival lineup
- Alison Brown Quintet
- Blackie and the Rodeo Kings
- Blue Rodeo
- Bonnie Prince Billy & The Cairo Gang featuring Dawn McCarthy
- Buckwheat Zydeco
- Buddy Miller
- Built to Spill
- Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn
- Caitlin Rose
- Chris Isaak
- Chuck Prophet
- Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express 'Strings In The Temple'
- Cibo Matto
- Conor Oberst
- Dave Rawlings Machine
- Dawes
- Deltron 3030 with the 3030 Orchestra
- Doug Seegers
- Dwight Yoakam
- Emmylou Harris
- Holler Down The Hollow: A Hardly Strictly Salute To The Masters (Dickens, Hellman, Reed, Scruggs, Seeger, Watson & Winchester)
- Hot Rize Featuring Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers
- Hurray For the Riff Raff
- Jason Isbell
- Jerry Douglas Presents Earls of Leicester
- John Prine
- JohnnySwim
- Jon Batiste and Stay Human
- Jonathan Wilson
- Justin Townes Earle
- Lake Street Dive
- Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands
- Lucinda Williams
- Mavis Staples
- Moonalice
- Nikki Lane
- Parker Milsap
- Peter Rowan's Twang An' Groove
- Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
- Red Baraat
- Robbie Fulks
- Robert Earl Keen
- Rosanne Cash
- Rose's Pawn Shop
- Ryan Adams
- Sarah Jarosz
- Sharon Van Etten
- Shawn Colvin
- Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds
- Social Distortion
- Social Distortion
- St. Paul & The Broken Bones
- Steve Earle & The Dukes
- Striking Matches
- Sun Kil Moon
- T Bone Burnett
- Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
- Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
- The Apache Relay
- The Aquabats!
- The Felice Brothers
- The Lone Bellow
- The Mastersons
- The McCrary Sisters
- The Time Jumpers
- The Waybacks
- Tweedy
- Waxahatchee
- X
- Yo La Tengo
Festival News and Rumors

Austin City Limits' 2022 Livestream to Feature Paramore, Kacey Musgraves, The Chicks & More
You can also watch sets by Marcus Mumford, The War on Drugs, Billy Strings, Flume, and Goose.
Consequence Staff October 6, 2022

The What Podcast: Mat Kearney Talks Cover Songs, His Career Journey, and More at Moon River Festival
Barry and Lord Taco also touch on how the festival handled its Sunday rainout.
Ben Kaye September 14, 2022

First Pantera Reunion Shows Announced for Slipknot's South American Knotfests and Mexico's Hell & Heaven Fest
Jon Hadusek August 25, 2022

2022 Zona Music Festival: Beach House, Portugal. the Man, and Bleachers Lead Lineup
Carys Anderson August 24, 2022

Police Believe They Stopped Potential Mass Shooting at Bass Canyon EDM Festival
Abby Jones August 21, 2022