WHERE: Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California
WHEN: September 30-October 2, 2011
TICKETS: FREE!
CAMPING: No
WEBSITE: Official Site
THE SCENE
You would think that a three day festival in the heart of San Francisco might cost some coin. You would be wrong. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is completely free. How can they swing three days of music? A rich philanthropist named Warren Hellman gives the festival as a gift to San Francisco. Now that’s a party.
2011 LINEUP
| Alison Brown Quartet |
| Fitz & the Tantrums |
| Blame Sally |
| Jolie Holland |
| Robert Earl Keen |
| Seamus Kennedy |
| The Del McCoury Band & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band |
| Dr. John & the Lower 911 |
| Mekons |
| Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands |
| The Mother Hips |
| Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile |
| Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch & Fats Kaplin |
| Dive Bar Dukes |
| A.A. Bondy |
| Buckethead |
| The Low Anthem |
| Steve Earle and the Dukes (and Duchesses) featuring Allison Moorer |
| Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder |
| The Devil Makes Three |
| South Memphis String Band |
| Emmylou Harris |
| River Whyless |
| Buddy Miller |
| Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson |
| John Prine |
| Irma Thomas |
| Dry Branch Fire Squad |
| The Jayhawks |
| Those Darlins |
| Seldom Scene |
| Bill Orcutt |
| The Flatlanders featuring Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock |
| David Bromberg Quartet |
| Broken Social Scene |
| Justin Townes Earle |
| Gomez |
| The Swanson Family Band |
| Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally & Their All-Star Band |
| Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses |
| Bob Mould |
| Greensky Bluegrass |
| AllofaSudden |
| The Civil Wars |
| Gillian Welch & David Rawlings |
| Dark Star Orchestra |
| Cass McCombs Band |
| Robyn Hitchcock |
| Bill Kirchen |
| Abigail Washburn |
| The Band of Heathens |
| Otis Clay with special guest Chick Rodgers |
| The Wronglers with Jimmie Dale Gilmore |
| Over the Rhine |
| Elbow |
| DeVotchKa |
| Joe Purdy |
| Jessica Lea Mayfield |
| Ollabelle |
| Thurston Moore |
| Kris Kristofferson & Merle Haggard |
| Conspiracy of Beards |
| Conor Brings Friends for Friday: Bright Eyes |
| M. Ward |
| The Felice Brothers |
| Kurt Vile & the Violators |
| Woods |
| Simon Joyner & Jonathan Wilson |
| Chris Isaak |
| Charlie Musselwhite |
| Robert Plant & the Band of Joy |
| Hot Buttered Rum |
| MC Hammer (Thursday Children’s Program) |
| Wendy Bird and her Band of Miscreants |
| Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys |
| Earl Scruggs |
| Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer |
| Frank Fairfield |
| Reckless Kelly |
| Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit |
| The Blind Boys of Alabama |
| Southern Culture on the Skids |
| PMW (Thursday Children’s Program) |
| The Belle Brigade |
| Patty Griffin |
| Moonalice |
| Maxim Ludwig & the Santa Fe Seven |
2010 LINEUP
| The Band of Heathens |
| Rosanne Cash |
| Keller & the Keels |
| Jon Langford |
| Nick Lowe |
| Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys |
| Earl Scruggs |
| Kinky Friedman |
| T Bone Burnett and Friends |
| Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys |
| Umphrey’s McGee |
| The Flatlanders featuring Joe Ely |
| Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock |
| Martin Sexton |
| Richard Thompson |
| Patty Griffin |
| Conor Oberst |
| Evie Ladin |
| Gillian Welch |
| David Grisman Quintet |
| Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings |
| Peter Himmelman |
| Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands |
| Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue |
| Railroad Earth |
| Wendy Bird |
| Fountains of Wayne |
| Carolina Chocolate Drops |
| Indigo Girls |
| Jackie Greene |
| James McMurtry |
| Citigrass |
| The Del McCoury Band |
| Dry Branch Fire Squad |
| The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue featuring Donald Fagen |
| Michael McDonald & Boz Scaggs |
| Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band |
| Justin Townes Earle |
| Steve Earle and the Dukes |
| Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs |
| Lucero |
| Jenny & Johnny featuring Jenny Lewis & Johnathan Rice |
| Hot Tuna Electric |
| Kevin Welch |
| Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin |
| Nathaniel Rateliff |
| Blue Highway |
| Jonathan Richman |
| Elvis Costello and the Sugarcanes |
| Doc Watson & David Holt |
| The Felice Brothers |
| The Magnolia Sisters |
| The Avett Brothers |
| Carolyn Wonderland |
| Buddy Miller |
| The Ebony Hillbillies |
| David Olney & Sergio Webb |
| Anderson Family Bluegrass |
| Joan Baez |
| Moonalice |
| Yonder Mountain String Band |
| Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women |
| Bonnie Prince Billy & the Cairo Gang |
| Randy Newman |
| Emmylou Harris |
| Mondo Cane |
| Jerry Jeff Walker |
| Robert Earl Keen |
| Hazel Dickens |
| the subdudes |
| Kelly Willis |
| The Wronglers |
| Skip Gorman |
| Patti Smith |
