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Photos by Shawn Reiss // Written by Mike Frash //

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2014 //

Golden Gate Park – San Francisco

October 3rd-5th, 2014 //

UPDATE: Full Stage Schedules have been announced!

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is coming up quickly, and the daily lineup has now been announced (but not the complete schedule). Take a look below at which artists are playing each day. Friday, as always, is stacked. If you haven’t put in for that day off yet, now is the time.

As you likely know by now, this is a free event in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park courtesy of the late Warren Hellman.

FRIDAY OCT 3 (10:30am – 7pm)

• Ryan Adams

• John Prine

• Conor Brings Friends For Friday Featuring: Waxahatchee, The Good Life, Jonathan Wilson, Sharon Van Etten, Dawes, Conor Oberst

• Lucinda Williams

• Yo La Tengo

• Cibo Matto with Nels Cline

• Thao & The Get Down Stay Down

• Hurray For The Riff Raff

• Poor Man’s Whiskey (Friday morning middle school program)

• The Aquabats! (Friday morning middle school program)

• Buckwheat Zydeco

• Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin with The Guilty Ones

• The Waybacks

• Peter Rowan’s Twang An’ Groove

• Dry Branch Fire Squad

• Bill Kirchen & Too Much Fun

SATURDAY OCT 4 (11am – 7:15pm)

• Steve Earle & The Dukes

• Robert Earl Keen

• Chris Isaak

• Holler Down The Hollow: A Hardly Strictly Salute To the Masters (Dickens, Hellman, Reed, Scruggs, Seeger, Watson & Winchester),

• Dave Rawlings Machine

• Social Distortion

• Built to Spill

• Deltron 3030 with The 3030 Orchestra

• Mavis Staples

• Red Baraat

• St. Paul & The Broken Bones

• Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds

• Justin Townes Earle

• The Felice Brothers

• Jon Batiste and Stay Human

• Buddy Miller’s Cavalcade of Stars: Kate York, Striking Matches, Nikki Lane, Shawn Colvin, Tony Joe White, Buddy Miller & Friends with Doug Seegers, Sam Palladio & McCrary Sisters

• Willie Watson

• Chris Smither

• Evolfo

• Carlene Carter

• Reckless Kelly

• The Flatlanders Featuring Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock

• Johnnyswim

• The Mastersons

• Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas

• Rose’s Pawn Shop

• Blue Rodeo

• Bad Luck Jonathan

• Horseshoe Hill

• Parker Millsap

• Alison Brown Quintet

• Heidi Clare

• The Time Jumpers Featuring Vince Gill, Kenny Sears, Dawn Sears and Ranger Doug Green

• McCrary Sisters

• Whograss

SUNDAY OCT 5 (11am – 7pm)

• Emmylou Harris

• Dwight Yoakam

• Tweedy

• Sun Kil Moon

• Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real

• Joe Russo’s Almost Dead

• Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands

• T Bone Burnett

• Rosanne Cash

• Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn

• Lake Street Dive

• The Sam Chase

• Bruce Cockburn

• Malawi Mouse Boys

• Kevin Welch, Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin

• The Brothers Gibb

• The Lone Bellow

• Caitlin Rose

• Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys

• Blackie and The Rodeo Kings

• Chuck Cannon

• The High Bar Gang

• JB Nimble

• Jerry Douglas Presents Earls of Leicester

• Rising Appalachia

• Shelly Colvin

• The Apache Relay

• Robbie Fulks

• Moonalice

• Jimmie Dale Gilmore

• Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang featuring Dawn McCarthy

• Hot Rize Featuring Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers

• Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express ‘Strings In The Temple’

• The Go To Hell Man Clan

• Jason Isbell

• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

• Jesse DeNatale

• Sarah Jarosz