Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

Molly Tuttle at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2024 - photo © Dave Berry Another year has come and gone for the now 24-year-old free music festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park known as Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB). It all started as

Sierra Hull at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2023 - photo © Dave Berry Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is a free, three-day festival held each year at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA. It was held this year over the September 29-October 1

Sierra Hull at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2019 - photo by Dave Berry Sierra Dawn Hull needs no introduction to bluegrass fans. Winner of multiple IBMA awards and having played the Grand Ole Opry, Carnegie Hall, and the White House before turning

Ron Thomason and Dave Berry at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass - photo by Rob Schroeder  I had the honor of sitting down with Ron Thomason for a chat this weekend after the Dry Branch Fire Squad's Banjo Stage set at the nineteenth

Punch Brothers at the 2019 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco This weekend, the San Francisco Bay Area was treated to the nineteenth annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival (HSBG), and although security rules changed things some, it is still one hundred