Tagged Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

“Imagine a comforting and cooling light that starts at the top of your head and moves down to the rest of your body…” This quote encompasses everything I love about Alisa Amador’s set at the 2024 Har...

San Francisco boasted a striking 97 degrees on Sunday, the last day of the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival and the warmest October 6th the city had ever seen. Despite the excessive heat, the streets s...

Haley Heynderickx is always up. Her speaking voice curls up at the corners, lilting and genuine, like peeling wallpaper about to reveal something greater hidden behind. Delightful sentiments drift out of her mo...

My experience on Friday, October 4th, Day 1 of San Francisco’s annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival starts with a harrowing journey, full of twists and turns (literally, physically turning around and w...

“The Boognish is smiling down upon us!” After what feels like hundreds of tiny, well-placed footsteps through a seemingly endless floor of blankets and lawn chairs, we rejoice with the joy of plane crash...

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass – the annual free festival at Golden Gate park with numerous artists who tip toe in, out, and around bluegrass. From Friday through Sunday, the park sets up five separate stages, eac...

It seems the heat brought out the best in all of us this past weekend at another successful Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival at Golden Gate Park, one of the most exciting and unique annual events in the Bay ...

Every Thursday, The B-Side serves you The Weekend Menu. We’ve tapped the Bay Area shows we’re definitely going to and hope to catch you at. Follow @berkeleybside on Instagram and Twitter and send us the bes...

It doesn’t get much better than a music festival in Golden Gate Park on a perfect Sunday afternoon--unless it’s free. And the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival always is. Since 2001, Hardly Strictly...

"The wait is over, HSBers!" announced an enthused Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival staff in their late-night October 3rd newsletter. Those HSBers--or Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival goers--are the longt...