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The lineup for this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival has been revealed, and per usual it is packed with country luminaries, including Merle Haggard, Jolie Holland, Gillian Welch, Steve Earle, regulars Emmylou Harris and Earl Scruggs and many more. Local notables include MC Hammer and The Devil Makes Three. The free festival in Golden Gate Park is on its 11th year. See the full list below.
And, as always Citizens, let us remind you that the festival is funded by everyone's favorite Banjo Billionaire, Warren Hellman, who is the chairman of the Bay Citizen's Board of Directors.
Thurston Moore
Buckethead,
Buddy Miller
Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson
Conspiracy of Beards
The Swanson Family Band
Ollabelle
Seamus Kennedy
The Flatlanders featuring Joe Ely
Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock
Jessica Lea Mayfield
Robert Plant & the Band of Joy
Woods, Alison Brown Quartet
Bela Fleck
Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer
The Band of Heathens,
Abigail Washburn
The Jayhawks
Mekons
Bill Orcutt
The Blind Boys of Alabama
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
Over the Rhine
The Civil Wars
Robyn Hitchcock
Kieran Kane
Kevin Welch & Fats Kaplin
Wendy Bird
Seldom Scene
Dr. John & the Lower 911
The Devil Makes Three
Simon Joyner
Emmylou Harris
The Belle Brigade
Dive Bar Dukes
Kris Kristofferson & Merle Haggard
Elbow
Bill Kirchen
The Del McCoury Band & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band,
A.A. Bondy
David Bromberg Quartet
Gillian Welch
PMW (Thursday Children's Program)
Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horse
Kurt Vile & the Violators
Dry Branch Fire Squad
Hot Buttered Rum
Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands
Steve Earle and the Dukes (and Duchesses) featuring Allison Moorer
The Wronglers with Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Robert Earl Keen
John Prine
AllofaSudden
The Low Anthem
Justin Townes Earle
Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally & Their All-Star Band
Jonathan Wilson
DeVotchKa
Greensky Bluegrass
Irma Thomas
Frank Fairfield
Blame Sally
Otis Clay with special guest Chick Rodgers
Dark Star Orchestra
Broken Social Scene
Ricky Skaggs
Moonalice
The Felice Brothers
Bright Eyes
South Memphis String Band
Those Darlins
Reckless Kelly
Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
M. Ward, Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile
Patty Griffin,Fitz & the Tantrums
Earl Scruggs
River Whyless
Charlie Musselwhite
The Mother Hips
Jolie Holland
Gomez
Joe Purdy
Southern Culture on the Skids
Cass McCombs
MC Hammer (Thursday Children's Program)
Bob Mould
Chris Isaak and more TBA.
