Oct 5, 6 7...Best music festival in the world in SF! FREE!

[Bennyboy]

FREE! FREE! FREE! In Golden Gate Park. Warren Hellman, a billionaire invetment banker, puts this show on every year. Uses his own money to book the est acts in the usiness. No commercial nothing. NO T-SHIRTS, no beer sales. Just love.

The Lineup:

Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Los Lobos, Robert Earl Keen, Doc Watson with David Holt & Richard Watson, The Del McCoury Band, Charlie Louvin, Nick Lowe, the subdudes, John Prine, Austin Lounge Lizards, Gillian Welch, The Wronglers, Earl Scruggs, Dale Ann Bradley & Coon Creek, The Sadies, Jimmy LaFave, Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby with Kentucky Thunder, The Hacienda Brothers, Hazel Dickens, Keller Williams, Chris Smither, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, Marley’s Ghost, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones featuring Victor Lemonte Wooten, Future Man and Jeff Coffin, Jorma Kaukonen, Kevin Welch & Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin, Richard Brandenburg & Julay Brooks, The Mekons, Blanche, Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson, Flexigrass, Boz Scaggs & the Blue Velvet Band, The Mother Hips, T Bone Burnett, Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men, Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams, Hot Buttered Rum, Poor Man’s Whiskey, The Abrams Brothers, New Lost City Ramblers, David Grisman Bluegrass Experience with special guest Curly Seckler, Ned Sublette, Teddy Thompson, Moonalice, The Steep Canyon Rangers, The Secret Life of Banjos (Jody Stecher & Bill Evans), The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, The Flatlanders featuring Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock, Shana Morrison & Caledonia, Red Wine, Railroad Earth, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Bill Kirchen & the Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods, Jim Lauderdale, Bill Callahan, Heartless Bastards, Fionn Regan, Buddy Miller, Alison Brown Quartet with special guest Joe Craven, Michelle Shocked, Allison Moorer, Dan Reeder, The Knitters, James McMurtry, The Whoreshoes, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Symphony Bluegrass Ramblers, Belle Monroe & Her Brewglass Boys, plus a special songwriter circle with Chris Smither, David Olney, Ray Wylie Hubbard & Steve Young. .
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[meegbear]

1. Since he's a billionaire, can he fly all of us in for it?

Coach will be fine.

[EstimatedProphet]

2. That would be nice...

[Bennyboy]

3. Just like a liberal....

Get a free show and that is not enough....

[meegbear]

4. ...

:spray:

[HuskerDU]

5. Wow that is awesome!

Dave Alvin is gonna be one busy guitar player though. Looks like he plays with the Guilty Men and I think he is in the Knitters too.

[Beaverhausen]

6. Wow. Is there an official website about this?

My stepdaughter starts school in SF this week and I want to tell her about this.

[Bennyboy]

7. Here you go...

It is still on last years fest however. Keep looking though. It is really something. The stages are so beautiful, set in the trees.

Tons of people (100,000 plus) and just a peaceful good time.

[Bennyboy]

8. Damn, forgot the link....

http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/

[Beaverhausen]

9. thanks!

:hi: Between this and the 40th anniversary of the "summer of love" I am so jealous of anyone in or near SF!

[Bennyboy]

10. Don't forget Power To The Peaceful too.

Michael Franti and Spearhead's annual festival in GG Park...The weekend after the Summer of Love festival.

[Shine]

11. Hey, this looks great! Definitely worth a drive up from Santa Cruz

:thumbsup:
Thanks, bennyboy! I'll mark my calender. :hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

12. I have a friend who lives four blocks from the park.

Imagine being able to saunter over whenever you like.

[Bennyboy]

13. My friends live close too. we will putting the RV in their parking spot...

[stuntcat]

14. I went last year!

I had to see Gillian Welch :loveya: I'm in VA but I'd gone to SF to visit my best friend.
I'll give him this list thanks, we didn't know Gillian was gonna be there again this year! I can't go again but he can.

[Bennyboy]

15. Man I am gonna be so busy...

Trying to see it all!

[Bennyboy]

16. Some of my lesser known faves

the subdudes, Gillian Welch, Jimmy LaFave, The Hacienda Brothers, Hazel Dickens, Keller Williams, Chris Smither, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, Marley’s Ghost,Jorma Kaukonen, Richard Brandenburg & Julay Brooks, The Mother Hips, Hot Buttered Rum, The Flatlanders featuring Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock, Shana Morrison & Caledonia, Railroad Earth, , Jim Lauderdale, Alison Brown Quartet with special guest Joe Craven, Michelle Shocked, James McMurtry, The Whoreshoes, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Symphony Bluegrass Ramblers,