{"id":408413,"date":"2026-07-22T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408413\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:23:10","slug":"hardly-strictly-bluegrass-2026-lineup-announced-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408413\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2026 lineup announced \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass free music festival in San Francisco on Wednesday unveiled its initial lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Spanning an array of artists across genres, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is a free three-day music festival that takes place annually in Golden Gate Park. This year&#8217;s dates are Oct. 2-4.<\/p>\n<p>In Hardly Strictly&#8217;s 26th year, it will feature artists including AJ Lee &amp; Blue Summit, Gillian Welch &amp; David Rawlings, Hiss Golden Messenger, Kathleen Edwards, My Morning Jacket, Old Crow Medicine Show, El Khat, Tyler Ballgame, William Tyler &amp; Yasmin Williams, and John Craigie W\/ The Coffis Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>According to festival organizers, Hardly Strictly plans to reveal additional performers in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The festival also announced Wednesday its plans to kick off the weekend with a benefit concert honoring singer and songwriter Steve Earle, who has performed every year at Hardly Strictly since 2002. The three-time Grammy Award-winner will perform alongside his closest friends and collaborators, including Buddy Miller, Elizabeth Cook, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch &amp; David Rawlings, Jackson Browne, and Hot Tuna.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An Evening Honoring Steve Earle&#8221; concert will take stage at The Masonic on Oct. 1, with all proceeds going to Sweetwater Spectrum, a nonprofit that supports adults with autism and similar disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can think of no better way to bookend our silver anniversary than celebrating 25 years of Steve Earle at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass,&#8221; said Sheri Sternberg, executive producer of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. &#8220;We are so fortunate to have legacy artists like Emmylou and Steve who have embraced our annual gathering since the beginning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hardly Strictly will also feature additional &#8220;Out of the Park&#8221; concerts this year with nighttime shows around the Bay Area, including Gillian Welch &amp; David Rawlings at The Fillmore and Molly Tuttle at the Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass free music festival in San Francisco on Wednesday unveiled its initial lineup. Spanning an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[8559,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-408413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-music-musicians","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}