The 25th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival kicks off Friday at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, with large crowds already arriving for opening day.<\/p>\n
The free festival runs through Sunday.<\/p>\n
This year’s event includes 15 performers who will weave Dolly Parton themes into their concerts.<\/p>\n
Among the featured performers is Robert Plant, the legendary singer and original member of Led Zeppelin. Emmylou Harris is also among the artists in this year’s lineup.<\/p>\n
The Dolly Parton tributes hold special meaning for longtime Hardly Strictly fans who wish they could have seen her performance at the festival 21 years ago.<\/p>\n
NBC Bay Area’s Thom Jensen has the full report in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 25th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival kicks off Friday at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[839,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-483423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-festivals","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\/483423","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=483423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}