Hardly Strictly Blues 10 Golden Gate Park Oct. 1-3, 2010 - Free!

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 10, the FREE festival in Speedway, Marx and Lindley Meadows in Golden Gate Park , proudly celebrates its 10th year on Friday, October 1 – Sunday, October 3, 2010 with 85 performances on 6 stages!

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is free and no tickets are necessary. The festival runs from 2 p.m. - 7 p.m. on Friday, October 1 (plus a special Friday morning children's program in celebration of Daniel Pearl World Music Days with Poor Man's Whiskey & MC Hammer from 10:30 a.m. - noon) and 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. on both Saturday, October 2 & Sunday, October 3. Complete festival information can be found at www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com (schedule by stages/times to be announced the week of the festival.)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1st - Poor Man's Whiskey, MC Hammer, The Ebony Hillbillies, Blue Highway, Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue featuring Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald & Boz Scaggs, Patty Griffin, Jenny and Johnny featuring Jenny Lewisand Johnathan Rice, T Bone Burnett featuring Punch Brothers and special guests Karen Elson and the Secret Sisters, Jerry Douglas with Omar Hakim &Viktor Krauss, The Waybacks with Sarah Dugas of the Duhks, 7 Walkers featuring Bill Kreutzmann, George Porter, Jr., Papa Mali and Matt Hubbard,Sarah Lee & Johnny, the subdudes

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2nd - Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Joan Baez, David Grisman Quintet, Gillian Welch, Steve Earle and the Dukes, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Hot Tuna Electric, Conor Oberst, Bonnie Prince Billy & theCairo Gang, Jon Langford & Skull Orchard, Fountains of Wayne, Richard Thompson, Jackie Greene, Justin Townes Earle, Jonathan Richman featuring Tommy Larkins, Songwriter Circle with Steve Earle, Robert Earl Keen, John Doe & Justin Townes Earle, Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson, Buddy Miller, Robert Earl Keen, Kelly Willis, The Band of Heathens, Carolyn Wonderland, Kinky Friedman, Jerry Jeff Walker, The Flatlanders featuring Joe Ely,Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock, The Wronglers, David Olney with Sergio Webb, Exene, Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys, Skip Gorman, Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs, The Magnolia Sisters, Evie Ladin Band

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3rd - Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band, Hazel Dickens, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson & David Holt, The Del McCoury Band,Emmylou Harris, Martin Sexton, Umphrey's McGee, Elvis Costello and the Sugarcanes, Mondo Cane, Lucero, James McMurtry, Randy Newman, Patti Smith, Kevin Welch & Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin, Peter Himmelman, Indigo Girls, Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women, Rosanne Cash, Nick Lowe and his Band, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, The Felice Brothers, Moonalice, Railroad Earth, Keller & the Keels, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Avett Brothers, MarchFourth Marching Band, Citigrass, Heidi Clare & AtaGallop, Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer, Nathaniel Rateliff, Kate Gaffney, Wendy Bird, Anderson Family Bluegrass, Basia Bulat -- Tracey Buck Slim's/GAMH/Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 333 11th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 www.slims-sf.com www.gamh.com www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com (415) 255-0333