With a new serene smile plus a trace associated with melancholy behind his deeply pink eyes, Warren Hellman, coupled with RonThomason, kicked away day two involving the particular yearly Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival yesteday throughout Golden Gate Park that has a performance of services connected with Hazel Dickens' "Mannington Mines." It has been slightly free and Thomason, quite a long time Dickens collaborator, possessed to support with all the words of the melody on a verse or two, although in which did not take away with this sincere tribute for the legendary bluegrass singer, some sort of bulb along at the festival which many embodied the character of the event. She perished around April as well as the 2011 program is focused upon honoring your girlfriend style in addition to music legacy.
The vintage foggy daybreak set a great proper sculpt for that homage as well as for the following exclusively San Francisco festival, now around it has the 11th year or so as well as sort within transition. Beginning being a individual reward towards city along with bash associated with Hellman's adore pertaining to bluegrass along with Americana music, case persists in order to stray further with the traditional, agreeable an ever greater variety of musical forms as well as artists.
The Friday plus Saturday lineups showcased festivity favorites through over years but also ventured straight into steel and perhaps punk, putting weights on out there John Prine, Del McCoury & the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Gillian Welch, Kris Kristofferson & Merle Haggard, plus Earl Scruggs when using the would like with Thurston Moore, Buckethead, Kurt Vile and the Mekons, along with Robert Plant's fresh Band regarding Joy, who seem to did an impressive job regarding linking both oceans which has a strong arranged reworking content out of almost all phases regarding his / her career.
Today's lineup, traviling to where there's document attendance using Golden Gate Park ready because a lot of seeing that 300,000 fans, attributes controls by way of Dr. John, Ralph Stanley, Bela Fleck together with Zakir Hussein along with Edgar Meyer, The Jayhawks, Hot Buttered Rum, Elbow, Bob Mould, Ollabelle, The Mother Hips, Justin Townes Earle, Dark Star Orchestra, the Blind Boys of Alabama, DevotchKa, Gomez, plus needless to say festival (and Hellman) beloved Emmy Lou Harris that is specific to get joined up with on period by means of surprise special family and friends on the event finale.
Complete insurance policy coverage belonging to the three-day occasion will seem about sfgate Monday afternoon and in Datebook upon Tuesday.
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