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October 4th, 2010, 01:06 AM
We go to this every year. If you get a chance to visit, this is the event to catch.
The bluegrass invasion swarmed over the west end of Golden Gate Park again this weekend as financier Warren Hellman threw his million-dollar bash, the 10th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, and the park was filled with people playing fiddles, mandolins and banjos - way past the legal limit.
As the inevitable chill of the ocean fog swept through Speedway Meadow at sunset Sunday, signaling the end to the idyllic weekend, Emmylou Harris, as she has every year, brought the extraordinary festival to a close, as Elvis Costello, Steve Earle and Boz Scaggs watched from the wings. Hellman joined with a handful of the musicians and played one final song for the weekend.
Police estimated more than 600,000 attended the festival over the three days, including 350,000 Sunday, the festival's traditional top attendance day. Between the high-caliber talent and breadth of musical styles drawn from inside and outside the acoustic music world, the festival has undoubtedly become the greatest outdoor music festival anywhere.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/03/DDO51FNSD9.DTL#ixzz11MdThp00
Warren Hellman has financed this free of charge for the last ten years as a gift to the city, and recently established an endowment so it will continue after his death.
The bluegrass invasion swarmed over the west end of Golden Gate Park again this weekend as financier Warren Hellman threw his million-dollar bash, the 10th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, and the park was filled with people playing fiddles, mandolins and banjos - way past the legal limit.
As the inevitable chill of the ocean fog swept through Speedway Meadow at sunset Sunday, signaling the end to the idyllic weekend, Emmylou Harris, as she has every year, brought the extraordinary festival to a close, as Elvis Costello, Steve Earle and Boz Scaggs watched from the wings. Hellman joined with a handful of the musicians and played one final song for the weekend.
Police estimated more than 600,000 attended the festival over the three days, including 350,000 Sunday, the festival's traditional top attendance day. Between the high-caliber talent and breadth of musical styles drawn from inside and outside the acoustic music world, the festival has undoubtedly become the greatest outdoor music festival anywhere.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/03/DDO51FNSD9.DTL#ixzz11MdThp00
Warren Hellman has financed this free of charge for the last ten years as a gift to the city, and recently established an endowment so it will continue after his death.