Hardly Strictly Bluegrass today announces the fourth round of additions to their highly anticipated live return to San Francisco, CA’s Golden Gate Park on September 30-October 2. The three-day, multi-stage, free music festival today adds ELVIS COSTELLO, STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES, THE TRAVELIN’ MCCOURYS, BOB SCHNEIDER, MOONALICE, CYMANDE, AROOJ AFTAB, CEDRIC WATSON, ALISON BROWN, and JIM LAUDERDALE to its line-up.
In addition to his afternoon show in the park, the legendary Elvis Costello also announces “Elvis Sings Hunter-Garcia,” a benefit for Prader-Willi Homes Of California. The rare, intimate concert, a tribute to the iconic songwriting of Grateful Dead contributor Robert Hunter and the band’s visionary singer/guitarist Jerry Garcia, will take place the night of September 30 at The Great American Music Hall. There will be two shows, at 7pm & 10pm, with tickets available starting at 10am today. For more information, please visit GAMH or Prader-Willi Homes.
Costello previously covered the work of Garcia/Hunter on 1991’s Deadicated: A Tribute to the Grateful Dead album where he recorded a dapper version of “Ship of Fools.”
Elvis Costello and the other artists announced today join an already eclectic previously announced line-up of Emmylou Harris, Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew – Remain In Light, Tré Burt, Meklit, Jake Blount, The Brothers Comatose, Seratones, The Tallest Man On Earth, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Antibalas, Marcus Mumford, Allison Russell, Las Cafeteras, Lucius, Galactic, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Joy Oladokun, Charley Crockett, Buddy Miller, Bonny Light Horseman, Rhiannon Giddens w/ Francesco Turrisi, Waxahatchee, Béla Fleck – My Bluegrass Heart, Danielle Ponder, Ismay, Jay Som, Amythyst Kiah, Aoife O’Donovan, and Rainbow Girls.
The full lineup for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass will be available on September 13.
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