Subject: Bluegrass

• Plugged in -- ASD's music picks for Sunday, June 3

  June 3, 2007

• Indie Rockers and Gypsy Punks Join Hippie Pickers at This Year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

  June 6, 2008

• Friday Night: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at The Greek

  June 29, 2008

• Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Keeps Piling It On

  July 21, 2008

• Recordings

  May 31, 1995

• Carolina Chocolate Drops: A Treat from S.F.'s Bluegrass & Old-Time Fest

  January 30, 2008

• Cock of the Walk

  August 8, 2007

• Country Crossroads

  The Avett Brothers keep their roots complex

  April 25, 2007

• Misc. Reviews

  April 11, 2007

• Bluegrass Philanthropy

  Warren Hellman takes S.F.'s free roots music festival into its sixth year

  October 4, 2006

• Bluegrass Buddies

  Burning Embers bring honky-tonk to our local land's end

  June 28, 2006

• Freakwater

  Thinking of You...

  November 30, 2005

• Shades of Bluegrass

  Gillian Welch and Split Lip Rayfield celebrate -- and upend -- tradition at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

  September 28, 2005

• Best Free Bluegrass

  May 11, 2005

• Alison Krauss & Union Station

  November 24, 2004

• Hear This

  Old Crow Medicine Show: not your average bluegrass band. The Eagles of Death Metal: not a death metal band at all.

  October 6, 2004

• Dali's Folly

  February 18, 2004

• Wealth of Advice

  January 21, 2004

• Hear This

  It may be "Hardly" Strictly Bluegrass, but it's free and there are big names you won't want to miss

  October 1, 2003

• Tim O'Brien

  August 13, 2003

• Rhonda Vincent

  June 25, 2003

• Folk Explosion

  June 25, 2003

• Stars and Stripes

  May 14, 2003

• Hear This

  Postmodern genre-busters Japonize Elephants stir up a theatrical gumbo

  July 17, 2002

• Hear This

  June 26, 2002

• Walk a Crooked Mile

  The Crooked Jades tread the thin line between bluegrass and old-time string bands

  April 24, 2002

• John Hartford

  December 12, 2001

• Harmonic Convergence

  April 11, 2001

• House Of Tudor

  Stinky's Peep Show Four-Year Anniversary; The Gossip; "Live From the 215"

  January 31, 2001

• Digging Up Roots

  How Chris Strachwitz sparked a music revolution by releasing obscure, vernacular music

  October 11, 2000

• Bad Livers

  August 30, 2000

• Finger-picking Good

  Duck Baker explores uncharted territory with his acoustic guitar

  August 23, 2000

• Riff Raff

  February 2, 2000

• Hear This

  The Giblet Dribblers

  January 5, 2000

• Fingerpickin' Good

  September 15, 1999

• Hear This

  Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

  August 25, 1999

• Night & Day

  August 11, 1999

• Honky-Tonk Angles

  Western swing musician Johnny Dilks plays scholar to California's country music past and suggests its future, if Charlie Louvin has anything to say about it

  June 30, 1999

• Night + Day

  July 29, 1998

• Night + Day

  April 1, 1998

• Being Country

  Guitarist Bill Frisell and jazz's move away from the city

  March 25, 1998

• Reviews

  January 28, 1998

• The House of Tudor

  October 8, 1997

• Recordings

  July 16, 1997

• Delusions of Banjer

  April 26, 1995

• The Devil Makes Three

  April 29, 2009

• Hardly Strictly Bluegrass '09: Steve Martin, Neko Case, and more

  Steve Martin is a wild and crazy guy...who happens to dig bluegrass. The above video is from a performance he had last September with The Steep Canyon Rangers in that band's home state of North Carolina, with the white-haired comedian plucking away on the banjo. Martin will bring these boys and their banjos to Golden Gate Park the weekend of Oct. 2-4 when the group headlines this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass fest. Also on deck to perform: Neko Case, Doc Watson, Okkervil River, Earl Scruggs,

  June 22, 2009

• Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Pools Together Roots Music Enthusiasts

  October 3, 2007

• Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Family Tree

  September 30, 2009

• Frank Chu: Hardest Working Proselytizer in Show Business Recruits Bluegrass Fans

  ​Warren Hellman may have fancied himself opening up America's hearts to music with his bigger-than-ever, three-day Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. He also helped famed San Francisco eccentric Frank Chu open city visitors' minds to opaque theories about an alleged intergalactic political conspiracy.

  October 5, 2009