The teasing is over and it’s time for a full bluegrass breakdown of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2017 schedule. Billing itself as “one of the largest, free-est and beloved music festivals in the country,” Hardly Strictly Bluegrass just announced all 90 acts that will perform on its seven stages the weekend of Oct. 6-8, 2017.
In addition to annual favorites like Emmylou Harris, T Bone Burnett and Steve Earle, this year’s festival has some way-out unexpected surprises like Cheap Trick, Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra, the Bob Mould Band, and Ozomatli on the bill.
The festival has not announced set times, nor the stages on which each act will play. But they have announced who’s playing on which day, and here is your HSB17 line-up.
FRIDAY, OCT. 6 (NOON – 7 p.m.)
Billy Bragg
Molsky’s Mountain Drifters
Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands
Tracy Blackman
Brandi Carlile
Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express
Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors
Conor Brings Friends for Friday featuring: Mega Bog, Jesse Harris, Big Thief, The Felice Brothers, First Aid Kit, Conor Oberst
T Bone Burnett
Terri Hendrix with Lloyd Maines
Dry Branch Fire Squad
The Bo-Keys featuring Don Bryant and Percy Wiggins
The Sam Chase & The Untraditional
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
Foy Vance
SATURDAY, OCT. 7 (11 a.m. – 7 p.m.)
Gillian Welch
Robyn Hitchcock
HSB Blues Revue featuring Sugar Ray Norcia, Annie Sampson, Chris Cain, Steve Freund, Austin deLone, Ruth Davies and Tony Braunagel
Henry Rollins
Alison Brown & the Compass Bluegrass Allstars
Patty Griffin
The Nth Power
Rising Appalachia
Ozomatli
Steve Earle & The Dukes
Tyler Childers
Peter Rowan Dharma Blues featuring Jack Casady
Poncho Sanchez
Buddy Miller’s Cavacade of Stars featuring Gurf Morlix, Bill Anderson, Lillie Mae, Dan Penn, Buddy Miller with The War and Treaty
Hardly Strictly Silent Disco featuring Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist, Steve Fabus, Deejay Theory, Tom Thump, DJ Phleck, DJ Tobiwan, Motion Potion, U9lift,
Tim O’Brien Band
Jamey Johnson
Moonalice
The Go To Hell Man Clan
Blackfoot Gypsies
Reed Mathis & Electric Beethoven
Nancy & The Lambchops
Robert Earl Keen
Dan Auerbach
Sturgill Simpson
Willie Watson
Sam Outlaw
Justin Townes Earle
Colter Wall
The Wood Brothers
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn
Midnight North
The Brothers Comatose
SUNDAY, OCT. 8 (11 a.m. – 7 p.m.)
Hardly Strictly Silent Disco featuring 4NR, Gordo Cabeza, DJ Alarm, Mophono, DJ Tyme, King Most, Motion Potion
The Sons Of The Soul Revivers
John Prine
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile (and the Sea Lice)
Will Durst
The Flatlanders
Jade Jackson
Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer
Hot Tuna Electric
Ornette’s Prime Time Reunion Band featuring Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Al MacDowell, Charlie Ellerbe, Badal Roy, Denardo Coleman with Special Guests David Murray, Wallace Roney & Marc Ribot
Ciaran Lavery
The Brothers Gibb
Poor Man’s Whiskey
Big Freedia
Ghost of Paul Revere
Weyes Blood
The Secret Sisters
Marco & The Polos
Cheap Trick
Tyler Childers
Emmylou Harris
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones
Lila Blue
Jon Langford’s Four Lost Souls
Bob Mould Band
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
Lucinda Williams
Jello Biafra
Randy Newman
Aaron Lee Tasjan
Sisters Morales
The Well Known Strangers
Lampedusa featuring Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Buddy Miller, Lucinda Williams
Kane Welch Kaplin
Junior Brown
Norbert Putnam and Friends
