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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival honors its fallen heroes.

October 11, 2012 | Bruce Sylvester | 0

By Bruce Sylvester The spirit of the recently departed hovered above last weekend’s 12th annual totally free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. It especially honored the event’s founder and funder, Warren Hellman. North Carolina … ►

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival founder Warren Hellman dies.

December 20, 2011 | Bruce Sylvester | 0

By Bruce Sylvester Warren Hellman, banjoist in the Wronglers and billionaire angel of San Francisco’s annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, died of complications from leukemia on Dec. 18. Born in Manhattan on July 25, 1934, into a family of investors … ►

San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival is totally free.

September 23, 2011 | Bruce Sylvester | 0

The totally free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park presents major acts as well as relatively unknown but worthy ones. ►