{"id":6934,"date":"2011-10-02T16:15:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T16:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2011-10-05T19:35:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T19:35:41","slug":"hardly-strictly-bluegrass-festival-photos-from-days-1-and-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-10\/hardly-strictly-bluegrass-festival-photos-from-days-1-and-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival–Photos from Days 1 and 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’ve been mired at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival<\/strong><\/a>, held in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the last two days.\u00a0 And oh what a sweet mire.\u00a0 Check out some photos from Days 1 and 2 below.<\/p>\n

On Friday we caught all of the Conor Oberst-curated<\/strong> acts at the Rooster Stage, including Jonathan Wilson, Simon Joyner, Woods<\/strong> (featuring Jeremy Earl’s<\/strong> high, soulful voice that gave off some Shins shadings), Kurt Vile and the Violators<\/strong> (killing again with their circa-Exiles <\/em>Stones motif), and the always-rousing Felice Brothers<\/strong> (their nicely-evolutionary recent album, Celebration Florida<\/strong>, has been prominent on our playlists recently).\u00a0 Then M. Ward<\/strong> came out and played the rocking warden role, driving the inmates mad.\u00a0 After Ward set the bar way high, Bright Eyes<\/strong> (accompanied by M. Ward, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings and most of the days’ participants) capped off the day with an over-the-top, revelatory set that tore the stars out of the night sky.\u00a0 The Eyes had it, and the ayes had it as consensus-best set of the first two days of HSB.\u00a0 Bright Eyes’ set again begged the question:\u00a0 where were you Central Coast when Bright Eyes killed at the SB Bowl recently to a 2\/3-filled venue?<\/strong> They may never come around again, but if they do, don’t mess up and miss it, ye of little faith (those in Morocco excused).<\/p>\n

On Saturday we negotiated the massive crowds to catch the sweet subtlety of Cass McCombs<\/strong>, the great Robyn Hitchcock<\/strong> (accompanied by Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, and Abigail Washburn<\/strong>), Hugh (“House”) Laurie<\/strong>, and Otis Clay<\/strong>.\u00a0 And then Broken Social Scene<\/strong> (including Stars’ Amy Millan<\/strong> on vocals) slayed on their second-to-last set before a long hiatus, and left all sated with their strong group effect and Kevin Drew’s vaunted vocals and crowd-play.\u00a0 The Punch Brothers<\/strong> then punched out the last set, and we were off for Hotei’s <\/strong>noodles and hamachi.\u00a0 Another great day in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Check out some photos below.\u00a0 We’ll post more on the above, along with some great videos, soon-come.<\/p>\n

Day 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wood’s Jeremy Earl (with proper backdrop for this band)
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Kurt Vile<\/strong> (in stylin’ striped-sweater and with the Violators).<\/p>\n

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The Felice Brothers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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M. Ward<\/strong><\/p>\n

Day 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cass McCombs<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nRobyn Hitchcock and David Rawlings<\/strong><\/p>\n

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David Rawlings and Gillian Welch<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Broken Social Scene’s Andrew Whiteman<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nBroken Social Scene<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThe Rooster Stage crowd on Friday
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We’ve been mired at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, held in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the last two days.\u00a0 And oh what a sweet mire.\u00a0 Check out some photos from Days 1 and 2 below. On Friday we caught all of the Conor Oberst-curated acts at the Rooster Stage, including Jonathan Wilson, Simon Joyner, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t