{"id":86523,"date":"2022-10-04T09:22:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T09:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hardly-strictly-bluegrass-evokes-a-bygone-san-francisco\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T09:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T09:22:45","slug":"hardly-strictly-bluegrass-evokes-a-bygone-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hardly-strictly-bluegrass-evokes-a-bygone-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardly Strictly Bluegrass evokes a bygone San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"
I asked this question last week after attending the first year of the Portola Festival, a thumping bounty of electronic music and DJs the likes of which San Francisco has rarely seen. The topic was on my mind again this weekend at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, an Americana-rooted event at Golden Gate Park that is, dare I say, beloved to San Franciscans young, and more importantly, quite old.<\/p>\n
The two festivals couldn’t be more different. Portola was thrown by Goldenvoice, the organizers of Coachella. Tickets were $200 a day and it took place at Pier 80, a 60-acre slab of concrete. Hardly Strictly, set in Golden Gate Park, is financed by the late investment banker Warren Hellman and thus free for attendees, Portola could have taken place in any city in the world (and next year it just might), but Hardly Strictly couldn’t have happened anywhere but San Francisco.<\/p>\n
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