{"id":1651,"date":"2026-06-09T17:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:09:16","slug":"hardly-strictly-bluegrass-sets-huge-tribute-concert-for-legendary-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=1651","title":{"rendered":"Hardly Strictly Bluegrass sets huge tribute concert for legendary artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Having honored Emmylou Harris with an all-star concert in 2025, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass will now kick off its 2026 edition with a tribute to yet another longtime festival favorite:<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=1649\">Australian cockroach kingpin caught with 100,000 illegal insects in record bug bust<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steve Earle.<\/p>\n<p>The tribute \u2014 dubbed \u201cAn Evening Honoring Steve Earle\u201d \u2014 is set for Oct 1 at The Masonic in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>This Hardly Strictly Bluegrass tribute to Earle will include performances from Buddy Miller, Elizabeth Cook, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch &amp; David Rawlings, Jackson Browne, Hot Tuna, Larry Campbell &amp; Teresa Williams, Molly Tuttle and other guests. Buddy Miller will serve as the evening\u2019s musical director with Reckless Kelly (featuring Greg Liesz).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can think of no better way to bookend our silver anniversary than celebrating 25 years of Steve Earle at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. We are so fortunate to have legacy artists like Emmylou and Steve who have embraced our annual gathering since the beginning. We wanted to recognize their efforts with concerts benefiting charities that are important to them,\u201d says Hardly Strictly Bluegrass executive producer Sheri Sternberg. \u201cThis year\u2019s proceeds go to the non-profit Sweetwater Spectrum, a community that provides adults with autism or similar intellectual\/developmental disabilities, innovative, community-based, long- term housing. Our final flourish is that Buddy Miller will be with us as musical director once again, bringing his unique, special sauce to this tribute,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=1647\">An acclaimed Oakland chef talks about his Afro-Latino craft cocktail cookbook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tickets for \u201cAn Evening Honoring Steve Earle\u201d go on sale to the public on June 12, ticketmaster.com.<\/p>\n<p>The regular free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival runs Oct. 2-4 in Golden Gate Park. For more information, visit hardlystrictlybluegrass.com.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=1637\">Ariana Grande secretly ended once-scandalous romance with Ethan Slater months ago: report<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get tickets for the Steve Earle tribute concert hosted by Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-to-do"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hardly Strictly Bluegrass sets huge tribute concert for legendary artist - Next City Digest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=1651\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hardly Strictly Bluegrass sets huge tribute concert for legendary artist - 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