Last Sunday a crowd that has been estimated up to 20,000 people gathered for seven hours in a large parking lot at Ocean Beach in San Francisco along with some of the best Americana artists in the business to pay […]
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Auburn is a strange town about 40 miles east of Sacramento in the foothills. It’s a working class town where you get the sense that the Great Recession has had a particular impact on its people. In 1849 a […]
Where to start reporting about what has become the largest free concert on the face of the planet…Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 11? The most obvious place to start talking about this year’s three day concert is with Hazel Dickens. Most […]
The evening of Friday, April 22nd was remarkably dry in the Bay Area. It was the opening concert of the season at the Greek Theater in Berkeley and, like all over the country, the weather has been unpredictable. I grew […]
For some reason every time I head out to Hardly Strictly I’m nursing the effects of too much Saturday night . This year, after five weeks of finagling, my photographer, Brandt Williams, and I were able to get a backstage […]
Let me start this review by saying that Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women nailed it at the Rooster Stage last Sunday. But before I get into a review of their performance, I feel I must confess some information regarding […]
I’ve seen some great weekends in San Francisco. Weekends where you can’t decide what to do there’s so much going on. This weekend may raise the bar. The San Francisco Giants were one game away from winning their division. There’s […]
September 6, 2010. ” I want you to know that the Staple Singers have been going for 60 years and we ain’t done yet” proclaimed Mavis Staples at the 20 year old Sausalito Art Festival in Marin County California.This year […]
It was finally dark in Troutdale, Oregon, the lights went down and an off stage announcers voice introduced the Dylan band by concluding in a tongue and cheek manner “often written off as a has been.” Bob Dylan had brought […]
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