David777
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For those that love large music concert events like this person, there is no better destination than San Francisco each fall for the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. A key reason is, it a totally free to attend event. Thus uniquely rare in this commercial era of 3-figure costs at similar concerts. This weekend for instance, the huge Outside Lands festival tickets in the same outdoor park venue has $235 per day lowest cost tickets. This year of 2025, that will be a Friday through Sunday weekend of October 3, 4, and 5.
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
At this point, the web site above has only minor details available. Each year, the full artist lineups tend to be announced late, only by mid September. Although the focus is bluegrass, the event presents a broad range of music genres and that is reflected by a wide range of attending ages and groups. 3-day attendances this last decade each year, has averaged over a half million spread out in 6 adjacent park meadows.
On Yahoo, search with "hardly strictly bluegrass 2024" then switch to its Images tab to see what it looks like. As an example, the below archive page lists the artists from last year.
2024 | Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
San Francisco also often has its most ideal, least foggy, dry sunny Indian summer weather at that time of year too. Although less expensive lodging within The City itself may be limited, due to the vast public transportation network within the 7 county San Francisco Bay Area, one can easily find all manner of less in demand lodging along BART train corridors. So for the frugal, one has many options lodging inexpensively for less than $99 per night elsewhere. And within The City, one never needs to rent a vehicle given its world class public transportation network.