Posts Tagged ‘bluegrass’
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
It’s here, SFGate Radio is finally here, man:
“With Spotify coming to America, Pandora Media debuting on Wall Street, Rdio possibly hooking up with Facebook and Slacker Radio making a splash, the spotlight on online music has never been more intense. Today, SFGate.com jumps into the competition with SFGate Radio, a free online radio service designed to spotlight local musicians and performances. SFGate is the online home of The Chronicle and both are owned by Hearst Communications Inc.”
All the deets:
“Earbits, one of the more recent entrants to the online radio game which raised $605,000 in seed funding last month, has announced a partnership with SFgate.com, home of the San Francisco Chronicle. The service — dubbed SFGate Radio — will allow listeners to find regional shows and focus exclusively on Bay Area artists and those touring through the region.”
Here’s an early review from Bagdad By The Bay.
Hurray?
Give it a try!
So let’s say that you like what Marie Hines sounds and/or looks like – well then you can see that she will perform at a joint on Arguello tonight:
That’s kind of how it works.
Ever more deets, after the jump.
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Tags: 2011, artists, bay area, bluegrass, Blues, california, chronicle, country, earbit, earbits, folk, free, funk, hard rock, jazz, local, Marie Hines, metal, music, musicians, newspaper, online, pop, rock, San Francisco, san francisoc chronicle, sf gate radio, sfgate, sfgate radio, western
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
Writer Matt Baume has a great follow-up today on What Went Wrong This Year Again with bicycle parking at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival 2010.
I don’t know, when I was there, tons of cars (or, more literally, tens of tons of cars) with Friends and Family passes were getting waived-through the NO BIKE ZONE on JFK, although, admittedly, this was early on. (I’m sure most of the Friends and Family people ended up parking closer to the Banjo Stage, where their tents were located.)
And since We’re All About Safety and whatnot, what’s up with the gasoline-powered ClubCar drivers, how fast are they allowed to go on the dusty sidewalks of JFK? 20 MPH? 25 MPH? I don’t know.
All’s I know is that I couldn’t keep up with them when I was pedalling downhill on the slopey part of JFK. But I was able to enjoy the dust clouds they kicked up, the ones that spread all over JFK:
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And, HSB people, if you’ve cured the BICYCLE HAZARD by not letting bikes go through on JFK, then there is no more BICYCLE HAZARD, right? So what are the signs supposed to be telling people?
Now, I’m not one to criticize people or nothing, but if I were, I might say something about putting them ClubCars into speed-limited “golf-cart mode” next year.
And, HSB people, you have so much money, right? You’re swimming in resources. So why not put out some more bike racks next year? Just have them stretching to the horizon, you dig? T’wouldn’t cost that much at all…
Tags: 2009, 2010, 7 Walkers, banjo, bay area, bicycle, bikes. hazard, Blue Highway, bluegrass, california, Clinch Mountain Boys, Ebony Hillbillies, f warren hellman, Feat, Festival, Fonzerelli Warren Kramer Hellman, free, friends and family, golden gate park, hammer, hardly strictly blue grass, hardly strictly bluegrass, Jenny, Jenny Lewis, Jerry Douglas, johnny, Jonathan Rice, Karen Elson, Lee, mc, mc hammer, Omar Hakim, parking, Patty Griffin, Poor Man's Whiskey, Punch Brothers, Ralph Stanley, San Francisco, sarah, Secret Sisters, Special Guests, steve martin, Subdudes, T Bone Burnett, The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue, The Waybacks, Viktor Krauss, warren hellman
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
Gaia only knows what happened to these bikes in Golden Gate Park over the weekend.
No matter, the Golden Gate Park Bike Coalition (hey, nice FB profile photo you’ve got there, GGPBC) is none too pleased:
“Perhaps if there were adequate bike parking in Golden Gate Park, even for large events like Hardly Strictly, bike massacres like this wouldn’t occur. (BIKE NOPA, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Inner Sunset Neighborhood Group, The Wiggle)”
Oh, the inhumanity:
Via GGPBC - Click to expand
Oh, and speaking of inadequate bicycle parking, when’s Rec and Park going to put more racks in front of the de Young Museum? Just sayin.
Tags: 2010, bay area, bicycle, bike, bluegrass, county, cyclists, Festival, golden gate park, hardly, hsbf, locked, massacre, parking, rack, San Francisco, space, strictly, trees
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2010
[UPDATE: Mike Billings has the deets on the "major gift" worth 75,000 from Warren Hellman to automate the irrigation system of part of the park.]
The 2010 edition of our Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival proceeds in Golden Gate Park. The whole shebang ends on Sunday, October 3rd, 2010 so there’s still time for you to go…
It’s a pretty crunchy scene, in places, with ganga smoke all over:
“Special” brownies are $4:
But some rules you can’t break. This Marijuana Provider truck parked as close as possible to the main entrance got the least expensive parking ticket possible – $23. Actually, that’s a good deal:
Speaking of parking, there was none left for bicycles in the afternoon:
So, up into the air they went. Once more unto the trees, dear friends, once more:
Appears as if the Plant People won out over the Bike People this go around – that would explain all the signage. But I didn’t see as much tree parking as there was in 2009. IMO, trees are pretty tolerant of bikes hanging about, but that’s JMO.
There was supposed to be an announcement of a “major gift” from F. Warren Hellman, the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s favorite billionaire, to Golden Gate Park at the Banjo Stage this afternoon, seeing as how it’s the HSBF Decennial this year. There might have been a gift, but there was no announcement. Seen here with Emmylou Harris and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom:
Mr. Hellman’s jacket sported at least two Stars of David, for the record. Not sure the meaning of the script:
(Perhaps thats a better getup than his Fred Flintstone outfit.)
Anyway, that’s how it’s going so far…
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
The last thing AT&T wants is all you Apple iPhoners unable to check stock quotes and download porn during Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park.
So, they’ve got a plan, a plan to blanket Speedway Meadow with enough non-ionizing radiation to cook a hot dog at 200 yards. That way, your phone will work for sure for a change.
(I don’t know, I have a Palm Treo smartphone that Costco gave me about four years ago cause I signed up for a two-year contract, unlimited data for $15. Works fine. They say I can’t get that kind of deal on a new contract these days – the workers at the cell phone companies tell me to just keep my existing contract. Anyway, Sprint never has dropped a call on me, for what it’s worth.)
AT&T in the hiz-ouse on JFK Drive today. The truck itself, the Cellular On Light Truck truck is near the top of a hill at a secure undisclosed location.
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Here’s what the trucks look like – they can get pretty big.
Anyway, I think that’s what Ma Bell is doing, maybe they have a cooperation deal with other providers, I don’t know.
Tell me if your iPhone don’t work at HSBF10. Or more likely you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how smoothly your Apple mobile works.
Who knows…
Tags: 2009, 2010, 7 Walkers, at&t, at&t colt, banjo, bay area, Blue Highway, bluegrass, california, cel, cell, cellular, Clinch Mountain Boys, colt, coverage, Ebony Hillbillies, f warren hellman, Feat, Festival, Fonzerelli Warren Kramer Hellman, free, golden gate park, hammer, hardly strictly blue grass, hardly strictly bluegrass, iphone, Jenny, Jenny Lewis, Jerry Douglas, johnny, Jonathan Rice, Karen Elson, Lee, mc, mc hammer, Omar Hakim, Patty Griffin, Poor Man's Whiskey, Punch Brothers, Ralph Stanley, San Francisco, sarah, Secret Sisters, Special Guests, steve martin, Subdudes, T Bone Burnett, The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue, The Waybacks, truck, Viktor Krauss, warren hellman
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
MC Hammer put on a delightful show today in Golden Gate Park to start up the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.
Hundreds of schoolkids we on hand, with thousands in the audience.
Verily, per mrawfulhimself:
“MC fucking hammer at the golden gate park”
See? Lots of yellow buses to bring in th children. Parachute pants sightings = 0:
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And here’s the scene before the kids bum rushed the stage.
Check out the schedule for this weekend’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park – it’s paid for entirely by nascent media baron Fonzerelli Warren Kramer Hellman.
Tags: 2009, 2010, 7 Walkers, banjo, bay area, Blue Highway, bluegrass, california, Clinch Mountain Boys, Ebony Hillbillies, f warren hellman, Feat, Festival, Fonzerelli Warren Kramer Hellman, free, golden gate park, hammer, hardly strictly blue grass, hardly strictly bluegrass, Jenny, Jenny Lewis, Jerry Douglas, johnny, Jonathan Rice, Karen Elson, Lee, mc, mc hammer, Omar Hakim, Patty Griffin, Poor Man's Whiskey, Punch Brothers, Ralph Stanley, San Francisco, sarah, Secret Sisters, Special Guests, steve martin, Subdudes, T Bone Burnett, The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue, The Waybacks, Viktor Krauss, warren hellman
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
Cyclists are banned from using part of JFK Drive this weekend, owing to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.
Either there is some hazard to bicycles or the bicycles are the hazard.
See? The signs are all over, like the Burma Shave used to have:
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This year, you’re much better off just driving in if you can get a Friends and Family pass for your car. Not sure how you’d get one but lots and lots of people seem to have them.
Another Lexus makes it past Checkpoint Charlie and into a free parking space. The yellow pass is key:
Oh well.
Tags: 2009, 2010, 7 Walkers, banjo, bay area, bicycle, bikes. hazard, Blue Highway, bluegrass, california, Clinch Mountain Boys, Ebony Hillbillies, f warren hellman, Feat, Festival, Fonzerelli Warren Kramer Hellman, free, friends and family, golden gate park, hammer, hardly strictly blue grass, hardly strictly bluegrass, Jenny, Jenny Lewis, Jerry Douglas, johnny, Jonathan Rice, Karen Elson, Lee, mc, mc hammer, Omar Hakim, parking, Patty Griffin, Poor Man's Whiskey, Punch Brothers, Ralph Stanley, San Francisco, sarah, Secret Sisters, Special Guests, steve martin, Subdudes, T Bone Burnett, The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue, The Waybacks, Viktor Krauss, warren hellman
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
Check out the schedule for this weekend’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park – it’s paid for entirely by nascent media baron Fonzerelli Warren Kramer Hellman.
MC Hammer will put on a show this morning at 11:30 AM at Speedway Meadow. Just take an early lunch, why not. It’s all good, non? He’s the super dope homeboy from the Oaktown, right?
Hammer (that’s what it says on his driver license, simply “Hammer” – he showed it to me one time on the JetBlue) as he appeared in aught-eight.
Via CultrVultr
See you there!
Tags: 2009, 2010, 7 Walkers, banjo, bay area, Blue Highway, bluegrass, california, Clinch Mountain Boys, Ebony Hillbillies, f warren hellman, Feat, Festival, Fonzerelli Warren Kramer Hellman, free, golden gate park, hammer, hardly strictly blue grass, hardly strictly bluegrass, Jenny, Jenny Lewis, Jerry Douglas, johnny, Jonathan Rice, Karen Elson, Lee, mc, mc hammer, Omar Hakim, Patty Griffin, Poor Man's Whiskey, Punch Brothers, Ralph Stanley, San Francisco, sarah, Secret Sisters, Special Guests, steve martin, Subdudes, T Bone Burnett, The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue, The Waybacks, Viktor Krauss, warren hellman
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
Check out the schedule for this weekend’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park – it’s paid for entirely by nascent media baron Fonzerelli Warren Kramer Hellman.
MC Hammer and Steve Martin and a host of others mean you can’t go wrong.
Via CultrVultr:
Hammer as he appeared last year. Click to expand
See you there!
Tags: 2009, banjo, bluegrass, f warren hellman, Festival, Fonzerelli Warren Kramer Hellman, free, golden gate park, hammer, hardly strictly blue grass, hardly strictly bluegrass, mc, mc hammer, San Francisco, steve martin, warren hellman
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