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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB), originally Strictly Bluegrass, is an annual free and non-commercial music festival held the first weekend of October in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. Conceived and subsidized by San Francisco venture capitalist Warren Hellman , the festival has been held every year since the first event in 2001.
Musicians from Oakland, California (2 C, 122 P) ... Pages in category "Musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 175 pages are in this category, out of ...
This is a list of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area, music groups founded in the San Francisco Bay Area or were closely associated with the region for a significant part of the group's active existence. Individual musicians who formed bands under their own name there are included, but not if they were primarily solo artists.
In the early 1960s, Graham moved to San Francisco, and in 1965, began to manage the San Francisco Mime Troupe. [2] He had teamed up with local Haight Ashbury promoter Chet Helms to organize a benefit concert, then promoted several free concerts. This eventually turned into a profitable full-time career and he assembled a talented staff.
In 1977, Erokan founded the Bay Area Music Awards, better known as the Bammies, a yearly award show for musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area. [4] Winners were voted on by BAM's readers. [7] In 1998, the Bammies name was changed to the California Music Awards. [8] In March 2018, there was a Bammies Reunion Concert in San Francisco. [5]
The San Francisco bands' music was everything that AM-radio pop music wasn't. Their performances contrasted with the "standard three-minute track" that had become a cliché of the pop-music industry, due to the requirements of AM radio, to the sound capacity of the 45 RPM record, and to the limited potentials of many pop songs and song treatments.
San Francisco Bay Area portal; Subcategories. ... Pages in category "Musicians from San Francisco" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total.
Musical groups from San Jose, California (27 P) Pages in category "Musical groups from the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 125 pages are in this category, out of 125 total.