The 8th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival take place in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park from October 3-5. The free event will feature a stacked lineup that includes Robert Plant and Alison Krauss featuring T. Bone Burnett, The Gourds, Steve Earle & the Bluegrass Dukes, Earl Scruggs, The Waybacks, Asleep at the Wheel, The Del McCoury Band, Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band, Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, Ricky Scaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Gogol Bordello, Tift Merritt, Iron & Wine, Ben Kweller, Elvis Costello, the Global Drum Project featuring Mickey Hart & Zakir Hussain and Tea Leaf Green. Other acts scheduled to appear include Robert Earl Keen, Waco Brothers, Riders in the Sky, Kevin Welch & Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin, Poor Man’s Whiskey, Moonalice, Alison Brown Quartet, Red Wine, Heidi Clare & AtaGallop, The Opera Dukes, Dry Branch Fire Squad, John Jorgenson Quintet, Darrell Scott Band, Bad Livers, The Desert Rose Band, Jerry Jeff Walker, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, Hazel Dickens, The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, Iris Dement, Greg Brown, Hot Rize, Heavy Trash, Carlene Carter, Jon Langford’s Skull Orchard ft. Sally Timms & Burlington Welsh Male Chorus, Three Girls & Their Buddy, The Wronglers, Santiago Jimenez featuring Los Cenzontles, Mark Olson & Gary Louris, The Infamous Stringdusters, Pegi Young, Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women, Loudon Wainwright III, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Mike Farris & the Roseland Rhythm Revue, Richard Thompson, Nick Lowe, Samantha Robichaud, Marty Willson-Piper (of The Church) & the Mood Maidens, Maura O’Connell, Joe Purdy, Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson, Justin Townes Earle, Bill Evans String Summit with Megan Lynch and Odetta.

With Pegi Young on the bill there is always a chance her husband Neil may make a surprise appearance. For this performance, Tea Leaf Green will be joined by ALOs Steve Adams on bass.