🎶🌳 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass & Picnic in Golden Gate Park! 🌁 🎶🌟

About this event

🎶🌳 **Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: Music, Dancing & Picnicking in Golden Gate Park** It’s back! **Hardly Strictly Bluegrass** for the 25th year, San Francisco’s legendary **FREE music festival** returns to Golden Gate Park with three days of incredible live music. **New Beginnings is heading to the festival on Saturday, October 3**, for an easygoing day of **music, dancing, wandering, picnicking, and hanging out with friends** among the seven stages at Hellman Hollow, Lindley Meadow, and Marx Meadow. 📅 **Saturday, October 3** **New Beginnings meetup window:** 11:00 AM–3:00 PM **Festival Hours:** Come earlier and/or stay later if you like! (runs all day from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM) 🎶 **Music Starts:** 11:00 AM 🎤 **Meetup Host:** Leah 🎟️ **FREE — no festival ticket required** 🎵 **RSVP NOW — DETAILS ARE COMING!** We already know ***which artists are playing Saturday***, but HSB won't release the stage-by-stage performance schedule until **September 22**, with the printable schedule available **September 23.** That means we don't yet know exactly where we'll start our day or which performances we'll target together—and that's okay! **RSVP YES now and stay tuned.** The festival is completely free, and our plans will take shape once HSB releases the schedule. RSVP now so you'll receive our updates about **where to meet, which performances we're targeting, and how to reconnect with the group during the day.** 👉 **Check out the Saturday artist lineup posted in the event Photos (below).** —————————————————— 🎶 **HOW OUR DAY WILL WORK** This will be a **loose, flexible Meetup**, not four hours of everyone staying together. There’s no expectation that we’ll all stay together. **Follow the music that interests you, wander between stages, and use our meetup times and group texts to find us when you want to reconnect.** Once the full schedule is released, we'll choose: 🎸 **An 11:00 AM starting point** 💃 A few especially fun or danceable performances where some of us may…