Warren Hellmans' legacy....a warm, friendly and vibrant, annual San Francisco music event. View from the stage (David Noble) Every year in early October Golden Gate Park hosts a wonderful music event called Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. As it infers in the title, it's way more than Bluegrass, although there is bluegrass played, this festival is hardly strictly bluegrass alone...it's all genres...blues, pop, rock, country, jazz, punk and all kinds of music is welcomed and showcas

Brilliant show at the Palace! Macy Gray Occasionally I get to a gig, not expecting a hellava lot and come away with a drastically different opinion of what I came with. This was one of those shows....It started out with Satya. A young female artist from Oakland who I've known about for a year+, simply because I know her manager, Phil Green. And I feel like he has a good sense of what's good in the way of new music, as my first introduction to Phil was through his association

The young guitar prodigy, Taj Farrant is coming back to the North Bay with his band this coming Friday. Taj Farrant, the now 15 year old...