The 25th Annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
TedToob’s random coverage of music from
Towers of Gold, Swan, Rooster and Banjo Stages

Friday, October 3, 2025 (*Click the set list to deploy a YouTube.)
The Mother Hips - Towers of Gold Stage
Tim Bluhm - Guitar & Vocals
Greg Loiciano - Guitar & Vocals
Danny Eisenberg - Keys
Brian Rashap - Bass
John Hofer - Drums

Time-Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear, Honeydew, Sunset Blues, One Way Out, Love Never Leaves, Later Days, Clean Me Up, White Headphones, White Falcon Fuzz, Am I Allowed?, Del Mar Station

Reverend Horton Heat (aka Jim Heath) - Towers of Gold Stage
Reverend Horton Heat - Guitar & Vocals
Jimbo Wallace - Bass & Vocals
Taz Bentley - Drums

“D” for Dangerous, Baddest of the Bad, Let Me Teach You How to Eat, Big River, Galaxy 500, The Devil's Chasing Me, Jimbo Song, It's a Dark Day, Psychobilly Freakout, Big Red Rocket of Love

ALO - Swan Stage
Zach Gill - Keys & Vocals?
Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz - Guitars & Vocals
Steve Adams - Bass & Vocals
Ezra Lipp - Drums & Vocals
W Special Guest - Laurie Lewis: Fiddle & Vocals

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Swan Stage
Jeff Hanna - Guitar & Vocals
Jaime Hanna - Lead Guitar & Vocals
Jimmie Fadden - Drums, Harmonica & Vocals
Bob Carpenter - Keys, Accordion & Vocals
Ross Holmes - Fiddle, Mandolin & Vocals
Jim Photoglo - Bass & Vocals
W Special Guest: Sam Bush - Fiddle, Mandolin & Vocals

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere, Cosmic Cowboy, Girl From the North Country, Take Me In Your Lifeboat, Jambalaya, Workin' Man (Nowhere to Go), Mr. Bojangles, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, The Weight

Saturday, October 4, 2025
Buddy Miller's Cavalcade of Stars - Rooster Stage
Jontavious Willis - Guitar, Blues Harp and Vocals
Bass ?
Atlanta Blues (Make Me One Pallet on Your Floor), Shake 'em on Down, Careless Love, Drummer Boy Blues, Shake It and Break It But (Don't Let It Fall Mama), Ghost Woman, Sitting on Top of the World, We Gonna Move (To the Outskirts of Town)

Sam Bush Band - Rooster Stage
Sam Bush - Mandolin & Vocals
Steve Mougin - Guitar & Vocals
Wes Corbett - Banjo & Vocals
Todd Parks - Bass
Chris Brown - Drums

Riding That Bluegrass Train, I Just Wanna Feel Something, Born to Be with You, Back in the Goodle Days, Unknown Instrumental, Mornin' Glory, Circles Around Me,
Walls of Time, Emmylou Harris, Up on the Hill Where They Do the Boogie

Albert Lee - Rooster Stage
Albert Lee - Guitar, Roland Electric Piano and Vocals
Will MacGregor - Bass
Jason Smith - Drums
Alexandra Lee - Vocals

Setting Me Up, Spellbound, Restless, Song for the Life, Emmylou Harris, Runaway Train, Leave My Woman Alone, The Highwayman, Let It Be Me, Country Boy

Buddy Miller & The Red Dirt Band - Rooster Stage
With Special Guests:
Amber Morris, Fantastic Negrito, Shawn Colvin, Olivia Wolf,
Emmylou Harris, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Maria Muldaur

Does My Ring Burn Your Finger, Worry Too Much, Gasoline and Matches (with Amber Morris), If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down (with Fantastic Negrito), After the Fire Is Gone (with Shawn Colvin), Shelter Me (with Olivia Wolf), One of These Days, A Thing About You (with Emmylou Harris), Wide River to Cross (with Emmylou Harris), Ripple (with Jimmie Dale Gilmore), This Old World (with Maria Muldaur)

Robert Earl Keen - Rooster Stage
Robert Earl Keen - Guitar and Vocals
Brian Beken - Guitar, Fiddle and Vocals
Kym Warner - Mandolin, Electric Octave Mandolin
Bill Whitbeck - Bass
Tom Van Schaik - Drums

Floppy Shoes, The Man Behind the Drums, Think It Over One Time. I'm Comin' Home, Farm Fresh Onions, The Road Goes On Forever, Shades of Gray, Corpus Christi Bay, Mr. Wolf and Mamabear, Rippling Waters, Feelin' Good Again, Gringo Honeymoon

Sunday, October 5, 2025
Dry Branch Fire Squad - Banjo Stage
Ron Thomason - Guitar, Mandolin and Vocals
Brian Aldridge - Guitar, Mandolin and Vocals
Evan Lanier - Banjo
Jeff Byrd - Bass

Tim O'Brien Band - Banjo Stage
Tim O'Brien - Guitar, Fiddle & Vocals
Jan Fabricius - Mandolin & Vocals
Shad Cobb - Fiddle & Vocals
Mike Bubb - Bass & Vocals

You Took Me In, Diddle-Aye-Day, A Fat Pile of Puppies, Lord I’m Glad You're Mine, I’ve Never Been to Atchison, Paper Flowers, You Can’t Stop, Yellow Hat, Back to Eden,
When You Pray Move Your Feet, Nellie Kane, Walk Beside Me

Jason Wilber & Dave Jacques - Songs & Souvenirs - Tribute to John Prine - Banjo Stage
Jason Wilber - Guitar & Vocals
Dave Jacques - Bass
Drums?

Souvenirs
Long Monday (with Rainbow Girls)
In Spite of Ourselves
Ain't Hurtin' Nobody (with Tim O’BrienV),
Picture Show & Illegal Smile (with Steve Poltz)
Angel From Montgomery & Speed of the Sound of Loneliness (with Emmylou Harris), Whistle and Fish, Paradise
(with Emmylou Harris, Steve Poltz, Tim OBrien, Jan Fabricius & the Rainbow Girls)