San Francisco teenager starts her own DIY take on Hardly Strictly
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Grooblen performs at a pop-up event hosted by Big Leap Collective and Cosmic Bloom booking.Big Leap Collective
Although the coronavirus pandemic has derailed almost all live performances, musicians and organizers have continued to pivot to digital versions of their events. Huge professional festivals like Hardly Strictly and Outside Lands have gone online, but the beautiful thing about the digital space is that you don t need to have the backing of a massive brand to get your voice out there.
The poster for Big Feb Fest, a streaming event featuring 26 bands taking place on Feb. 21, 2021 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.Big Leap Collective
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New year, new terrain? Yep, after more than 50 years, Palo Alto s Foothills Park has opened to the public with 1,400 acres of chaparral, woodlands, fields, streams, and a lake for your exploration.
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Scott Padden (left) and singer-songwriter Andrew St. James give a social distancing concert in front of the Balboa Theater in the Richmond District in San Francisco in May. Photo: Kate Munsch, Special to The Chronicle
The Bay Area music scene took a serious hit in 2020. Venues closed. Record stores shut down. Musicians had to shelter in place in their homes.As the coronavirus pandemic gripped the region in mid-March, it felt as though there would be no scene at all.
“We were the first to close, and we’ll be the last to open,” said Allen Scott, head of concerts and festivals at Another Planet Entertainment, the Berkeley promotion company that books local clubs like the Independent in San Francisco and the Fox Theater in Oakland, as well as the annual Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in Golden Gate Park, which was canceled.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) The global COVID-19 outbreak caused most Bay Area music and arts organizations to cancel in-person experiences in 2020, including San Francisco s iconic Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.
While the pandemic may have put a Golden Gate park tradition on hold, it has not stopped the team behind the event from working to support the local music and arts community in a financially-trying year.
Frances Hellman, of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and the Hellman Foundation, joined ABC7 on Friday to talk about community relief grants and initiatives that the festival has created to help Bay Area musicians survive.
Hellman says the while the potential impacts of COVID-19 on the festival were clear early on, it has not made them less devastating for the Bay Area performing arts scene.