The first wave of artists for this October’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival will include Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Justin Townes Earle, Midnight North and The Nth Power, among others, as the festival begins its lineup rollout.

The other six acts on the first batch of ten include The Secret Sisters, Jon Langford’s Four Lost Souls, Terri Hendrix with Lloyd Maines, The Sons of Soul Revivers, Rodney Crowell and Gurf Morlix. 

Hardly Strictly will kick off at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on October 6 for its seventeenth edition. Tickets are available here.