Hardly Strictly so far
50 performers have been confirmed for this year's
HSB festival, which takes place the weekend of 09/30-10/2/11::
Confirmed:
Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
Southern Culture on the Skids
Alison Brown Quartet / The Low Anthem
Conspiracy of Beards
Greensky Bluegrass
AllofaSudden
Blame Sally
Dry Branch Fire Squad
Thurston Moore
Bill Kirchen
The Belle Brigade
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally with their All-Star Band
Those Darlins
DeVotchKa
David Bromberg Quartet
Ollabelle
Justin Townes Earle
The Wronglers with Jimmie Dale Gilmour
Dr. John
Punch Brothers
Gomez
Dark Star Orchestra
Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussein & Edgar Meyer
The Civil Wars
Bob Mould
The Devil Makes Three
John Prine
Emmylou Harris
Gillian Welch
Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses
Robert Plant
Fitz and the Tantrums
Robert Earl Keen
Abigail Washburn
The Jayhawks
Cass McCombs
The Del McCoury Band and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Patty Griffin
Old Crow Medicine Show
The Blind Boys of Alabama
Irma Thomas
Elbow
The Mekons
Earl Scruggs
The Flatlanders
Chris Isaak
Frank Fairfield
Buckethead
Uncomfirmed (but likely, according to Pollstar):
Merle Haggard
Reckless Kelly
Doc Watson
Sadly, no Hazel Dickens this year (RIP).