It’s a HARDLY STRICTLY DISCO ROTO as Michele K-tel takes a peek at just a few of the 60+ acts performing FOR FREE this weekend in Golden Gate Park –> including a Robyn Hitchcock Electrospective, Nick Lowe w/ Los Straitjackets surf backup, Chilean rapper turned folk chanteuse Ana Tijoux, Texas legend Roky Erickson, Bay Area Bluegrass Badass Molly Tuttle + the return of the QUEEN (!) Mavis Staples. Get ready!

Matador Soul Sounds “Get Ready” Get Ready
Jon Langford & Sally Timms “Anything Can Happen’ Songs Of False Hope And High Values
Roky Erickson “I Pledge Allegiance” Never Say Goodbye
Los Lobos “Peace (Live)” Just Another Band From East L.A.
Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets “(I Love The Sound Of) Breaking Glass (Live)” The Quality Holiday Revue

Robyn Hitchcock “I Wanna Destroy You” Sawyer Sessions
Hurray for the Riff Raff “Pa’lante” The Navigator
Emmylou Harris “Take That Ride”
I’m With Her “I-89” See You Around
Mavis Staples “I’ll Take You There (live)” Hope at the Hideout

Ani DiFranco “Which Side Are You On (live)” Live In Charlottesville
Steve Earle “Conspiracy Theory” Jerusalem
Sera Cahoone “Nervous Wreck” Deer Creek Canyon
Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore “Stealin’ Stealin'” Downey to Lubbock
Dale Watson “A Day at a Time”

Vetiver “Time Flies” By Complete Strangers
Jeff Tweedy “Some Birds” Warm
Roky Erickson w/ Okkervil River “Think of as one” True Love Cast Out as Evil
Robert Finley “Get It While You Can Goin’ Platinum!
Aki Kumar “Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo” Hindi Man Blues
Ana Tijoux “Somos Sur” Vengo
ANA TIJOUX presenta ROJA Y NEGRO “Calaveritas (RGP Live Sessions)”

Molly Tuttle “Super Moon” Rise
Jon Langford & Sally Timms “Dark Sun” Songs Of False Hope And High Values
Buddy Miller & Emmylou Harris “Why I’m Walkin'”The Majestic Silver Strings
Marc Ribot, Steve Earle & Tift Merritt “Ain’t Gonna Let Them Turn Us Round” Songs Of Resistance 1942 – 2018