S.O.S. (Let the Music Play)

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Announces One Million Dollars In Aid For Communities in The Bay Area and Beyond

Retrieved on: 
Friday, September 24, 2021

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass' support will allow Sweet Relief to provide hundreds of new grants of up to $1,000 to musicians and workers.

Key Points: 
  • Hardly Strictly Bluegrass' support will allow Sweet Relief to provide hundreds of new grants of up to $1,000 to musicians and workers.
  • This year, grants will honor HSB's long connection to the San Francisco Bay Area and New Orleans, which are both focal points of this year's festival and centers of roots music.
  • Support from organizations like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass guarantees our future by investing in our present."
  • Last year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass relief was focused on Bay Area venues that had been shut down by shelter-in-place, had no government aid in sight at that time, and needed an immediate and urgent lifeline.