The best place to get in the spirit for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Oct. 3-5 in Golden Gate Park, is at the Contemporary Jewish Museum on Mission Street, starting Thursday. “Hardly Strictly Warren Hellman,” a multimedia exhibition, is essentially a continuation of the now-closed Warren Hellman Museum, but in a better location and with better hours and better light. There you’ll find 54 lawn chairs, blue or green, and a few blankets on the floor, take your pick, to sit down and watch highlights from HSB festivals gone by on the big screen. “A lot of people have heard about the festival and been interested but not willing to fight the crowds to get out there,” says CJM chief curator Renny Pritikin, who is among those getting his first taste of the event by sitting in a blue chair in the front row, watching Steve Martin pick his banjo on the big screen. From a Jewish philanthropic point of view,” Pritikin says, “it is about embracing the diversity of American culture and music, everything from Mississippi John Hurt to klezmer.
'hardly Strictly Warren Hellman’: Set For A Spell To Enjoy Exhibit
By Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle: Entertainment
Wed, 09/17/2014 - 4:11pm
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