Sometimes it's hard not feel spoiled here in San Francisco. In addition to beautiful fall weather and free community events
almost every weekend, SF hosts one of the largest free music events in the country.
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass returns this
weekend with one of its best lineups in years, featuring rockers like Broken Social Scene, Thurston Moore and Bob Mould alongside
masters of Americana, R&B and the blues. We put together a
10-song playlist with a highlights from the fest, but If the scene there seems a bit overwhelming
(it draws +500,000 over three days),
The Castro Street Fair offers a more manageable street party and the always-rowdy
Oktoberfest by the Bay is back at Pier 48. Make your mother proud and eat your veggies at the
World Veg Festival and please
your sweet tooth at the
World's Largest Ice Cream Social. Keep it cool with chillwave provocateur
Toro y Moi and burn up
the dance floor at
Icee Hot.
