Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners at Rooster Stage, October 1, 2023

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass presents Hardly Stricly Bluegrass featuring Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners
Rooster Stage, Marx Meadow
Golden Gate Park, 898 John F Kennedy Dr, San Francisco, CA 94121 USA
11:00 AM, Sunday, October 1, 2023

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• 11:00 – 11:40 AM   ♥   Sunday Soundcheck with Emmylou Harris

• 11:00 – 11:40 AM   ♦   Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners
• 12:10 – 12:55 PM   ♠   Eilen Jewell
• 1:35 – 2:35 PM   ♣   Chuck Prophet & the Mission Express
• 3:05 – 3:55 PM   ♥   Beth Orton
• 4:35 – 5:25 PM   ♦  M. Ward
• 6:00 – 7:00 PM   ♠   Mighty Poplar

[10:58 AM] {Welcome from Chuck Poling}
[11:01 AM] {Greetings from Jon}

1. [11:01 AM] Queen of Hearts
   [11:04 AM] {JL mentions the next one is not a new tune}
2. [11:05 AM] Drone Operator
   [11:10 AM] {JL intro for new next tune – co-written with William Blake (!)}
3. [11:11 AM] Awake in the Land of Shadows
   [11:14 AM] {JL lauds SS; add Sally Timms}
4. [11:14 AM] The Sad Milkman
   [11:18 AM] {ST: TY TY; JL: This is a Go Betweens song}
5. [11:18 AM] Streets of Your Town
   [11:21 AM] {JL lauds JS; introduces the next tune}
6. [11:22 AM] Discarded
   [11:24 AM] {JL introduces more of the band; JL banter about writing songs with Jon S during the pandemic}
7. [11:25 AM] Only Demons Should Apply
   [11:29 AM] {JL semi-intro: here's another new song}
8. [11:29 AM] Tell Me a Story
   [11:32 AM] {JL: Moving along!}
9. [11:32 AM] 1 to 9
   [11:35 AM] {JL jokes about Sally's new kazoo (an Amazon prime delivery)}
10. [11:36 AM] Slightly South of the Border
    [11:39 AM] {ST: beat that really really proficient bluegrass musicians! JL introduces the band again}
11. [11:40 AM] Last Dance
    [11:44 AM] {CP outro and post-set announcements} ## Performers

Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners

• Tamineh Gueramy: violin;
• William Herzog: bass, contrabass, harmony vox;
• Jon Langford: guitar, lead and harmony vox;
• Dan Massey: drums;
• Alice Spencer: Mellotron, lead and harmony vox;
• John Szymanski: guitar, harmony vox;
• Sally Timms: kazoo, lead and harmony vox.

Jon Langford and his latest crew of musical mischief makers got things off to a fine start under the sparkly sun this morning. We suffered a bit from the usual boorish crowd issues – folks out for a good time instead of listening to the music – but nothing too bad. I was kinda counting on Jon's obscurity to help out in this respect, and hopefully it did!

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2023 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2023 event list! ☸ On to the next event!