Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Gillian Welch and The Wronglers with Jimmie Dale Gilmore are among the dozen Hardly Strictly Bluegrass regulars who will play at a tribute concert Sunday for Warren Hellman, the Bay Area philanthropist and festival founder who died late last year.The free concert will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Great Highway at Ocean Beach, between John F. Kennedy Drive and Lincoln Avenue. Performances will alternate between two stages. Read More

The death of San Francisco philanthropist Warren Hellman was felt across The City by the organizations he helped and the people who benefited from his generosity. Although Hellman was best known for creating and funding the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, he also gave money to education and arts causes across the Bay Area through his family foundation. Read More

Amid bluegrass tunes both somber and joyful, more than 1,000 people gathered Wednesday to honor the life of San Francisco’s best-known philanthropist and civic champion, Warren Hellman. Hellman died Sunday evening of complications from leukemia. He was 77. Read More

“What I always tell people is think locally, act locally.” Warren Hellman walked many paths in life — he was a savvy businessman, a philanthropist, an environmentalist and a political moderator. He worked with people who, if all in a room, may not have had much in common, but they all describe Hellman with the same words: A champion. The San Francisco philanthropist died Sunday at the age of 77. He had leukemia. Read More