Upcoming Concerts

  • Aug 31
    Cannifest
    Eureka, CA
  • Sep 19
    Hog Farm Celebration
    Laytonville, CA
  • Sep 20
    Hog Farm Celebration (acoustic)
    Laytonville, CA
Aug 31
Cannifest - Eureka, CA
Sep 19
Hog Farm Celebration - Laytonville, CA
Sep 20
Hog Farm Celebration (acoustic) - Laytonville, CA

Moonalice News

  • Moonalice Concert Posters By Dennis Larkins Featured in Exhibit in Hungary!
  • Awesome Time Lapse of the Assembly of 4/20 Poster Sets
  • Moonalice offers free admission to holders of Skull & Roses tickets!
  • Poster Artist Feature: Dennis Larkins Interview
  • Let's Rock The World One Tree At A Time!
  • Acoustic Guitar reviews Full Moonalice, Volume 2!!
  • Moonalice plays a set on Jam In The Van
  • Glide Magazine interviews Pete Sears!
  • Acoustic Guitar Magazine: Barry, Roger and T’s play Nick and Woo Woo
  • Commemorating the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival!!!
Moonalice Concert Posters By Dennis Larkins Featured in Exhibit in Hungary!
Awesome Time Lapse of the Assembly of 4/20 Poster Sets
Moonalice offers free admission to holders of Skull & Roses tickets!
Poster Artist Feature: Dennis Larkins Interview
Let's Rock The World One Tree At A Time!
Acoustic Guitar reviews Full Moonalice, Volume 2!!
Moonalice plays a set on Jam In The Van
Glide Magazine interviews Pete Sears!
Acoustic Guitar Magazine: Barry, Roger and T’s play Nick and Woo Woo
Commemorating the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival!!!

What To Watch (Archive)

  • Jul 25, 2025 / Friday Night Live (Cloverdale)
    According to Moonalice legend, the crop is flourishing in the fields, setting us up for a fantastic harve...
  • Jul 26, 2025 / Petaluma Music Festival (Petaluma)
    According to Moonalice legend, the Petaluma Music Festival exists to enable children to have a better edu...
  • May 25, 2025 / BottleRock Napa Valley Festival - Prudential Stage (Napa)
    According to Moonalice legend, BottleRock is an oasis of sunlight in a bleak time. Everywhere else, dark...
  • Jul 18, 2025 / Summer Concert Series at Livorna Park (Alamo)
    According to Moonalice legend, we last played here in 2017!! The band was ten years old then, but now Moo...
  • Jul 12, 2025 / Oregon Country Fair (Veneta)
    OCF rap According to Moonalice legend, this band first played at Oregon Country Fair in 2008. We h...
  • Jul 24, 2025 / Moraga Summer Concert Series (Moraga)
    According to Moonalice legend, this is the 11th time that we have played here in Moraga. Those of you who...
  • Aug 12, 2025 / Grateful Dead Night @ SF Giants (San Francisco)
    According to Moonalice legend, it has been sixty years since the band beyond description played its first...
  • Jul 23, 2025 / Peacetown Summer Concert Series (Sebastopol)
  • Jul 27, 2025 / Soper Reese Community Theatre (Lakeport)
    According to Moonalice legend, we are gathered here to remember the great Ron Green, whose long tenure at...
  • Jul 31, 2025 / The Heart of Town @ Pier 48 (San Francisco)
    Roger joined Grahame Lesh for for this performance of "Dire Wolf" on the first night of his 3-evening Gra...
Jul 25, 2025 / Friday Night Live (Cloverdale)
According to Moonalice legend, the crop is flourishing in the fields, setting us up for a fantastic harve...
Jul 26, 2025 / Petaluma Music Festival (Petaluma)
According to Moonalice legend, the Petaluma Music Festival exists to enable children to have a better edu...
May 25, 2025 / BottleRock Napa Valley Festival - Prudential Stage (Napa)
According to Moonalice legend, BottleRock is an oasis of sunlight in a bleak time. Everywhere else, dark...
Jul 18, 2025 / Summer Concert Series at Livorna Park (Alamo)
According to Moonalice legend, we last played here in 2017!! The band was ten years old then, but now Moo...
Jul 12, 2025 / Oregon Country Fair (Veneta)
OCF rap According to Moonalice legend, this band first played at Oregon Country Fair in 2008. We h...
Jul 24, 2025 / Moraga Summer Concert Series (Moraga)
According to Moonalice legend, this is the 11th time that we have played here in Moraga. Those of you who...
Aug 12, 2025 / Grateful Dead Night @ SF Giants (San Francisco)
According to Moonalice legend, it has been sixty years since the band beyond description played its first...
Jul 23, 2025 / Peacetown Summer Concert Series (Sebastopol)
Jul 27, 2025 / Soper Reese Community Theatre (Lakeport)
According to Moonalice legend, we are gathered here to remember the great Ron Green, whose long tenure at...
Jul 31, 2025 / The Heart of Town @ Pier 48 (San Francisco)
Roger joined Grahame Lesh for for this performance of "Dire Wolf" on the first night of his 3-evening Gra...

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass - A Privilege To Play

"Getting to play at all is a privilege…getting to play a big gig like HSB is just really something else,” said Roger McNamee of Moonalice whose set will be on Saturday at 12:20pm on the Towers of Gold Stage. “There’s a guy named Warren Hellman, an investor who was just really successful. His philanthropy has been all about making San Francisco a better place to live…so we can go see the arts, have an education, enjoy the parks and things like that. When he died, in his will he left a trust to support the Bluegrass Festival, which he has been paying for since it started fifteen years ago. He pays 100% of the costs so it’s free to everybody.”

“I think he initially did it so he could give the biggest payday of the year to his heroes in the bluegrass world. So it was Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs and people like that,” Roger continued, “He would have them out, give them a huge pay day and have them play in front of their biggest crowds of the year. Then the thing morphed into something that was bigger than just bluegrass…and became “Hardly” Strictly Bluegrass. When that happened we - Moonalice - started getting invited, and it is pretty special. There’s a ton of great festivals out there, and if you’re in a band getting to play at a festival is really an awesome thing. It’s just a great vibe, being at a festival.”

Every who attends the Moonalice set will receive a set of three posters from leading Bay Area poster artists. Left to right by Stanley Mouse, Chris Shaw and Alexandra Fischer.

If you can't attend in person, you can watch the Moonalice set as well as performances from 5 stages at HSB right here on www.moonalice.com!!!

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