Celebrate Independence Day hillbilly style! 
Break out your bestest country duds, your hottest bottle rockets, and head on down to the biggest bang of a July 4th celebration this year - just as our forefathers envisioned way back when. 

event 1:
Hang Jones
@The Music Store, 66 West Portal Ave, SF
FREE / 2-4pm / all ages / $5 gets you a tasty burger or hot dog & a cold brew!

event 2:
The Earl Brothers + Bluegrass Revolution + Steve Owen & the Turlock 2
@Plough & Stars, 116 Clement St @2nd, SF
$6 to $10 sliding scale / 9pm doors / 9:30 music / 21+

HANG JONES (SF) play dirty, backwoods Americana – part bluegrass, part country, part pekingese. 
http://www.hangjanes.com/

THE EARL BROTHERS (SF) Original Mountain Bluegrass Music at its finest!
There is something about this band's 'less is more' approach to songwriting, singing and musicianship that makes you stop whatever you're doing and take notice. The band is built around the unique vocal and songwriting attributes of Robert Earl Davis (Lead vocals, banjo), Danny Morris (Lead & tenor, vocals, guitar) the tasteful mandolin playing of, and the driving bass of James Touzel.
http://www.earlbrothers.com/ 

THE BLUEGRASS REVOLUTION (Oakland) are the Bay Area's hardest working bluegrass band. Not only do these cats play mean bluegrass several times a every month to packed houses across the Bay, they also bake homemade pastry items and sell them to the needy & hungry. 
http://www.thebluegrassrevolution.com/

STEVE OWEN & THE TURLOCK 2 (SF) 
“Drinking, Driving, Death… and a couple of songs about maiming”
or…”one of the best country road players doing the rounds in America.” 
or… “insurgent bluegrass, vivid, abrasive and intelligent” 
or… you could make one up.

http://www.steveowen.com/

– Shelby Ash