The gratis admission fee and summer-like temperatures usually ensures a wonderfully broad audience that’s prime for people-watching, though the multi-stage event does get crowded. Warren Hellman, who passed away from leukemia in 2011. The festival remains gloriously free thanks entirely to the gracious endowment of the late founder, the billionaire investor F. True to its name, the weekend festival highlights much more than bluegrass: rising country stars like Charley Crockett, alt rock legends such as Elvis Costello and groups as diverse as Las Cafeteras, Les Claypool and Conor Oberst have come to the park. This year’s lineup has yet to be announced, though Emmylou Harris, Ani DiFranco and John Prine have all been HSB regulars over the years. The Legacy, a two-part story for season 16 of the BBC's Silent Witness, was Best Drama winner in the 2013 European Science TV and New Media Awards.A post shared by Hardly Strictly Bluegrass second of two major music festivals to take place annually in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park (the other being Outside Lands ), Hardly Strictly Bluegrass has been going strong since 2001 and draws a massive 500,000 attendees over three days. In 2009 He served as Co-Executive Producer on Bruckheimer's crime show The Forgotten, starring Christian Slater.

Stephen Gallagher was lead writer and story supervisor on NBC's 13-part series Crusoe, screened in 2008/2009, and contributed two episodes to the US version of Eleventh Hour including Medea, the season finale. Life Line, broadcast in 2007, was a two-part a supernatural mystery starring Ray Stevenson, Joanne Whalley and Jemima Rooper. The series aired on CBS and starred Rufus Sewell and Marley Shelton. Gallagher's series format was acquired for a US television remake by the CSI trio of CBS, Jerry Bruckheimer TV and director Danny Cannon. The programme was rumoured to be ITV's answer to the new series of Doctor Who, but was more in the tradition of the hard-science thriller. He also developed and wrote a science-based series for ITV, Eleventh Hour, starring Patrick Stewart as a government science investigator and advisor. He adapted his own novel Chimera as a miniseries of the same name shown on ITV and directed the adaptation of Oktober as well as writing the feature-length episode The Kingdom of Bones for the BBC series Murder Rooms. He has written several novels and television scripts, including for the BBC television series Doctor Who - for which he wrote two serials, Warriors' Gate (1981) and Terminus (1983)-as well as for the series Rosemary & Thyme and Bugs, for two seasons of which he was script consultant along with Brian Clemens. Gallagher was born in Salford, Greater Manchester.

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