Strictly a good time: Annual free Golden Gate Park bluegrass festival gets better -- and bigger -- with age.

nvestment banker Warren Hellman surveyed the crowd that sprawled over Speedway Meadow as far as he could see, across JFK Drive and into the hills beyond. He pondered the improbable success of his sixth annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, looking at a crowd he estimated to be at least 100,000.