The Bonnaroo Music and Art Festival was first held in 2002 on a farm in Manchester, Tennessee, just south of Nashville. The four day music festival will take place on June 12th-15th, 2008. Bonnaro has groups from a wide variety of genres including indie folk, world music, hip hop, jazz, americana, bluegrass, country music, folk, gospel, reggae, electronica, and other alternative music (Wikipedia).
Every year the festival gets bigger and bigger and picks up more and more sponsors. Over the past few years Bonnaroo has put more of an emphasis on recycling and “greening”. According to the Bonnaroo website, The Bonnaroo Music Festival and Conscious Alliance are putting on the 5th Annual Food Drive to benefit the Good Samaritan Food Pantry and will have tents set up around the festival for visitors to drop food off for the drive.
At this point tickets for The Bonnaroo Music and Art Festival have increased to $244.50 for the regular seats. All tickets are 4-day weekend passes, which include camping and parking. You can get tickets off the Bonnaroo website.
As of May the line up for this year (2008) is scheduled to be:
| Pearl Jam Metallica Jack Johnson Widespread Panic Kanye West Chris Rock Robert Plant and Alison Krauss featuring T Bone Burnett Phil Lesh & Friends My Morning Jacket The Raconteurs Willie Nelson Death Cab for Cutie Tiësto B.B. King Les Claypool Sigur Rós Levon Helm and the Ramble on the Road Ben Folds O.A.R. Cat Power The Bluegrass Allstars M.I.A. Umphrey’s McGee Iron & Wine Stephen Marley Yonder Mountain String Band The Swell Season Zappa Plays Zappa Talib Kweli Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Soul Stew Revival Gogol Bordello Broken Social Scene Robert Randolph’s Revival Porter-Batiste-Stoltz Rilo Kiley The Disco Biscuits Mastodon Lupe Fiasco Against Me! Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Pat Green Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk Henry Butler and the Game Band Ozomatli Tegan & Sara Solomon Burke Drive-By Truckers Chali 2na of Jurassic 5 Dirty Dozen Brass Band Superdrag Louis C.K. MSTRKRFT !!! The Avett Brothers Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet featuring Béla Fleck Israel Vibration Walter “Wolfman” Washington Larry Campbell, Jackie Greene, Phil Lesh & Teresa Williams Aimee Mann Anders Osborne Ladytron Janeane Garofalo The Fiery Furnaces Money Mark Orchestra Baobab Donavon Frankenreiter Ghostland Observatory José González Dark Star Orchestra Zach Galifianakis Minus the Bear Lez Zeppelin Big Sam’s Funky Nation State Radio |
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