With music festival season on its way we’ve been getting a lot of news lately about the lineups of the various shows, but what we heard regarding Bonnaroo had generally been little more than rumor and hearsay. Luckily the wait is over and the official lineup for this year has been announced. Read on to see who made the cut…
Hippies and hipsters, rejoice! While Coachella may be sold out, there’s still the legendary Bonnaroo festival to look forward to, and according to Consequence of Sound, the official lineup will be announced next week, on February 15. This year will mark the tenth anniversary of the festival, and as such, rumors have been swirling around the internet regarding who may or may not show up to celebrate this monumental event.
Well, let’s take a look at some of these rumors…
We now have the prized dates for next year’s Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The 10th year of Bonnaroo will be June 9-12, so go ahead and circle your calendars and start thinking about passageway to Manchester, Tennessee for the big event.
The lineup for Bonnaroo 2011 should be revealed in late January/early February, but in the meantime festival organizers are planning to sell a limited number of tickets at a special rate on November 26 (Black Friday).
Thursday June 10, 2010 marked the first day of Bonnaroo, one of the largest destination festivals in the U.S. Most patrons spend hours waiting in long lines of cars before being funneled through the gates and their possessions searched. The first part of the journey ends only after being crammed into double wide camping spaces and tents are erected. If it were any typical camping trip, you would probably stop to rest and maybe take a nap in the shade but when this journey is the beginning of the four-day music festival known as Bonnaroo, you’ve got no choice but to pound a few beers and head into Centeroo where some of the festivals first bands are competing for your ears. Continue Reading
Despite playing host to what was, by most accounts, a pretty stellar lineup of excellent performers and performances (including from Jay-Z, Stevie Wonder, Conan O’Brien, Kings of Leon, Flaming Lips and Weezer) this year’s Bonnaroo Festival was not without its tragedies and legal hiccups. In between sessions of shoving that gremlin Snooki down our collective throats, MTV reports that “a 29-year-old man, North Carolina’s David Sloan, died on Sunday (June 13) after falling ill at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee.” In addition, reports still coming in place the number of disorderly conduct, alcohol and drug-related (at Bonnaroo? Nooooo…) arrests at well over 100.
The 9th annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival gets underway Thursday (June 10) at 1 p.m. CST on a rather large, 700-acre farm in Manchester, TN; during four days and nights, about 125 musical acts will perform including the Dave Matthews Band, Jay-Z, Weezer, Kings of Leon, Jeff Beck, the Black Keys and Stevie Wonder.
Now if you cannot be in attendance, luckily Team Bonnaroo are planning to stream live performances via webcast on YouTube beginning June 11.
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Big ol’ Bonnaroo news today: the official schedule for the 2010 edition of the music/arts festival is out. And a quick glance reveals that is does not suck.
Kings of Leon are set to headline on June 11, followed by Jay-Z and Stevie Wonder co-headlining the 12th and Dave Matthews Band wrapping up headline duties on June 13. The four-day multi-stage festival takes place on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee.
Here we have an interesting, if slightly deranged story. It appears that two lunatics, Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri and Jonathan Lee Riches, who are most likely residing in the lovely confines of a federal prison in Kentucky, have filed a lawsuit against Bonnaroo. Apparently the festival and its musical participants don’t blend well with the Muslim world as they view it, and thus a lawsuit is in order to rectify this musical madness.
Although Bonnaroo has been known since its inception in 2002, to be one of the more diverse of America’s summer music festivals (and a second-hand stoner’s paradise—contact highs abound), the Manchester, TN-based event is about more than tunes. Bonnaroo has annually played host to comedy sets from the likes of Chris Rock, David Cross, Dave Attell, Lewis Black and more (not to mention the fact that Conan O’Brien will be performing this year – go Team CoCo!), which makes today’s announcement a little less surprising. Superfly Productions, A.C. Entertainment and U.S. Cellular announced the formation of the inaugural Bonnaroo College Comedy Tour.
