Friday, May 28, 2010

Bonnaroo, say what?


Yeah, Bonnaroo, for those who don’t know (I didn’t) Bonnaroo is a Music and Arts Festival held annually in the city of Manchester, TN. (Tennessee? Random? Heck Yes!) The Great Stage Park is the place, multiple stages of live music including reggae, country, electronica, hip hop, gospel, alternative, Americana, folk, etc. (So eclectic, I love it!) Craftsmen and Artisans have on sale their unique and awesome work, which I think it’s pretty cool. Boonnaroo was named the “Best Festival” by the Rolling Stone Magazine in 2008 calling it “The ultimate over the top summer festival”. This year’s Bonnaroo will start rocking our summer from June 10th to June 13th, every year close to 80, 000 souls gather in the countryside to tear it up!
First held in 2002, with only 72 bands and artists on their lineup, Bonnaroo had a major success and has been that way for the past 8 years. In 2004 Bonnaroo had scheduled 2 Latin alternative bands for the first time, which were The Lonely Boys and Los Lobos. Bonnaroo has grown throughout the years from only less than half of the acts for this year’s festival, 8 years ago to 160 + on 2010.
Bonnaroo has gone all out for this year’s Latin alternative lineup, there will actually be a special tent featuring some of the best Latin Alternative acts these days, 
Nacional Records, who has already joined forces with Bonnaroo in the past, has been invited to assist at this year’s Bonnaroo for the Latino Alternativo lineup, so all day long on Saturday attendees will be jamming to awesome music from the Latin Alternative scene, plus djs, visual arts and more. Grammy award winners Los Angeles basedOzomatli *will be headliners at this tent and not only that but they’ll also be mc’s during the whole day, also Los *Amigos Invisibles (Venezuela),Aterciopelados (Colombia), Nortec Collective: presents Bostich y Fussible(Mexico), Mexican Institute of Sound (Mexico), Bomba Estereo (Colombia), who is on the top 5 bands to check out at Bonnaroo by Spin Magazine.
Bonnaroo is not done! If you are like me and love soccer, they’re screening World Cup matches over the weekend on the Field of Dreams on large screen projections of matches! Don’t you just love it? Don’t miss it!
For schedules, info, music and arts, tickets, activities + attractions, FAQ’s, contests and more check out 
www.bonnaroo.com or www.indieoma.com/