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Sunday, June 13
1. Worst Conflict of the Week :: 4:00-6:30 pm :: What, Which, This, That & The
Other Stages
It happens every year, and 2010 is no different, at one point there will be at least two,
three, or even four,
must-see acts playing at the same time, and this year there are FIVE! This weekend, the
crossover occurs late
Sunday afternoon. Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman/60s icon John Fogerty
(What Stage :: 4:00-5:30
p.m.) has still got it, and his familiar voice still sounds like its beaming out of
an AM radio. This
year he'll be making his Bonnaroo debut on the main stage (he's also an extremely
underrated guitar player).
Also, from 5:00-6:30 p.m., Ween
will be playing over on Which Stage. We don't have to tell you to at least stop in. The
set which should
perhaps spark the most curiosity out of this quintet would have to be aggressive Boston
rockers Dropkick Murphys
(This Tent :: 5:00-
6:15 p.m.), who have promised to scare off the hippies with their aggressive, bag-piping
brand of punk rock.
Should be interesting to see a band even try to get a dog-tired Bonnaroo crowd riled up on
late Sunday
afternoon. Next, the all-time great tunesmith Kris Kristofferson will be in That Tent from 4:30-6:00 p.m., and
things will likely get
legendary. Finally, you've got the campy, cheeky post-punk rockers They Might Be
Giants over in The Other
Tent from 4:30-5:45 p.m. to make the decision even tougher. Guess there could be worst
choices to make.
2. Phoenix ::
7:15-8:45 pm :: Which
Stage
One of better live acts currently touring, if there is one band that can bring back the
crowd-surfing, sing-
along, Glastonbury-type scene one last time before DMB closes it out it's these Versailles
rockers who
established themselves in 2009 as a force to be reckoned with in popular music with the
release of the aptly-
named Grammy-winning album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. Phoenix's brilliantly crafted
rock songs are as
catchy as they are sophisticated, and a lot of up-and-coming synth-y indie bands should
take note of Phoenix's
subdued usage of the synthesizer - just the right amount in just the right places without
overdoing
it.
3. Medeski Martin &
Wood :: 6:15-
7:45 pm :: The Other Tent
Kinda weird, but also kinda nice to see MMW playing at the festival's smallest of the
major venues. Those
looking to get a head start on the traffic out before the Dave Matthews Band are gonna
wanna stick around for
one last blowout with these uber-talented jazz pioneers and who, along with Les Claypool,
DJ Logic, Umphrey's
McGee, John Butler Trio, Galactic, Ween and Norah Jones, make up the returning alumni from
the Bonnaroo charter
class of 2002.
No one lucky enough to attend the inaugural Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in 2002
could've foreseen the great
transformation and amazing growth that the event has undergone in its first nine years.
However, the seed for
growth and constant evolution was planted in the early planning stages of the first
edition of the festival.
The early focus of the event was centered mostly on musically boundless genres, with
programming largely
revolving around improvisational jam bands, bluegrass, jazz, DJ's, funk and New Orleans
music. The creators
had a simple mission and that was to recreate the round-the-clock experience of Jazz Fest
with the late night
shows, food, and lagniappe, but instead of requiring hotels, the vision of Bonnaroo was to
create a small,
sustainable city for four days in the middle of nowhere in the dead of summer and invite
the world's finest
bands to master the ceremonies. The crazy thing is that thus far the wildly risky
experiment has paid off in
spades, producing some of the most indescribably enjoyable times most folks will ever
have. Bring an open
mind, see at least one act you've never heard of each day, and be kind to your camping
neighbors and they'll do
the same. Good luck and good times on the good road to Bonnaroo 2010!
Continue reading for Wesley Hodges' special Bonus Feature of Bonnaroo "A Timeline
Through The Years"...
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