Shoe Fest Expands 2018 Lineup

This year’s Shoe Fest will take place at Camp Shaw-Waw-Nas-See in Manteno, Illinois August 31 – September 2. Organizers recently expanded the lineup for the eighth annual installment of the Labor Day Weekend music festival.

New additions include 30db featuring Brendan Bayliss and Jeff Austin as well as Bonnie Paine with Taarka and Helping Phriendly Orchestra. Yonder Mountain String Band fiddler Allie Kral is now aboard as an Artist At Large. As always, host band Old Shoe will play two nights of this year’s festival.

As previously announced, The Travelin’ McCourys will perform a set of their own and will team with Jeff Austin for a Grateful Ball set in tribute to the Grateful Dead. The acts recently added join a lineup that already included Love Canon, Dead Horses, Henhouse Prowlers, Mr. Blotto, Chicago Farmer and Lowdown Brass Band, among others.

Tickets are on sale now via Eventbrite.