It's time for Bonnaroo Again...

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http://www.bonnaroo.com/2005/
http://www.livebonnaroo.com/
Gallery (http://againstthegrain.blogs.com/photos/bonnaroo/01woodstock_1.html)
VH1 Review (http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1488515/061804/article.jhtml)
Another Review (http://www.glidemagazine.com/1/reviews408.html)
Some of the acts scheduled to appear:
Widespread Panic
Dave Matthews Band
The Allman Brothers Band
Jack Johnson
Alison Krauss + Union Station
Modest Mouse
Gov't Mule
Bela Fleck Acoustic Trio
The Mars Volta
John Prine
Yonder Mountain String Band
My Morning Jacket
Keller Williams
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Earl Scruggs & Friends
Joss Stone
O.A.R.
Toots and the Maytals
Umphrey's McGee
Iron & Wine
Ozomatli
Rilo Kiley
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
Drive-By Truckers
Particle
Joanna Newsom
Xavier Rudd
Ray Lamontagne
The Gourds
Secret Machines
Donna The Buffalo
John Butler Trio
Ollabelle
Citizen Cope
Brazilian Girls
M. Ward
Madeleine Peyroux
Herbie Hancock and his Headhunters
Black Crowes

[bejohnson]

On the same weekend in Atlanta, Music Midtown. (http://www.musicmidtown.com/)

Check out the bands. :Thumb

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On the same weekend in Atlanta, Music Midtown. (http://www.musicmidtown.com/)

Check out the bands. :ThumbPretty cool! They used to do something like that in Nashville called River Stages, with about 5 stages set up along the Cumberland River. It was usually the first week in June, right before Fan Fair. (Oh yeah, I think this is Fan Fair week, but I doubt anyone on here cares... :lmao )

The rest of the summer, they do free concerts downtown at Riverfront Park every Thursday, called "Dancin' In The District". As is appropriate for a place called "Music City".

[wazman]

It's too bad it isn't a week later... We're going to be coming through there on our way to Florida.

Maybe...

:Roll Eyes :shifty

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http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050610/ENTERTAINMENT0104/506100416/1059
Ask Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper Tim Southerland how traffic and law enforcement is going at this year's Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, and his answer is quick and simple: "Better than last year, I can tell you that."

Southerland worked from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. yesterday directing traffic into the farm in Manchester that'll host about 80,000 music fans for the three-day festival.

He and others said traffic had improved and that a focus on keeping drugs out of the campsite appeared to be working.

Fans seemed to appreciate the festival's laid-back atmosphere and to be anticipating today, the first full day of music on the festival's five stages.

Southerland said that, at yesterday's peak, festivalgoers waited in a line that stretched 15 miles from the site. Some dangled their feet out of open windows, others had "Bonnaroo or Bust" painted on their windows.

The traffic flowed slowly, but most people waited only an hour and a half. In previous years, festivalgoers waited up to 12 hours in stalled traffic on Interstate 24.

Festival traffic stayed on the shoulder once the line formed, so non-festival interstate traffic kept flowing, albeit much slower than normal.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol and the Coffee County Sheriff's Department officers working outside the site were the first line of defense in deterring people from bringing in drugs.

The smell of marijuana tipped off most highway patrol officers. Southerland said officers on Wednesday night had confiscated "massive amounts" of drugs, in quantities of a pound of marijuana up to 25 pounds or more that people presumably brought to sell.

Yesterday, officers confiscated smaller amounts intended for personal use. Final numbers on highway patrol arrests and citations won't be available until next week, but, based on anecdotal evidence, the numbers seem to be similar to last year's, Southerland said.

"We're getting about the same amount of drugs that we did last year," Southerland said. "It's like a bleeding wound. You can't stop it, but you can slow it down."

As of 5 p.m. yesterday, the Coffee County Sheriff's Department had made 15 arrests and issued 47 citations, mostly for drug violations.

Festivalgoers also were subject to random searches of their vehicles upon entry.

Billy Cook, director of the 14th Judicial District's Drug and Violent Crime Task Force, said his staff searched about one of every 20 cars. Of those, about one-fifth had drugs, mostly small amounts of marijuana for personal use.

All cars entering the camping area were also searched by festival security staff for glass containers, drugs and weapons. Upon entering the festival's venue — where the bands perform — festivalgoers have their bags and pockets checked for prohibited items.

Cook credits improved communication between festival organizers and local law enforcement with creating what he hopes will be a safer environment than in previous years.

"They have more security, we've had more meetings discussing the problems over the last few years and everybody seems to be coordinated together," he said.

And although bands don't take the stage until today, Bonnaroo's central area — called Centeroo — was already buzzing with activity. Vendors were selling food, drinks and tie-dyed T-shirts and hats, while festivalgoers wandered about and splashed in Centeroo's fountain.

Dan Formica of Lancaster, Pa., and his sister, Taylor, were sitting under the shade of a tree, resting up after their 12-hour drive.

They said they waited three hours to get into the site, but didn't seem to mind. This is their first Bonnaroo, and so far they say they're impressed.

"Everyone's nice, which is nice," Taylor Formica said.
The guys below carried that trash can full of beer 3 miles in 90 degree sun. Oh, that isn't a fence behind them. That's one of the many Port-a-Potty Rows... :lmao

Image is from the story above.

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MANCHESTER — Police found the body of a 32-year-old Huntsville, Ala., man at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival this morning.

Coffee Country Sheriff Steve Graves said the cause of death is undetermined, and the body was being sent to state medical examiner Dr. Bruce Levy for an autopsy.

“We don’t really know the cause of death other than it does not appear to be any type of violent act or trauma to the body,” Graves said.

Graves declined to the release the name of the man because his family had not been notified. He was found in the camping area at 9:15 a.m. today and was taken to Medical Center of Manchester, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

The death is the first this year for the festival, which has drawn about 75,000 music fans to a 700-acre Manchester farm. Last year, two festivalgoers — Brandon Taylor, 20, of Lowell, Mich., and Amber Lynn Stevens, 22, of Flatwoods, Ky. — died of drug overdoses. Those deaths became the first in the history of the festival, which began in 2002.

Source (http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050611/ENTERTAINMENT0104/50611001/1005)

I noticed about 6 ambulances go screaming by on the way to the hospital from Bonnaroo last night. I doubt this will be the only victim. (Although with all the rain we've been having, someone's liable to pass out, fall into a mudhole, and drown.)