The Scene
Over the last decade, no other US music festival has captured the spirit of large greenfield gatherings like the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. Bonnaroo burst onto the scene grabbing headlines along with our hearts as we watched it grow from scrappy newcomer to a full fledged anchor of the summer. It may not be the oldest or the largest, but Bonnaroo is the spirit of the quintessential American music festival. Long live The Roo.
Festival Poster
2009 Artist Lineup
Animal Collective
Band of Horses
Bon Iver
Coheed and Cambria
Galactic
Girl Talk
Grizzly Bear
MGMT
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Nine Inch Nails
Snoop Dogg
St. Vincent
The Del McCoury Band
Wilco
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeasayer
- Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
- Phish
- Beastie Boys
- Nine Inch Nails
- David Byrne
- Wilco
- Al Green
- Snoop Dogg
- Elvis Costello Solo
- Erykah Badu
- Paul Oakenfold
- Ben Harper and Relentless7
- The Mars Volta
- TV on the Radio
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Gov’t Mule
- Andrew Bird
- Band of Horses
- Merle Haggard
- MGMT
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- The Decemberists
- Girl Talk
- Bon Iver
- Béla Fleck & Toumani Diabate
- Rodrigo y Gabriela
- Galactic
- The Del McCoury Band
- Of Montreal
- Allen Toussaint
- Coheed and Cambria
- Booker T & the DBTs
- David Grisman Quintet
- Lucinda Williams
- Animal Collective
- Gomez
- Neko Case
- Down
- Jenny Lewis
- Santogold
- Robert Earl Keen
- Citizen Cope
- Femi Kuti and the Positive Force
- The Ting Tings
- Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3
- Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
- Kaki King
- Grizzly Bear
- King Sunny Adé
- Okkervil River
- St. Vincent
- Zac Brown Band
- Raphael Saadiq
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
- Crystal Castles
- Tift Merritt
- Brett Dennen
- Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue
- Toubab Krewe
- People Under the Stairs
- Alejandro Escovedo
- Vieux Farka Touré
- Elvis Perkins In Dearland
- Cherryholmes
- Yeasayer
- Todd Snider
- Chairlift
- Portugal. The Man.
- The SteelDrivers
- Midnite
- The Knux
- The Low Anthem
- Delta Spirit
- A.A. Bondy
- The Lovell Sisters
- Alberta Cross
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