2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival

The 2008 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival was held June 12–15. Aside from the festival's opening year (2002), attendance at the 2008 event, at approximately 70,000, was the smallest in Bonnaroo's history.

Cancellations and rescheduling

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Bonnaroo had many cancellations and reschedules by artists both before and during the event. Cancellations included Black Kids, who appeared on the initial line-up but were later removed. Two months prior, due to health issues, The Allman Brothers Band cancelled their slot at the festival. Their cancellation led to the replacement band Widespread Panic being announced as the festival closer.[1] Due to a schedule conflict, David Cross also had to cancel his appearance and was replaced by Louis C.K. in the Bonnaroo Comedy Theatre.[1]

During the festival

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The surprise SuperJam was composed of Les Claypool on bass/vocals, Eugene Hutz (guitar/vocals), Sergei Ryabtsev (violin), Oren Kaplan (guitar), and Yuri Lemeshev (accordion) of Gogol Bordello, and Claypool's touring drummer (and Cake member) Paulo Baldi on drums. They were later joined by Kirk Hammett of Metallica on guitar for three numbers. Hammett was introduced by Claypool as "some guy that used to sell me weed back in high school." The set consisted of eleven Tom Waits covers ("Russian Dance" was performed twice, the second time as an encore), along with a single Claypool song, "D's Diner".

Chris Rock's main stage set was billed as being "one of the largest ever for a comedy show".[2]

Kidz Jam, a non-profit organization out of Dayton, Ohio provided free entertainment, water, earplugs and safety information for the families which attended Bonnaroo in 2008.

Kanye West's Saturday night set, having been moved back and forth between stages by Bonnaroo promoters, eventually ran on the main stage. West was not on time due to a scheduling conflict. This, in addition to Pearl Jam playing over an hour longer than scheduled and taking a long time to remove their equipment, and the complex stage set-up for West's performance, meant the show started at 5:00 am.[3]

Line-up

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2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival Line-up[4]
BP Artists Venue BP Artists Venue
  !!! That Tent   The Avett Brothers The Other Tent
  Against Me!   Aimee Mann The Other Tent
  B.B. King What Stage   Back Door Slam That Tent
  Battles This Tent   Ben Folds Which Stage
  Zappa Plays Zappa   Broken Social Scene The Other Tent
  Dark Star Orchestra The Other Tent   Death Cab for Cutie Which Stage
  Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi’s Soul Stew Revival That Tent   Donavon Frankenreiter
  Drive-By Truckers Which Stage   Ghostland Observatory This Tent
  Gogol Bordello   Grupo Fantasma
  Iron & Wine This Tent   Israel Vibration
  Jack Johnson   Jakob Dylan This Tent
  José González This Tent   Kanye West What Stage
  Ladytron The Other Tent   Levon Helm and the Ramble on the Road The Other Tent
  Lez Zeppelin That Tent   Little Feat
  Lupe Fiasco The Other Tent   MIA That Tent
  MGMT This Tent   Mason Jennings
  Mastodon That Tent   Metallica What Stage
  Minus the Bear That Tent   My Morning Jacket Which Stage
  Nicole Atkins   OAR Which Stage
  Orchestra Baobab   Ozomatli What Stage
  Pat Green This Tent   Pearl Jam What Stage
  Phil Lesh & Friends Which Stage   Rilo Kiley This Tent
    Robert Plant & Alison Krauss What Stage   Robert Randolph's Revival That Tent
  Serena Ryder   Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings Which Stage
  Sigur Rós That Tent   Solomon Burke That Tent
  State Radio   Steel Train
  The Swell Season This Tent   Talib Kweli The Other Tent
  Tegan & Sara This Tent   The Allman Brothers Band (cancelled)
  Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet
feat. Bela Fleck
   
   
Tiësto feat. Cary Brothers,
José González, and Tegan & Sara
This Tent
  The Felice Brothers   The Fiery Furnaces That Tent
  The Lee Boys That Tent   The Raconteurs What Stage
  The Sword That Tent   MSTRKRFT That Tent
  Two Gallants This Tent Umphrey's McGee Which Stage
  Vampire Weekend This Tent   Willie Nelson Which Stage
  Yonder Mountain String Band What Stage   Chromeo This Tent
  The Disco Biscuits That Tent   Les Claypool Which Stage
  Chali 2na The Other Tent Don DiLego
The Sons of Roswell   Newton Faulkner
  Stephen Marley What Stage   Vampire Weekend This Tent
  Widespread Panic What Stage   What Made Milwaukee Famous This Tent
  Phil Lesh, Larry Campbell and Jackie Greene   The Bluegrass Allstars feat. Luke Bulla, Sam Bush,
Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Bryan Sutton

Somethin' Else- New Orleans:

Bonnaroo Comedy:

Cafe Acts

Cinema Tent

References

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  1. ^ a b "News | Bonnaroo 2015". Bonnaroo.com. Archived from the original on February 19, 2015. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  2. ^ "News | Bonnaroo 2015". Bonnaroo.com. Archived from the original on February 19, 2015. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  3. ^ "Kanye West's Bonnaroo Debacle | Music News". Spin. June 15, 2008. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  4. ^ "2008 Line-up". Bonnaroo.com. Archived from the original on February 28, 2009. Retrieved April 16, 2009.