BornToRunAroo: Springsteen to Play Bonnaroo

Recently I wrote with veil of disappointment about Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band’s 2009 tour missing the Volunteer state. I had heard rumors that the New Jersey group might be playing Bonnaroo, but when it wasn’t on their tour calendar when it was annouced last week I discounted it as just a rumor. Today I got the e-mail that Springsteen and the band will be headlining the show.

The line up for the Manchester, TN. (Hotel Link) event so far reads like the playlist on a trust fund kid’s iPod. The artist performing for the music festival on June 11^th through the 14^th are: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Phish (2 Shows), Beastie Boys, Nine Inch NailsDavid 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, moe, 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 and Alberta Cross. The concert promoters are expecting to add more names to the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.

The Bonnaroo Music Festival Tickets will be going on sale on February 7^th. Considering what it would cost just to see any two of the top artist preforming at Bonnaroo, the ticket price is a bargain. I can tell you that seeing a Springsteen concert is one of the closest thing to a religious experience you can have without an appearance of a deity. The audience gets charged, Springsteen and the E Streeters get charged and before you know it the electricity from the experience from it all takes on a life of it’s own.

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