Olivia Rodrigo. Megadeth. Luke Combs. Insane Clown Posse. What do these very totally different artists have in frequent? They’re all on the invoice for Bonnaroo 2025, which revealed its lineup on Wednesday.
The massive Manchester, Tennessee competition goes down from June Twelfth-Fifteenth, and this yr’s lineup is as eclectic as ever. Tyler, the Creator and Hozier be part of Rodrigo and Combs atop the invoice, with Queens of the Stone Age, Avril Lavigne, Justice, Vampire Weekend, and Glass Animals additionally set to play. Plus, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard will carry out the primary ever “Roo Residency” with three distinctive units throughout three days, Remi Wolf will curate a Superjam with a “’70s Pool Celebration” theme, and the model new 360-degree “Infinity Stage” shall be mounted on the farm.
It could appear unusual to see Luke Combs and Insane Clown Posse subsequent to one another on a competition poster, however Bonnaroo stays happy with their “one thing for everybody” strategy. For Brad Parker, who helps guide Bonnaroo as a part of C3 Presents (the live performance promotion and occasion manufacturing firm behind Lollapalooza and Austin Metropolis Limits), the lineup’s general range is a giant a part of the problem.
“Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, ACL… these guys have been round without end, and so they do have to seek out methods to reinvent themselves,” Parker tells Consequence. “In the end, there’s nonetheless a spot for multi-genre festivals, however they need to be at scale. In case you can have 70 bands play a day at your competition, you’ve obtained sufficient there which you could supply totally different sorts of followers with totally different tastes sufficient to get them to purchase a ticket.”
This perspective epitomizes Bonnaroo’s 2025 lineup, which seeks to bridge gaps each generationally and in style. “Bonnaroo is in a singular place — that is our twenty second competition, and never many occasions are in a position to reside lengthy sufficient to the place they efficiently cycle via a technology of followers,” says Parker. “ The followers that obtained us via the primary 20 years of Bonnaroo should not going to be the identical followers that get us via the subsequent 20 years. So how can we begin fostering and cultivating a brand new youthful fan that’s going to be enthusiastic about coming to the present whereas additionally catering nonetheless to these loyal OGs that need to stick round and nonetheless come out and have enjoyable?”
That query guided Parker and his crew as they constructed this yr’s invoice, which seeks to honor the competition’s jam band previous and electronic-centric ethos, its unique followers and its new class of competition goers. The marketplace for festivals could also be extra risky than in prior years, and it’s a problem for any occasion to give you a recent and genuine choice of acts. So, how did Bonnaroo’s organizers do it, and what can attendees anticipate for the 2025 version? Learn on for our Q&A with Brad Parker to seek out out.
Tickets to Bonnaroo 2025 go on sale Thursday, January ninth at 10:00 a.m. CT The assured lowest-priced tickets shall be out there in the course of the first hour of the on-sale. Followers can even have the choice to buy tickets with a cost plan.
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