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Written by Josh Baron
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
While much is probably familiar to Bonnaroo veterans, the festival
continues to morph and evolve as it gets further years under its belt.
We checked in with two of the main men responsible for the festival’s
design, look and execution- Ashley Capps of AC Entertainment and visual
conceptualist Russ Bennett- to see what’s new this year. Here are some
of their picks…
* Somethin’ Else Jazz Tent: “It’s like a
recreation of New York’s Village Vanguard, really. Tent doesn’t really
doesn’t do it justice to it because it has walls, an incredible
environment, table-seating, service, the works.”
* Bonnaroo
Cinema Tent: “We’ve got DA Pennebaker one of the great documentary
filmmakers of all time here on Thursday. He’s doing a Q&A and it’s
the 40th anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival which he did his
legendary documentary on [he also directed, among many, many others,
the Bob Dylan documentary Don’t Look Back].” Jim Jarmuch is going to be
here as well [director of such lauded indie films like Stranger Than
Paradise, Deadman and Ghost Dog] along with Oscar-nominated animator
Bill Plympton.
* Bonna Rouge: “We’ve got our cabaret tent with
the Yard Dogs Road Show playing all weekend which has dancing girls,
sword-swallowers, fire-eaters, a great vaudevillian band and comedy.
That’s really cool.”
* Planet Roo: “We started this the second
year to give some social mission and it’s really grown. It’s one of the
most popular areas for a variety of reasons.”
* The Fountain:
“Conceptually we make it a different theme every year. I think this
year is the best yet. We’ve really put an uncountable amount of woman
and man hours into the seven million checks up there. We’ve invented
someone named Check McGregor who lives there. He is beyond the zen of
check.”
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