Last year the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
debuted a new concert space dubbed Somethin' Else, which presented jazz
music. This year the room will be transformed into a New Orleans-themed
venue with a charitable component. The roster of performers all will
have ties to the Crescent City, with Porter-Batiste-Stoltz, Ivan
Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Henry Butler and the Game Band, Dirty Dozen
Brass Band, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Anders Osborne, Big Sam's
Funky Nation, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, Soul Rebels Brass
Band and Morning 40 Federation currently scheduled to appear. In
addition, Regional cuisine will be offered and donations will be
collected at the entrance, with proceeds directed to a range of New
Orleans charities. Bonnaroo will return to Manchester, TN, on June
12-15.
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