The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is proud to announce the creation of a venue dedicated to celebrating the culture of New Orleans and Louisiana for the 2008 event, taking place in Manchester, TN, on June 12 – 15. Called "Somethin’ Else – New Orleans," it is the newest in a series of successful specialty venues promoters Superfly and A.C. Entertainment have developed over the years. Somethin’ Else – New Orleans will feature the music of New Orleans and Louisiana, programmed throughout the day and night for the entire weekend. Confirmed acts are listed below.
Somethin’ Else – New Orleans will be modeled after some of the city’s most distinctive and beloved music clubs, such as Preservation Hall, Tipitina’s and the Maple Leaf. Regional cuisine will also be featured in order to fully capture the essence of this special city. A donation will be collected upon entrance, with all proceeds going directly to support local New Orleans charities.
In addition to raising money for these charities, Somethin’ Else – New Orleans, in partnership with the Center for Rural Strategies, will expose many incredible New Orleans artists to a large base of passionate music fans and community-minded individuals. It will be Bonnaroo’s way of giving back to and promoting the culture of New Orleans, encouraging people to visit and support the city.
"Even though New York is where the company is located now, New Orleans is where we started and it is very much our spiritual home," says Superfly’s Richard Goodstone. "New Orleans truly inspires so much of what we do at all our events around the country and we always feel incredibly strong ties to the community."
From comedy to film to last year’s Somethin Else jazz venue hosted by Blue Note Records, these type of expansions to the festival’s entertainment options continue to add to the breadth and diversity of Bonnaroo’s signature programming. The strong creativity of these additions has always been met with incredible enthusiasm by the Bonnaroo community, a fan base that constantly amazes with its unquenchable thirst for all forms of art and culture.
Confirmed acts are as follows
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
Morning 40 Federation
The charities that the New Orleans tent will support are below:
New Orleans Musicians Clinic
http://www.neworleansmusiciansclinic.org/
