What I'm Hearing: Bonnaroo 2024 to just be tribute shows, silent disco, and themed nights for 2024
the smaller festivals took all the folk bands
The music market is tough these days, and the music market festival market is triply tougher. High Water released their lineup and it’s pretty good for what they are doing, but also revealed that all the americana acts will be booked at these smaller festivals curated by other americana bands in the northeastern southern united states.
since bonnaroo hasn’t booked nobody yet, we are hearing that they have changed course in their strategy. they’ll be doing all tribute/cover bands, adding a lot of silent discos, and doing themed nights for each day of the festival. like one night will be like an 1980s night or something, they’ll play eighties movies in the cinema tent and have cover bands doing synthpop. maybe another day is 90s, then maybe the next day they’ll do the 00s and all the men will have to wear super tight suits with teeny tiny lapels and the women will wear unflattering sweaters.
does this spell the end of bonnaroo? i mean if you think about it for one second it definitely does.