SARATOGA SPRINGS This year, Dave Matthews Band is offering more than just entertainment during the group s annual visit to Saratoga s Performing Arts Center.
SARATOGA SPRINGS This year, Dave Matthews Band is offering more than just entertainment during the group s annual visit to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. The band is one of many that have partnered with HeadCount, a not-for-profit organization devoted to inspiring youth voters with the help of world-recognized musicians.
Destination festivals are a universe unto their own where the real world is left in the parking lot. But at this year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, the outside world and its problems - politics, high gas prices - were always lurking just offstage, and sometimes were front and center.
Destination festivals are a universe unto their own where the real world is left in the parking lot. But at this year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, the outside world and its problems - politics, high gas prices - were always lurking just offstage, and sometimes were front and center. "There's a time and place for this kind of talk, right?" Eddie Vedder said to the tens of thousands
At the festival, in Manchester, Tennessee, the main headliners Metallica and Pearl Jam shared the six stages with newer bands like Battles, Two Gallants and Mastodon.
Though more than 150 musical acts are performing at Bonnaroo, it's possible to be entertained without hearing a note. Music, of course, is the main attraction for the tens of thousands of fans at the annual festival, held south of Nashville on a 700-acre countryside site.
At this year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, the outside world and its problems -- politics, economic woes and high gas prices -- were always lurking just offstage, and sometimes were front and center.