Dear Fellow Music Enthusiasts,
For those of you unable to attend the Bonnaroo Music Festival this year, I hope these blog posts allow you to live vicariously through a 22 year old college student on her long-awaited pilgrimage. Hopefully I’ll inspire you to embark on your own musical odyssey. For me, the countdown is nearly at zero. We’re all packed up and ready to go and we’ll soon be en Roote to Bonnaroo!
I couldn’t be more excited to head down to Tennessee. I am an obsessive planner, so I’ve be reviewing the lineup and stage schedules for weeks. However, my friend Gregor will be taking a more focused approach: get Zooey Deschanel to dump Ben Gibbard so they can run away together. We’ll see if that plan works out.... Perhaps Regina Spektor is available instead.
Thanks to generous friends and family, we’ll arrive and camp at Bonnaroo in style. I’m not an avid camper, but I think I’m ready for anything. Now the trick is weighing who to see. Decisions, decisions!
My MUST see:
Miike Snow, Stevie Wonder, Phoenix, Regina Spektor, Weezer, She & Him, Jay-Z, and Kings of Leon
Artists new to me that are of serious interest:
Disco Biscuits, Tokyo Police Club, Japandroids, The Temper Trap, and Les Claypool
With pit stops at the Silent Disco and the Brooery, we’ll see if I have time to sleep!
I’ll be posting throughout the festival and sending photos too, so be sure to check back! Thank you to all who voted for me, thanks to you my dream is coming true! Here we go! Wish us luck!
Abby Braatz
I'm glad to see someone in this family gets to travel! I'm green with envy when I look at the list of bands and artists you get to see. That's awesome! Major Congrats on your win!! Lov ya!
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