2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival

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The 2008 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival was held June 12-15.

The event

• Black Kids appeared on the initial lineup, but were later removed.
• The Allman Brothers Band cancelled two months prior to the festival due to health issues. Their replacement, Widespread Panic, was announced as Sunday's festival closer.^[1]
• Due to a schedule conflict David Cross had to cancel his appearance and was replaced by Louis C.K. in the Bonnaroo Comedy Theatre.^[1]
• The surprise SuperJam was composed of Les Claypool on bass/vocals, Eugene Hutz (guitar/vocals), Sergei Ryabtsev (violin), Oren Kaplan (guitar), and Yuri Lemeshev (accordion) of Gogol Bordello, and Claypool's touring drummer (and Cake member) Paulo Baldi on drums. They were later joined by Kirk Hammett of Metallica on guitar for three numbers. Hammett was introduced by Claypool as "some guy that used to sell me weed back in high school." The set consisted of eleven Tom Waits covers ("Russian Dance" was performed twice, the second time as an encore), along with a single Claypool song, "D's Diner".
• Chris Rock's main stage set was billed as being "one of the largest ever for a comedy show".^[2]
• Kidz Jam, a non-profit organization out of Dayton, Ohio provided free entertainment, water, earplugs and safety information for the families which attended Bonnaroo in 2008.
• Kanye West's Saturday night set, originally scheduled for the which stage, was moved to the main stage at his insistence. Mr. West was then two hours late to take the stage, despite forcing Pearl Jam to cut their legendary headlining set short by several songs, and upsetting many by cutting off Phil Lesh & Friends scheduled 4 hour set reducing the set in half.^[3]

Lineup

2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival Lineup (Confirmed lineup)[4]
BP	Artists	Venue	BP	Artists	Venue	Alison Krauss Chromeo Battles MGMT Jack Johnson My Morning Jacket
	!!!	That Tent		The Avett Brothers	The Other Tent
	Against Me!			Aimee Mann	The Other Tent
	B.B. King	What Stage		Back Door Slam	That Tent
	Battles	This Tent		Ben Folds	Which Stage
	Zappa Plays Zappa			Broken Social Scene	The Other Tent
	Dark Star Orchestra	The Other Tent		Death Cab for Cutie	Which Stage
	Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi’s Soul Stew Revival	That Tent		Donavon Frankenreiter
	Drive-By Truckers	Which Stage		Ghostland Observatory	This Tent
	Gogol Bordello			Grupo Fantasma
	Iron & Wine	This Tent		Israel Vibration
	Jack Johnson			Jakob Dylan	This Tent
	José González	This Tent		Kanye West	What Stage
	Ladytron	The Other Tent		Levon Helm and the Ramble on the Road	The Other Tent
	Lez Zeppelin	That Tent		Little Feat
	Lupe Fiasco	The Other Tent		M.I.A.	That Tent
	MGMT	This Tent		Mason Jennings
	Mastodon	That Tent		Metallica	What Stage
	Minus the Bear	That Tent		My Morning Jacket	Which Stage
	Nicole Atkins			O.A.R.	Which Stage
	Orchestra Baobab			Ozomatli	What Stage
	Pat Green	This Tent		Pearl Jam	What Stage
	Phil Lesh & Friends	Which Stage		Rilo Kiley	This Tent
	Robert Plant & Alison Krauss	What Stage		Robert Randolph’s Revival	That Tent
	Serena Ryder			Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings	Which Stage
	Sigur Rós	That Tent		Solomon Burke	That Tent
	State Radio			Steel Train
	The Swell Season	This Tent		Talib Kweli	The Other Tent
	Tegan & Sara	This Tent		The Allman Brothers Band	(cancelled)
	Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet feat. Bela Fleck			Tiësto feat. Cary Brothers, José González, and Tegan & Sara	This Tent
	The Felice Brothers			The Fiery Furnaces	That Tent
	The Lee Boys	That Tent		The Raconteurs	What Stage
	The Sword	That Tent		MSTRKRFT	That Tent
	Two Gallants	This Tent		Umphrey’s McGee	Which Stage
	Vampire Weekend	This Tent		Willie Nelson	Which Stage
	Yonder Mountain String Band	What Stage		Chromeo	This Tent
	The Disco Biscuits	That Tent		Les Claypool	Which Stage
	Chali 2na	The Other Tent		Don DiLego
	The Sons of Roswell			Newton Faulkner
	Stephen Marley	What Stage		Vampire Weekend	This Tent
	Widespread Panic	What Stage		What Made Milwaukee Famous	This Tent
	Phil Lesh, Larry Campbell and Jackie Greene			The Bluegrass Allstars feat. Luke Bulla, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Bryan Sutton

Somethin' Else- New Orleans:

Bonnaroo Comedy:

Cafe Acts

References