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Tom Petty performed with his band The Heartbreakers and was joined
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By Brian Mansfield, Special for USA TODAY
USATODAY.com's summer-long sonic road trip takes you inside the
season's hottest concerts. This weekend, we headed south for the
annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., held
June 15-18.
Photos: See scenes from Bonnaroo

The music: In its fifth year, Bonnaroo featured more than 100
performers of a dizzying variety. New Orleans acts such as the
Neville Brothers and Allen Toussaint (appearing with Elvis Costello)
got special emphasis this year, but the bill also featured prominent
blues, jazz, roots, rock and international acts, along with the jam
bands that make up the festival's core draw. Tom Petty & The
Heartbreakers' Friday night show featured an unannounced appearance
from Stevie Nicks, who sang on Stop Draggin' My Heart Around and
several other songs. Radiohead played to the crowd during its 2 1/2
hour set Saturday and performed new material as well as crowd
favorites Paranoid Android and Fake Plastic Trees. Late-night shows
included an epic three-hour performance by Bonnaroo favorite My
Morning Jacket and the revival of New Orleans keyboardist Dr. John's
Night Tripper character.

The crowd: Eighty thousand sun-kissed and dust-covered music lovers,
most of them in their teens and mid-20s, set up camp on the 700-acre
hay farm an hour south of Nashville. The Coffee County sheriff's
office reported 62 arrests through Sunday afternoon, down from about
75 last year. Joshua Overall, 21, of Ohio was killed when he stepped
onto I-24 in front of bluegrass singer Ricky Skaggs' tour bus.

Fashion: Most Bonnaroonies dressed for comfort and maximum exposure
to the sun. For men, that meant sandals and hiking shorts, with
optional T-shirts; women chose print wrap skirts or shorts and
slightly less optional halter or bikini tops. Attention-getters
included fairy ears, blue jeans with no seat and body-painted
breasts. A masquerade ball before dawn Sunday drew hundreds in Mardi
Gras masks, as well as people dressed as a milkshake, an electric
outlet and a Mexican luchador.

The merch: Tie-dyed event tees, with Bonnaroo performers listed on
the back, were among the most popular official shirts, which ranged
in price from $25 to $35. Other Bonnaroo merchandise included socks
($5), an iPod cover ($30) and a fleece blanket ($35).

Inside scoop: Non-performing celebrities in attendance included
actresses Gina Gershon and Drea de Matteo, New Orleans R&B singer
Irma Thomas and members of the rock band Kings of Leon. Hasidic
reggae star Matisyahu held a Shabbat service Friday in one of the
public campgrounds. More than 100 people attended. He also provided
a kosher Shabbat dinner that ended in a cake fight between the
singer and several other men.

Posted 6/18/2006 9:39 PM ET
Updated 6/19/2006 11:31 AM ET

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SURPRISES IN STORE AT BONNAROO

The fifth Bonnaroo Music + Arts Festival in Tennessee, the world's
most successful festival, was all about surprises this weekend (15-
18JUN06) as TOM PETTY, BRIGHT EYES and former GRATEFUL DEAD star
PHIL LESH served up live treats. Petty + THE HEARTBREAKERS welcomed
surprise guest STEVIE NICKS onstage for a number of songs during
their Saturday night (17JUN06) performance at the event. The
FLEETWOOD MAC star has signed on to join the rockers when they tour
through the US later this summer (06). Meanwhile, SUPER FURRY
ANIMALS star GRUFF RHYS joined Bright Eyes frontman CONOR OBERST
onstage and Lesh brought former PHISH stars TREY ANASTASIO and MIKE
GORDON together again for renditions of Dead classics CASEY JONES
and GOING DOWN THE ROAD FEELING BAD. But the event's biggest
surprise came when former THE POLICE drummer STEWART COPELAND
reformed his supergroup OYSTERHEAD with Anastasio and ex-PRIMUS star
LES CLAYPOOL for a brief set. It marked the first time the trio had
played live together since 2001. Other highlights from the four-day
festival included RADIOHEAD, DR JOHN, reggae star DAMIEN MARLEY and
rapper COMMON. Bonnaroo was declared the world's top festival last
week (ends16JUN06) when all 80,000 tickets for each day of the event
sold out.
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Music festival reaches beyond 'sweaty hippies'

Sunday, June 18, 2006; Posted: 5:12 p.m. EDT (21:12 GMT)


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took the stage at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, he was
joined by dancers in bear suits and a band that played on water
glasses and dinner plates.

A puppet alter-ego also took a swipe at "sweaty hippies stinking of
patchouli" -- a friendly jab at his audience and the jam-band
culture that has supported the 5-year-old Bonnaroo.

The camping and music festival on a 700-acre Tennessee farm still
has its neo-hippies and free spirits, but Bonnaroo has grown into
something more than a celebration of endless guitar solos.

Rather than be pigeonholed into the jam-band scene, Bonnaroo has
diversified its lineup to include major artists in rap, blues, indie
rock and, this year, classic rockers like Tom Petty and Elvis
Costello.

"At first it was a jam band festival. But is it still?" said Mike
Gordon of the former jam band Phish. "There still is a lot of
jamming. I think it's grown in respect. It's not considered a niche
festival anymore."

Ashley Capps, owner of AC Entertainment in Knoxville, which co-
organizes Bonnaroo with Superfly Productions, said the performances
by Petty and the British band Radiohead were watershed moments for
the festival.

"From the beginning, we were a music festival that was about the
music. We never saw ourselves being limited to one genre or
another," Capps said.

David Taylor, 25, and Lucy Cornford, 24, said the only reason they
came from London, England, to attend Bonnaroo was to see a number of
indie and underground rock bands like Bright Eyes, Clap Your Hands
Say Yeah, and Beck.

"We normally go to (the) Glastonbury (Festival), but they didn't
have one this year and there were so many good bands we wanted to
see at Bonnaroo," Taylor said.

The festival accommodated 80,000 fans -- many of whom spent the
entire weekend camped out on the concert site. More than 100
performers played on 10 stages this year.

Petty's headlining performance Friday showed that even well-known
artists can surprise an audience. Stevie Nicks joined Petty for a re-
enactment of their 1981 duet, "Stop Dragging My Heart Around."

"I've seen him five times before," said Kimberly English from
Cleveland, Ohio. "But I saw another side to him that night. He was
like a master of ceremonies."

Adding new artists each year gives fans like English a reason to
come back.

"If they didn't change the lineup, they wouldn't be holding to what
Bonnaroo is all about," English said while watching Costello perform
with jazz composer and producer Allen Toussaint on Saturday.

Costello and Toussaint, both new to Bonnaroo this year, put together
a set that included New Orleans jazz with some of Costello's new
wave classics. The band performed "Pump It Up" and "Alison," updated
with the crisp sound of a New Orleans horn section.

"Most of my life is spent in the studio," Toussaint said. "I am
seeing things that I have not witnessed before. It's a whole spirit
that I haven't seen."

The pair recently released "The River in Reverse," a collection of
new songs written by Costello along with some of Toussaint's songs
from the '60s and the '70s.

In addition to the dancing bears, Beck played songs from his entire
career -- from "Where It's At" off his 1996 album "Odelay" to tracks
off his soon-to-be released album.

Radiohead played a crowd-pleasing two-and-a-half hour set that
included songs from the band's past albums, and some unreleased
songs.

The crowd roared during the crashing crescendos in songs
like "Idioteque," but singer and guitarist Thom Yorke silenced the
large crowd with his haunting vocals on "Exit Music For A Film" off
the album "OK Computer."

The festival closed Sunday with former Grateful Dead bassist Phil
Lesh and Friends, blues guitarist Bonnie Raitt and New York rockers
Sonic Youth.

There was one death at Bonnaroo this year. A man wearing an
admission armband was killed Friday when he was struck by the tour
bus carrying bluegrass artist Ricky Skaggs.

Two people died from drug overdoses at Bonnaroo in 2004, and one man
was found dead in his tent last year. Witnesses said he suffered
from sleep apnea, but authorities said there were indications of
unspecified drugs in his system.

The organizers rent the farmland, 60 miles southeast of Nashville,
but there are plans to make the festival more permanent, Capps said.

"We are talking with the landowners of this site, but we're also
exploring other possibilities. We've established a good relationship
with the people in Coffee County and we would like to keep the
festival here."

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