‘This is a tremendous opportunity’: For music artists, Bonnaroo offers chance to find new fans
For fans, Bonnaroo is a chance to see nearly 100 bands all in one place over a four-day period.

For fans, Bonnaroo is a chance to see nearly 100 bands all in one place over a four-day period.

It's 11 a.m. on The Farm, or Great Stages Park, or Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.

LISA DENTON: Barry, I hope you can lay hands on your grass skirt and clam-shell bra because there's a cruise coming up Friday on the Southern Belle that sounds like fun. And it's certainly for a good cause.

You never know what you might see inside Centeroo, the main gathering area for the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.

If buzz of activity all around Great Stage Park in Manchester, Tennessee, on Wednesday is any indication of the size of the expected crowd for this weekend's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, it should be a huge event.

Though it was certainly not planned, it seems somewhat circular and appropriate that Old Crow Medicine Show would be headlining the Grand Ole Opry lineup on opening day of the Bonnaroo festival a week after the man who gave the event its name died.

Even though rain might have dampened Mitch Rossell's set two weeks ago at Riverbend, the former Chattanoogan continues to have a great year.

AJ'S SPORTS BAR & GRILL - 6238 Bonny Oaks Drive. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. Choo Choo Entertainment karaoke, no cover. 423-485-9080.

Heritage High School valedictorian Saulye Nichols was born in the Republic of Kazakhstan in Central Asia, but she hasn't given it much thought.

Barry, every time the calendar approaches the Bonnaroo Festival, I find myself thinking of cuckoo clocks and "The Sound of Music."
