Blitzen Trapper, Daryl Hall and Chromeo: Bonnaroo Highlights

by Amy Judd | February 9, 2010 at 08:11 pm

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Blitzen Trapper and Daryl Hall and Chromeo are two acts that have been signed up to the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival and they are sure to be highlights in the hundreds of musical acts.

Blitzen Trapper is from Portland, Oregon and is an experimental folk band. It has six members, consisting of Eric Earley, Erik Menteer, Brian Adrian Koch, Michael VanPelt, Drew Laughery and Marty Marquis.

They released their album Wild Mountain Nation in 2007 and have won cirtical acclaim for their music.

The group signed to Sub Pop Records in the summer of 2007. The release of Furr in 2008 was a high-water mark for the group as their eclectic new songs received a two-page feature in Rolling Stone. The album was ranked #13 on Rolling Stone's Best Albums of 2008 while the title track was ranked #4 on the magazine's Best Singles of 2008

Perhaps a stranger pairing is the teaming up of Daryl Hall and Chromeo.

Daryl Hall is a rock singer from the United States, and although he has written a number of Number One songs for other artists, he has also won praise for his own work as a singer, keyboardist, guitarist and producer. He will be pairing with Chromeo, a duo from Montreal best known for their electrofunk sound. They describe themselves as "the only successful Arab / Jewish partnership since the dawn of human culture."

No doubt, it will be an interesting festival.

The full Bonnaroo line-up so far.