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by michelle.sundvick | June 18, 2008 at 03:19 pm
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The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival was held this past weekend in Manchester, Tennessee. The festival, which featured well over 100 acts and attracted an energetic crowd, can be summed up by its cajun name's definition -- "A really good time".
Here are some of the festival's highlights:
Kanye West's late night performance at Bonnaroo was delayed nearly two hours, angering the festival crowd who responded by chanting "Kanye sucks" and pelting the empty stage with glow sticks.
West had been scheduled to take the main stage at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival at 2:45 a.m. Sunday morning. While the sleepy thousands in the audience waited, a message on the jumbotrons told them West's show would be delayed until 3:15 a.m., and when that didn't happen, that he would start at 3:30. West didn't hit the stage until 4:25 a.m.
B.B. King was awarded the key to the city Saturday at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.
The blues elder statesman received the honor from Mayor Betty Superstein on the festival main stage near the top of his set, pausing to accept the plaque and thank Superstein while the crowd roared.
King, 82, took a wheel chair to get to the stage at Bonnaroo, the annual festival held in the Tennessee countryside south of Nashville. King walked slowly onto the stage where he took his perch on a chair with his prized guitar, Lucille.
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at 20:47 on June 18th, 2008
at 21:26 on June 18th, 2008
This was Saturday afternoon at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, TN, USA. Cat Power took the stage to a great mixed crowd and gave a most chill performance which made all of the guys and girls in the room swoon. Bonnaroo was excellent this year. Rural Tennessee is some of the most beautiful earth I've ever seen in person. Who's in for '09?
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at 05:20 on June 19th, 2008
These Bonnarooers were dancing to the sound of the extremly energetic musician, Gogol Bordello.
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at 18:57 on June 30th, 2008
The What stage at Bonnaroo 2008. The Raconteurs were amazing!!! Walking in the grass back to the RV...I loved the firefly lights...The ferris wheel was so cute + colorful! Magical!
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