Bonnaroo Rocks With Byrne
British musician David Byrne had become a curator of the eighth International (annual) music festival Bonnaroo, which is going to take place between 11–14 of June in Tennessee, US. All this information can be seen on the festival’s official web site. Byrne promotes a lot of new bands and generally speaking acts as someone who pushes creativity forward. Due to his activities this year’s event incorporates Santigold, Dirty Projectors, Katzenjammer, Ani DiFranco and Annie Clark who is better known as St. Vincent. Practically, David makes it very exciting because of his love of many musical styles, numerous variations of sound and good communication skills. “It was very logical to appoint David – his love of all musical styles and his knowledge of how to get his favourite music to the listener turn him into someone absolutely special”, said the president of Bonnaroo, and festivals co-organizer (A.C. Entertainment) Ashley Capps. Following David Byrne’s own words his method of choosing bands is very simple, he invites only those groups which he personally saw somewhere during the life performance. In addition to the list above people who will go to this year’s Bonnaroo may also see Bruce Springsteen, Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails, Wilco, The Mars Volta, TV On The Radio, Yeah Yeah, Yeahs, Public Enemy and many more.