A new music festival is coming to Great Stage Park in Manchester, TN this fall. Named, Exit 111 Festival, the three-day music event will welcome music fans to the large area of farmland where Bonnaroo takes place every June, although this event will feature a lineup of artists who fall more within the realm of traditional rock and its various subgenres.
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According to reports, Exit 111 Festival will take place on October 11th-13th, and is being produced by AC Entertainment, one of the companies in charge of Bonnaroo, and C3 Presents, the Texas-based promoter in charge of Austin City Limits Festival and Chicago’s Lollapalooza. The first year event will utilize three different stages across the property, presumably the main ones which are used during Bonnaroo’s four-day summer run.
The announcement also shared the following statement about the latest festival in an already oversaturated North American concert market: Great Stage Park “will be transformed into a rock and roll playground offering camping and a variety of activities tailored specifically to concert-goers with a lineup that will celebrate various genres of rock,” it said it the statement shared via press release.
Event producers did not mention which artists will be part of the inaugural lineup, although blues-rock veterans ZZ Top included a stop at the event as part of their 50th-anniversary tour announcement on Monday. Artists like Guns N’ Roses have also been mentioned in online rumor mills as possible headliners for the event.
This year’s Bonnaroo Music Festival is set to feature performances from Phish, Childish Gambino, The Lumineers, and Cardi B, just to name a few.
Fans can head over to the Exit 111 Festival website for more information on the event as it becomes available. The lineup of performers is expected to arrive in the coming weeks.
[H/T Consequence of Sound]