Wanda Jackson to play Bonnaroo Music Festival
The career resurgence continues for Oklahoma’s Queen of Rockabilly.
Wanda Jackson, 73, has been tapped to play the celebrated Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival this summer in Manchester, Tenn.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is part of a prestigious and eclectic lineup that includes Eminem, Arcade Fire, Robert Plant and Band of Joy, Lil Wayne, The Black Keys and Loretta Lynn.
The Strokes, Big Boi, Gregg Allman, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Florence + The Machine, Hayes Carll, Justin Townes Earle, The Del McCoury Band, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Iron & Wine and Mavis Staples will perform at the massive event, too. The Walkmen, who were Monday announced as the headliners for the 2011 Norman Music Festival, made the Bonnaroo lineup as well.
The 10th annual Bonnaroo is set for June 9-12 in Manchester, Tenn., on the 700-acre farm it has called home since its 2002 debut. The festival continues to favor groups with jam-band tendencies: This year’s slate features String Cheese Incident, Primus and Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, with Widespread Panic headlining the final day of the 2011 event.
In addition, Bonnaroo 2011 will be the only festival date for a reunited Buffalo Springfield, according to the Associated Press.
Original Buffalo Springfield members Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay played in public for the first time since 1968 last October at Young’s annual Bridge School charity concert. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers were a short-lived act, but were pioneers in the country- and folk-rock movements of the late 1960s.
The group’s lingering influence can be found in the music of fellow Bonnaroo 2011 acts Ray Lamontagne, My Morning Jacket, Mumford & Sons, The Decemberists and Ryan Bingham.
To celebrate Bonnaroo’s 10th anniversary, Dr. John and The Original Meters will make a rare joint appearance to recreate their 1974 album “Desitively Bonnaroo,” the source of the festival’s name. According to the AP, Bonnaroo long ago shed its jam-band label and has become one of the most diverse festivals of its kind, annually drawing tens of thousands of music fans to central Tennessee.
A Maud native and longtime Oklahoma City resident, Jackson has been celebrating a career revival since she partnered with rocker Jack White, who produced her new album “The Party Ain’t Over.” She and White promoted the January album release with performances on “The Late Show with David Letterman” and “Conan,” and Jackson and Weatherford band Green Corn Revival ripped through a packed hometown show at the ACM@UCO Performance Lab in Bricktown.
In May, Jackson and Cyndi Lauper will play a show launching the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s “Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power,” the world’s first exhibit devoted to rock’s most influential female artists.
-BAM
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