The Bonnaroo Music Festival first turned up on the radar of the mainstream press and music industry when it posted some remarkable numbers in the spring of 2002. Folks in the know wondered how could a first-time event in rural Tennessee sell out all 70,000 of its tickets in a matter of days, with no advertising except email and word of mouth. And why would anyone, with the riots of Woodstock '99 a not-too-distant memory, even attempt such an event. The answer is that Bonnaroo, staged on a green expanse of Tennessee farmland June 21-23 2002, is the apotheosis of a movement that has quietly gained momentum for over a decade, existing as a parallel music universe.
L.A. Johnson
Director
Live Aid79%
Beastie Boys Story74%
The Up in Smoke Tour76%
Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles77%
Western Stars70%
Amazing Grace72%
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration80%
Happiness Continues78%
Stop Making Sense83%
This Is It73%
Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl70%
Adele One Night Only78%
Justin Bieber's Believe69%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me84%
Glee: The Concert Movie73%
God Bless Ozzy Osbourne78%
Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special71%
Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.77%
Prince: Sign 'o' the Times73%
Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show79%
