june-2010

Manchester resident, to CATCHING PHISH The Boss
shoo them away. One spring joins jam band Phish
on the main stage for
afternoon, Green eases into Bonnaroo’s closing night.
the seat of his shiny new
white Dodge pickup for a
drive around the property. A
steady drizzle falls on the windshield. As Bonnaroo’s
only year-round groundskeeper, Green sees the site a
way few others do: without the crowds. Today, hay
fi elds stretch for what seems like miles, a budding green
landscape broken only by the 20-foot-tall orange metal
arch with “Bonnaroo” across the top and some white
storage trailers parked haphazardly in lots. “I just love it out
here right now,” says Green, who speaks in a low-pitched
Tennessee drawl. “I come in, lock the gate, and I’m the only
one here.”
Green navigates gravel roads and concrete bridges that
make up the infrastructure of the festival grounds. He helped
install much of it himself, including 58 power transformers on
concrete slabs that symbolize the evolution of the Bonnaroo
FÊTE DE LA MUSIQUE PARIS
JUNE 21 This citywide music
fest features everything
from classical quartets
to reggae.
fetedelamusique.culture.fr
GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL
PILTON, ENGLAND JUNE 23–27
The granddaddy of European
music festivals is celebrating
its 40th anniversary with
U2, Willie Nelson and more.
glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
CALCIO STORICO FLORENCE,
ITALY JUNE 24–26 Soccer
players take to the fi eld
in 15th century garb.
calciostorico.it
GRANADA INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL OF DANCE AND
MUSIC JUNE 24–JULY 14
Flamenco and more at
churches, plazas and the
Alhambra. granadafestival.org
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festival into something less temporary. When this year’s
four-day party gets underway on June 10, the lights and
food booths will hook right into the grid instead of gaspowered
generators, which are noisy, disruptive and not
exactly “green.”
Until the fi rst Bonnaroo festival in 2002, few Americans—in
fact, few Tennesseans—had ever heard of Manchester. You
might say that the festival put the city on the map, just like
Woodstock, New York; Glastonbury, England; Montreux,
Switzerland, and countless small towns around the world. If
it is defi ned by anything, Manchester is defi ned by Bonnaroo.
And like the original Woodstock (actually held in Bethel
due to a last-minute snafu), the sleepy burg never really
saw it coming. After all, in the history of a struggling small
town’s economic development dreams, the one about the
endless caravans of cars as far as the eye can see—like
some eerie, real-life Field of Dreams—tends to get fi led under
“Keep Dreaming.”
Yet Bonnaroo’s debut drew an estimated 70,000 people
and, so it’s said, turned the entire state of Tennessee into a
VANS WARPED TOUR
NATIONWIDE JUNE 25–
AUGUST 15 A sometimes
unholy marriage of hard
rock and extreme sports.
vanswarpedtour.com
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