San Francisco’s inaugural Outside Lands Music & Arts
Festival, to be held Aug. 22-24 at the Golden Gate Park, now boasts musical
additions Beck, Wilco, Widespread Panic and Primus to the lineup, Billboard.com
reports.
Radiohead, Tom Petty and Jack Johnson will headline the
first Outside Lands festival, which will be held Aug. 22-24 at San
Francisco’s Golden
Gate Park.
New additions to the lineup were announced this week and they include Beck,
Wilco, Widespread Panic and Primus, as well as Manu Chao, Ben Harper, Steve
Winwood and Broken Social Scene, Billboard reports.
Outside Lands will also feature performances from Galactic,
Rodrigo y Gabriela, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Black Mountain,
Drive-By Truckers, Cafe Tacuba and Devendra Banhart.
Regina Spektor, Cold War Kids, Lyrics Born, Andrew Bird,
Steel Pulse, M. Ward, Dredg, the Cool Kids, Grace Potter, Nellie McKay, the
Coup and Bon Iver will also perform.
Come March 30, all wishing to attend the festival will be
able to purchase tickets. The event is being produced by Superfly Productions,
Another Planet Entertainment and Star Hill Presents, in cooperation with the
San Francisco Recreation & Park Department.
Superfly Productions president Jonathan Mayers previously
told Billboard.com that the organizers are striving to make the event a special
one. “This has been a project we’ve been working on for almost three years. We’re
going to produce something special here, something that maybe the Bay Area hasn’t
seen before,” he said.
Mayers also told Billboard the festival would be the first
music event in Golden Gate
Park to run past 6 p.m.
Outside’s organizers are also eco-conscious and have already
planned that a portion of every ticket sold will benefit Golden Gate Park.
Music lovers will also have the option to donate $1 when buying their tickets,
to help reforest California.
These donations will go to the National Arbor Day Foundation, who will use it
to reforest areas of California that were damaged by the recent wildfires, the
event’s official website informs.
Merchandise offered during the fest will be recyclable, compostable
or organic, the website proudly informs.
