In the inaugural year, the Bonnaroo Music Festival was held June 21–23. The more than 70,000 tickets sold out in advance.

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(artists listed from earliest to latest set times)

• What Stage:
  • Dirty Dozen Brass Band
  • DJ Logic
  • Les Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade
  • Amon Tobin
  • Widespread Panic
• Which Stage:
  • Old Crow Medicine Show
  • Soulive
  • Ween
  • Gov't Mule
• This Tent:
  • Jim White
  • Umphrey's McGee
  • Gran Torino
  • Keller Williams Incident
• That Tent:
  • The Big Wu
  • Donna the Buffalo
  • Acoustic Syndicate
  • Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
• Cinema Tent:
  • U2: Rattle and Hum
  • The Grateful Dead Movie
  • The Harder They Come
  • The Earth Will Swallow You
  • Bittersweet Motel
  • Inside Out
  • Dont Look Back
  • Stop Making Sense

(artists listed from earliest to latest set times)

• What Stage:
  • Blackalicious
  • Ben Harper
  • Cut Chemist
  • The String Cheese Incident
  • Widespread Panic
• Which Stage:
  • John Butler Trio
  • Jack Johnson
  • Jurassic 5
• This Tent:
  • The Del McCoury Band
  • Drums & Tuba
  • Lil' Rascals Brass Band
  • The Disco Biscuits
  • Galactic
• That Tent:
  • Llama
  • Col. Bruce Hampton and The Codetalkers
  • Particle
  • Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
  • moe.
• Cinema Tent:
  • Bob Marley: Time Will Tell
  • Buena Vista Social Club
  • The Last Waltz
  • Pleasure and Pain/Ben Harper
  • Gov't Mule Documentary
  • This Is Spinal Tap
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • The Wall

(artists listed from earliest to latest set times)

• What Stage:
  • Vinroc
  • Ween
  • Phil Lesh and Friends with Bob Weir
  • DJ Z-Trip
  • Trey Anastasio
• Which Stage:
  • Corey Harris
  • North Mississippi Allstars
  • Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer
• This Tent:
  • Mofro
  • RANA
  • Gabe Dixon
  • Norah Jones
• That Tent:
  • Robert Randolph and the Family Band
  • Campbell Brothers
  • Dottie Peoples
  • Blind Boys of Alabama
• Cinema Tent:
  • The Blues Brothers
  • Tommy
  • Evolution
  • The Cable Guy
  • CB4
  • Scratch

(Core band members only, guests not included)

Michael Kang (violin and electric mandolin), Bela Fleck (electric synth-banjo), Jeff Raines (acoustic guitar), and Robert Randolph (pedal steel guitar)

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