Columbus' own RJD2 is on the lineup for the 2nd annual Bonnaroo festival! See:

http://www.bonnaroo.com/2003/index.htm :o

Oh yeah, and O.A.R. I hear they're from Columbus, too...

Here's the whole list as of now:

2003 Bonnaroo Confirmed Artists:

The Dead
Widespread Panic
James Brown
The Allman Brothers Band
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals
Jack Johnson
moe.
Galactic
The Roots
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Medeski Martin & Wood
Sonic Youth
Yonder Mountain String Band
Robert Randolph & the Family Band
Nickel Creek
G. Love and Special Sauce
Tortoise
Sound Tribe Sector 9
O.A.R.
North Mississippi Allstars
Warren Haynes
Keller Williams
Garage A Trois
Mix Master Mike
Kid Koala
Z-Trip
Particle
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
Smokey and Miho
The New Deal
RJD2
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players

America really needs its festival shows, hell Britian is just a small spit of land and they have at least double the quality and quantity of good festivals. I do really like the idea that both Tortoise and Sonic Youth are going to be playing festival dates, although if I had perfect free choice and a perfect wallet i'd be at Coachella with bells on. Man are there going to be a plethora of great bands there....*sigh*

Seth

i feel your pain, brotha seth. if you happen to miraculously obtain that free choice and a bit of dinero, take me with ya, eh? coachella, bonaroo, and radiohead is now headlining glastonbury, hultsfred, AND belfort. and i will be here. working. in school. and still broke.

the frustration is exasperating.

Thanks for the sympathy, though its probably gone beyond exasperation now. Possibly even into the dark realms of desperation. Don't worry though if I do come into unlimited funds you'd definitely be in the first dozen or so I'd bring to Coachella. I'd say I'd kill to get to this show but I don't think that would really help me all that much. But to see the Stripes (as well as many others) at a beatiful out-door site? It just might be worth it.

Seth