For Valentine’s day this year, AC Entertainment decided to give its fans one of the best loving gifts any music festival-goer could ask for, the lineup for Bonnaroo’s 11th year.

The Joy Formidable @ Cat's Cradle

The headliners include Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish and The Beach Boys. What I found particularly neat about this year’s lineup is many of the acts chosen for Bonnaroo have made visits to the Triangle’s venues in the past year or plan to in the next few months — The Beach Boys (coming in April), Bon Iver, The Avett Brothers (coming in March), Feist (coming in May), Ludacris (N.C. State University’s campus last year), Ben Folds Five, Umphrey’s McGee, Punch Brothers, Yelawolf, Dawes, The Black Lips, Phantogram, The Joy Formidable, The Antlers, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Das Racist, Delta Spirit, Trampled by Turtles, The War on Drugs (coming in March), and Fruit Bats, just to name a few.

Fruit Bats @ Motorco

This is just another reason to pat yourselves on the back for being a part of the Triangle’s taste-making community, whether you’re a venue, musician, concert goer, radio listener, or even blog reader. You’re awesome.

The festival will take place about nine hours away from Raleigh in Manchester, Tenn. on June 7-10.  Tickets will go on sale Saturday, Feb. 18, at noon.

This week on WKNC we are giving away excitement!  …and tickets as well

Photo courtesy of OpenEye, under Creative Commons

On August 13,  we have tickets to Mission of Burma at Cat’s Cradle and tickets to Umphrey’s McGee at the Raleigh Amphitheatre.

Photo of Connells, Public Domain Photo

On August 15, we have tickets to Friends for Hamid featuring, Static Minds, Starmount, Richard Bacchus, & The Connells at The Pour House.

We are also giving away tickets to The Other Guys at Crossroads 20 in Cary.