Thursday marked the return of The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival that has been on hiatus since 2019.   The festival which is located in Manchester, TN is located on a 700+ acre farm providing attendees a unique experience allowing four days of live non-stop music featuring 150+ artists across 10 stages.  WFMC Jams was on site all weekend providing live coverage and artist interviews for its fourth year.

Members of the Toronto, Ontario band Wild Rivers joined the DJ Doctor right after their set on the Which Stage for a quick interview Sunday.  Released earlier this year "Sidelines" is Wild River's most recent album which includes their popular single "Amsterdam"  This year is the band's first performance at Bonnaroo, and will continue its tour throughout both the United States and Canada this summer.  After a brief break, the band plans on going back on tour in September.  Visit their official website at https://www.wildriversmusic.com/ for music, merch, upcoming shows, and much more.  

Catch the full audio interview below:

Thursday marked the return of The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival that has been on hiatus since 2019.   The festival which is located in Manchester, TN is located on a 700+ acre farm providing attendees a unique experience allowing four days of live non-stop music featuring 150+ artists across 10 stages.  WFMC Jams is on site all weekend providing live coverage and artist interviews for its fourth year.

The DJ Doctor sat down with Jesus and Adam, members of the band Lettuce, right after their set on This Tent Sunday afternoon.  The band is on tour the rest of 2022 currently playing in the United States which included a stop at Bonnaroo to eventually lead into traveling world wide this fall for upcoming shows.  Their latest album "Unify" came out on June 3rd featuring 16 songs including "Keep that Funk Alive" with Bootsy Collins.  In the full audio interview below, Jesus and Adam talk about their Bonnaroo experience, origins of the band, and how their new single with Bootsy came to fruition:

Despite two years of obstacles with the pandemic and unpredictable weather, The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival returns in 2022 bigger and better than ever!  The festival located in Manchester, TN is located on a 700+ acre farm providing attendees a unique experience allowing four days of live non-stop music across 10 stages.   Saturday's headliners included Stevie Nicks, Machine Gun Kelley, Roddy Rich, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Rezz, Herbie Hancock, Puscifer, Wallows, and many more!

WFMC Jams is onsite for its fourth year providing coverage, interviews, and photography of independent artists.  Part of today's interviews included Wild Rivers, and Lettuce.

A lot of magic is experienced every year at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival and many forms.  Friends reuniting from different parts of the world to enjoy music and making memories.   This year is even more special with the long awaited return of Bonnaroo, and many have waited to make their memories on the farm.  Of those special occasions, proposals were at the top of the list this year.   Michael was one of those people, who earlier in the day made a post to his friends that he would be proposing:

"As most of you know, I'm proposing to my girlfriend tonight.  The plan is to meet at the Ferris Wheel ticket booth right after the CloZee set (around 11:11) Going to hand out purple tea lights to anyone participating, while her best friend takes her to the bathroom.  Then when she comes back hopefully everyone can form a circle around us and that's when I'll do it"....."Thank you all so much for the love and can't wait to see everyone!"

Later on as our media team was out meeting people from the Unofficial Bonnaroo Discord group to chat with while listening to CloZee by the ferris wheel, we were unaware what would happen next.  A man approaches us, and at first we thought it may be another Bonnaroo Discord member who found us, but instead it was Michael, who told us he was going to propose to his girlfriend.  He asked if we would help him by standing in a circle holding the purple tea lights he brought.  How could we not witness and be a part of this?  So we did.  After about 15 minutes, a large circle of 50 to 75 people had formed to the left of the Bonnaroo ferris wheel holding the festive purple tea lights, and we continued to wait.  Shortly after the CloZee set finished, Michael's girlfriend, Irene, came back.  She entered the circle where Michael was standing, and he proposed to her.  She said YES!

After three years of events, a lot has happened in many peoples lives.  Much of these events while unexpected helped us all grow into a better appreciation of life.  Being at Bonnaroo this year was different than many other years with a big theme shared by both fans and artists alike to savior and cherish the special moments.  We wish Michael and Irene the best going forward, and hope they spend many more wonderful years together at Bonnaroo!

 -- I.T. Guru