Angele Latham

On the first night of the music and arts festival, Bonnaroo suffered a power outage that lasted around two hours, causing a blackout over large portions of the festival grounds.

The annual four-day festival started on June 11, in Manchester, Tennessee, bringing surprises, a power outage and politically charged music.

On the second stop of her SuperDisco tour, drag queen Trixie Mattel took to the stage at Bonnaroo on the music festival's third day.

Music City residents including Teddy Swims, Kesha, Rainbow Kitten Surprise (or RKS), Alabama Shakes and Wyatt Flores — who only recently moved back home to Oklahoma — brought their all to The Farm.

After Tennessee's redistricting, which rewrote voting districts, the national nonprofit Headcount helped get voters registered at Bonnaroo.

From crowd-surfing to fireworks and touching tributes to loved ones, here are the top 10 musical moments from Bonnaroo 2026.

Ela Melo, the lead singer of Rainbow Kitten Surprise, said the 2016 festival helped her come out as transgender. “Every time I come to Bonnaroo, it changes my life in some way,” she said.

Classes at Bonnaroo taught attendees how about civic action and nature as environmentalists secured a legal win against the Trump administration.

Nashville Tennessean A section of Vietnam Veterans Boulevard on the border of Davidson and Sumner counties has been named the “Charlie Kirk

A grassroots bench-building group is once again at odds with NDOT over removed benches.