Wakarusa Festival has just announced Part III of their line-up for this year's festival in the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas.  New additions include:  The Avett Brothers, Slightly Stoopid, Matisyahu, Ghostland Observatory, Perpetual Groove, EOTO, Travelin' McCourys with Keller Williams and much more.The Wakarusa Music Festival is a grassroots festival

Wakarusa 2012 announced the second of the three installments of this year's lineup. Headliners include two sets of Umphrey's McGee and Girl Talk, Del McCoury Band, Primus. Also announced were Big Gigantic, Fitz and The Tantrums, Tea Leaf Green, Toubab Krewe and more.They include already annouced: Bobby Weir, Jackie Green and Chris Robinson, G. Love and Special Sauce, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, Beats Antique and more.The ninth annual Wakarusa is set to take place May 31 to June 3 in Ozark, AR on Mulberry's Mountain.

After a five year run in a State park outside Lawrence, KS, Wakarusa will move to a new home in northwest Arkansas. Wakarusa will be relocating to Mulberry Mountain outside of Ozark, Arkansas. Dates for this year's festival will be June 4 – 7.

Despite two evenings devastated by severe thunderstorms and even hail, the 2008 Wakarusa Festival held at Clinton Lake, Kansas powered through it all and still provided its attendees a great weekend of music, camping, and all around good times.

Grateful Web's Tim Hurley was on hand at this year's Wakarusa to cover the festival.  Tim's pictures are here!  And check back soon for Tim's write-up of last weekend's Wakarusa.

Enjoy,

The drum circle on Sunday morning at Wakarusa remains one of my favorite events of the festival. The energy there is just unbelievable and joyous.

Saturday

John Butler Trio

JJGrey and Mofro guys can do no wrong in my mind. I've gotta admit I enjoy their more enthusiastic shows, some days JJ just is in a mellow kind of mood, but today did not disappoint in the least.  It might have had something to do with the fact that they hadn't played in three weeks, which Grey informed the audience early on.

I almost didn't go to Wakarusa this year.  I had sworn never to go to Bonnaroo, the venue just being too large in my opinion, but the scheduled acts were just too sick to turn down.  Not thinking that I could swing both weekends, I made a hard decision based mostly on financial reasons.