There are several things always guaranteed when it comes to music festivals:
- Expensive souvenir t-shirts
- Giant turkey legs
- Lots of port-a-potties
- Someone walking on stilts
- Crazy-dancing hippie folks
- Hours of good music
If those things appeal to you (specifically the music part… or maybe the turkey leg), or if you happen to be on a Nashville vacation in the middle of June and want to change things up a bit with your Music City tour, take an hour’s drive southeast on I-24 towards Chattanooga. There you’ll find the sleepy town of Manchester, where each year its population of 8,200 increases ten-fold with the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. (more…)
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