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2016 Bonnaroo Music Festival
The 2016 Bonnaroo Music Festival was held June 9-12, 2016 in Manchester, Tennessee. This marked the 15th consecutive festival since its inception in 2002. Bonnaroo saw its lowest attendance to date in 2016 with 45,537 tickets sold. A 38 percent decrease from the previous year The line-up was announced January 19, 2016 by American television host, Conan O'Brien on his late night show Conan. Line-up Thursday, June 9 (artists listed from earliest to latest set times) * This Tent: **LANY **Waxahatchee ** Bully **Twin Peaks **Børns ** The Floozies * That Tent: ** Con Brio ** The London Souls ** Papadosio **Hermitude **Lizzo **Cashmere Cat * The Other Tent **Roman Gianarthur ** Lolawolf **Hundred Waters **Vulfpeck **Marian Hill **Goldlink * Comedy Theatre presented by TBS ** Joyelle Nicole **Aparna Nancherla ** John Early ** Rachel Feinstein **Nate Bargatze ** Ian Abramson ** Jon Gabrus **Bridget Everett ** Piff the Magic Dragon ** Josh Adam Meyers **Matteo Lane ** John Early * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnaroo Music Festival
The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is an American annual four-day music festival developed and founded by Superfly Presents and AC Entertainment. Since its first year in 2002, it has been held at what is now Great Stage Park on a farm in Manchester, Tennessee. The festival typically starts on the second Thursday in June and lasts four days. It has been held every year except 2020 when it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and 2021 when it was canceled due to excessive rain from Hurricane Ida flooding the campground. Main attractions of this festival are the multiple stages featuring live music with a diverse array of musical styles including indie rock, classic rock, world music, hip hop, jazz, Americana, bluegrass, country music, folk, gospel, reggae, pop, electronic, and other alternative music. Musical acts begin Wednesday evening for early arrivers, continued throughout the festival with performances starting each day around noon, and some stages entertaini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lolawolf
Lolawolf (styled as LOLAWOLF) is an American R&B and electropop duo, formed by actress and singer Zoë Kravitz and drummer and producer Jimmy Giannopoulos, based in Brooklyn, New York City. The band released the self-titled EP, ''Lolawolf'' in February 2014, a full-length album titled ''Calm Down'' in October 2014 followed by EP ''Every Fuckin Day'' in June 2015. History Lolawolf is composed of frontwoman Kravitz, and drummer, producer and film maker Jimmy Giannopoulos (also of MOTHXR and Pretty Good Dance Moves). Kravitz became friends with Giannopoulos while living in Brooklyn. They began collaborating on music and released the track "Wanna Have Fun" in May 2013. Kravitz asked them to join her in Los Angeles while working on the independent film '' The Road Within'', to help take her mind off the difficult role of playing an anorexic. The band began recording tracks at movie producer Bruce Cohen's home studio in Hollywood at night. Cohen is Kravitz's godfather. Actor and drum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteo Lane
Matteo Lane (born June 28, 1986) is an American comedian. Early life and education Matteo Lane was born in 1986, raised in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and lived on the North Side. Through his mother, Lane is of Mexican and Italian descent. His father is a Vietnam War veteran and is of Irish descent. Lane's Italian family originates from Agrigento and Messina in Sicily. He was nicknamed Matteo by his Italian family. Lane, who is gay, has an older brother who is also gay. He speaks English, Italian, Spanish, and French, and studied German in high school. Lane started to sing opera at the age of 15 under vocal coach Nick Falco. At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he studied oil painting and drawing. Lane studied art for five months in Umbria as an oil painter and opera singer before returning to Chicago. Career As a singer, Lane performed in bars in Boystown before starting his comedy career circa 2011 at open mics in Chicago. He moved to New York to work as a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Adam Meyers
Josh Adam Meyers is an American comedian and actor. He is known for his live show, turned Comedy Central series, ''The Comedy Jam'' (also known as ''The Goddamn Comedy Jam''.) His podcast ''The 500 With Josh Adam Meyers'' was acquired by Spotify in 2019. Career In Meyer's early entertainment career, he worked as a DJ for weddings and bar mitzvahs, as well as a strip club DJ and emcee. In 2008, while performing comedy at the Unknown Theater in Hollywood, Meyers and others would hang-out after the show and jam with musicians Joel Rutkowski and Nick Liberatore, members of a two-person rock band called Elemenopy. Meyers started to incorporate the band into his comedy show, where at times his comedian guests had the option to join in on a song. Inspired by these sing-a-longs, he officially launched his live show ''The Goddamn Comedy Jam'' in 2014 at The Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood. The show also played for a time at the former Lyric Theatre in Hollywood. The show features a gues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piff The Magic Dragon
John van der Put (born 9 June 1980) is a magician and comedian from the United Kingdom who performs under the stage name Piff the Magic Dragon. A winner of multiple awards from British magic societies, he toured as a supporting act for Mumford and Sons and has appeared on '' Penn & Teller: Fool Us'' and '' America's Got Talent''. In June 2019, van der Put was named one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch for 2019. Van der Put lives in Las Vegas and has a residency at The Flamingo. Early life and career Van der Put grew up in South East London. As a teenager, he was inspired to become a magician after seeing Jerry Sadowitz on the BBC2 show ''Stuff the White Rabbit''. At the age of 18, he became a member of The Magic Circle, and was one of the youngest members to have lectured there. His parents persuaded him to have a back-up career, so he completed a Computer Science degree, and began a career in IT. After two years, a bout of acute pancreatitis caused him to rethink his lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Everett
Bridget Everett (born April 21, 1972) is an American comedian, actress, singer, writer, and cabaret performer. She has starred in the semi-autobiographical 2022 HBO series '' Somebody Somewhere'', the movie ''Fun Mom Dinner'', and in a one-hour Comedy Central special in 2015. She also had a supporting role in the motion picture ''Patti Cake$'', and performed stand-up on ''Inside Amy Schumer''. Everett has described herself as an “alt-cabaret provocateur.” Early life Originally from Manhattan, Kansas, she has been performing in New York City for over a decade. Everett is the youngest of six children born to Donn James Everett and Frederica 'Freddie' Everett. Her siblings are Brinton, Brad, Alice, Brian and Brock. As Everett stated on the podcast ''Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls, 1 Keith'' (episode 2: "Moms and Stuff"): “I’m from Manhattan, Kansas - the little apple. And my dad was mayor at one point, and then so was my brother many years later. So we’re kinda like the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Gabrus
Jon Gabrus (born January 31, 1982) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his work on ''Guy Code'', the podcast ''Comedy Bang! Bang!'', and TVLand's ''Younger (TV series), Younger''. He is a performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and hosts the ''High and Mighty'' podcast, as well as co-hosting the ''Raised By TV'' and ''Action Boyz'' podcasts. Early life and education Jonathan Gabrus was born and raised in Long Island in the town of Bellmore. He attended Mepham High School where he was a part of the football and swim teams. Gabrus was a lifeguard in the summers during school at Field 6, Jones Beach State Park. After graduation Gabrus attended Marist College where he played club rugby. Gabrus’ admission essay was about Popeye. Career Jon Gabrus began performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York in 2005 and currently performs at the theater in Los Angeles. At UCB, he has been a member of the teams Mailer Daemon, fwand, The Law Firm, and Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nate Bargatze
Nathanael Lee "Nate" Bargatze (born March 25, 1979) is an American comedian. Early life Nathanael Bargatze was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 25, 1979, the son of Carole and Stephen Bargatze. His father is of Italian descent and is a former clown who became an internationally acclaimed motivational speaker. Bargatze attended Donelson Christian Academy in Nashville, and then Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin, taking speech and media classes. Career Bargatze began his stand-up comedy career at The Boston in New York City. He has appeared multiple times on shows such as ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' and ''The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'', being one of the first to perform stand-up on the latter. He was part of Fallon's Clean Cut Comedy Tour in 2013, also winning New York's Comedy Festival and the Boston Comedy Festival that year. He wrote for the Spike TV Video Game Awards and has performed multiple times for American armed forces in Iraq and Kuwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Feinstein (comedian)
Rachel Feinstein is an American actress and stand-up comedian. Feinstein was a finalist on Season 7 of ''Last Comic Standing''. Rachel plays a comedian performing as herself in the feature film ''Her Composition''. Early life Feinstein grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. Her father was a civil rights lawyer and a blues musician and her mother was a social worker. Her father is from a Jewish family, whereas her mother converted to Judaism. She moved to New York City at age 17 and slowly developed her character-driven standup act. Career Feinstein was a finalist on Season 7 of ''Last Comic Standing''. She played a comedian performing as herself in the feature film ''Her Composition'', directed by Stephan Littger. She has also appeared on the HBO series '' Crashing''. Personal life On the '' Dudley & Bob with Matt Show'' morning radio show (KLBJ-93.7 FM, Austin, TX), Feinstein announced that her boyfriend at the time was a comedy writer who writes on one of her television shows. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Early (comedian)
John Early (born January 21, 1988) is an American comedian and actor. He has appeared on ''30 Rock'' as Jenna Maroney's son and in the independent film ''Fort Tilden''. He starred in '' Search Party'', which aired on TBS and HBO Max from 2016 to 2022. Early life Early is from Nashville, Tennessee. His father was a Presbyterian minister; his mother, a minister at a church of the Disciples of Christ. He attended the University School of Nashville. He graduated from New York University, where he majored in acting. When he was 11, he became a big fan of Australian actress Toni Collette and ran a fan website devoted to her. Career Early was featured on Lauren Lapkus' podcast (Episode #41, August 28, 2015), as well as '' Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp'', which was released on Netflix in the summer of 2015. He tours around the country with his stand-up/variety show "Literally Me" and also hosts a monthly variety event (called Showgasm) at Ars Nova in New York City. He ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aparna Nancherla
Aparna Nancherla (born August 22, 1982) is an American comedian and actress of Indian descent. She has appeared on ''Inside Amy Schumer'' and has written for ''Late Night with Seth Meyers'' and ''Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell''. Nancherla released her debut comedy album ''Just Putting It Out There'' through Tig Notaro's Bentzen Ball Records on July 8, 2016. Early life Aparna Nancherla was born in Washington, D.C., United States into an Indian Telugu Hindu family; her parents immigrated to the United States from Hyderabad, India in the 1970s. She has an older sister, Bhavana. She grew up outside Washington, attending Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia. Nancherla attended Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts and studied psychology. Career After graduating from college she returned to Washington, D.C., where she began her standup career. Nancherla moved to Los Angeles, then to New York City to write for ''Totally Biase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GoldLink
D'Anthony William Carlos (born May 17, 1993), better known by his stage name GoldLink, is an American rapper and singer. In 2014, he released his debut mixtape, ''The God Complex'', which received critical acclaim. In June 2015, GoldLink was chosen as part of the XXL Freshman Class. In October 2015, he released his second mixtape, ''And After That, We Didn't Talk'', which was supported by the singles "Dance on Me" and "Spectrum". His debut album, ''At What Cost'', was released in March 2017 to positive reviews. The album's lead single, "Crew" (featuring Brent Faiyaz and Shy Glizzy), peaked at number 45 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and earned GoldLink his first Grammy nomination. His second studio album, ''Diaspora'', was released in June 2019. Early life GoldLink's father was a parks and recreation worker and his mother a secretary at a law firm. After his parents separated, GoldLink moved to Bowie, Maryland with his mother and eventually settled in Virginia. He graduated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
