Bonnaroo Announces Silent Disco Fever Menu
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, taking place next weekend, June 11-14, 2015, expands on its food and drink experience. gastroPod from Miami, Florida will wield a Silent Disco Fever menu, adjacent to the festival’s wild Silent Disco. Unlike any other music festival in the country, Bonnaroo’s food and drink experience gives festival-goers ample opportunity to enhance their understanding of food as well as to find menus that are sustainable, local, and even crafted for a cause. For the first time, The Solar Stage at Bonnaroo will offer a lively combination of both food and beer programming in partnership with HeritageRadioNetwork.org called This Course, That Course. Additionally, the highly popular Bonnaroots Community Dinners, BaconLand, Food Truck Oasis and Broo’ers Festival will return. In total, over 100 food and drink vendors will gather to heighten the excitement of the four-day festival’s music and comedy lineup. Entertainment highlights this year include Billy Joel, Mumford & Sons, Deadmau5, Alabama Shakes, Kendrick Lamar, Florence + the Machine, Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters, My Morning Jacket, Bassnectar, Chris Hardwick and Jeff Ross. Visit www.bonnaroo.com for more information.
Silent Disco Fever Menu with gastroPod (newly announced): gastroPod returns to Bonnaroo with a Silent Disco Fever menu that will complement the intense dance parties held within Bonnaroo’s famous Silent Disco. Having staged at El Bulli and WD-50, gastroPod chef Jeremiah Bullfrog is one of Miami’s most talented chefs and was the first chef to create a mobile eatery in Miami. Bullfrog will create his Silent Disco Fever menu at Bonnaroo from the gastroPod, a 1962 airstream, refurbished with modern culinary advancements. Delighting dancers are options such as the Disco Inferno Dog, Soul Train Sandwich with fried chicken, pickles and spicy mayo, and the Boom Boom Burger with local ground beef blend and the option to make it ‘groovy’ with a choice of spicy mayo and a pickle.
BonnaROOTS and Sustainable Eating: In partnership with grassroots organizations Oxfam America and Eat for Equity, Bonnaroo hosts BonnaROOTS Community Dinners. These locally sourced, four-course feasts allow festival-goers to eat for a cause at a beautiful 110-person communal table under the Tennessee stars. All of the proceeds from the dinners go directly to BonnaROOTS partners, Oxfam America and Eat for Equity. Bonnaroo introduced the BonnaROOTS Community Dinners just last year and is excited to bring them back to the festival on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
This Course, That Course on the Solar Stage: A series of industry food and drink panels dubbed This Course, That Course will be presented by HeritageRadioNetwork.org, the country’s premiere culinary online radio network, on the Solar Stage Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 2 pm. Engaging panel topics will range from food truck owners telling war stories to brewers talking about sustainability to Bonnaroo’s culinary team discussing the importance of food waste management efforts.
BaconLand: BaconLand returns to the Broo’ers Festival for the second year in a row. Festival-goers will find a menu of pork indulgences such as Bacon Flights featuring bacon from farms around the U.S., including Burgers’ Smokehouse in California, MO, Vande Rose Farms in Iowa Falls, IA, Wellshire Farms in Swedesboro, NJ and Benton’s Smoky Mountain Country Hams in Madisonville, TN. These featured bacons will also be found between savory menu items such as BLTs and Grilled Cheeses.
The Food Truck Oasis: The Bonnaroo Food Truck Oasis returns for its fifth year with nine food trucks from the Midwest and South. There are two newcomers this year, Meadow Maid and Poutine Your Mouth, along with seven returning favorites. The Food Truck Oasis is found on the west side of Centeroo, between “This Tent” and Splash-A-Roo.
The complete Food Truck Oasis lineup includes the following:
* Signifies Newcomers
Bulls BBQ (Knoxville, Tennessee) offering slow-, wood- and charcoal-smoked traditional BBQ
Eatbox (Asheville, North Carolina) known for its meatballs; Eatbox has gained a following for serving up healthy eats made with local ingredients
Meadow Maid* (Oberlin, Ohio) serving 100% grassfed burgers and ice cream made on their sustainable, organic farm
Poutine Your Mouth* (Salt Lake City, Utah) offering both original poutine and specialty vegan and vegetarian options
Rolling Oven (Lexington, Kentucky) with Neapolitan-inspired pizza and sandwiches. Uniquely, the pizzeria is housed in a twenty-foot shipping container that has been redesigned into a kitchen with a glass wall and wood-fired oven
Roti Rolls (Charleston, South Carolina) with seasonal fusion food that is Asian-, Indian-, Caribbean-, Latin-, and Southern-inspired
Savory & Sweet (Knoxville, Tennessee) with gourmet Southwestern cuisine using fresh seasonal ingredients in dishes such as Fried Avocado Tacos, Jumpin’ Java Pork Tacos, Cuban Beef Tacos, Nachos, and Deep-fried Cheesecakes
The Big Cheese (Arlington, Virginia) with gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches made with all-natural ingredients and artisanal bread and cheeses
The Cracked Truck (Champaign, Illinois) serving unique breakfast sandwiches such as the Goy Vey with bacon, salami and sweet n’ spicy cream cheese and the Vegasm, a vegetarian alternative with spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, and garlic basil pesto
Fans will also find over 80 vendors throughout the various areas of the festival. Highlights include Ozark Mountain Biscuit Company, serving biscuit sandwiches and southern sides, Puffs of Doom, known for its twist on the traditional cream puff with conceptual flavors like Salted Caramel Chocolate and Bacon Ranch Mac and Cheese as well as vegan and gluten-free flavors and ice cream puffs, Dia De Los Tamales, with several standout tamales including Slow Roasted Cuban Pork Tamales and Roasted Pepper Goat Cheese Tamales, The Amish Baking Company, once again serving their incredible and sometimes addictive Glazed Doughnuts, and Prater’s BBQ, a Tennessee favorite returning for its fourteenth year and previously voted #1 in Rolling Stone’s Insider Guide to Bonnaroo. With sensitivity to those with dietary restrictions and concerns, Bonnaroo will also continue its commitment to vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options, making relevant dietary qualifications for food items available online.
Broo’ers Festival: Now in its twelfth year, Bonnaroo’s Broo’ers Festival returns with a diverse lineup of 25 American craft breweries. Housed under one tent in the heart of Centeroo, beer-lovers will find an extensive array of chilled beers, including everything from bocks to pilsners to pales ales to ciders. In support of the emerging craft brewing scene in Tennessee, Bonnaroo is proud to announce the addition of Bearded Iris to this year’s Broo’ers lineup. Bearded Iris, along with Yazoo Brewing Co. and Coffee County’s very own Ole Shed Brewing, will represent locally made brews. Outside the tent, guests find picnic tables and shady trees where they can sip beers and take in performances on the “Which Stage.” Broo’ers Univerity (BrooU), located in the tent adjacent to the Broo’ers Festival, will hold various seminars and discussions throughout the weekend that are dedicated to the art and awesomeness of beer.
Breweries Confirmed within Bonnaroo’s Broo’ers Festival as of 5/1 include the below; those with a * are new to the festival:
Angry Orchard Hard Cider
Asheville Brewing Company
Bearded Iris Brewing*
Blue Moon Brewing Co.
Brooklyn Brewery
Crazy Mountain Brewery
Elysian Brewing
Green Flash Brewing*
Founders Brewery
Good People Brewing
Harpoon Brewery
Humboldt Brewing
Kentucky Ale
Lagunitas Brewing
Leinenkugels Brewing Co.
Magic Hat Brewing
New Holland Brewing
Old Shed Brewing
Schlafly Beer
Sierra Nevada Brewing
Starr Hill Brewery
Sweetwater Brewing
Terrapin Beer Co.
Yazoo Brewing Co.
A limited number of General Admission tickets are still available and are priced at $324.50. VIP tickets have sold out. For tickets and more information about Bonnaroo please visit www.bonnaroo.com.