Back in October we told you about the creation of Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival, a new venture by the team behind Boston Calling, Crash Line Productions. Now we have a lineup for the July 17 and 18 fest at the 20-acre Foster Farm, just outside of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and it features some familiar names.
Curated by Eau Claire native and Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon as well as Aaron Dessner of the National, the 40-band lineup features not only those two’s notable bands, but also Boys Noize, Doomtree, Spoon, Poliça, Sufjan Stevens, Low, The Tallest Man On Earth, and Indigo Girls (performing their classic Swamp Ophelia).
Pronounced “o’clare,” and named after the original French spelling of Eau Claire, the full lineup can be scanned in the poster below as well as the announcement video. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at noon central time via eauxclaires.com.
“We at Eaux Claires have been driven by the idea that our festival would encourage music-genre-walls to melt away,” says Vernon in a presser. “That the barriers between the stage and the audience altered, and expression and experience put above all. We have put so much thought into who should collaborate at this festival, from musicians to actors, filmmakers to visual artists. We will all share and revel in this collision of artistic force while performing in the arms of our own Chippewa River Valley.”
Cool.
