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[photograph: View of Clinton Lake; courtesy, Lawrence, KS, Parks and Recreation Dept.]

View of Clinton Reservoir, courtesy Lawrence, KS, Parks and Recreation Dept.

Wakarusa Music Festival
June 7-10, 2007

Clinton Lake Reservoir
Lawrence, KS



Uncle Sid Wakarusa "Music Kids" T-Shirts




Official Wakarusa Music Festival 2007 Information

Wakarusa Festival 2007 News

Widespread Panic and Ben Harper To Appear at Wakarusa 2007

The Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival will return to Lawrence, Kansas for a fourth year this June. Artists who are currently confirmed for Wakarusa include: Widespread Panic, Ben Harper, and The Asylum Street Spankers, from Austin, Texas. Last year Wakarusa offered five stages and one can expect that the festival will have at least as many in 2007. Wakarusa will take place on June 7-10 and the festival has announced that it will cap attendance at 15,000 tickets.

2007 Wakarusa Music Festival Lineup

  • Widespread Panic
  • Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
  • Yonder Mountain String Band
  • Medeski, Martin & Wood
  • Michael Franti and Spearhead
     Ozomatli 
    North Mississippi Allstars 
    
  • Les Claypool Galactic Martin Sexton Son Volt Honkeytonk Homeslice Seepeoples Asylum Street Spankers John Butler Trio Citizen Cope Sam Bush The Avett Brothers Deep Fried Pickle Project
  • Green Lemon
  • Groovatron That 1 Guy Jesus Christ Superstar Crooked Still DJ Harry Earl Greyhound Little Feat Ozric Tentacles Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
  • Railroad Earth
  • Split Lip Rayfield JJ Grey & MOFRO Perpetual Groove Alejandro Escovedo
  • Lotus
  • New Monsoon Indigenous
  • Tea Leaf Green ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra) The Slip Assembly of Dust The Greencards The Everyone Orchestra Bobby Bare, Jr. Grant-Lee Phillips The Be Good Tanyas The Lee Boys Toubab Krewe RAQ Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band Bassnectar The Wood Brothers
  • Pnuma Trio Shannon McNally Backyard Tire Fire The Motet Outformation Kan'Nal Delta Nove U-Melt The Bridge New Mastersounds The Spam Allstars Kid Beyond Dubconscious BoomBox Trampled by Turtles EOTO Tom Morello The Waybacks Zilla Spare Parts Dirtfoot Orooni Cosmopolitics Super American Happy Fun Good-Time Jam Band 3 Peas 8-trac Whitewater Ramble Ras Neville & the Kingstonians Alice Texas Julia Peterson Revolutionary Side Effects Brent Barry Brother's Green Diamond Heart Club Jabarvy Tangleweed

2006 Wakarusa Music Lineup


Wakarusa Festival 2005


Lawrence Kansas History

Wakarusa History

The word Wakarusa is a Native American term meaning "river of big weeds" or "ass-deep" depending on your mood. In the Lawrence, Kansas area, it refers to the Wakarusa River, which is the primary stream that feeds Clinton Lake, the home of the Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival. Oddly enough, the river's average water depth is about "ass-deep".

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