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WHAT: DeLuna Fest.
WHEN: Oct. 13 through 16. Oct. 13 is a VIP-only day.
WHERE: Pensacola Beach.
TICKETS: Three-day passes are $149.95 at www.delunafest.com. VIP packages, including packages offering lodging at the official festival hotels, are also available. Additional fees may apply.
DETAILS: Visit www.delunafest.com.
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Asobi Seksu
AWOLNATION
Bad Books
Bear Hands
Bettye LaVette
Big Boi
Blackbells
Cold War Kids
Cowboy Mouth
Cut Copy
Dinosaur Feathers
Dirty Heads
DLP
Eerie Rockwell
Free the Robots
Gary Fields
Ghostland Observatory
Givers
Griffin House
Grouplove
Hands
Honey Island Swamp Band
Jane’s Addiction
J.J. Grey & Mofro
K. Flay
Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers
Kevin Devine
Kitt Lough
Ladytron
Manchester Orchestra
Matt & Kim
Motopony
Mr. Fahrenheit
Mute Math
Nico Vega
Nico’s Gun
Paloma
P.S. I Love You
Ra Ra Riot
Robbers on High Street
Royal Bangs
Saints of Valory
Sleeper Agent
Stars
Still Corners
Stone Foxes
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Constellations
The Hood Internet
The Icarus Effect
The Infamous Stringdusters
The Limousines
The Listening
The Little Death
The New Pornographers
The Parlotones
The War on Drugs
Toubab Krewe
Wallpaper.
Wanda Jackson
Weezer
Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band
Iconic alternative rock bands Weezer and Jane’s Addiction and rapper Big Boi were the top names announced Tuesday night for DeLuna Fest, the Oct.13-16 music festival on Pensacola Beach.
Festival organizers conducted a scavenger hunt through downtown Pensacola to debut the list of more than 60 acts.
The revealed roster is heavy on up-and-coming indie rock and alternative acts such as Cold War Kids, Cut Copy and Manchester Orchestra and headlined by two of the genre’s most influential acts, Weezer (“Buddy Holly,” “Beverly Hills”) and Jane’s Addiction (“Been Caught Stealing,” “Jane Says”).
Big Boi, one half of the Grammy Award-winning hip-hop duo Outkast, adds some musical diversity to the lineup, as do acts such as soul singer Bettye LaVette, rockabilly icon Wanda Jackson, and jazz group Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers.
Jay Biedermann, director of business development with DeLuna Fest’s marketing team, Strike Team Agency, said the lineup makes DeLuna Fest “a festival of discovery.”
“The lineup speaks to local tastes on a level of discovery, of introducing new music,” Biedermann said. “And it focuses on a travel audience, with bands that people will travel to see.”
Biedermann believes focusing on artists with fans who are willing to travel will help DeLuna Fest secure a bright future.
“We’re building this not for one year, but as a sustaining thing,” he said. “It’s really important to us to create something lasting.”
Organizers said Tuesday night’s announcement represented about 2/3 of the eventual festival lineup. More acts, including a big-name headline performer and “additional top names,” are still to be announced.
About 200 hunters ran through downtown following clues and meeting challenges that helped piece together the lineup. The winning team of five received 10 tickets to the festival.
Scott Greenberg of Greenberg Palmer Boutique Public Relations, which presented the scavenger hunt, called the turnout “unbelievable.”
“We needed two lines just to register everybody,” Greenberg said. “And everyone had a smile on their face. That’s what it’s all about.”
Racing to a clue location in Plaza de Luna, Angela Nguyen, Nick Martin and Cassie Cunningham paused briefly to brag of their scavenger hunt prowess — and to say that they had big hopes for the lineup.
“I just went to Hangout,” Cunningham said, referring to last month’s three-day festival on the public beach in Gulf Shores, Ala. “So my standards are high.”
