Bonnaroo Adds New Orleans Venue

This year's Bonnaroo [ tickets ] Music and Arts Festival will feature a new venue, Somethin' Else-New Orleans, which is dedicated to celebrating the culture of New Orleans and Louisiana. Somethin' Else-New Orleans will feature the music of the region, programmed throughout the day and night for the entire weekend, according to a press release.The venue will be modeled after some of New Orleans' most distinctive music clubs such as Preservation Hall, Tipitina's and the Maple Leaf. Regional cuisine also will be featured. A donation will be collected at the entrance and all proceeds will go directly to support local New Orleans charities including New Orleans Musicians Clinic, New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, New Orleans Habitat Musicians' Village/Ellis Marsalis Center for Music and Tipitina's Foundation.Confirmed acts for Somethin' Else-New Orleans include Porter-Batiste-Stoltz, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, Henry Butler and the Game Band, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, and Anders Osborne among others.Bonnaroo is scheduled for June 12-15 in Manchester, TN.