For the first time in the festival’s history, Electric Forest will span over two distinct weekends on June 22–June 25 and June 29–July 2, 2017. Topping the bill on both weekends – The String Cheese Incident, Bassnectar, Big Gigantic, and Claude VonStroke. Heavyweights ODESZA, Above & Beyond, My Morning Jacket, and Nero (Live) will perform exclusively on the First Weekend. DJ Snake, RL Grime, and Thievery Corporation will appear on the Second Weekend. Many more artists, including additional headliners, are still to be announced.
Electric Forest recently announced news of the festival’s “Intimate Expansion of Community” for 2017. Electric Forest’s move to offer two distinct, back to back weekends at a lower capacity strives to nurture the evolution and growth of the EF community while honoring the much cherished EF experience. Electric Forest producers Madison House Presents and Insomniac hope that expanding the festival to two weekends in 2017 allows the EF community to invite more friends, participate in more ideas, and continue to contribute to this next chapter of Electric Forest together.
Entering its seventh year, Electric Forest is known for bringing together a passionate group of fans whose shared community spirit makes the festival a truly unique experience. The festival incorporates the natural beauty of the venue into carefully crafted art pieces and creatively themed environments, while colorful interactive characters and storylines blend with eclectic performing artists and musicians.
With its astonishing and unparalleled integration of music, art and community, Electric Forest delivers “The ultimate festival experience.” From the carefully curated musical lineup, to the jaw-dropping Sherwood Forest, to the festival’s unprecedented participatory spirit, to the site’s incomparable features and amenities – Electric Forest creates a vibe so thick with “camaraderie and freedom…it must be experienced to be appreciated.”
Known for fully embracing the possibilities of an engaged festival community, Electric Forest’s Plug In Program deliberately blurs the line between event organizers and attendees. With this truly unique “open source” fan engagement platform, Electric Forest harnesses the creativity and passion of its community members, offering real and tangible ways for fans to participate in and ultimately help shape the Electric Forest experience. This is a big deal, since for Electric Forest – experience trumps all.
Hailed as “an amazing example of how music and festivals can change one’s outlook on life,” it’s widely understood that “one of the most important lessons [to be] learned in the Forest is that we are all together,” and this sense of community is truly “cherished [within the community] like the incredibly rare find it is.”
The complete list of artists on Electric Forest’s 2017 Initial Lineup is as follows: (artists listed in alphabetical order)
First Weekend Initial Artist Lineup:
The String Cheese Incident Bassnectar ODESZA My Morning Jacket Above & Beyond Big Gigantic Nero (Live) Lotus Claude VonStroke Oliver Heldens A-Trak 12th Planet AC Slater Asadi Autograf Banks Big Wild Bob Moses Brazilian Girls Breakbot Carmada Con Brio Corbu Dixon’s Violin Donny McCaslin Eden Ekali Eric Krasno Band Fakear FKJ Francis and the Lights Ganja White Night Giraffage Golf Clap Illenium Jacob Banks Jai Wolf Kaiydo Khruangbin Lettuce Machinedrum Matisyahu Matoma Minnesota NoMBe Opiuo Ott Papadosio Pendulum DJ Set Phutureprimitive Pigeons Playing Ping Pong Rezz Snakehips SNBRN Spafford Tauk The Floozies The Infamous Stringdusters The London Souls The Motet theFatRat Thunderthief Trevor Hall TroyBoi Viceroy Vince Staples Waka Flocka Flame Wave Racer Whethan Wingtip Woolymammoth Zomboy |
Second Weekend Initial Artist Lineup: The String Cheese Incident Bassnectar DJ Snake Big Gigantic RL Grime Thievery Corporation Lotus Claude VonStroke HI-LO A-Trak 12th Planet Alison Wonderland Autograf Big Wild Bob Moses Brazilian Girls Breakbot Carmada Cashmere Cat Con Brio Croatia Squad Darnell Williams Dixon’s Violin EDX Ekali Eryn Allen Kane Fakear FKJ Francis and the Lights Ganja White Night Giraffage Golf Clap GTA Illenium Jai Wolf Khruangbin Lettuce Machinedrum Matisyahu Matoma Mick Jenkins Minnesota Nick Monaco NoMBe Nora En Pure Opiuo Ott & The All-Seeing I Papadosio Phutureprimitive Pigeons Playing Ping Pong PillowTalk Rezz Roman Flügel Shiba San SNBRN Soul Clap Spafford Sub Focus Tauk The Floozies The Infamous Stringdusters The London Souls The Motet theFatRat Trevor Hall Vince Staples Waka Flocka Flame Wave Racer Whethan Wolf + Lamb Woolymammoth |
EF will host The Silent Disco in Sherwood Forest both weekends. Many additional artists, special happenings, and EF Curated Events are still to be announced
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