Editing Bonnaroo (section)

==History==
Ashley Capps, co-founder of [[AC Entertainment]], developed Bonnaroo following the cancellation of the Hot Summer Nights rock music festival in [[Knoxville, Tennessee]] in 1999. Hot Summer Nights, which was a mainstay in Knoxville's [[World's Fair Park]] would suspend operations permanently following construction by city officials. Capps would state that the cancellation would be the main drive behind the origin of Bonnaroo, "The closing of the World's Fair Park for concerts precipitated getting creative and trying to find, 'OK, if we can't do this anymore, how can we still participate in the summer outdoor concert business,' and it was from that that Bonnaroo was ultimately launched."<ref name="wilusz">{{cite news |last1=Wilusz |first1=Ryan |title=Bonnaroo, America's favorite music festival, was born of canceled plans and construction |url=https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2021/04/28/bonnaroo-how-knoxville-worlds-fair-park-inspired-tennessee-music-festival/7211168002/ |access-date=April 29, 2021 |work=[[Knoxville News Sentinel]] |date=April 28, 2021}}</ref>

In 1999, the future site of Bonnaroo hosted the Itchycoo Park Festival (named after the song [[Itchycoo Park]] by [[Small Faces]]), which is considered the spiritual predecessor to the original Bonaroo music festival. Unlike Bonnaroo, the Itchycoo Park Festival was considered an overall failure.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Greenhaus |first=Mike |date=2019-06-14 |title=From the Friday ‘Bonnaroo Beacon’: The Ole Home Place |url=https://relix.com/news/detail/from-the-friday-bonnaroo-beacon-the-ole-home-place/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026132348/https://relix.com/news/detail/from-the-friday-bonnaroo-beacon-the-ole-home-place/ |archive-date=2020-10-26 |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=[[Relix]]}}</ref> The first Bonnaroo Music Festival took place in 2002. The founders chose "bonnaroo" (Creole slang meaning a really good time) for its literal meaning and to honor the rich New Orleans music tradition that they had enjoyed in college. Bonnaroo was popularized by New Orleans R&B singer [[Dr. John]] with his 1974 album ''[[Desitively Bonnaroo]].''<ref name="buchanan">{{Cite web |url=http://www.inc.com/magazine/201106/how-we-did-it-superfly-presents.html |title=The Founders of Superfly Presents and Brains Behind Bonnaroo |last=Buchanan |first=Leigh |date=May 31, 2011 |work=Inc.com |access-date=July 8, 2015}}</ref><ref name="wsj">{{Cite news |title=Dr. John's Unlikely New Partner |last=Dougherty |first=Steve |date=March 30, 2012 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |page=D4}}</ref> Bonnaroo is derived from the French ''"bonne"'' {{IPA|fr|bɔn|pron}} the feminine agreement of ''"bon"'' {{IPA|fr|bɔ̃|pron}} meaning "good", and the French ''"rue"'' {{IPA|fr|ʁy|pron}}  meaning "street", translating roughly to ''"the best on the streets"''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/ref/arts/music/bonnaroo-journal.html |title=Jon Pareles at the Bonnaroo Music Festival |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=January 19, 2006}}</ref> The festival site is known as "the farm" by festival goers and locals, due to its location on what used to be 700 acres of farm land.

In 2019, after a record breaking festival sell out, it was announced that [[Live Nation (events promoter)|Live Nation]] was buying out [[Superfly (company)|Superfly's]] share of Bonnaroo.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8517202/live-nation-superfly-bonnaroo-share-purchase |title=Live Nation Buying Out Superfly's Share of Bonnaroo |magazine=Billboard |access-date=August 29, 2019}}</ref>

The 2020 event was initially pushed back three months until September 2020, and then ultimately cancelled because of health concerns surrounding the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States]]. The 2021 event was canceled due to torrential rainfall from [[Hurricane Ida]] saturating the stage area, campgrounds, and tollbooth area, and making ground conditions unsuitable for vehicle traffic only a few days before the event was scheduled to take place.<ref>{{cite news|last=Leimkuehler|first=Matthew|date=August 31, 2021|title=Bonnaroo 2021 is canceled because of 'waterlogged' festival grounds|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2021/08/31/bonnaroo-2021-canceled-the-campgrounds-flooded/5671705001/|work=The Tennessean|location=Nashville|access-date=}}</ref>

[[Hulu]] has exclusively streamed the festival from 2022 to 2024, alongside [[Austin City Limits Music Festival]] and [[Lollapalooza]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Haring|first=Bruce|title=Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits Will Stream Exclusively Via Hulu Through 2023|url=https://deadline.com/2022/05/bonnaroo-lollapalooza-austin-city-limits-streaming-via-hulu-through-2023-1235021825/|work=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=May 12, 2022}}</ref>