2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival - Cancellations and Rescheduling at The 2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival

Cancellations and Rescheduling At The 2008 Bonnaroo Music Festival

Bonnaroo had many cancellations and reschedules by artists both before and during the event. Cancellations included Black Kids who appeared on the initial lineup, but were later removed. Two months prior, due to health issues, The Allman Brothers Band cancelled their slot at the festival. Their cancellation led to the replacement band Widespread Panic and was announced as the festival closer.

• Due to a schedule conflict David Cross had to cancel his appearance and was replaced by Louis C.K. in the Bonnaroo Comedy Theatre.
• The surprise SuperJam was composed of Les Claypool on bass/vocals, Eugene Hutz (guitar/vocals), Sergei Ryabtsev (violin), Oren Kaplan (guitar), and Yuri Lemeshev (accordion) of Gogol Bordello, and Claypool's touring drummer (and Cake member) Paulo Baldi on drums. They were later joined by Kirk Hammett of Metallica on guitar for three numbers. Hammett was introduced by Claypool as "some guy that used to sell me weed back in high school." The set consisted of eleven Tom Waits covers ("Russian Dance" was performed twice, the second time as an encore), along with a single Claypool song, "D's Diner".
• Chris Rock's main stage set was billed as being "one of the largest ever for a comedy show".
• Kidz Jam, a non-profit organization out of Dayton, Ohio provided free entertainment, water, earplugs and safety information for the families which attended Bonnaroo in 2008.
• Kanye West's Saturday night set, originally scheduled for the which stage, was moved to the main stage at his insistence. Mr. West was then two hours late to take the stage, despite forcing Pearl Jam to cut their legendary headlining set short by several songs, and upsetting many by cutting off Phil Lesh & Friends scheduled 4 hour set reducing the set in half.