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Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival
is a four-day music festival held in
early June at Mulberry Mountain near
Ozark, Arkansas. The festival has
been held annually since 2004. Named
for the Wakarusa River, the festival
was first held at Clinton State Park
immediately outside of Lawrence,
Kansas. It moved to its present
location, just outside of Fort Smith
and Fayetteville, Arkansas in 2009.
Activities other than music included
disc golf, yoga, hiking, and
swimming in The Mulberry River.
Since
its inception in 2004, the festival
has grown dramatically with almost
20,000 tickets sold in 2006. The
2010 Wakarusa festival sold out a
few days before the festival (est.
18,000 attendees). The festival is
known for an eclectic mix of music
and has featured artists like Grammy
award winners The Flaming Lips,
Wilco, and Bela Fleck and the
Flecktones. Along with other
national known touring artists STS9,
Ben Harper, Neko Case, The Black
Keys, Ben Folds, O.A.R., The String
Cheese Incident, My Morning Jacket,
Gov't Mule, Slightly Stoopid,
Umphrey's McGee, The John Butler
Trio, The Disco Biscuits, Thievery
Corporation, Michael Franti and
Spearhead, Yonder Mountain String
Band, Leftover Salmon, Bassnectar,
Les Claypool (Bassist of Primus),
Mumford & Sons, The Avett Brothers,
Keller Williams, Cake, Widespread
Panic, and many side projects of
members of the Grateful Dead,
including the Mickey Hart Band and
Bill Kreutzmann's project 7 Walkers.
After moving from Clinton Lake State
Park in Lawrence, KS to Mulberry
Mountain in Ozark, AR, the festival
has continued to make a name for
itself and grows larger with each
coming festival season.
Ozark
is a city in Franklin County,
Arkansas, United States, and (along
with Charleston) one of the two
county seats of Franklin County. It
is part of the Fort Smith,
Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan
Statistical Area. The population was
3,525 at the 2000 census, making
Ozark the ninth largest municipality
in the metro area. Ozark is the
point at which the Arkansas River is
farthest north in the state. The
name "Aux Arc", later simplified to
Ozark, was given to this bend of the
river by the French explorers when
they were mapping out this land.
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