MANCHESTER, Tenn. – The eighth annual Bonnaroo Music Festival offered, if nothing else, an expanded view of what it means to jam.
Though Bonnaroo — held on a giant farm in the Tennessee hills — was founded as a roots rock, jam band festival, it years ago adopted a wider musical spectrum that draws from all genres. Bonnaroo’s origins were easy to recall with Phish — today’s pre-eminent jam band, reunited after a five-year hiatus — performing for the first time together at Bonnaroo, a festival founded in the image of the Vermont band’s destination concerts.