Dawes, Blackberry Smoke join Zac Brown festival
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Dawes, Blackberry Smoke join Zac Brown festival

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 – Southern Ground Music & Food Festival added Dawes and Levi Lowrey to the September festival.

Dawes and Lowrey will play the Main Stage. Other new additions include Blackberry Smoke, The Wood Brothers, Niko Moon, DUGAS, John Driskell Hopkins and The Mosier Brothers Band, Clay Cook, Coy Bowles and the Fellowship, The Brothers Road, and AJ Ghent Band on the LandShark Lager Stage.

The 2-day festival returns to Nashville's The Great Lawn at Riverfront Park this Sept. 27-28.

The line-up already includes Willie Nelson & Family, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Eli Young Band, Kacey Musgraves, The Head and the Hear, and Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, in addition to nightly Zac Brown Band Super Sets featuring special sit-in performances by John Fogerty, Jason Mraz and more great artists to be announced soon.

The festival will announce news on this year's curated culinary offerings, including the full lineup of chefs, VIP experiences and expanded concessions.


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