Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and Red Hot Chili Peppers will headline the second annual Firefly Music Festival, June 21 – 23, in Dover, Delaware.
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and Red Hot Chili Peppers will headline the second annual Firefly Music Festival, June 21 – 23, in Dover, Delaware.
The latest addition to the U.S. festival scene, Firefly Music Festival, took some Coachella acts and other rockers to Dover, Del. this past weekend.
Our friends at Delaware Online shot this footage of the inaugural fest:
Firefly will be back in 2013, and organizers plan to offer presale tickets Wednesday for a lineup-less fest, a tactic that’s worked well for Coachella.
Firefly Music Festival will reunite a handful of Coachella acts — including desert headliner The Black Keys — for its inaugural fest this July in Dover, Del.
The full Firefly Music Festival lineup posted by MyCoachella’s East Coast cousin Pulp Culture also includes these Coachella 2012 acts and alums from recent years:
• The Killers (Coachella 2009)
• The Black Keys (2004, 2011, headlining in 2012)
• Jack White (2008; also with The White Stripes in 2003 and The Dead Weather in 2010)
• Death Cab for Cutie (2004)
• The Flaming Lips (2004)
• Passion Pit (2010)
• Lupe Fiasco (2007, 2009)
• Girl Talk (2012)
• Michael Franti & Spearhead (2009)
• Cold War Kids (2008, 2011)
• Tinie Tempah (2011)
• AWOLNATION (2012)
• The Head and the Heart (2012)
• Grouplove (2012)
• Trampled By Turtles (2011)
• Mayer Hawthorne & The County (2010)
• Cults (2011)
• The Felice Brothers (2011)
• Mariachi El Bronx (2011)
• Matt Costa (2006)
• Ra Ra Riot (2010)
Still, even though many of the acts will have already played in the desert by the time they reach Dover this summer, I’m a bit jealous that the East Coast fest has also snagged the likes of Cake, Graffiti6 and the oh-so-infectious Penguin Prison.