A new two-day music festival in a seaside park in Portland will feature two of the most iconic names in contemporary music.
Jack White and Andre 3000 are among the 21 bands and artists announced for the Back Cove Music & Arts Festival, which is set for Aug. 2 and 3 in Payson Park, a 47-acre park in Portland’s Back Cove neighborhood.
White, the legendary singer and guitarist and founder of the White Stripes, and Andre 3000, a hip hop icon turned jazz composer, will be joined by other headliners including indie rockers Lord Huron, country rock band the Turnpike Troubadours and singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus.
Tickets for the two-day outdoor festival, produced by New England-based festival promoters Shore Sound and GoodWorks, are now on sale for Portland-area residents at the festival website, backcovefestival.com, with full public access ticket sales starting at noon on Thursday, March 6. Two-day general admission passes are $200.
The rest of the festival lineup includes artists Thee Sacred Souls, Margo Price, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Ripe, Chance Pena, Madi Diaz, Cimafunk, Sarah Kinsley, Crowe Boys, the Greeting Committee and Eliza McLamb, as well as Maine artists Griffin William Sherry, Weakened Friends, the Oshima Brothers, Pihcintu Multinational Chorus and performers from the Maine Academy of Modern Music.
It will be the first large outdoor music festival in Portland since Mumford and Sons brought its Gentlemen of the Road festival to the Eastern Promenade in 2012. When Back Cove Festival was first proposed last year, some local residents and city councilors did not support the idea, saying a public park should not be used for a private event, and that parking and crowds would disrupt the neighborhood. The festival was finally approved in December.
