Wake up and smell the jams: Xpress selects a Bonnaroo winner!!

Posted on by Kent Priestley

Asheville resident Jamie Hall just got a surprise call from Mountain Xpress. She won our online contest for coveted tickets to the three-day Bonnaroo music festival through a little something called “the luck of the draw.”

Hall’s gone to the epic Tennessee music-fest a few times before but failed to buy tickets this year. The very day she won her pair through the contest on mountainX.com, she was lamenting that “Man, this is the first year I’m not going to any festival.”

Then, voila, fate winked and Hall and her boyfriend suddenly had plans for the weekend of June 14. (That’s a Thursday, but c’mon—we know when the weekend starts.)

A nursing student at A-B Tech, Hall, 23, has lived in Asheville almost three years, having been drawn here by “the people and the music.” Her must-see acts at this year’s Bonnaroo include Widespread Panic and Ben Harper.

Mercifully, she has that Friday off from school. What are the odds of that?

— Kent Priestley, staff writer

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2 thoughts on “Wake up and smell the jams: Xpress selects a Bonnaroo winner!!”

  1. Jason Bugg

    She looks forward to seeing a crappy jam band and a lousy singer when the Police are playing. Way to waste some tickets, Xpress.

  2. Steve Shanafelt

    Not everyone shares your love for bands that haven’t been artistically relevant in the last two decades. Gordon “Sting” Sumner did put out that one album that had that one video that was all up on VH1, though. And he had that one song that was in that car commercial, so I guess that’s OK. (And he was in “Dune,” which pretty much makes him better than Ben “Not-Even-In-Star-Trek-DS9” Harper.)

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