Past festival-goers have enjoyed live musical performances by the legendary Johnny Winter, Kris Kristofferson, Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart, Kliph Scurlock, George Clinton and the P-Funk and others. Learn more about the performing artists through related documentary films and hear them tell their own stories at festival Ideas panels.

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