Common Ground Music Festival line-ups

The Common Ground Music Festival is an annual week-long music festival that takes place in downtown Lansing, Michigan. The July festival, which began in the year 2000 and attracts 50,000-plus people each year, is located at the Louis Adado Riverfront Park along the Grand River.[1][2] Co-created by Center Park Productions and Meridian Entertainment Group, it showcases national and regional artists in contemporary and classic rock, pop, alternative, folk, country, hip hop, and R&B music.[3]

Inaugural event: 2000

The first Common Ground Music Festival took place in July, 2000.

Lineup

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1964 the Tribute Baars Barbara Bailey Hutchison Charlie Daniels Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings The Contours Creedence Clearwater Revisited Domestic Problems The Doobie Brothers Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater Harlem Gospel Choir Joe Walsh

Loverboy Martina McBride Pablo Cruise Starship ft. Mickey Thomas Styx Terrence Simen The Beach Boys Third Eye Blind Uptown Vertical Horizon The Verve Pipe

2001

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Bad Company Billy Squier Chris Cagle Eddie Money The Fabulous Thunderbirds Foundations of Funk Fuel Gladys Knight Grand Funk Railroad

Great White Jethro Tull Lee Ann Womack Lynyrd Skynyrd Pat Benatar Phil Vassar The Commodores Tim Rushlow Trick Pony

2002

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Blake Shelton Brad Martin Dave Mason Earth, Wind & Fire Foreigner G. Love & Special Sauce George Thorogood & The Destroyers Jackyl Jamie O'Neal Journey Kool & the Gang Leon Russell Little Big Town

Little Feat Night Ranger Phil Vassar Sixwire Skid Row Smokey Robinson Steve Azar Tesla The Calling The Edgar Winter Band The Guess Who Vince Neil WITL-O-Meters

2003

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3 Doors Down Amazing Device Automatic Blues Band Boston Chac Mul Rock Darryl Worley Dash Rip Rock David Lee Roth Gunslinger Hootie & the Blowfish Jan James Joe Cocker Jonny Lang Karl Denson's Tiny Universe

Koko Taylor Larry McCray Mas Ambicion Meat Loaf Megan Our Lady Peace Seether Shinedown The Temptations Revue The Allman Brothers Band The Contours The Lash Travis Tritt WAR

2004

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Alice Cooper Arturo Sandoval Asleep at the Wheel B5 Blues Traveler Crosby, Stills & Nash Dave Mason Dick Wagner Earshot Five for Fighting Gregg Rolie Johnny Winter

Kansas KEM Liz Phair Mario Winans Montgomery Gentry My Surrender REO Speedwagon Rob Roy Saliva The Tubes ZZ Top

2005

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Alan Parsons The Allman Brothers Band Aslyn Big Bad Voodoo Daddy The Black Crowes Blue Öyster Cult Buddy Guy Christopher Cross Crossfade Dark New Day El Chicano

Gavin DeGraw Grand Funk Railroad John Legend Johnny Rivers Journey Mitch Ryder Naturally 7 Seether Silvertide The Beach Boys Whitesnake

2006

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Bloodletting Bomshel Aslyn Bonnie Raitt Cheap Trick Cinderella Dave and Sean Dixie Mafia Dwight Yoakam Endeverafter Etta James & The Roots Band Evans Blue Frog & The Beeftones Groove Makers Halestorm Hunter Brucks Jeremy Sprague Keb' Mo'

Keith Anderson Ladysmith Black Mambazo Living Soul Mavis Staples Peter Trappen Poison Ray Potter Ritmo Shinedown Spinnaker Steve Miller Band Styx Ted Nugent Tesla The Bangles The Huntunes Trapt Yin and Yang

2007

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.38 Special Billy Nicholls Blackberry Smoke Boomers Brian Lorente & The Usual Suspects Bruce Hornsby Buckcherry Dicky Betts & Great Southern Don Middlebrook & Living Soul Dutch Henry Dwight Slade Family Stone Xperience Hinder Joshua & Jeremy Sprague Los Lonely Boys Marshall Crenshaw Mike Armstrong Miranda Lambert Montgomery Gentry Nuttin' But Stringz Papa Roach

Peter Frampton Peter Trappen & Northern Star Pretty Ricky Rachel Rodriguez Ray Townsend Rick Villa Rodney Atkins Ryan Shaw Slice Spinnaker Starship Ft. Mickey Thomas Surrogate Band The DeWaynes The Exies The Guess Who The New Cars The Romantics Tim Cavanagh Todd Yohn "Weird Al" Yankovic

2008

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Alter Bridge Brian Brill Dan St. Paul David Barrett David Crowe Don Middlebrook & Living Soul Drowning Pool Fiction Plane Finger Eleven Flynnville Train Geechy Guy Grand Funk Railroad James Otto Julianne Hough Kathie Dunbar Kellie Pickler Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Lao Tizer Los Bandits de Michigan Lyle Lovett and his Large Band Paul and Storm REO Speedwagon Sammy Hagar Seether Sick Puppies Snoop Dogg Staind Sweet The Hard Lessons The Mother Truckers Trace Adkins WAR Zappa Plays Zappa Zombies

2009

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1 OH 1 3 Doors Down Bettye LaVette Billy Squier BoDeans The Boomers Brent Grunow Chris Guild Darius Rucker David Cook Dek Teks DJ Boogie Bill DJ Crazy Cas DJ Element DJ JD DJ LeXXX DJ Ric H DJ Skitzo DJ Space Edgar Winter FFM Framing Hanley George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic

Harper Huey Lewis and the News Hunter Brucks Izzy and Chris Jet Kenny Wayne Shepherd Los Lonely Boys Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg Needtobreathe The Outer Vibe Parachute Red Rob Perry SafetySuit Saving Abel Sheryl Crow Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes Stone Temple Pilots Taddy Porter The Roots Tom T. Trailer Choir Twinn City

2010

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Adam Lambert Alice Cooper Allison Iraheta Arlene McCann Bear Lake Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Blue Coyote Bret Michaels Buckcherry Cavo Cinderella Civil Twilight Corey Crowder Dan Rodriguez Don Middlebrook Drowning Pool Hoobastank Jackyl Joshua & Jeremy Sprague Jimmy Cliff

Lansing Symphony Orchestra Ludacris Lyric/lee Matt Giraud Max Weinberg Mindi Abair Neon Trees Orianthi The Outer Vibe & The MSU School of Music Peter White Poor Boy Relief Rebirth Brass Band Sammy Hagar Sick Puppies Spinnaker Tesla The Machine performs Pink Floyd Three 6 Mafia Trevor Hall

2011

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Aaron Lewis Andy Suzuki & The Method Black Stone Cherry Blackberry Smoke Brena Brian Lorente Brilliance Burton Cummings Charlie Daniels David Nail Don Middlebrook Downplay Duke Tumatoe Hot Chelle Rae i SQUARE Jolley Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights

Larry McCray Life Support LL Cool J Locksley Lynyrd Skynyrd Marnee Melissa Etheridge The Outer Vibe Pete Rivera Rick Springfield The Showdown Small Town Son The Definition Theory of a Deadman Trey Songz The Verve Pipe

2012

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Brent James and the Contraband Bush Candlebox Captain E-Man Casey James Cheap Girls Delta Rae DJ Ammy DJ Cha Chi DJ Cuttnice DJ Duke DJ Face DJ Rod P DJ Ruckus DJ Sizl DJ Skitzo DJ Space Eric Church Gunnar & The Grizzly Boys High Valley IAmDynamite

Joe Walsh with Foghat opening John Beltran Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers John Waite Julia Nunes Kevin Costner and Modern West Kitty Hawk Lights Like a Storm Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Morris Day and the Time Pop Evil Saving Abel A Silent Film Sister Hazel Soul Asylum Sublime with Rome The Wallflowers Three Days Grace Tommy Tutone Walk off the Earth

2013

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Against the Current Alex Goot Almost Kings American Opera American Authors Ashes To Ashes AWOLNATION Barenaked Ladies Ben Folds Five Bennett Boothby Graffoe BOP Harvey Captain E-Man Creedence Clearwater Revisited Dean Alexander DeverauX Dizzy Wright DJ Chewy DJ Dav DJ Duke DJ Element DJ Face DJ Rod P DJ Ruckus DJ Sizl DJ Skitzo DJ Space Echoes of Pink Floyd Elliot Street Lunatic Fifth Harmony Flint Eastwood Foxy Shazam Frontier Ruckus Goodnight, Texas Guster Harper and Midwest Kind Here Come the Mummies Jeremy Porter & The Tucos Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers

Jon Connor Josh Ritter Julia Sheer Kari Lynch Band Kid Ink Know Lyfe Leagues Lights & Caves Little Big Town Ludacris MGMT Mike Mains & The Branches Mike Vial and the Great Lake Effect Monster Truck Murder by Death Nahko and Medicine for the People Nic Da Saint Owen Phoenix Stone Randy Houser Red Stone Souls Sam Tsui ft. Kurt Hugo Schneider Sevendust The Sheepdogs Shooter Jennings Silent Disco Slash Taylor Taylor The Avett Brothers The Legal Immigrants The Soil and The Sun Third Coast Kings Tokyo Police Club Twenty One Pilots Von Grey Wilson Xavier Rudd ZZ Ward

2014

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Tuesday, July 8 Brand New Circa Survive The Hold Steady Say Anything The Front Bottoms Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band Braid The So So Glos You Blew It! Seahaven Dinosaur Pile-Up Wednesday, July 9 311 Violent Femmes The Wailers Flobots The 4onthefloor OPM Radical Something Ben Kenney The Weeks Squirrel Shaped Fish Thursday, July 10 Justin Moore David Nail Gord Bamford Julia Sheer Hugh Bob and the Hustle Chelsey Danfield Jacob Powell

Friday, July 11 Big Sean Juicy J Ace Hood Machine Gun Kelly Chevy Woods Berner Tay Rhodes cyRus L Soul Ill Natured Hitman with DJ Klaverflav James Gardin Saturday, July 12 Fitz and The Tantrums Dr. Dog Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. The Orwells X Ambassadors Royal Teeth Jukebox the Ghost The People's Temple Chappo Sunday, July 13 Earth, Wind & Fire The Robert Glasper Experiment Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers AHSAN Dee Hibbert & Company

2015

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Tuesday, July 7 Joshua Davis MisterWives The Specktators Collective Bea Miller Skizzy Mars Charlie Puth Life of Dillon Rajiv Dhall Flint Eastwood Less is More Wednesday, July 8 Jane's Addiction Alien Ant Farm Failure In This Moment Here Come the Mummies Eyes Set to Kill Heartsick Kaleido Vandalay ANA The Most Powerful Weapon Thursday, July 9 The Band Perry Parmalee Old Dominion Brett Kissel Gaelic Storm Chasin Crazy Árstíðir The Anatomy of Frank Steve Rivers Bear Creek Brothers Shelby Ann-Marie

Friday, July 10 Three Days Grace P.O.D. Finger Eleven All That Remains The Color Morale I Prevail Mr. Denton on Doomsday DeverauX Critical Bill The Jonestown Crows Saturday, July 11 Snoop Dogg Wale Tech N9ne DJ Quik Heems BLAT! Pack B.Sykes Sunday, July 12 Empire of the Sun The Flaming Lips Motion City Soundtrack The Spill Canvas Mike Mains & The Branches Man Man Foxing mewithoutYou machineheart Sorority Noise The Lansing Unionized Vaudeville Spectacle

2016

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Tuesday, July 5 AWOLNATION Milky Chance Finish Ticket IRONTOM Grizfolk Civil Twilight Michigander Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers Kim Vi & The Siblings Ellis Wednesday, July 6 Rise Against The Bouncing Souls RED SUN RISING IAMDYNAMITE '68 Coldville Stories Untold Jason Alarm Heartsick Sierra Denae Thursday, July 7 Tim McGraw Cassadee Pope Maggie Rose Billy Strings Jericho Woods Matt Austin Crystal Day Fauxgrass Drew Hale

Friday, July 8 A$AP Rocky Mick Jenkins DJ Quik Black Milk French Montana Rosco P Icewear Vezzo The SEVENth Lady Ace Boogie Diamond Jones Saturday, July 9 Dierks Bentley Aubrie Sellers Canaan Smith Adam Sanders Joey Hyde Brent James and the Vintage Youth Carter Winter Brandon Lay Aileeah Colgan Audrey Ray Phillip Fox Band Drew Hale Sunday, July 10 Jason Derulo Daya Jacob Whitesides Bryce Vine Karlos Farrar Matt B Kid Quill REDD Taylor Taylor

2017

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Thursday, July 6 Alessia Cara Phoebe Ryan AJR KYLE James Arthur CLUBHOUSE Olivia Millerschin Friday, July 7 Toby Keith LoCash The Railers Aileeah Colgan Drew Hale DJ Jay Vee Lisa Mary

Saturday, July 8 Shinedown Live Here Come the Mummies The Legal Immigrants Leopold & His Fiction Molehill Assume Nothing Lacey Sturm Sunday, July 9 Big Sean Fetty Wap Twista Waldo Tugga the Rapper Rosco P Diamond Jones SahBabii

2018

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Thursday, July 5 Kip Moore Hunter Hayes Børns Judah & the Lion The Aces Cale Dodds Shelby Ann-Marie Vesperteen DJ Jay Vee Friday, July 6 Halsey Jessie Reyez Sasha Sloan The O'My's London Richards Lex J

Saturday, July 7 Logic Maggie Lindemann Tone Loc DJ Kool Chelsea Cutler NF J Chase DJ Dill Pickle Sunday, July 8 Gucci Mane Kevin Gates T-Pain DJ Jazzy Jeff Supa Bwe Prime Suspects King Khancept

2019

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Thursday, June 27 Brandi Carlile City and Colour Robert Randolph and the Family Band Arlo McKinley and the Lonesome Sound Mike Mains & The Branches Motherfolk Friday, June 28 Zedd Playboi Carti Yung Gravy Elephante Carlie Hanson

Saturday, June 29 Tracy Lawrence Cole Swindell Chris Janson Clare Dunn Eric Chesser Rachel Curtis The Swift Brothers Sunday, June 30 YG A Boogie wit da Hoodie Big Boi 2 Live Crew Trap Manny

External links

• Official website

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