Summerfest 2011 Music Festival Lineup


In two days, the 2011 Summerfest, a yearly music festival held at the 75-acre Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is scheduled to kickoff its festivities.

The 11-day “Big Gig,” which starts Wednesday, June 29th, will feature performances from over 700 bands playing their songs on one of the eleven stages throughout the lakefront park.

This year’s Summerfest marks the 43rd anniversary of the festival that usually attracts anywhere between 800,000 to 1,000,000, officially making it the world’s largest music festival, a title certified by the Guinness World Records in 1999.

Of few of this years headliners include Peter Gabriel, Owl City, Jason Mraz, Kanye West and Katy Perry.

For more information on Summerfest 2011 including ticket price and availability, check out the official website.

Below is the complete lineup of this year’s festival, courtesy of Seatgeek:

Wednesday 6/29
Marcus Amphitheater: Peter Gabriel and the New Blood Orchestra
Other Stages: Matisyahu, Buddy Guy, Jack’s Mannequin, Hall & Oats, Meat Loaf, Hot Sauce, Saving Abel, Max Weinberg Experience, The Right Now
Thursday 6/30
Marcus Amphitheater: Kanye West with Kid Cudi
Other Stages: Better Than Ezra, Owl City, Neon Trees, Panic! at the Disco, REO Speedwagon, George Clinton, Sweet Tarts, Blackberry Smoke, Jackyl, Wanda Jackson, The Jeanna Salzer Band
Friday 7/1
Marcus Amphitheater: Toby Keith with Eric Church
Other Stages: Girl Talk, Los Lonely Boys, Los Lobos, Anberlin, Styx, Third Eye Blind, Eddie Butts, Civil Twilight, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Taj Mahal, I’m Not A Pilot
Saturday 7/2
Maroon 5, Stephen Marley, 100 Monkeys, The Airborne Toxic Event, Loretta Lynn, Phil Vassar, Rhythm Kings, Hinder, Cowboy Mouth, The Invaders
Sunday 7/3
Marcus Amphitheater: Kid Rock with Sheryl Crow & Leroy Powell and The Messengers
Other Stages: Rise Against, Ben Harper, Taking Back Sunday, Blue Oyster Cult, The Ike Reilly Assassination, Alejandro Escovedo, Jayhawks, 5 Card Studs, Urge Overkill, Fuel, Don Felder, The Uptown Savages
Tuesday 7/5
Marcus Amphitheater: Def Leppard with Heart
Other Stages: Paul Rodgers, Wiz Khalifa, Young the Giant, Switchfoot, Cinderella, The Wailers, The Crisis, My Darkest Days, Indigenous, The Fatty Acids
Wednesday 7/6
Marcus Amphitheater: The Black Keys with Florence and The Machine & Cage The Elephant
Other Stages: O.A.R., Morris Day and the Time, Tonic, Peter Frampton, Danny Gokey, Old Mil, Sick Puppies, The Spinners, Brighton, MA
Thursday 7/7
Marcus Amphitheater: Katy Perry
Other Stages: Here Come the Mummies, Michael Franti, Old 97?s, G. Love & Special Sauce, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Kansas, Raphael Saadiq, Cold Sweat and The Brew City Horns, Pop Evil, Finger Eleven, Yonder Mountain String Band, Mark Mallman
Friday 7/8
Marcus Amphitheater: Jason Aldean with Chris Young and Thompson Square
Other Stages: Goo Goo Dolls, Gaelic Storm, Dropkick Murphys, Middle Class Rut, Crash Kings, Leon Russell, Parachute, Michelle Branch, The Toys, Sevendust, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, John the Savage
Saturday 7/9
The Flaming Lips, Meat Puppets, Alkaline Trio, America, Pat McCurdy, Cerfus Project, The BoDeans, The LoveMonkeys, Buckcherry, De La Soul, Into Arcadia
Sunday 7/10
Marcus Amphitheater: Sugarland with Sara Bareillas
Other Stages: 311, Grupo Niche, AWOLNATION, The Bravery, Toots and the Maytals, Amos Lee, The Barbeez, Ten Years, Hollywood Undead, Todd Rundgren, Surgeons in Heat

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