Do you like summer? Do you like music? Do you like bands that are both wonderful and ridiculous? Good, because then you’ll be over the moon with the just-announced list of grounds stage headliners for Summerfest 2015. (Not to be confused with the Marcus Amphitheater headliners for Summerfest 2015.) It’s a list that keeps on giving: “Weird Al” Yankovic! Whitesnake! Smash Mouth! Sammy Hagar! Taylor Dayne! Paris Hilton? (Shout-out to the local/local-ish headliners, including Field Report, Sylvan Esso, PHOX, and Sam Llanas.)
Here are the top 10 most wonderful/ridiculous Summerfest 2015 headliners:
1. “Weird Al” Yankovic
2. DJ Paris Hilton
3. Whitesnake
4. Smash Mouth
5. Sammy Hagar And The Circle
6. Jane’s Addiction
7. Public Enemy
8. Third Eye Blind
9. Taylor Dayne
10. The Faint
And here are the rest [via Milwaukee Magazine]:
Kaskade
Bastille
The Flaming Lips
Sheryl Crow
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
LeCrae
Santigold
Aloe Blacc
Buddy Guy
The Doobie Brothers
Halestorm
The Kooks
Lindsey Stirling
Timeflies
Blind Boys of Alabama
AWOLNATION
Sublime with Rome
Lupe Fiasco
The Romantics
Motion City Soundtrack
Walk the Moon
The Isley Brothers
Dirty Heads
Mavis Staples
Billy Currington
Gogol Bordello
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
Brand New
Magic!
Phil Vassar
Delta Spirit
Trampled by Turtles
Gary Clark, Jr.
Kip Moore
Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo
Vance Joy
Coheed and Cambria
Chase Rice
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Martina McBride
The New Pornographers
Gaelic Storm
Flogging Molly
Punch Brothers
Mat Kearney
PHOX
Blackberry Smoke
Sheila E.
Andy Montañez
New Politics
Brett Eldredge
Atlas Genius
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Kansas
Charles Bradley
Kellie Pickler
Sylvan Esso
Manchester Orchestra
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Mates of State
Dark Star Orchestra
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Foghat
Kristian Bush of Sugarland
Meg Myers
Leftover Salmon
Keller Williams
Pepper
Tommy Castro
Otis Clay
The Infamous Stringdusters
J. Roddy Walston & The Business
Shakey Graves
Sloan
The Mowgli’s
Mother
Sam Llanas
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
Tonic
Big Smo
Field Report
Elvin Bishop
MisterWives
Willy Porter
Saint Motel