Black Pumas, Dawes, City and Colour and More Make Up Sacred Rose Inaugural Lineup

Black Pumas, Dawes, City & Colour | Photos by Josh Druding

Chicagoland’s newest festival is set to make its debut this month. Sacred Rose music festival will kick off on August 27th at SeatGeek Stadium. The three-day festival will include performances by the Black Pumas, Dawes, City & Colour and many more. Notably, the festival will also include the live debut of the new supergroup Philco, featuring members of both the Grateful Dead and Wilco. 

Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and guitarist Nels Cline will join headliner and Grateful Dead offshoot, Phil Lesh & Friends. Consequence reported in June that Dead & Company's Jeff Chimenti, Karl Denson, John Molo, Stu Allen, Grahame Lesh, and Elliott Peck will also join the group on stage. They're nicknaming it PHILCO.

The three-stage festival will also include notable acts like War On Drugs, Khruangbin, Kamasi Washington, Animal Collective, Umphrey’s McGree, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Goose, STS9, Greensky Bluegrass, Cory Wong, and St. Paul & The Broken Bones. Grammy-nominated, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Margo Price will be the festival’s first artist at large and will perform with various acts all weekend long.

Spanning multiple genres, the new festival is the brainchild of the same organizers behind North Coast Music Festival, Summer Camp Music Festival and Suwannee Hulaween.

“In 2018 when we shifted North Coast from a multi-genre festival to a fully electronic music event, we started dreaming up Sacred Rose and what it could mean for fans of Americana, psych-rock, jam, indie, soul, funk and bluegrass,” Sacred Rose Founder Michael Berg said in a statement.

“Sacred Rose is the first festival of its kind in our area, and we’re so proud to deliver a special experience for our fans who have been patiently waiting for a lineup like this for a long time.”

3-day and single-day tickets are still available and can be purchased here.