The Festival lineup includes the following: famed
British post-rockers Wire, Brazilian Tropicália star Tom Zé, singer - songwriter Jessica Pratt, experimental
folk singer Circuit des Yeux, Canadian
folk band The Weather Station, outlaw country singer - painter Terry Allen, vintage jangle -
folk - er Ryley Walker, Swans» drummer's Thor & Friends, NY expansive Helado Negro with Ensemble, influential electronic composer Suzanne Ciani, a site - specific Gravity Hill installation, and much more.
The songs were sparse and often dark, not unlike the strain of
British folk music that would influence heavy metal
bands like Iron Maiden decades later.