The Gregg Allman Band, Dave Mason, Bob Weir, Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes, The Thievery Corporation and Peter Wolf were among the acts announced Monday for the 2011 Nateva Music and Camping Festival in Oxford.

The four-day festival is scheduled for Aug. 4-7 at the Oxford Fairgrounds. Last year, the inaugural Nateva festival had more than 50 bands, including moe., Jakob Dylan, The Flaming Lips and Furthur, and drew more than 10,000 people.

Tickets for this year’s festival cost $189 for a three-day pass and $219 for a four-day pass. Layaway plans are available for both, with $63 or $73 required up front. Organizers say ticket prices may go up as time goes on. Tickets are available at Natevafestival.com.

No single-day tickets were on sale as of Monday, and it’s not certain that they will be offered, organizers said.

Nateva will feature more than 50 national and local acts.

Those announced Monday also include STS9, The John Butler Trio, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, Guster, Ghostland Observatory, Jackie Greene, Robert Randolph and The Family Band, Big Head Todd and The Monsters, 7 Walkers (featuring Grateful Dead co-founder Bill Kreutzmann), Keller Williams, Martin Sexton, The New Deal, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, EOTO, Donna the Buffalo, Max Creek, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Tim Reynolds and TR3, and Moonalice.

Also on the bill are: The McLovins, Gypsy Tailwind, Eskmo, Zach Deputy, Strangefolk, The Ryan Montleau Band, Session Americana, Sister Sparrow, Dopapod, Indobox, Roots of Creation, The Mallett Brothers Band, Nutritious, Billy Keane and The Misdemeanor Outlaws, Ghost of Jupiter featuring Nate Wilson, Otis Groove, The Nephrok! Allstars and The Ron Noyes Band.

More acts are expected to be announced later.

Staff Writer Ray Routhier can be contacted at 791-6454 or at:
rrouthier@pressherald.com

 

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