Saturday's Festival Palomino at Canterbury Park is the first of what organizers hope to be many years for the Trampled by Turtles-led, day-long strummer fest. It also happens to be the first big concert held inside the Shakopee horse track in many years. The last big music events we remember there were the Clear Channel Radio festivals of the early-'00s (KDWB, Cities 97, K102), which were usually good-time, cozy affairs despite Sheryl Crow always seeming to be at them.

As is recounted in a Q&A with the Trampled fellas in this week's Vita.mn, the festival was more the idea of First Avenue, which has had good luck working with the band on their multi-genre Bayfront Park concerts in Duluth. First Ave also brought in frequent partner Rose Presents (We Fest, Warped Tour, Soundset) to help handle logistics of the big show. This was all good news to Trampled, which had long been interested in starting a fest but lost money in the mid-'00s partnering on the Log Jam Fest in Ely.

"It seemed perfect: We'd help curate the music, and [First Ave] could do all the hard work," TBT singer Dave Simonett said. "Them and Rose Presents, they know this stuff. Now, I don't have to Google how to rent port-o-potties in Shakopee myself."

The lineup predictably wound up being heavy on rootsy, stringy, old-timey and/or twangy kind of bands such as Spirit Mountain Family Reunion and Hurray for the Riff Raff (one of this writer's personal faves from this year's SXSW). But it also includes Florida soul man Charles Bradley, Seattle folk-rockers the Head and the Heart and TBT's longtime Low, playing to their first 10,000-plus-sized Twin Cities crowd since last year's legendary/notorious Rock the Garden set.

"These are all bands we've played with before," Simonett explained of the Palomino lineup. "It ranges from Charles Bradley, who we only played with once but loved, on up to Erik Koskinen and Low, who we've played with and been good friends with for a long time. It's all familiar faces, which seemed like a fun way of doing it."

This will be Trampled's first big Twin Cities show in support of their seventh album, "Wild Animals, not counting their live Current broadcast from the Cedar Cultural Center the week of release. They left town right after that, playing everywhere from David Letterman's set to the Newport Folk Festival (where they were joined by Mavis Staples and Norah Jones) to a sold-out headlining gig at Red Rocks Amphitheater outside Denver last month. Read our chronicle of the band's chaotic mid-July run here.

The Canterbury gates will open at 1 p.m., and the music will run from 2-10 p.m. – mostly nonstop, thanks to the use of two stages. Tickets ($34, or $87 for VIP) are reportedly selling well but probably won't sell out (it's a big place). All the FAQ info can be found on the fest's site. Here are the newly announced set times:

STARS STAGE

  • (2 P.M.) Field Report
  • (3:10) Hurray for the Riff Raff
  • (4:25) Charles Bradley & his Extraordinaires
  • (5:45) The Head and the Heart
  • (7:45) Trampled by Turtles

SATELLITES STAGE

  • (2:40 P.M.) Erik Koskinen
  • (3:55) The Apache Relay
  • (5:10) Spirit Family Reunion
  • (6:45) Low