Eaux Claires to make deux with Badu, Rateliff and, yep, Bon Iver

The second year of Justin Vernon's Eaux Claires Music & Art Festival looks to be as eclectic and unpredictable as the first.

Beach House, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats and Vince Staples — all hot fixtures on the summer festival circuit in 2016 — are some of the biggest but least-surprising names on the lineup for the two-day musical camp-out, scheduled again Aug. 12-13 along the Chippewa River in Vernon's hometown of Eau Claire, Wis.

More out of left cornfield are neo-soul hero Erykah Badu and another tour-shy artist, British electro-soul crooner James Blake, along with a hodgepodge of influential veteran artists such as Mavis Staples, the Melvins and Bruce Hornsby. Yep, that Bruce Hornsby, who — like last year's similarly anti-hipster pick the Indigo Girls — will play an album in its entirety ("The Way It Is").

Even Vernon's decision to one again perform with Bon Iver could be deemed a surprise, since his Grammy-winning act hasn't played since last year's Eaux Claires. The festival's other curator, guitarist Aaron Dessner of the National, will debut an all-star Grateful Dead tribute act called Day of the Dead with his brother and bandmate Bryce Dessner, who will also perform separately with famed indie songwriter Bonnie "Prince" Billy.

Other names on the lineup include Jenny Lewis, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Lucius, Deafheaven, Phosphorescent and many Twin Cities acts such as Har Mar Superstar, Kill the Vultures, Fog and Tickle Torture.

Two-day tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. for $169 via eauxclaires.com, or $300 for an "enhanced" pass. Newly reconfigured campground sites are also on sale for $169.

Fans who already bought advanced tickets to Eaux Claire's second year were mailed out an old-fashion mixtape last week — as in, it really came on cassette — which provided them with clues to the lineup.

Here's the full Eaux Claires 2016 confirmed list of performers in alphabetical order:

Alpha Consumer

Andrew Fitzpatrick

Beach House

Bon Iver

Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers performing "The Way It Is"

Buke and Gase

Catsax

Cornelius performing "Fantasma"

Day Of The Dead

Deafheaven

Efird/Westerlund

eighth blackbird with Bryce Dessner and Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Erykah Badu

EX EYE

FOG

Francis and The Lights

Har Mar Superstar

Jacy Catlin

James Blake

Jenny Lewis

Jon Hopkins

Jon Mueller

Kill The Vultures

Lisa Hannigan and Aaron Dessner

Little Scream

LNZNDRF

Lucius

Mavis Staples

Melvins

Midnite Express

My Brightest Diamond

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

Phil Cook's "Southland Revue"

Phosphorescent

Prinze George

Richard Reed Parry/ Quiet River of Dust

Rosenau/Sanborn

S.Carey

Sam Amidon

Sarah Neufeld

Senyawa

Shabazz Palaces

Sloslylove

So Percussion

Taggart & Rosewood

Tenement

The Staves and yMusic

Tickle Torture

Thomas Wincek

Tuskha

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Vince Staples

William Tyler

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