Summer Set fest 2015 lineup features Deadmau5, Bassnectar, the Weeknd

More than 70 acts are set for Aug. 14-16 in Somerset, Wis.

April 16, 2015 at 10:33PM
Deadmau5 (Margaret Andrews/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Deadmau5, Bassnectar and the Weeknd will headline the fourth annual Summer Set Music and Camping Festival Aug. 14-16 in Somerset, Wis.

The pridefully eclectic outdoor fest will feature more than 70 acts including Earl Sweatshirt, Tune-Yards, Thievery Corporation, Lizzo, Hippo Campus, Cloud Cult, Railroad Earth, Ghostface Killah backed byBadbadnotgood and, for the fourth time, Big Gigantic.

Purity Ring, which has two shows at First Avenue in June, also is on board for Summer Set. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony will perform the 1995 album "E 1999 Eternal" in its entirety at the fest.

Three-day tickets start at $149.50 plus fees; camping and parking at the Somerset Amphitheater are extra. For information, go to www.summersetfestival.com

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Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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