Backwoods Music Festival held at Mulberry Mountain this coming year June 6th through June 9th, 2024, released its largest lineup to date. Headliners include Illenium, STS9, Thievery Corporation, The Disco Biscuits, Tycho, Jai Wolf and the debut of the brand new LSDream + CloZee collaboration LSZee. Backwoods 2024 also is featuring one of a kind, never-before seen LIVE performances from Opiuo and San Holo’s Extensional Dance Music plus many other top national touring acts. Backwoods Music Festival Releases 2024 Lineup.

Other artists on the bill include EDM classics The Crystal Method & Rabbit In The Moon, bass heavy Emancipator & Wreckno, soulful and funky Artifakts & Late Night Radio, as well as psychedelic jam from the likes of Papadosio. With 9 headliners, more than 30 Tier 1 and 80 Tier 2 acts announced, Backwoods 2024 will have 4 stages full of amazing talent. The Vibeline (Probcause + Chrishira) collaboration is one of Griz’s new side projects that will also play at the festival.

Backwoods Music Festival also announced LSDream’s Lightcode, bringing consciousness and healing to the festival and rave community. Their event also includes 3 days of retreat-quality workshops including multiple yoga classes, meditation, breathwork, flow arts, and different mind-expanding philosophy workshops.

Special additions to the 4-day event include a Tycho Taco Party, an Odyzey Stage Takeover, Bonfire Sessions, and Sunrise Sets. The lineup release for the 2024 Backwoods Music Festival at Mulberry Mountain marks the 16-year anniversary for the event.

You can purchase tickets, view the entire lineup, and apply for vending spots, visual art installations, and other artistic visual performances at the festival’s website.

Backwoods at Mulberry Mountain is a music and arts camping festival located in Ozark, AR. The festival, since its inception in 2008 has grown over the years into one of the midwest’s top destination camping festivals.

Visit the Backwoods website and like their social media channels at Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube. Science is real. Visit the wrangler archives for recaps of Backwoods of years past with Backwoods at Mulberry Mountain “23 Compendium and 2021: Year of the Goat.

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The rest of the fam was attending Billy in St. Augustine, camping in Anastasia Park, right on the Atlantic Ocean. That would have been the plan for the wranglers but when Mulberry Mountain shines the wook signal, it’s time to go. Arkansauce, Keller, Andy Frasco, Neighbor, Papadosio, Sunsquabi, Pigeons, and The Polish Ambassador filled the days and nights with more music than can be danced to. Kamp Happiness posted up in the shade of VIPness where they got run off from ADA and ended up on Shakedown. Bfly liked to be on the skreets where she could vibe with the passerbys and work the Circle K? Trading Post. The Chesafreak was there, just back from Coachella with a new sore above his lip. Tough titty said the kitty but the milk tastes good.

Andy had green hair like a Wisconsin chicken hawk and he brought the world’s cheapest tequila. “Welcome to Wisconsin, we eat people.” The last time Lucienda consumed El Toro was Sandy Hook, NJ and a night of black-out fun. “Why no officer, I don’t remember anything out of the “ordinary”. Friday night was a serious experiment in interrogation techniques. Bass all night? Music can be used as a tool of psychological warfare. The term “music torture” is sometimes used to describe the practice. While it is acknowledged by United States interrogation experts to cause discomfort, it has also been characterized as having no “long-term effects”. Good news to be sure as the bass did not stop at Backwoods. Might as well, might as well.

Methods of interrogation often reported include prolonged sleep deprivation (check); cheap whiskey (check); exposure to loud music (check); prolonged boofing and exposure to bright lights. She’d been a Seabee and had witnessed her share of of sleep deprivation interviews. With strobe lights and loud music, she said it would take four days to break someone doing an interrogation, sixteen hours with lights and music on and four hours off. What some call torture Lucienda called a Friday night in Arkansas. Don’t be askeert.

Ka’aoli would have agreed, Saturday’s are for the ladies and this one was no exception. String Cheese and inordinate spending were the faces of the day. Who was that artist with the neck tattoos who made spit bubbles when she spoke

This is  Backwoods. You best know what you’re getting into.

The Kansas City thugs were hell bent on winning back Baitbucket’s 50th birthday party which he’d lost at this very table two years earlier. Kicked out of Suwannee with Holly? Yes? Birthday celebration? No, ceptin’ some groundscored crotch vodka. Homesteading the week before Hulaween is about as easy as finding a public restroom in Nicaragua. Wook fishing was definitely in season in Arkansas with a length of 40″-65″ and a bag aggregate of 3 per angler. Lures to watch out for were candy bracelets, lighters and light sticks. Lucy had shaved her back and was ready for action.

Somewhere along the line Lucienda had done something strange and terrible to her central nervous system. Maybe it was the Toro, maybe something else in the chemical toilet that was her stomach. She’d found herself in a portal-let trying to escape her union suit which proved endless blockage under the multiple layers. She was reaching some kind of breaking point and everything was again slipping into the bad place. Why was a bowel movement turning into a damned Rubik’s cube? Why was he wearing a straight jacket in the shitter? She’d never worn a onsie into a portal-let in her life and here she was having a tug-o-war with Clayopheus’ long johns.

New Directions? Go to the muddiest campsite and take a left two clicks. Then look for the stealie flag and the blinking lights. You can’t miss it. What you call candles, the law calls incendiaries. Also, mortars are incendiaries and can be used at the blackjack table and must be smuggled in cleavage. When times get real crispy, make your way to  Cody’s for a bonafide tea party, in the middle of all this upside down silliness.

Visit the Backwoods website and like their social media channels on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter. Kudos for the Green Team as they kept the site sparkling fresh in spite of Kansas City trash like Matt and Ryan. Save the date for next year. 4/18/24-4/21/24

Check out more Backwoods articles from the archives including The Year of the Goat and like the wrangler social media channels on Facebook, Instragram, Twitter and YouTube. Yes, goats need tennis balls on their antlers and apparently some people smell their stink more than others. Guilty as charged. Once the goat stink is one you, it doesn’t come off. Remain close to the pocket and follow the wranglers’ festival krewe as they head to Something in the Water, Shaky Knees, Hangout and Rockville. Paul and Lil D Big Arel will be at Gulf Shores covering Hangout festival. The easiest way to find them is to use your Google maps and type in, “thugs near me”. The real trouble comes when the crowd meets up at Summer Camp in Chilicothe and then next week at Mountain Music Festival in New River Gorge, WV. That’s plenty of silliness stuffed into two weeks. Tick checks are important because bells palsy is no excuse for bad behavior. Plan A remains in effect.

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Backwoods music festival at Mulberry Mountain is coming this year April 20th through April 23rd, 2023, released its phase 1 lineup including headliners Big Gigantic, The Floozies, Lettuce, and two sets of The String Cheese Incident as well as Miss Cali’s Kamp Happiness Family Band and many other top national touring acts.

Backwoods at Mulberry Mountain is a cross-genre music and arts camping festival located in Ozark, AR. The festival, since its inception in 2008 has grown over the years into one of the midwest’s top destination camping festivals.

Other artists on the bill include EDM and bass heavy Apashe, Of The Trees, Dirt Monkey, Boogie T and the up-and-comer Zingara as well as psychedelic jam and funk from the likes of Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Papadosio, Keller Williams, and Boogie T.rio. More than 36 major acts were announced.

“We’re proud to release this lineup that we’ve worked so hard to cultivate for the next Backwoods.” said William Royal, Executive Producer of Backwoods. “We tried to have The String Cheese Incident headline in 2021 but the pandemic prevented their attendance.”

Revisit the face melting reality of Ganga White Night at last year”s show.

Those attendees who purchased tickets after String Cheese was announced last year, and prior to their cancellation in 2021, will receive free tickets to a Late Night Acoustic Taco Party with the band if they have tickets for this year’s festival, while other attendees this year will be offered the additional intimate experience with the band for a nominal fee if they choose to attend. The acoustic jam session will constitute a third performance essentially for The String Cheese Incident, as they plan to perform two headlining sets on the main stage Saturday.

The lineup release for the 2023 Backwoods at Mulberry Mountain Music Festival marks the 15th year anniversary for the event and the 12th festival to date. More than 25,000 people are expected to attend over the four days, with over 150 artists both visual and musical and 80 vendors.

You can purchase tickets, view the entire lineup, and apply for vending spots, visual art installations, and other artistic visual performances at the festival’s website and visit their social media sites on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Twitter. Welcome to the future you gorgeous greenhorn.

Check out some of the last year’s silliness from the wranglers archives. Remember that wet ass pussy and The Year of the Goat. “Twas a party complete with glittery Kansas City thugs, non-stop genre crossing music, no-named goats and dick milk. This would be round the clock fun and rest and relaxation would not be allies for the foreseeable future. This was a sideways elevator if there ever was one and once again, it was time to lace up and get back into the fray.”

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Twas a party complete with glittery Kansas City thugs, non-stop genre crossing music, no-named goats and dick milk. This would be round the clock fun and rest and relaxation would not be allies for the foreseeable future. This was a sideways elevator if there ever was one and once again, it was time to lace up and get back into the fray. Welcome to Backwoods at Mulberry Mountain ’21: Year of the Goat.

Mulberry Mountain is a 650 acre Lodging and Event resort located in the heart of Arkansas’s Ozark National Forest along Hwy 23, the Pig Trail National Scenic Byway. Set above the Mulberry River Valley, this beautiful spot in the Arkansas Ozark Mountains offers lodge and cabin Rentals, RV & Tent Campground, Convention & Reception Hall, Amphitheater, and a variety of exciting festivals throughout the year. Anoint yourselves with perfumes and lotions. This is going to get hairy.

Welcome to the ego death. Don’t worry, you won’t miss it. This is Mulberry Mountain and these folks are not joshing.

Lotus Thursday:  New neighbors, that’s usually the way it works. It wasn’t long before Kamp Happniness was doing the “tent tickle” with their neighbors from Kansas City. These were serious thugs to be sure. Folks who’d spent hard time on the mountain and from countless earlier shows, carried memories from every corner of the field and forest. It was immediately evident they were going to make all the things better.

Within thirty minutes of arrival Matt had lost his wristband which had been hanging off with loose impudence. He stumbled off into the darkness disappearing for the better part of the evening only to return with a new wristband. Colorful and innovative. Ryan laid to creating a witch’s brew known as “short mountain tea” or “mangrita” complete with Everclear and fruit juices. Only after he’d completed it did he commence to drop his phone deep within the icy elixir. Short mountain tea, from then known as “the phone killer”. That kind of immediate comedy cannot be invented by the soggy mind.

Don’t miss the late show on the secret stage: Soft R and the Soggy Girlfriends featuring the Denominator.

“808s and Paper Plates”

Later the squad found their way to Andy Frasco and Sunsquabi before the Lotus marathon. Come to find there is a strategy to ending up with a set list. Connect with one of the musicians. Stick around after the show. Ask nicely. They say this is what it takes to end up with a Papadosio set list. Who knew?

Friday: Sometime during the ATLIENS set Matt began screaming “No means yes. Yes means anal!” until promptly being tackled and hog tied by security. Kamp Happiness procured his release by pleading insanity and citing several relevant cases from Kansas City clerk of courts.

No athiest in foxholes: Lucy knew once she got to the Ganga White Knight set she was in for something special. Having never seen that show live, the production, including the lights, animation and pulsing booming base that climbed right up into Lucy’s butthole was certainly a bit of the other.

Thanks to the art mopper who kept the road through the vending area “clean” and fresh with water art. You don’t see that kind of hustle everyday. It takes all kinds to make a festival. What are you bringing?

Late night became a stumbling adventure through the sparkling night and the campground field to the Peanutbutter Williams set. Slinky dancers, jugglers and performers of every measure found their way dancing to the pulsing base and flashing animation. The walk back to their perch in the field was under a night sky filled with the bright streak of Orion’s belt. So suave.

The late stage was set up catty corner to Mike and his savage band of Green Team animals. Always the first ones to arrive and the last ones to leave. The core of this Green Team was uniquely hard working group. Thank you Green Team.

While making breakfast burritos Ryan got jalapeno juice on his hands and commenced to rub his pee pee. Matt had been using a loaf of bread as a pillow and as he woke up he found Ryan with his penis “deep” in the milk. “Don’t anyone drink out the jug, ever!” he screamed at the unusual spectacle.. Ryan shot back, “I can’t go see Spafford with my dick on fire!” The math checks out.

The goat with no name: There is some stink in Arkansas. It’s goat stink and once you get it on you, it won’t come off. Thank goodness for tennis balls. The goat with no name bounced and played in the field like a Chihuahua. It looked fun but Kaitlyn knew better than to get involved. She knew the stink didn’t come off.

It was Sunday and they had to outrun the hangover and the crash which would eventually come. Doses and mimosas for the Sunday brunch menu, and why not? Strangers were beginning to come together like Portuguese man-o-wars rolled together by the waves.

Sunday and Gambling for Souls: Most of the day was spent hiding from the sun, playing loud music and speaking in the ancient tongues reserved for Sundays when the ego crumples and is close to gone.

“Do you have any souls?” Falkenburg asked Phoenix the Frick Frack Blackjack dealer. With no soul to trade he laid out some of his gem necklaces. “It’s a soul for a soul sir”, the dealer said with no trace of frivolity. How old will you be on your next birthday?” Falkenburg replied, “It’s going to be a big one, the big five-0”. “Well that will do just fine”, the dealer responded. Gambling is an addiction and there’s no reason to lose on a nineteen but that’s the way the cookie crumbles. Falkenburg knew he wasn’t going to celebrate his fiftieth birthday but there might still be a chance to win that soul at Hulaween. If you don’t get help at Charter, get help somewhere.

Sunday night closed out with a dazzling show from Clozzee. Greensky Bluegrass and the Floozies. Never miss a Sunday show. In this case it was a serious non-negotiable.

Greensky Bluegrass is “Workin’ on a Building”.

When your Earthly shed blows down it doesn’t matter. We’re working on something more important.

Greensky Bluegrass into the Floozies? For some folks like the wranglers that’s one hell of a Sunday night and there is no method to the madness at Backwoods. Climb on board, the train is leaving. Find your way into a new genre of music. There’s so much to devour and this festival brought a little bit of everything. It makes for fun camping when bluegrass folks get parked next door to Clozzee fans. Why not? These people came to get all the way down and there would be no stopping this party until the tolling bell rang. Mission accomplished.

What you know about having a party?

Thanks to Will and the Backwoods at Mulberry Mountain crew for letting us be involved. It was f’sho slap yo mama good. Perfect weather, friendly people, mind-blowing loud rock and all the silly fun. Visit the Backwoods at Mulberry Mountain website and follow their social media sites on Facebook and Instagram. See you next year.

Keep up with the wranglers as we tackle North Carolina and the close of the Summer Mountain Festival Lyme Disease Tour with Blue Bear and Merlefest. Then it’s back east for Resonance and Rooster Reunion before heading back down to the sunshine state for all it’s fall perfection. Thanks for using the wranglers and Kamp Happiness for all your festivarian gibberish. Namaste y’all.

Believe what you want.

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August 26-29, 2021–This is a three day, four night camping and music festival held in the middle of the Ozark National Forest in Arkansas. Boom. A party known for it’s creative production, art installations, and unique visual performers, guests are immersed in 360 degree artistic stage performance environments providing a one-of-a-kind festival experience. Waterfall hikes, and other fun activities during the festival provide unique to places to wander and lose the ego.

Mulberry Mountain is a 650 acre Lodging and Event resort located in the heart of Arkansas’s Ozark National Forest along Hwy 23, the Pig Trail National Scenic Byway. Set above the Mulberry River Valley, this amazing resort in the Arkansas Ozark Mountains offers Arkansas Lodge & Arkansas Cabin Rentals, RV & Tent Campground, Convention & Reception Hall, Amphitheater, and a variety of exciting festivals throughout the year.

Mulberry Mountain also provides a vast array of recreational opportunities during all four seasons.  Whether it’s hiking, camping, canoeing, Arkansas ATV / UTV trails, horse trails, hunting, fishing, or just relaxing in the Ozarks, Mulberry Mountain offers the ultimate Arkansas vacation experience.

Backwoods Packing List:

1 tent
3 lighters
2 cartons cheap cigarettes
3 cases PBR-People’s Beer of Richmond (per person)
1 groundscored pop-up
1 acoustic guitar
3 gal water
12 fresh eggs (not refrigerated, unwashed)
1 hula hoop
1 oyster shucker
8 oz scrapple
8 oz souse
1 tub oleo
1 oz girl scout cookie
64 qts Bactine
1 pkg aluminum foil
3 more lighters
pillow
blanket

Follow the wook wranglers Facebook and nailtravels Instagram for updates live from the party. Be sure to visit the Mi Kulture merch tent and check out their website on the interweb.

“Did someone say Floozies?”

Check here for tickets. Visit the Backwoods website and like their social media channels on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Stay tuned for live reports from the festival, photographs and wrap-up article soon to come. Check out some of the upcoming festivals on the dance card and leave a comment if we’ll be seeing you around the Kamp Happiness Hobo Village and Interactive Festival Detritus Collective.

Check out the recent adventures of Lucy and Bfly at Mountain Music Festival. Please don’t eat the cicadas and Lyme disease is no excuse for bad behavior…

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Welcome back funk munchers to the summer festival season and the land of the unwashed Watusi. Whether you’re glamping in the antique Airstream or sleeping deep in the ground glitter, all roads lead to the rail. This is the Hobo Kamp and the only job you have is to just stay awake. You’ll get enough sleep when you’re dead. The robins are already playing in the High Country snow heralding warmer days to come. La arctic blast can’t last forever and you are the seventh son of the seventh son. Start walking now in between the snowflakes and you should make it to Mulberry Mountain just in time for the party.

Backwoods is heading home to Mulberry Mountain June 4th-7th, 2020 with a stacked lineup full of artists spanning a wide range of genres. From reggae powerhouse Rebelution, Jam Band heavy hitters Lotus, space bass legends G Jones and Space Jesus to a live set by experimental extraordinaire Shpongle, the music selection at Backwoods 2020 has been expertly curated to deliver a unique experience that fans will remember for a lifetime. Did someone mention Twiddle? That’s the kind of thing that invites a whole other brand of wrangler. Where’s Uncle Lumpy when you need a dose of reality? Abandon hope all ye who enter here. 

You Have a Place Here. The Mountain is Calling.

Backwoods at Mulberry Mountain returns for 2020 with new summer time dates! This 3 day, 4 night camping and music festival is held on the top of a mountain in the middle of the Ozark National Forest in Arkansas. Warmer weather dates means more summer fun like cooling off in the streams and rivers high in the the Ozark National Forest.

The event is known for it’s attention to creative production, art installations, and unique visual performers. Guests are immersed in 360 degree artistic stage performance environments providing a one-of-a-kind festival experience. Waterfall hikes, and other fun activities during the festival provide unique experiences had no-where-else.

New experiences await you on the Mountain this coming summer… Get ready to get weird.

LunOSol Productions will also be present with their changing stage created alongside Tycho throughout the weekend.

Payment plans and festival tickets available now at: https://backwoodsmusicfestival.com/ticket-information/

THE DEVIL MAKES THREE

GANJA WHITE NIGHT

G JONES

GRAMATIK

REBELUTION

SHPONGLE (SIMON POSFORD LIVE SET)

SPACE JESUS

TYCHO

AC SLATER

ANDY FRASCO & THE UN

ARKANSAUCE

ARTIFAKTS

BUMPIN UGLIES

CARBIN

CNOPES

COM TRUISE

CYCLES

DETOX UNIT

DIRTFOOT

FREDDY TODD

THE GREEN

GUCCIMENT (SPACE JESUS B2B FREDDY TODD)

HANDMADE MOMENTS

JADE CICADA

KELLER WILLIAMS

LOTUS

MADDY O’NEAL

MLOTIK

MOLOKAI

OF THE TREES

OPAL AGAFIA

OPIUO

PAPADOSIO

PLS&TY

SPAFFORD

STEEL PULSE

SUNSQUABI

TWIDDLE

ZEKE BEATS

ACID KATZ

AVRY

DALTON RICHMOND

FLINTWICK

FRACTAL SKY

THE IRIE LIONS

JEFF WHITE

JONTEAL

KOOOOOKOO

LEVITΔTE.

LUSID

M.O.B

MODELING

PRADO

RYAN VISER

STIFF NECKED FOOLS

TRYMORE MOJO

*COMEDY, WORKSHOPS, VISUAL AND THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES!

All of your questions can be answered here. Things like, “Should I just toss my phone in the creek upon entry and save myself time and stress?” Maybe you’re wondering, “Should I even bring a tent or just spend the weekend either awake or napping under other people’s trucks?” These are important questions and should be addressed prior to entry.

Thank you Emma and Garrett for covering last year’s Backwoods as well as Brainquility, right this second. It takes a village to be everywhere. It’s an exciting time to be a wrangler. Please join the fun as soon as you’re ready. Maybe before. And remember, the Roanoke Mafia loves Space Jesus.

Keep up with the wook wranglers as we join Kamp Happiness at Suwannee Spring Reunion and Rising. From there it all heads north to a virtual cornucopia of summer parties. Last year was ultimately a “turbulent” summer and the theme this festival season might be good choices, restraint and adult caution. Why are you laughing?

Good luck.

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