Common Ground Music Festival line-ups

The Common Ground Music Festival is an annual week-long music festival that takes place in downtown Lansing, Michigan. The July festival, which began in the year 2000 and attracts 50,000-plus people each year, is located at the Louis Adado Riverfront Park along the Grand River. Co-created by Center Park Productions and Meridian Entertainment Group, it showcases national and regional artists in contemporary and classic rock, pop, alternative, folk, country, hip hop, and R&B music.

Inaugural event: 2000

The first Common Ground Music Festival took place in July, 2000.

Lineup

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• 1964 the Tribute
• Baars
• Barbara Bailey Hutchison
• Charlie Daniels
• Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings
• The Contours
• Creedence Clearwater Revisited
• Domestic Problems
• The Doobie Brothers
• Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater
• Harlem Gospel Choir
• Joe Walsh

• Loverboy
• Martina McBride
• Pablo Cruise
• Starship ft. Mickey Thomas
• Styx
• Terrence Simen
• The Beach Boys
• Third Eye Blind
• Uptown
• Vertical Horizon
• The Verve Pipe

2001

Lineup

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• Bad Company
• Billy Squier
• Chris Cagle
• Eddie Money
• The Fabulous Thunderbirds
• Foundations of Funk
• Fuel
• Gladys Knight
• Grand Funk Railroad

• Great White
• Jethro Tull
• Lee Ann Womack
• Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Pat Benatar
• Phil Vassar
• The Commodores
• Tim Rushlow
• Trick Pony

2002

Lineup

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• Blake Shelton
• Brad Martin
• Dave Mason
• Earth, Wind & Fire
• Foreigner
• G. Love & Special Sauce
• George Thorogood & The Destroyers
• Jackyl
• Jamie O'Neal
• Journey
• Kool & the Gang
• Leon Russell
• Little Big Town

• Little Feat
• Night Ranger
• Phil Vassar
• Sixwire
• Skid Row
• Smokey Robinson
• Steve Azar
• Tesla
• The Calling
• The Edgar Winter Band
• The Guess Who
• Vince Neil
• WITL-O-Meters

2003

Lineup

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• 3 Doors Down
• Amazing Device
• Automatic Blues Band
• Boston
• Chac Mul Rock
• Darryl Worley
• Dash Rip Rock
• David Lee Roth
• Gunslinger
• Hootie & The Blowfish
• Jan James
• Joe Cocker
• Jonny Lang
• Karl Denson's Tiny Universe

• Koko Taylor
• Larry McCray
• Mas Ambicion
• Meat Loaf
• Megan
• Our Lady Peace
• Seether
• Shinedown
• The Temptations Revue
• The Allman Brothers Band
• The Contours
• The Lash
• Travis Tritt
• WAR

2004

Lineup

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• Alice Cooper
• Arturo Sandoval
• Asleep at the Wheel
• B5
• Blues Traveler
• Crosby, Stills & Nash
• Dave Mason
• [...] Wagner
• Earshot
• Five for Fighting
• Gregg Rolie
• Johnny Winter

• Kansas
• KEM
• Liz Phair
• Mario Winans
• Montgomery Gentry
• My Surrender
• REO Speedwagon
• Rob Roy
• Saliva
• The Tubes
• ZZ Top

2005

Lineup

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• Alan Parsons
• The Allman Brothers Band
• Aslyn
• Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
• The Black Crowes
• Blue Öyster Cult
• Buddy Guy
• Christopher Cross
• Crossfade
• Dark New Day
• El Chicano

• Gavin DeGraw
• Grand Funk Railroad
• John Legend
• Johnny Rivers
• Journey
• Mitch Ryder
• Naturally 7
• Seether
• Silvertide
• The Beach Boys
• Whitesnake

2006

Lineup

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• Bloodletting
• Bomshel
• Aslyn
• Bonnie Raitt
• Cheap Trick
• Cinderella
• Dave and Sean
• Dixie Mafia
• Dwight Yoakam
• Endeverafter
• Etta James & The Roots Band
• Evans Blue
• Frog & The Beeftones
• Groove Makers
• Halestorm
• Hunter Brucks
• Jeremy Sprague
• Keb' Mo'

• Keith Anderson
• Ladysmith Black Mambazo
• Living Soul
• Mavis Staples
• Peter Trappen
• Poison
• Ray Potter
• Ritmo
• Shinedown
• Spinnaker
• Steve Miller Band
• Styx
• Ted Nugent
• Tesla
• The Bangles
• The Huntunes
• Trapt
• Yin and Yang

2007

Lineup

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• .38 Special
• Billy Nicholls
• Blackberry Smoke
• Boomers
• Brian Lorente & The Usual Suspects
• Bruce Hornsby
• Buckcherry
• Dicky Betts & Great Southern
• Don Middlebrook & Living Soul
• Dutch Henry
• Dwight Slade
• Family Stone Xperience
• Hinder
• Joshua & Jeremy Sprague
• Los Lonely Boys
• Marshall Crenshaw
• Mike Armstrong
• Miranda Lambert
• Montgomery Gentry
• Nuttin' But Stringz
• Papa Roach

• Peter Frampton
• Peter Trappen & Northern Star
• Pretty Ricky
• Rachel Rodriguez
• Ray Townsend
• Rick Villa
• Rodney Atkins
• Ryan Shaw
• Slice
• Spinnaker
• Starship Ft. Mickey Thomas
• Surrogate Band
• The DeWaynes
• The Exies
• The Guess Who
• The New Cars
• The Romantics
• Tim Cavanagh
• Todd Yohn
• "Weird Al" Yankovic

2008

Lineup

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• Alter Bridge
• Brian Brill
• Dan St. Paul
• David Barrett
• David Crowe
• Don Middlebrook & Living Soul
• Drowning Pool
• Fiction Plane
• Finger Eleven
• Flynnville Train
• Geechy Guy
• Grand Funk Railroad
• James Otto
• Julianne Hough
• Kathie Dunbar
• Kellie Pickler
• Kenny Wayne Shepherd

• Lao Tizer
• Los Bandits de Michigan
• Lyle Lovett and his Large Band
• Paul and Storm
• REO Speedwagon
• Sammy Hagar
• Seether
• Sick Puppies
• Snoop Dogg
• Staind
• The Hard Lessons
• The Mother Truckers
• The Sweet
• Trace Adkins
• WAR
• Zappa Plays Zappa
• Zombies

2009

Lineup

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• 1 OH 1
• 3 Doors Down
• Bettye LaVette
• Billy Squier
• BoDeans
• The Boomers
• Brent Grunow
• Chris Guild
• Darius Rucker
• David Cook
• Dek Teks
• DJ Boogie Bill
• DJ Crazy Cas
• DJ Element
• DJ JD
• DJ LeXXX
• DJ Ric H
• DJ Skitzo
• DJ Space
• Edgar Winter
• FFM
• Framing Hanley
• George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic

• Harper
• Huey Lewis and the News
• Hunter Brucks
• Izzy and Chris
• Jet
• Kenny Wayne Shepherd
• Los Lonely Boys
• Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg
• Needtobreathe
• The Outer Vibe
• Parachute
• Red
• Rob Perry
• SafetySuit
• Saving Abel
• Sheryl Crow
• Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Taddy Porter
• The Roots
• Tom T.
• Trailer Choir
• Twinn City

2010

Lineup

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• Adam Lambert
• Alice Cooper
• Allison Iraheta
• Arlene McCann
• Bear Lake
• Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
• Blue Coyote
• Bret Michaels
• Buckcherry
• Cavo
• Cinderella
• Civil Twilight
• Corey Crowder
• Dan Rodriguez
• Don Middlebrook
• Drowning Pool
• Hoobastank
• Jackyl
• Joshua & Jeremy Sprague
• Jimmy Cliff

• Lansing Symphony Orchestra
• Ludacris
• Lyric/lee
• Matt Giraud
• Max Weinberg
• Mindi Abair
• Neon Trees
• Orianthi
• The Outer Vibe & The MSU School of Music
• Peter White
• Poor Boy Relief
• Rebirth Brass Band
• Sammy Hagar
• Sick Puppies
• Spinnaker
• Tesla
• The Machine performs Pink Floyd
• Three 6 Mafia
• Trevor Hall

2011

Lineup

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• Aaron Lewis
• Andy Suzuki & The Method
• Black Stone Cherry
• Blackberry Smoke
• Brena
• Brian Lorente
• Brilliance
• Burton Cummings
• Charlie Daniels
• David Nail
• Don Middlebrook
• Downplay
• Duke Tumatoe
• Hot Chelle Rae
• i SQUARE
• Jolley
• Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights

• Larry McCray
• Life Support
• LL Cool J
• Locksley
• Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Marnee
• Melissa Etheridge
• The Outer Vibe
• Pete Rivera
• Rick Springfield
• The Showdown
• Small Town Son
• The Definition
• Theory of a Deadman
• Trey Songz
• The Verve Pipe

2012

Lineup

Source:

• Brent James and the Contraband
• Bush
• Candlebox
• Captain E-Man
• Casey James
• Cheap Girls
• Delta Rae
• DJ Ammy
• DJ Cha Chi
• DJ Cuttnice
• DJ Duke
• DJ Face
• DJ Rod P
• DJ Ruckus
• DJ Sizl
• DJ Skitzo
• DJ Space
• Eric Church
• Gunnar & The Grizzly Boys
• High Valley
• IAmDynamite

• Joe Walsh
• John Beltran
• Joe Hertler and the Rainbow Seekers
• John Waite
• Julia Nunes
• Kevin Costner and Modern West
• Kitty Hawk
• Lights
• Like a Storm
• Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
• Morris Day and the Time
• Pop Evil
• Saving Abel
• A Silent Film
• Sister Hazel
• Soul Asylum
• Sublime with Rome
• The Wallflowers
• Three Days Grace
• Tommy Tutone
• Walk off the Earth

2013

Lineup

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• Against the Current
• Alex Goot
• Almost Kings
• American Opera
• American Authors
• Ashes To Ashes
• AWOLNATION
• Barenaked Ladies
• Ben Folds Five
• Bennett
• Boothby Graffoe
• BOP Harvey
• Captain E-Man
• Creedence Clearwater Revisited
• Dean Alexander
• DeverauX
• Dizzy Wright
• DJ Chewy
• DJ Dav
• DJ Duke
• DJ Element
• DJ Face
• DJ Rod P
• DJ Ruckus
• DJ Sizl
• DJ Skitzo
• DJ Space
• Echoes of Pink Floyd
• Elliot Street Lunatic
• Fifth Harmony
• Flint Eastwood
• Foxy Shazam
• Frontier Ruckus
• Goodnight, Texas
• Guster
• Harper and Midwest Kind
• Here Come the Mummies
• Jeremy Porter & The Tucos
• Joe Hertler and the Rainbow Seekers

• Jon Connor
• Josh Ritter
• Julia Sheer
• Kari Lynch Band
• Kid Ink
• Know Lyfe
• Leagues
• Lights & Caves
• Little Big Town
• Ludacris
• MGMT
• Mike Mains & The Branches
• Mike Vial and the Great Lake Effect
• Monster Truck
• [...] by Death
• Nahko and Medicine for the People
• Nic Da Saint
• Owen
• Phoenix Stone
• Randy Houser
• Red Stone Souls
• Sam Tsui ft. Kurt Hugo Schneider
• Sevendust
• The Sheepdogs
• Shooter Jennings
• Silent Disco
• Slash
• Taylor Taylor
• The Avett Brothers
• The Legal Immigrants
• The Soil and The Sun
• Third Coast Kings
• Tokyo Police Club
• Twenty One Pilots
• Von Grey
• Wilson
• Xavier Rudd
• ZZ Ward

2014

Lineup

Source:

Tuesday, July 8

• Brand New
• Circa Survive
• The Hold Steady
• Say Anything
• The Front Bottoms
• Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band
• Braid
• The So So Glos
• You Blew It!
• Seahaven
• Dinosaur Pile-Up

Wednesday, July 9

• 311
• Violent Femmes
• The Wailers
• Flobots
• The 4onthefloor
• OPM
• Radical Something
• Ben Kenney
• The Weeks
• Squirrel Shaped Fish

Thursday, July 10

• Justin Moore
• David Nail
• Gord Bamford
• Julia Sheer
• Hugh Bob and the Hustle
• Chelsey Danfield
• Jacob Powell

Friday, July 11

• Big Sean
• Juicy J
• Ace Hood
• Machine Gun Kelly
• Chevy Woods
• Berner
• Tay Rhodes
• cyRus
• L Soul
• Ill Natured
• Hitman with DJ Klaverflav
• James Gardin

Saturday, July 12

• Fitz and The Tantrums
• Dr. Dog
• Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
• The Orwells
• X Ambassadors
• Royal Teeth
• Jukebox the Ghost
• The People’s Temple
• Chappo

Sunday, July 13

• Earth, Wind & Fire
• The Robert Glasper Experiment
• Joe Hertler & the Rainbow Seekers
• AHSAN
• Dee Hibbert & Company

2015

Lineup

Source:

Tuesday, July 7

• Joshua Davis
• MisterWives
• The Specktators Collective
• Bea Miller
• Skizzy Mars
• Charlie Puth
• Life of Dillon
• Rajiv Dhall
• Flint Eastwood
• Less is More

Wednesday, July 8

• Jane's Addiction
• Alien Ant Farm
• Failure
• In This Moment
• Here Come the Mummies
• Eyes Set to Kill
• Heartsick
• Kaleido
• Vandalay
• ANA
• The Most Powerful Weapon

Thursday, July 9

• The Band Perry
• Parmalee
• Old Dominion
• Brett Kissel
• Gaelic Storm
• Chasin Crazy
• Árstíðir
• The Anatomy of Frank
• Steve Rivers
• Bear Creek Brothers
• Shelby Ann-Marie

Friday, July 10

• Three Days Grace
• P.O.D.
• Finger Eleven
• All That Remains
• The Color Morale
• I Prevail
• Mr. Denton on Doomsday
• DeverauX
• Critical Bill
• The Jonestown Crows

Saturday, July 11

• Snoop Dogg
• Wale
• Tech N9ne
• DJ Quik
• Heems
• BLAT! Pack
• B.Sykes

Sunday, July 12

• Empire of the Sun
• The Flaming Lips
• Motion City Soundtrack
• The Spill Canvas
• Mike Mains & The Branches
• Man Man
• Foxing
• mewithoutYou
• machineheart
• Sorority Noise

2016

Lineup

Source:

Tuesday, July 5

• TBA

Wednesday, July 6

• TBA

Thursday, July 7

• TBA

Friday, July 8

• TBA

Saturday, July 9

• TBA

Sunday, July 10

• TBA