Sidelines staff photographer Skyler Wendell roamed Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee June 13-16 with a camera and a mission. Wendell captured the unexpected moments, unfiltered emotions and unforgettable faces of some of the approximately 70,000 attendees who made this year’s festival an experience to remember.
An impatient attendee waits for the music to start at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.An eager crowd awaits the start of the show at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.Front-row fans prepare to rock at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.A festivalgoer with a glittering smile awaits another concert at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.The sweaty tent crowd enjoys a set at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.Friends share an emotional moment at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.The crowd waits on the barrier, ready for some music at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.A Bonnaroovian experiences a moment of bliss in the crowd at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.Pink Pony Clubber singing along to Chappell Roan’s set at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, June 16, 2024.Attendees pause for a restful moment in the middle of festival chaos at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.A couple enjoys a face-to-face moment at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.A child creates a moment of joy away from the music at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.The House of MatROOMony’s resident makeup artist organizes supplies before preparing brides and grooms to walk down the aisle at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.A well-prepared partier enters Bonnaroo’s late-night clown rave at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.Strangers embrace under the spotlight after a collaborative freestyle dance at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.Keisha and Austin Bourgeois kiss after saying “I do” at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival at Manchester, Tennessee.A couple embracing each other and the moment at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.Two friends laughing at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.A DJ spins for a late-night clown crowd at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.Eager fans wait for Post Malone to take the What Stage at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, on June 14, 2024.Nate Z. and Ian Moore create their own musical moment in the shade at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, on June 14, 2024.A festivalgoer clips a sprout to another’s hat at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.Cake (James) at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.A trio of young color-coordinated friends share a silly moment at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.Fans show their love at Grouplove’s This Tent set at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee on June 14, 2024.A noisy crowd can’t get enough Grouplove at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee on June 14, 2024.A brief rainstorm paused the music and cooled the air near the end of the hot weekend at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, June 16, 2024.Patrick Ironwood peddling “Mysterious Artifacts from an Imaginary Shipwreck” at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, on June 14, 2024.A woman dances by herself amidst the crowd in front of the Ferris wheel at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.The crowd sweats through another balmy day at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.A child drops his sun-shielding parasol at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.A front-row crowd waits for the music to start at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, on June 14, 2024.Fans huddle under a tent before the set starts at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.People dance all night at the clown rave at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.An enraptured crowd glows under the lights at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.Fans partying all night at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.Fans rock out under a wave of bubbles in the purple glow of stage lights at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.The crowd enjoys a respite from the heat after the sun goes down at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.An overheated crowd cools off in a misting tent at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.
Skyler Wendell is a staff photographer for MTSU Sidelines.
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