Green River Festival Announces Preliminary 2025 Lineup
Featuring Mt. Joy, Courtney Barnett, Waxahatchee, MJ Lenderman & The Wind, Julien Baker & TORRES, and More
Franklin County Fairgrounds | Greenfield, MA | June 20, 21, 22, 2025
Limited Specially-Priced “Plan Ahead” Tier 3-Day Passes
plus Camping, Parking, and VIP Add-Ons On Sale at greenriverfestival.com
Green River Festival has announced the first acts on its 2025 lineup: headliners Mt. Joy, Courtney Barnett, and Waxahatchee will be joined by MJ Lenderman & The Wind, Julien Baker & TORRES, LA LOM, Kabaka Pyramid, BALTHVS, Ocie Elliott, Kathleen Edwards, Futurebirds, Mo Lowda & The Humble, Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge, Chaparelle, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Olive Klug, and Merce Lemon across three stages over the three days of the festival. The festival returns to Franklin County Fairgrounds in Greenfield, MA on June 20, 21, and 22 for its 39th year.
A limited amount of specially-priced “Plan Ahead” tier 3-Day Passes plus Camping, Parking, and VIP Add-Ons are on sale now at greenriverfestival.com. The full artist lineup will be announced in early 2025 at which time single and 2-day tickets will also be available for purchase.
Named one of “fifty essential summer music festivals” by The New York Times, the Green River Festival is Western Massachusetts’ signature summer event. The festival is a spectacular celebration of music and community: a world-class lineup of over 40 acts on four stages, the best in local food, beer and wine, handmade crafts at The Makers Market, a wide array of kid’s activities, and camping. NPR recently wrote, “The Green River Festival lineup gets more legendary by the year.”
The Philadelphia and Los Angeles-based band Mt. Joy has made their mark with three acclaimed albums over the past six years, featuring multiple singles that have gone #1 at AAA radio and amassed millions of Spotify streams. “Mt. Joy’s songs unfold like good political speeches: They amble and converse and pulsate fervently until it’s time to get the crowd chanting along.” – NPR
A deft lyricist and virtuosic guitarist, Courtney Barnett is an emblem of millennial wit and one of Australia’s most successful musical exports. Garnering a coveted Best New Artist Grammy nomination and numerous other accolades, her 2015 debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit stands as a generational classic. Barnett followed her debut with 2017’s Lotta Sea Lice, an acclaimed collaborative record with Kurt Vile, and has since released three more albums: Tell Me How You Really Feel (2018), Things Take Time, Take Time, (2021), and End of the Day (2023).
Katie Crutchfield, who performs under the moniker Waxahatchee, is one of the hardest working singer-songwriters in the game. While her sound has evolved from lo-fi folk to lush alt-tinged country over six critically-acclaimed albums over a decade, her voice has always remained the same: honest and close, poetic with Southern lilting. On her new GRAMMY-nominated album Tigers Blood, Crutchfield emerges as a powerhouse–an ethnologist of the self–forever dedicated to revisiting her wins and losses. The lead single, “Right Back to It,” is a nod to country duets like Gram and Emmylou, winding over a steadfast banjo from Phil Cook. Together, Crutchfield and MJ Lenderman (also on the 2025 festival lineup) harmonize on the chorus, with Lenderman contributing guitar throughout the album.
Southern indie-rock wunderkind MJ Lenderman was a 20 year-old guitarist working at an ice cream shop in his hometown of Asheville, NC while self-booking tours for himself or the band he’d recently joined, Wednesday, when he recorded his third solo album, 2021’s Boat Songs. Suddenly, people were paying a lot of attention to what Jake Lenderman might make next… The resulting album, Manning Fireworks, is an instant classic of an LP, his frank introspection and observation finding the intersection of wit and sadness and taking up residence there for 39 minutes. Yes, the punchlines are still here, as are the rusted-wire guitar solos that have made Lenderman a favorite for indie rock fans looking for an emerging guitar hero.
Singer-songwriters Julien Baker & TORRES’ new collaborative project shifts their sound from indie-rock to country. Julien Baker’s solo material, noted for her personal lyrics and vulnerable delivery, has gradually expanded its arrangements from spare piano and guitar to add keyboards, a rhythm section, and more by her third album, 2021’s Top 40-charting Little Oblivions. She’s also drawn critical acclaim as one-third of Boygenius, a group she formed with Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers in 2018. TORRES’ raw vocals and insightful lyrics incorporate folk, electronic, and rock. Her most recent album, What an Enormous Room, was released in 2024.
The lineup also includes instrumental trio LA LOM with their blend of cumbia, soul ballads, and classic romantic boleros; Jamaica’s conscious revolutionary reggae/hip-hop lyricist Kabaka Pyramid; Colombian psychedelic funk trio BALTHVS, indie-folk duo Ocie Elliott; roots music icon and Western Mass favorite Kathleen Edwards; Futurebirds with their progressive mix of rock & roll, electrified folk, and cosmic American roots music; self-produced Philadelphia indie-rock band Mo Lowda & The Humble; 18 year-old award-winning guitarist, songwriter, and bandleader Grace Bowers, who’s experienced meteoric rise since the release of her debut album earlier this year; Zella Day, Jesse Woods, and Beau Bedford channeling the allure of country music’s golden age as Chaparelle; Signature Sounds Recording artist AJ Lee & Blue Summit and their energetic, charming, and technically jaw-dropping roots music; storytelling folk musician with a lilting soprano voice Olive Klug; and folk/country singer-songwriter Merce Lemon.
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