Sloss Fest Releases 2018 Schedule

BIRMINGHAM, AL - The Sloss Music and Arts Festival enters its fourth year with a powerful lineup of national and local artists filling two days of music at Sloss Furnaces July 14-15. The 2018 lineup was announced earlier this year, a lineup that includes names like Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell and Arcade Fire. Tuesday the festival's schedule was released.

July 14 will be headlined by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and Arcade Fire. Also performing July 14 will be 21 Savage, Vance Joy, Moon Taxi, Vic Mensa, Lany, Jai Wolf, Quin XCII, Big Freedia, Waxahatchee, White Reaper, Walden, *Repeat Repeat, Matt Maeson, Flagship, Arlie, Joel Madison Bount, Dead Fingers, Captain Kudzu, Love Moor and Lady Legs.

Saturday, July 15 will feature Stapleton and Griz closing out the festival. Leading up to the headliners will be St.Paul & The Broken Bones, The War on Drugs, Louis the Child, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Margo Price, Hippie Sabotage, AJR, PVRIS, Nikki Lane, Brent Cobb, The Spencer Lee Band, Morgan Saint, Super Doppler, The Brummies, Morning Teleportation, Patrick Droney, Shocks, Heath Green and the Makeshifters, Will Stewart and Taylor Hunnicutt.

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The festival saw immediate success in its first year in 2015, with artists such as Primus, Sturgill Simpson, Modest Mouse, Avett Brothers and Cage the Elephant. The 2016 festival was slightly less successful than the first, but still featured acts such as Ryan Adams, Ray Lamontagne, Fitz and the Tantrums and Death Cab for Cutie.

Last year's version of the festival was the most successful in its run, featuring Widespread Panic, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats, Alabama Shakes, Spoon and K Flay. Roughly 25,000 people attended the first Sloss Fest, and organizers declined to release number for the 2016 festival. More than 30,000 people attended the 2017 festival.

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