Bon Iver to play festival set of entirely new music as Justin Vernon returns
Vernon will also perform with James Blake under the moniker Fall Creek Boys Choir
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Your support makes all the difference.Bon Iver has announced that he will play a set of all-new music at an upcoming Wisconsin festival.
Singer-songwriter Justin Vernon revealed on his Twitter account that he will perform entirely new songs at the Eaux Claires Music and Arts Festival he co-curates with The National’s Aaron Desser this August.
Bon Iver has not released any new material since 2011’s self-titled album. Vernon disappointed fans in 2012 when he said the band was “winding down” and has since insisted that fresh tracks will only be released when the music he is making feels “really true”.
“I’ve been working on music, you know, man,” he told Billboard in February. “It takes a long time and I’m not sure exactly what it is or what it means to me and until that happens I won’t really know exactly what sharing it will look like or feel like or when.
“There’s sort of this internal pressure, not from anybody but myself, to come out with new music for the festival. But I’m not gonna make myeslf do anything.
“I really have to take it step by step and have patience and know that the music, if it comes out, it’s gotta be really true, it’s gotta really live with the other records and extend from them and be reborn and all that.”
Eaux Claires Festival runs from 11-12 August, with Vernon also set to perform with James Blake under the moniker Fall Creek Boys Choir.
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