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Mumford & Sons hitting Walla Walla in August

Gentlemen of the Road festival will also bring Foo Fighters, Flaming Lips, Dawes and more

Mumford & Sons band member Marcus Mumford performs on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 at the West Side Tennis Club in the Forest Hills neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York. (Charles Sykes / Invision)
From staff reports
Mumford & Sons, the popular British folk pop outfit, will be stopping over in Walla Walla this summer, bringing the Foo Fighters, the Flaming Lips, Jenny Lewis, the Vaccines, and a couple dozen more national and regional acts along for the ride. Since 2012, Mumford & Sons has hosted a series of “Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers,” two-night festivals in smaller communities that are off the beaten track. In addition to the Walla Walla Stopover on Aug. 14-15, the caravan will stop over in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, Waverly, Iowa, Salida, Colorado and Aviemore, Scotland. The lineup in Walla Walla also will include Dawes, James Vincent McMorrow, tUnE-yArDs, Blake Mills, and JEFF the Brotherhood. More acts will be announced soon. Whitman College’s athletic field will host the headlining concerts and Veterans Memorial Golf Course will be closed to accommodate camping for 26,000 people. Tickets are $199 for the two-day festival and will go on sale Friday through the Mumford website. Camping is included in the ticket price. Here’s the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin’s take on the music festival. Meanwhile, Mumford & Sons will have a new record, “Wilder Mind,” out on May 4. It’s their third album and a follow-up to their platinum-selling “Babel.” The last time the band was in Eastern Washington was in 2013 for Sasquatch at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George.