Gnarls, New Pornographers play Slow Food Rocks in San Fran

This summer, it seems any place and any reason are game for a music festival. We've had Memorial Weekend Fest in Bend, Ore., Bang on a Can Marathon (N.Y.) and Israel @ 60 (D.C.) most recently. The Wordless Music Series (N.Y.) will be going on through the end of June, and Corndog-O-Rama (Atlanta) this month as well. We are celebrating things with song like never before, and honestly, it's pretty sweet.

Well, add another music-based celebration to your summer calendar: the Slow Food movement will be presenting Slow Food Rocks in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Calif. It will take place on Saturday, Aug. 30 and Sunday, Aug. 31, and here's hoping the food vendors live up to the name's implied expectations. Organic, sulfite-free wine, anyone?

Slow Food Rocks will be part of the Slow Food Nation weekend, which is billed as "the largest celebration of American food in history." It's linked up to Slow Food, the international movement founded in 1989 in hopes of reconnecting people with their plates. Other highlights of Slow Food Nation will include tastings, workshops and speeches by foodies extraordinaire: Alice Waters, Michael Pollan and Wendell Berry, to name a few.

Of course, it would be easy enough to miss all of that good, food-related stuff with a lineup that includes Gnarls Barkley (the Saturday headliner), The New Pornographers, Ozomatli, the John Butler Trio, Medeski, Martin & Wood and G. Love & Special Sauce. More acts, as well as Sunday's headliner, are yet to be announced.

Single-day and full-weekend tickets are available at the Slow Food Rocks website.

Related links:
News: Gnarls Barkley releases The Odd Couple three weeks early
News: New Pornographers' A.C. Newman thinks new solo album
News: Ozomatli visits Asia as U.S. cultural ambassador

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