The fifth LASSO was the first one to take a whole weekend. After four editions squeezed into Friday and Saturday, the festival moved to a Saturday–Sunday run at Parc Jean-Drapeau on August 15 and 16, with LASSO in the City taking over downtown the Friday night before. Small change on paper, but it reshaped the whole thing.
Thomas Rhett closed Saturday, about as mainstream-Nashville as the bill got. Mumford & Sons closed Sunday, which was the stranger and more interesting call, a band that spent the last few years working its way back toward the roots side of things and found a country festival a reasonable place to land.
Between them: Koe Wetzel and Jon Pardi on the honky-tonk end, Turnpike Troubadours drawing the devoted, Carly Pearce and Old Dominion, Max McNown and Cameron Whitcomb and The Band Perry.
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