Mill Valley Music Festival announces daily lineup. Tickets on sale tomorrow

Christina Campodonico

 revealed its daily lineup Monday and will kick off its second annual two-day fest in Marin County with “soulrocker” Michael Franti and his longtime band Spearhead on Saturday, May 13.

Saturday’s lineup will also include New Orleans’ Grammy-nominated Tank and the Bangas, Seattle seven-piece The Dip, the bluesy and soulful Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, and Oakland psychedelic African rock ensemble, Orchestra Gold.

Sunday features the retro soul vibes of Durand Jones, the Appalachian-influenced folk of singer Valerie June and Tam High School rockers The Alive. Sacramento-born alt-rock band Cake closes out the festival as Sunday’s headliner.

Single-day tickets and VIP passes go on sale tomorrow, Feb. 28 at 10 a.m.

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Cake and Michael Franti & Spearhead headline the two-day Marin County music fest. 

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Christina J. Campodonico was a reporter at The Standard until 2024. She first fell in love with local journalism covering Silicon Beach in her native SoCal and cut her teeth managing the neighborhood’s 50-year-old newspaper, the Argonaut. Her writing has been nominated for multiple Southern California Journalism Awards and has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeleno and KCET&#8217;s Southland Sessions. She is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

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CAKE and Michael Franti & Spearhead headline the two-day Mill Valley Music Festival in Marin County music fest.