TICKETS: Two-day passes are on sale now, full ticket info at: http://www.southerngroundfestival.com

After Zac Brown's "vision of combining world class fare with live music became a stunning reality" in Charleston in 2011, Zac Brown Band's Southern Ground Music & Food Festival makes its debut in Nashville The Lawn at Riverfront Park – the venue's first-ever paid event – September 21 and 22.

The festival line-up announced with Honorable Mayor Karl Dean:

• Zac Brown Band & Friends Super Set w/ special guest performances by Gregg Allman and more!
• Amos Lee
• Michael Franti & Spearhead
• Jerry Douglas
• David Gray
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
• The Lumineers
• Los Lonely Boys
• John Driskell Hopkins & Brighter Shade
• The James Arthur Band
• Coy Bowles & The Fellowship

And Southern Ground Artists:

• Blackberry Smoke
• Nic Cowan
• Dugas
• Sonia Leigh
• Levi Lowrey
• The Wheeler Boys

Curated by the band – from the appetizers to the openers, and the entrees to the headliners – festival-goers can expect two evenings of the finest musical acts, delicious offerings from the culinary world's best chefs – under the helm of Southern Ground Executive Chef Rusty Hamlin, and an all around "incredible level of production" (Charleston City Paper) guaranteed to be a sensory experience like no other music festival.