Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Jon Batiste Among Headliners for Tennessee’s Pilgrimage Festival

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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticThe top of the bill at the forthcoming Pilgrimage Festival in Tennessee looks a little like a reprise of the recent Grammy Awards telecast, with Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile and Grammy king Jon Batiste all set to perform this September.From there, the festival takes a more decided skew toward Americana than it has in past years, although it also leans into other genres.

The Avett Brothers are also among the headliners, on a lineup that includes Lake Street Dive, Celisse, Elle King, Dawes, Adia Victoria, Marty Stuart, Molly Tuttle, Butch Walker and Trampled by Turtles.Pilgrimage takes place Sept.

24-25 at the Park at Harlinsdale in Franklin, about a half-hour south of Nashville. Better Than Ezra is one of the outliers on the bill, as a more straight-ahead rock band, and there’s a good reason the band is there: Frontman Kevin Griffin is one of Pilgrimage’s co-founders.

He owned up to aiming the festival in a certain direction for 2022 that befits the area where it’s held, so there are no all-out rock ‘n’ roll headliners, a la the presence of the Foo Fighters, Weezer and the Killers in the past.