White Water Festival
June 12 - 15, 2025
live music
2025 FIBArk Whitewater Festival Headliners:
Thursday, June 12th -
Friday, June 13th -
Saturday, June 14th -
Sunday, June 15th -
The Jauntee
The Rumble featuring Big Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr.
Paizley Park
Shinyribs
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HEADLINERS
Thurday, June 12th
Friday, June 13th
Saturday, June 14th
The Jauntee
The Jauntee
The Jauntee pays tribute to music’s ability to transcend simple entertainment and cultivate a truly distinctive experience. The Jauntee has fostered a musical community based on a breadth of original material that engages fans through nightly exploration and risk taking. Averaging over one hundred shows a year, with each containing a unique set list and their own special improvisational moments, the band is constantly expanding upon what defines them and their live performances.
With almost a decade’s worth of touring experience; appearances at major festivals such as Peach Fest, Catskill Chill, and Resonance; and 36 states toured with stops at national touring staples such as Brooklyn Bowl, Georgia Theatre, and the Paradise Rock Club, The Jauntee have been nurturing a fanbase of dedicated followers who are inspired by their music and willing to travel to see what the band has in store next. Fans that thoroughly analyze their music, track their set lists and passionately promote their music. The Jauntee makes each night an exciting prospect of a new shared experience with bust-outs, fresh jamming, poignant covers, and accessible songwriting.​
The Jauntee
The rumble
On Mardi Gras morning, your eyes may feast on the intricate and elaborate beadwork of the Indians as they dance down the street, but the first thing you'll hear when they make their way toward you is the back line, known as "the rumble". Featuring seven GRAMMY-nominated musicians, The Rumble is more than just a band — it's an opportunity to be immersed in a wholly unique facet of New Orleans culture. Composed of Big Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr. of the Young Eagles, trumpeter Aurélien Barnes, trombonist José Maize Jr., bassist TJ Norris, guitarist Ari Teitel, keyboardist Andriu Yanovski, and drummer Trenton O’Neal, the group fuses iconic New Orleans funk in the vein of The Meters and The Neville Brothers — but updated, modern and vibrant befitting the next generation — with electrifying brass and the singular visual splendor of the Black Masking carnival tradition.
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The Jauntee
Paizley Park
Experience the electrifying energy and timeless genius of Prince with Paizley Park, Colorado’s premier tribute band. Led by the charismatic Phillip Lamar, Paizley Park doesn’t just perform Prince’s music—they bring it to life with an immersive concert experience that captures the essence of the Purple One himself.
From the moment the lights dim and the first notes hit, audiences are transported into a world of funk, rock, and soul, complete with intricate choreography, dazzling costume changes, and spot-on musical precision. Every show is a celebration of Prince’s legacy, delivering iconic hits like Purple Rain, When Doves Cry, Kiss, and 1999 with passion, authenticity, and an undeniable groove.
Whether playing sold-out clubs, theaters, or festivals, Paizley Park is more than just a tribute—it’s a must-see performance that honors one of music’s greatest legends. Get ready to party like it’s 1999!​
The Jauntee
Sunday, June 15th
shinyribs
We will maybe never know what Shinyribs is. Sometimes, it’s a sprawling multi-piece ensemble slapping the air until it grooves; sometimes he’s a somber subtle songwriter pouring poetry on the round from a cup half full. Either way it’s always the house-party-meets-library that is, Kevin Russell.
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Raised in Beaumont, TX, and Shreveport, LA—the cradle of swamp pop, Leadbelly, and bayou R&B—Russell distills those regional sounds into something both timeless and immediate, dripping from his singers like honey, salt & fat. Think Texas Gulf Coast meets Muscle Shoals, songs carved and weaved by hand with a storyteller’s heart.
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Shinyribs evolved from a solo residency Russell began under that moniker in the mid-2000s, after an incident in a Houston club, playing a private party for a group of welders where he bought a homeless woman a plate of ribs. “Her name was Roberta,” says Russell. “She was a high priestess of transistor radios and an almost forgotten music she called ‘Chilibump.’ For that plate of Ribs that night she gave me in return a name, Shinyribs and a road map to the mysterious big thicket sounds I had only heard of from old timers and time travelers.”
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