Wonderfront: Here is the festival’s daily performance schedule and latest additions

Miguel (above) will headline Friday night at San Diego's new Wonderfront Music & Arts Festival.

Miguel or Ben Harper? Migos or MGMT? The proximity of Wonderfront’s main stages may make it easier to catch parts of their concurrent performances

Nov. 21, 2019

9:22 AM

How can you be in several places at the same time?

That may be the quandary for some attendees at this weekend’s debut edition of the Wonderfront Music & Arts Festival, which runs Friday through Sunday at multiple stages adjacent to San Diego Bay.

For example, on Friday night, Miguel and Ben Harper both perform from 8:45 to 10 p.m. On Saturday, Migos and MGMT perform at those same exact times.

The good news is that the stage Harper and MGMT are playing on at Embarcadero Marina Park South is in close proximity to the stage at Seaport Village Miguel and Migos are performing on at Seaport Village.

To make your brief trek even easier, at least on paper, Wonderfront’s producers have erected a sky walk between the two sites. They also promise to clear a ground-level route, on request, for any attendees in wheelchairs.

Moreover, two of the festival’s biggest stages are both located at Embarcadero Marina Park North, while the other two largest stages are at Seaport Village. The distance between the two farthest of those four stages is “no more than 1,600 feet,” Wonderfront’s producers promise. And there will be a variety of transportation options, on land and water, between the festival’s southern-most and northern-most stages at Hilton Bayfront Park and the Broadway Pier.

To help you plan, here is the full schedule for the festival’s seven main stages. (The lineups for Wonderfront’s smaller activation stages, where a good number of performances are free and open to the public, are available online at wonderfront.com.)

And, in case you missed it, here is our interview with Wonderfront mastermind Ernie Hahn II.

Wonderfront daily performance schedule

Uncle Ed’s D*mn Good Vodka Stage, at Embarcadero Marina Park North

Pepper 4:50-5:45 p.m.

Michael Franti & Spearhead 6:45-7:45 p.m.

Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals 8:45-10 p.m.

C3Bank Stage, at Embarcadero Marina Park North

Bad Suns 3:45-4:50 p.m.

Parquet Courts 5:45-6:45 p.m.

X Ambassadors 7:45-8:45 p.m.

Stella Artois Stage, at Seaport Village

Cofresi 3:30-4:10 p.m.

STS9 5-6 p.m.

Lil Baby 6:55-7:50 p.m.

Miguel 8:45-10 p.m.

KUSI Stage, at Seaport Village

Duckwrth 4:10-5 p.m.

Earthgang 6-6:55 p.m.

Aminé 7:50-8:45 p.m.

Univision & Estrella Jalisco Stage, at Hilton Bayfront Park

Greg Santos (comedy) 4-4:40 p.m.

Ximena Sariñana 4:45-5:45 p.m.

Greg Santos (comedy) 5:45-6:25 p.m.

CNCO 6:30-7:45 p.m.

Don Omar 8:45-10 p.m.

SDG&E “It’s On” San Diego 250 Stage, at Ruocco Park

Seis en Linea 4-5 p.m.

Banda Tierra Brava 5:45-7 p.m.

Los Crecidos 7:45-9:15 p.m.

Belly Up Music Box Casbah Stage, at Broadway Pier

Preservation Hall Jazz Band 4-5:30 p.m.

Schizophonics 6:15-7:30 p.m.

Alice Merton 8:15-9:30 p.m.

Skateboard legend Tony Hawk, who is a Wonderfront ambassador and investor, will demonstrate his gravity-defying moves at the festival in Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday

Uncle Ed’s D*mn Good Vodka Stage, at Embarcadero Marina Park North

Henry + The Invisibles 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Allie X 1:15-2:05 p.m.

Common Kings 2:25-3:50 p.m.

Phantogram 4:45-4:45 p.m.

Slightly Stoopid 6:45-7:45 p.m.

MGMT 8:45-10 p.m.

C3Bank Stage, at Embarcadero Marina Park North

The Mattson 2 12:30-1:15 p.m.

Grandson 2:05-2:55 p.m.

The Knocks 3:50-4:45 p.m.

Thievery Corporation 5:45-6:45 p.m.

Bob Moses 7:45-8:45 p.m.

Stella Artois Stage, at Seaport Village

Wild Prxfits 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Tokimonsta 1:05-2 p.m.

J.I.D. 2:55-3:50 p.m.

Big Gigantic 4:45-5:45 p.m.

Vince Staples 6:45-7:45 p.m.

Migos 8:45-10 p.m.

KUSI Stage, at Seaport Village

Jordan Hollywood 12:30-1:05 p.m.

Goldfish 2-2:55 p.m.

Fakear 3:50-4:45 p.m.

Bryce Vine 5:45-6:45 p.m.

Flatbush Zombies 7:45-8:45 p.m.

Univision & Estrella Jalisco Stage, at Hilton Bayfront Park

Nohemy 12:20- 12:50 p.m.

Chesca 1:20-1:50 p.m.

Chris Estrada (comedy) 1:50-2:35 p.m.

Jhay Cortez 2:45-3:45 p.m.

Chris Estrada (comedy) 3:45-4:30 p.m.

Reykon 4:45-5:45 p.m.

Nicky Jam 6:30-7:45 p.m.

Zion & Lennox 8:45-10 p.m.

SDG&E “It’s On” San Diego 250 Stage, at Ruocco Park

Brewfish Noon-1 p.m.

Grandma 1:40-2:40 p.m.

Tony Hawk Huckjam 2:45-3:35 p.m.

Jesse Baez 3:45-4:45 p.m.

The Vandals 6-7 p.m.

Tony Hawk Huckjam & DJ Z-Trip 7-7:45 p.m.

Pennywise 7:45-9 p.m.

Belly Up Music Box Casbah Stage, at Broadway Pier

The Routine Noon-1 p.m.

Steve Fulton Music 1:45-2:45 p.m.

Wild Belle 3:30-4:40 p.m.

Andy Frasco & The UN 5:20-6:30 p.m.

Capyac 7:10-8:15 p.m.

BoomBox 8:55-10 p.m.

Sunday

Uncle Ed’s D*mn Good Vodka Stage, at Embarcadero Marina Park North

Haddon Cord 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Broods 1:15-2:05 p.m.

Grace Vanderwaal 2:55-3:50 p.m.

Tribal Seeds 4:45-5:45 p.m.

Walk the Moon 6:45-7:45 p.m.

“Guitar Legends,” featuring Billy Gibbons, Warren Haynes, Steve Lukather, Nancy Wilson, George Thorogood, Charlie Starr & Ellis Hall 8:30-10 p.m.

C3Bank Stage, at Embarcadero Marina Park North

SunSquabi 12:30-1:15 p.m.

Japanese Breakfast 2:05-2:55 p.m.

Hippo Campus 3:50-4:45 p.m.

Manchester Orchestra 5:45-6:45 p.m.

Busta Rhymes 7:45-8:30 p.m.

Stella Artois Stage, at Seaport Village

Exmag 11:45-12:15 p.m.

BAS 1:05-2 p.m.

Jonas Blue 2:55-3:50 p.m.

Big Wild 4:45-5:45 p.m.

Tyga 6:45-7:45 p.m.

Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike 8:45-10:00 p.m.

KUSI Stage, at Seaport Village

SoDown 12:15-1:05 p.m.

Chrome Sparks 2:00-2:55 p.m.

Khea 3:50-4:45 p.m.

3LAU 5:45-6:45 p.m.

Lil Dicky 7:45-8:40 p.m.

Univision & Estrella Jalisco Stage, at Hilton Bayfront Park

Jesus Mendoza 12:30-1:15 p.m.

Victoria La Mala (comedy) 1:45-2:30 p.m.

Frankie J 3-3:45 p.m.

Rick Izquieta (comedy) 3:45-4:30 p.m.

Banda Los Sebastianes 4:45-5:45 p.m.

Rick Izquieta 5:45-6:20 p.m.

Los Tucanes de Tijuana 6:30-7:45 p.m.

Los Angeles Azules 8:45-10 p.m.

SDG&E “It’s On” San Diego 250 Stage, at Ruocco Park

Glades Noon-1 p.m.

Cydeways 1:40-2:40 p.m.

Tony Hawk Huckjam 2:45-3:35 p.m.

Aviator Stash 3:45-4:45 p.m.

X 6-7 p.m.

Tony Hawk Huckjam & DJ Z-Trip 7-7:45 p.m.

Suicidal Tendencies 7:45-9 p.m.

Belly Up Music Box Casbah Stage, at Broadway Pier

Donna Missal Noon-1 p.m.

English Beat 1:45-2:45 p.m.

Moon Taxi 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Donavon Frankenreiter 5:15-6:30 p.m.

Rob Machado & Friends 7:10-8:15 p.m.

Ghost Light 8:55-10 p.m.

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Veteran San Diego Union-Tribune pop music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Ray Charles, Miles Davis and Britney Spears to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Bruno Mars. A double first-prize winner at the 2018 Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga lives with his wife in North Park.