Nashville’s Deep Tropics Festival Takes Sustainability Seriously

As a sustainability effort, Deep Tropics has traded paper flyers for packets of wildflower seeds stamped with its 2025 lineup. The music, art and style festival hopes to help music fans positively impact the environment by planting wildflowers and not creating additional litter. Deep Tropics will take place in Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park in Nashville from August 15-16th. 

Music

Deep Tropics will kick off with a pre-party on August 14th. It will take place at Studio 615 from 9pm-2am. The festival officially opens on Friday, August 15th at 2pm and Saturday, August 16th at 12pm. Four stages will operate over the course of the two-day festival during main event hours. 

Photo Courtesy of Deep Tropics

Their individual lineups are as follows: 

Meru:

Chris Lake

Lane 8

Chris Lorenzo

Disco Lines

Aluna (DJ set)

Ameme

LF System

Ash Lauryn

INVT

Sinca

Cruel Mistress

Dead On

Merchant

Cloonee (closing set)

Lotus:

Alison Wonderland

Subtronics

Liquid Stranger

Troyboi

Gentlemens Club

LYNY

Machinedrum (DJ set)

MPH

Fly

Heyz

Know Good

Maddy O’Neal

Zen Selekta

Aych

Crucial

Mollywater

Voodoo

Congo:

Dusky

Riordan

Will Clarke

Icarus

Ranger Trucco

Sam Wolfe

Afrosheen

Fiera

Hotboxx B2B ARHT

MISSFREQ

Stalling

Squuid

Vangeaux B2B Kiana Nadine

Wild Bill

QDP feat. Daddy Pop B2B Girl Friday B2B J. Howard

Deep Culture Speakeasy:

Equanimous

Femme House

Lincoln Jesser

Ruby Chase

Savej

Shivarasa

Madame Gandhi will host. Both evenings will feature after-hours events. Late-Night Parties will take place at Cannery Hall from 10pm-3am. Til Dawn Parties will take place at Studio 615. Hours for those are 11pm-5am on Friday and 11pm-7am on Saturday. 

Photo Courtesy of Deep Tropics

Focus on Sustainability

Deep Tropics is focused on redefining the role music festivals play with sustainability and regenerative culture. It aims to have 100% offset carbon emissions, zero single-use plastics and more in alignment with its climate-positive mission. The seed packets distributing the lineup are a metaphor for the community; each person holds within them the possibility to grow something meaningful. 

Tickets

Tickets are available as General Admission, Plus and Platinum, with add ons and additional events available. Ticket upgrades can be purchased online or at the box office while supplies last. The box office, located at 6th Ave & Harrison, will be open the following hours:

  • August 14th: 2pm-8pm
  • August 15th: 10am-10pm
  • August 16th: 10am-10pm

For more information on Deep Tropics, visit https://www.deeptropics.org.

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