Premieres Friday, July 10, 2026 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV (not in the KPBS+ app)

One of music’s most innovative modern bluesmen, Ben Harper has also grown into one of its most dynamic live performers. A native of Pomona, California, Harper first hit the stage as an adolescent troubadour and – bolstered by his band, the Innocent Criminals – he is now considered among his generation’s essential voices.

Fifty thousand fans dancing in the sunshine of Manchester, Tennessee cheered on funk/folk superstar Ben Harper during his main-stage performance at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. The largest featured in LIVE FROM THE ARTISTS DEN, the concert took place on the 700-acre farm that for four days each year becomes the home of what is widely considered to be the premier American music festival.

EPISODE SONG LIST:

• With My Own Two Hands
• Steal My Kisses
• Ground on Down
• Forgiven
• Diamonds on the Inside
• Tomorrow Is A Long Time
• Diamonds On The Inside (Reprise)
• Don’t Take That Attitude to Your Grave
• Please Don’t Talk About Murder While I’m Eating
• Waiting For You
• Black Rain
• Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
• Better Way

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Ben Harper performs live for (((artists den))) at Bonnaroo Music Festival June 16, 2007, in Manchester, Tenn.