The Insane Clown Posse will showcase high-profile friends when the Gathering of the Juggalos festival makes its Indiana debut this summer.

Morris Day & the Time, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Gwar, Tech N9ne, Geto Boys and C+C Music Factory will perform on the main stage — billed as the "Soopa Stage" — when the Gathering happens July 31-Aug. 3 at Lawrence County Recreational Park 12 miles south of Bloomington.

Hip-Hop pioneer KRS-One will play the Shazam Stage, and the comedy segment of the festival includes stand-up from Gilbert Gottfried and a "Randy's Cheeseburger Picnic" variety show from "Trailer Park Boys" actor Patrick Roach.

Fans of rap-rock duo Insane Clown Posse are known as Juggalos. Attendees — many wearing face paint of psychotic clowns in tribute to ICP members Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope — will gather at the park that usually caters to dirt bike and all-terrain vehicle enthusiasts.

Since the festival's founding in 2000, the Gathering of the Juggalos has been staged in Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and Oklahoma.

Morris Day & the Time reached the Top 20 of Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart with singles "Jungle Love" and "Jerk Out." Bone Thugs-N-Harmony topped the chart with 1996 single "Tha Crossroads." C+C Music Factory is known for Top 10 hits "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" and "Things That Make You Go Hmmmm ..."

For more information, visit juggalogathering.com.

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