At Bonnaroo, it doesn’t matter if you’re a modern country queen, a gigantic jam band or one of the hottest rappers on the planet — every musician gets the chance to capture the hearts of 80,000 fans in Manchester, Tennessee.

The 18th annual festival packed more than 150 performances over its four-day stretch, and a handful of them were truly inspired, with a kind of unique magic that can only be conjured up "The Farm."

Read on to see our picks for the 10 best performances of Bonnaroo 2019.

10. The Lonely Island

Bonnaroo ... on a boat!

Nearly a decade and a half since comedy outfit The Lonely Island seeped into the cultural zeitgeist as recurring "Saturday Night Live" musical shtick, the group —consisting of SNL alums Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer — took to The Farm for a rousing hour-plus comedic performance.

The early Sunday show on the Which Stage offered one of the first looks into the group's hotly-anticipated summer tour, the first in Lonely Island history.

Opening with the uber-meta "We're On Stage," the Island's twenty-or-so songs came with costume changes ("The Creep"), props from music video canon ("Shy Ronnie") and hilariously smooth skits. For example, Samberg's character in "Ras Trent" gets promoted, seamlessly launching "Like A Boss."

"Rick and Morty" actor Chris Parnell shocked the audience by appearing during the formative "Lazy Sunday" rap, which he launched with Samberg as an SNL digital short in 2005.

The group didn't cut corners on its comedic bangers (especially the ones a little too inappropriate for print), busting out "Yolo," "We Like Sportz" and "Jack Sparrow," complete with a digital Michael Bolton cameo.

Oh! And "I'm On a Boat," duh. It wouldn't be a Lonely Island show without the song that went viral before "going viral" was cultural commonplace.

"Thank you so much you guys," Samberg said. "This is amazing."

9. The GRiZ 'G.O.A.T.' Superjam

American DJ and saxophonist Grant Richard Kwiecinski, better known by his stage name GRiZ, hosted Bonnaroo's annual SuperJam with a number of special guests early Saturday morning.

The post-midnight show included performances by Deva Mahal, K.Flay, Nicholas Petricca (Walk the Moon), and many more.

This year’s theme: Covers of popular songs from past artists which many could describe as G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time). These throwbacks included crowd favorites “Valerie" by Amy Winehouse, “1999" by Prince, and “Respect,” made famous by Aretha Franklin.

As you would expect, the packed, colorfully lighted tent made for one big vibrant singalong.

–Megan Cole, MTSU Seigenthaler News Service

8. Maren Morris

It had been a slightly rocky week for Maren Morris.

On Tuesday, the country star announced she’d done a photo shoot with Playboy — and ended up having to fire back at the many fans who disapproved.

Well, Morris couldn’t find a more accepting audience than the one that greeted her at Bonnaroo.

“I love this festival so much,” she told them.

“I’ve been here a few times, but it’s been a few years. So I feel like I’m coming home. I just love how happy everyone is when they’re at this festival. No judging. It’s like, ‘Be you, and go see your favorite artists.’ I get to be a fan at these things, too...Who saw (Childish) Gambino last night? That was just next level. Otherworldly.”

But on Saturday afternoon, it was her turn to inspire others on Bonnaroo’s biggest stage. As she opened with “Girl,” the anthemic title track of her new album, more than one female fan raised their phones in the air to beam their friends in via FaceTime.

“Girl, don't you hang your head low,” she and her band belted in stacked harmony.

“Don't you lose your halo/ Everyone's gonna be okay.”

Morris and her band kicked off the “Girl” tour in March, and just took on Nashville’s Nissan Stadium last week during CMA Music Fest. With a few solid months under their belt, Morris and co displayed a headliner level of confidence and precision, tearing through hits and highlights from “Girl” and her 2016 debut, “Hero.”

She’s among the most assured singers Bonnaroo will see all weekend, with vocal runs and high notes coursing through “All My Favorite People,” “‘80s Mercedes,” “The Feels,” “The Bones” and “RSVP.”

But her audience on the field — which she praised for “packing it out” — impressed her, too.

“Can I get a hallelujah,” she belted as an introduction to “My Church,” her breakout hit. The crowd wailed and hooted in response.

“Alright!” Morris said. "Asked and answered. Let’s do this together!"

7. Post Malone

“NOTICE: This set will feature a loud bang sound effect that might be startling to some patrons.”

That message stayed on the video screens in front of Bonnaroo’s main stage long before modern rap superstar Post Malone appeared — out of the thickest cloud of fog imaginable.

The warning was a smart move, considering the blunder at last year’s festival. In 2018, Eminem’s headlining set included some menacing pyrotechnics that sounded close to gunshots, which sent many attendees ducking for cover.

And that heads up wasn’t the only thing Post Malone got right where Marshall Mathers went wrong.

First of all, he uniquely speaks to this audience — which is as always predominately in their late teens and early 20s.

They filled out the field in front of “What Stage” with a turnout that frankly put Phish’s Friday night crowd to shame.

But more importantly, Post is thoroughly upbeat and inclusive, and that plays very well in Manchester — to say nothing of the scads of pop hits this guy has racked up in short order, including breakout “White Iverson,” “Rockstar” and “Sunflower.”

“My name is Austin Richard Post, and I’m here to play y’all some (expletive) music and get (expletive)-ed up...let’s get (expletive) weird!”

In case you didn’t notice, Post can be a little tricky to directly quote if you’re avoiding the F-word — but he uses it with love.

“What a (expletive) kick-ass crowd, man,” he said. “Thank y’all so much.”

6. Cardi B

Ahead of her appearance at Bonnaroo, Cardi B had to bow out of several planned gigs due to plastic surgery. After weeks of worry from ticketholders, the world-famous rapper did indeed make it to the festival stage in Manchester, Tennessee — but still, she faced setbacks.

“I just wanna let y’all know that my outfit rip,” she told her audience, just a few songs into her set. She pressed through for a couple of minutes, then vanished from the stage. After a time-filling singalong of “Old Town Road,” she reemerged — in a white bathrobe.

“We gonna keep it moving, baby,” she said. “We gonna keep it sexy. I don’t know how in this (expletive) robe, but we gonna do it!”

“Keep it moving” was a mantra during her brisk 45-minute set, as a rare female rap star, who’s used to working harder than anyone else in the room - or on a festival lineup.

Cardi B, her dancers and tireless hype man tore through every hit she’s enjoyed in three short years: “I Like It,” “Money,” and her collaborations with Bruno Mars (“Please Me,” “Finesse”), Maroon 5 (“Girls Like You.”) and closing with her breakout chart-topper “Bodak Yellow.”

5. John Prine

The crowd that gathered for John Prine may not have been the largest or youngest to congregate on The Farm during Bonnaroo.

But it could easily be the rowdiest.

Passionate chants of "John Prine! John Prine!" awaited the newly-inducted Songwriters Hall of Fame member as he walked onto the That Tent stage, flashing a coy grin and wearing his familiar black button-down.

And his rabid following wouldn't leave unfulfilled. Prine delivered a 15-song set of what he’s unquestionably profound at: Singing heartfelt stories with a sly wit and unabashed honesty.

"Everybody doin' alright?" Prine asked with a mild rasp (as if he didn't already know the answer!).

The 72-year-old pulled heavily from his latest studio album, 2018's Grammy Award-nominated "The Tree of Forgiveness." He asked for help with a can of pork and beans during album opener "Knockin' On Your Screen Door." He sent the spine tinging with eerie, Southern Gothic-tinged "Caravan of Fools."

And he didn't walk off stage without spinning through the shimmering and lighthearted "... Forgiveness" album closer, "When I Get To Heaven."

Prine didn't tackle Bonnaroo alone, either. He invited Kelsey Waldon, the first signing in 15 years to Prine's own Oh Boy Records, for a duet on fan favorite knee-slapper "In Spite Of Ourselves." He followed that moment up by inviting Brandi Carlile to the stage, her second appearance of the evening.

The singer earned a rare festival encore, returning for the aforementioned "When I Get To Heaven" before inviting Waldon, wife Fiona Whelan and son Tommy Prine on stage for an ensemble jam of 1971's "Paradise."

4. Brandi Carlile

“Did you get your second wind?” Brandi Carlile asked her audience as the sun beat down over Bonnaroo’s largest stage on Sunday afternoon.

It was day 4 — or possibly 5 — for the 80,000 fans who’d been living out of tents and campers in Manchester, Tennessee, and it undeniably felt like it.

Carlile was right there with them. She made multiple surprise appearances at the festival on Saturday, singing with John Prine and Hozier.

“I stayed up too late last night,” she admitted. “I woke up feeling a little bit delicate. And I aim to soothe your tired heart today.”

In fact, Carlile has been at Bonnaroo for a lot longer than two days.

“We’ve been part of the Bonnaroo family for quite a few years now...You probably didn’t see us the first time we played here. We played next to some garbage cans in the cafeteria tent, in the second year Bonnaroo was running.”

“It wasn’t even a stage...and we rocked that (expletive), man. We’ve been loving y’all for all these years, and to stand up here on the main stage means more to me than I could ever fully communicate to you.”

It was another victorious moment in a banner year for Carlile. After carving out a respectable niche and fanbase over the last decade, she made a sudden breakthrough with her newest, Nashville-made album, “By The Way, I Forgive You.”

That led to a show-stealing performance at the Grammy Awards, where she was up for Album of the Year.

The song she played that night was “The Joke,” which offers a message of hope to those who’ve been bullied and counted out.

As she introduced it on Sunday, Carlile waved a rainbow flag and told her audience to “sing it as loud and as proud as you can do, because everybody needs this song.”

And afterwards, she said she had never felt more emotional singing it than she did at Bonnaroo.

She told the crowd about her wife and their two daughters, aged 5 and 1.

“I feel that it’s so important to stand here in front of you right now and talk to you about my family, and our right to exist in this country today,” Carlile said, to cheers around the field. “Progress doesn’t only move in one direction. It can also go backwards, and we must not let it.”

For her part, Carlile is proving to be an unstoppable force, with an unbelievably powerful voice. She charged through her beloved ballad “The Story,” and the tender, harmony-fueled “The Eye.”

And then came a surprise appearance from country great Tanya Tucker, who tapped Carlile to produce her upcoming album. Together, they sang her “The Wheels of Laredo” - after knocking back shots of Tucker’s new signature tequila, which she went to great lengths to promote on stage.

To top a triumphant night off, Carlile was presented on stage with the key to Manchester from city officials.

“What an experience this has been,” she said. “I can’t wait to go home and tell my babies about it.”

3. Phish

“Do you have any energy left?” Phish frontman Trey Anastasio asked his Bonnaroo crowd.

“Because we do,” he added with a laugh.

After a quick warm-up set on Friday, the jam band giants got down to business at Bonnaroo on Sunday night. They closed out the 18th annual festival with a run of focused, sometimes furious tunes that reaffirmed their status as the festival’s godfathers. That included an epic guitar solo journey through “Sand,” and breezy singalongs “Free” and “Wolfman’s Brother.”

Phish, if you’re unfamiliar, is a hugely successful “jam band,” established in Vermont in 1983, and second only to the Grateful Dead in terms of success and influence.

Believe it or not, there was a time when music festivals were few and far between in the U.S. — major concert promoters had opted to build amphitheaters instead.

But in the ‘90s, Phish dared to dream, holding epic, ambitious and fiercely independent gatherings in remote corners of the country, and bringing up to 85,000 fans along with them.

With their winning approach, Phish provided the blueprint for Bonnaroo, and many of the countless festivals to sprout up afterwards.

2. Kacey Musgraves

For the last few months — as festival season has set in — an undeniable wave has been building under Kacey Musgraves. Things have escalated quickly since her third album, “Golden Hour,” brought in fans from well outside the country world, and won the Grammy for Album of the Year.

But at Bonnaroo — a festival that has welcomed her with open arms for the last six years — it’s safe to say the adoration reached a new level.

As she emerged to the strains of “Slow Burn,” the pandemonium spread through the field in front of Bonnaroo’s second-largest stage, where Musgraves was greeted like a modern icon.

“Our yee-haw queen!” one fan hollered. Nearby, another stood on their friend’s shoulders to wave the sign she’d made — a photocopy of Musgraves’ much-memed expression when she heard she had won the Grammys’ top prize.

“In Tennessee, the sun’s going down,” she sang on “Slow Burn,” and those words could never be taken more literally in concert than at that moment.

“I don’t think that this could get any more beautiful,” Musgraves told the audience. “You guys, you look amazing tonight. Welcome to ‘Golden Hour’ at Golden Hour. I’m not lying at all when I say that Bonnaroo is my absolute (expletive) favorite place to play. I’ve been looking forward to this for so long, knowing that you guys are gonna (expletive) bring it.”

She wasn’t wrong. Every song — at least the ones from “Golden Hour” — turned into field-wide singalongs, and it’s hard to imagine any song from Bonnaroo’s all-male headliners evoking as much passion.

1. Childish Gambino

Bearded and shirtless, flailing his limbs rhythmically and smiling a wild grin, Childish Gambino made one promise to the masses who greeted him at Bonnaroo.

"I know Bonnaroo is about the mother (expletive) music," he offered. "Put your phone down and follow the moment."

"Feel some (expletive) with me because tonight is church."

Gambino — the musical pseudonym of multi-talented Atlanta entertainer Donald Glover — took The Farm to the altar with his 80-minute headlining set Friday night. The soulful, spacey culmination of the star's decade-long career offered the first main stage top-bill set of the sold out Manchester festival.

Gambino commanded his band with a soft touch, extending tracks into psychedelia and offering offbeat jams — a worthy precursor to festival mainstay Phish, who closed the stage Friday night.

"I can't even rate you guys because this is definitely the (expletive) best crowd we've had so far," he said.

With a roar that instantly affirmed his proclamation, he continued: "I can feel it. I can feel it right now. It's like my portal is open for you.

"Don't ever let anybody tell you ... that we're not connected. We are so connected in this moment together. We are the past, present and future."

The show reached its high point with 2018's "This Is America," the Grammy Award-winning sociopolitical anthem that brought a sea of feet jumping in the air.

Fireworks exploded as he exited the stage — but not before a final reminder of the promise he delivered.

"I told ya, this an experience," he said. "This is church."