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Alt-country bands*Shovels & Rope and*Deer Tick join the music lineup for the 2016 Hogs for the Cause, the eighth annual barbecue and fundraiser for pediatric cancer services. The event returns to City Park on April 1-2.

In 2014, husband and wife duo Shovels & Rope ? aka Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent ? released its acclaimed album Swimmin' Time, the follow-up to 2012's breakthrough O' Be Joyful.*The band's performance at the 2015 Jazz Fest was a loose, foot-stomping trade of barn-burning rock 'n' roll, harmony-filled dirges and grinning storytelling country-folk.

Also performing at the 2016 event are*Greensky Bluegrass, funk supergroup*Dragon Smoke, bluesman*Tab Benoit, Twiddle, American Aquarium, Phil Cook, Big Sam's Funk Nation and Great Peacock, as well as New Orleans honky tonkers The Deslondes, singer-songwriter Kristin Diable, Luke Winslow-King's Electric Trio, Sweet Crude and Motel Radio.

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