Nas, Jill Scott and Lil Wayne will headline the 2024 Roots Picnic. The June 1-2 annual throw down in The Mann in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia will function Weezy celebrating the music of his hometown of New Orleans with Trombone Shorty and PJ Morton, in addition to different celebrity collaborations, together with the Roots’ Black Thought jamming with Technique Man and Redman on a J. Interval dwell mixtape, the Adam Blackstone legacy expertise with Fantasia and Muni Lengthy and the Go-Go Yard Band with Scarface and Amerie.
Different acts slated to hit the stage embody: Sexyy Crimson, Babyface, Wallo & Gillie, Wale, Robert Glasper and Yebba, Tyla, Cam’ron, Smino, Tasha Cobbs Leonard , Marsha Ambrosius, October London, Funk Flex, Leon Thomas, Kenya Vaun, Julian King, BLK Odyssy and André 3000 performing alternatives from his rap-free solo flute album New Blue Solar.
This 12 months’s occasion will even function the Parkside Stage (beforehand often known as the Podcast Stage) internet hosting curated experiential media, dwell podcasts and DJ units from Million Dollaz Value of Sport, R&B Solely & U+ME+RNB to Tonight’s Dialog, Juan Epstein Podcast, World Collection of Spades and They Have the Vary.
Tickets for this 12 months’s occasion will go on presale starting Tuesday (Feb. 20) at 10 a.m. ET right here — with entry code ALUMN124 — adopted by a normal onsale kicking off on Friday (Feb. 23) at 10 a.m. ET right here.
Final 12 months’s Picnic included units from Usher & the Roots, Ms. Lauryn Hill — with a shock Fugees reunion — in addition to comic Dave Chappelle, Lil Uzi Vert and extra.
See the complete lineup beneath.
