The London Picnic will feature the Roots, Nas, Common, Floetry, Bilal, Music Soulchild, Robert Glasper and more. It's a homecoming of sorts for the Philly band.
The London Picnic will feature the Roots, Nas, Common, Floetry, Bilal, Music Soulchild, Robert Glasper and more. It's a homecoming of sorts for the Philly band. Nas during the Roots Picnic Philadelphia at The Mann in Fairmount Park on Saturday, June 1, 2024. The New York 'Illmatic' rapper with headline the first ever The Roots Picnic London in August.
Wait, what? I thought the Philadelphia hip-hop crew’s annual music festival was only moving a mile down the road from the Mann CenterIt is. That much is true. This year’s Philly Picnic will be staged on the Plateau on May 30 and 31
Roots Picnic London is happening on Aug. 8 and 9 and the Crystal Palace Bowl in the England’s capital city, with a mix of American and British acts, with several of the U.S. musicians happening to be Philadelphians., will play together in a two-hour headlining set on the first night. That day will also feature the J. Period Mixtape, a popular feature at all Picnics, during which Roots rapper Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter will be joined by Yasiin Bey and Benny the Butcher.
The second night’s headliners are Anthony Hamilton and Philly neo-soul singer Music Soulchild, plus Floetry, the British duo of former Philadelphians who played the Met Philly last weekend. Keyboard player and bandleader Robert Glasper will also join with Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson in leading a Sunday Jam, featuring Philly’s Bilal and Common. The Crystal Palace Bowl is an outdoor venue where Bob Marley played his final London show. It is not the home of Crystal Palace, the English Premier League football club
Roots Picnic London represents a homecoming of sort for the Philly band. In the 1990s, around the time of the release of its debut album, Black Thought, Questlove and their band mates lived as struggling bohemians in the Kentish Town section of London.
So the expansion of the Picnic brand continues, with iterations happening 2700 miles to the west and 3500 miles east of Philadelphia.
I'm The Inquirer's Pop Music Critic. I cover Philly music makers of all genres, spotlighting local acts on the rise, telling stories from throughout the city's rich music history, and reviewing big-name touring acts when they come to town.
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