roots Picnic

The Roots Picnic is an annual music festival created and hosted by hip hop group, The Roots. Co-founder, Shawn Gee, and manager of The Roots serves as executive producer of the festival.^[1] The festival is held in Philadelphia, their hometown at Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing. The first festival was held on June 7, 2008.

The festival is a one-day event but for one year it was expanded for two-days in 2012.

Lineups By Year

1st Annual Roots Picnic

The Roots, Gnarls Barkley, Sharon Jones, The Dap Kings, Santogold, Deerhoof, J*Davey, Diplo, Esperanza

2nd Annual Roots Picnic

The Roots, TV on the Radio, The Black Keys, Public Enemy, Antibalas, Santogold, Kid Cudi, Asher Roth

3rd Annual Roots Picnic

The Roots, Vampire Weekend, Method Man, Redman, Raekwon, John Legend, The Very Best, Das Racist, Nneka, Clipse, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Jay Electronica, Bajah,The Dry, Eye Crew, Tune-Yards, The Foreign Reign, Pattern is Movement

4th Annual Roots Picnic

Main Stage: The Roots, Nas, Wiz Khalifa, Esperanza Spalding, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The Dismembernat Plan, Little Dragon, Railbird, Ariel Pink, Haunted Graffit, DJ J Period

Vitamin Water Uncapped Stage: Yelawolf, Mac Miller, Black Thought, Man Man, Live Mixtape, Nico Gun, Hank & Cupcakes, Donn T, OCD/Reda, Young Vipers, T. Millz

5th Annual Roots Picnic

Day 1 1: De La Soul, Wale, Flosstradamus, Danny Brown, James Murphy, Kids These Days, Mr. MFN eXquire, Shabazz Palaces, St. Vincent, Star Slinger, Stretch Armstrong, Tune-Yards

Day 2: Diplo, Major Lazer, Rakim

6th Annual Roots Picnic

Gary Clark Jr, Grimes, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Naughty By Nature (backed by the Roots), Solange, DJ Premier, The Gaslamp Killer, Trinidad Jame$, Joey Bada$$, Hit-Boy, How To Dress Well, Robert Glasper, Sonnymoon, Jennahbell, Lushlife.

7th Annual Roots Picnic

The Roots, Snoop Dogg (backed by The Roots), Janelle Monáe, The War on Drugs, Action Bronson, A$AP Ferg, AraabMuzik, Rudimental, Jhene Aiko, Biz Markie (DJ Set), Bad Rabbits, Chill Moody, Emily Wells, Roman Gianarthur, Electric Wire Hustle, Just Blaze

8th Annual Roots Picnic

The Weekend, A$AP Rocky, Phantogram, Erykah Badu (backed by The Roots), The Roots, DJ Mustard, Hiatus Kaiyote, Rae Sremmurd, Chronixx and the Zincfence Redemption, Africa Bambaataa, Hudson Mohawke, DJ Windows 98 (Win Butler of Arcade Fire), Ray, King Britt, Bishop Nehru, Moses Sumner, Brianna Cash, Marc E. Bassy, Donn T

9th Annual Roots Picnic

North Stage: Future, Blood Orange, Swizz Beatz, Jidenna, Migos, Willow Smith, Paris Monster, GoGo Morrow

South Stage: Usher (backed by The Roots), Leon Bridges, DMX, Kehlani, Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, Ibeyi, Lolawolf, Jodie Abacus,

Oasis Stage: Kaytranada, Metro Boomin, Everyday People feat. DJ Momo, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Dicky, Rich Medina, Tish Hyman, Chloe x Halle

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