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Roots picnic nyc day 1 headliner the roots common john mayer and d angelo
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. The festival is held in Philadelphia, their hometown at Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing. The first festival was held on June 7, 2008.
Contents
- Roots picnic nyc day 1 headliner the roots common john mayer and d angelo
- Roots picnic 2016 highlight reel
- 1st Annual Roots Picnic
- 2nd Annual Roots Picnic
- 3rd Annual Roots Picnic
- 4th Annual Roots Picnic
- 5th Annual Roots Picnic
- 6th Annual Roots Picnic
- 7th Annual Roots Picnic
- 8th Annual Roots Picnic
- 9th Annual Roots Picnic
- References
The festival is a one-day event but for one year it was expanded for two-days in 2012.
Roots picnic 2016 highlight reel
1st Annual Roots Picnic
The Roots, Gnarls Barkley, Sharon Jones, The Dap Kings, Santogold, Deerhoof, J*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