{"id":793780,"date":"2019-03-12T09:44:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=806947"},"modified":"2019-03-12T09:44:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T15:44:18","slug":"h-e-r-21-savage-lil-baby-lead-2019-roots-picnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/h-e-r-21-savage-lil-baby-lead-2019-roots-picnic\/","title":{"rendered":"H.E.R., 21 Savage, Lil Baby Lead 2019 Roots Picnic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H.E.R., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/21-savage\/\" id=\"auto-tag_21-savage\" data-tag=\"21-savage\">21 Savage<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lil-baby\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lil-baby\" data-tag=\"lil-baby\">Lil Baby<\/a> are among the acts tapped for 2019\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/roots-picnic\/\" id=\"auto-tag_roots-picnic\" data-tag=\"roots-picnic\">Roots Picnic<\/a>, which will be held on June 1st at The Mann Center at Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, PA a new larger location than its previous home of Festival Pier.<\/p>\n<p>In its 12th year, Roots Picnic will feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/raphael-saadiq\/\" id=\"auto-tag_raphael-saadiq\" data-tag=\"raphael-saadiq\">Raphael Saadiq<\/a>, who along with Questlove will curate a jam session called \u201cSoulquarian vs Raphael Saadiq.\u201d Black Thought will lead a Live Mixtape featuring Yasiin Bey and the event will include a live podcast experience with episodes of The Joe Budden Podcast, The Read Podcast and Questlove Supreme. Davido, Queen Naija and Blueface are also among the performers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-roots\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-roots\" data-tag=\"the-roots\">The Roots<\/a> will also commemorate the 20th anniversary of <em>Things Fall Apart<\/em> with a special performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe finally have a Roots Picnic in the Park,\u201d&nbsp;the Roots manager Shawn Gee and President of Live Nation Urban said in a statement.&nbsp;\u201cThe vision 12 years ago was always to provide an all day musical and cultural experience in Fairmount Park.&nbsp;Black Thought, Questlove and I grew up spending our Sunday afternoons at the Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park watching Philly DJs spin, and enjoying the vibe and the culture. It\u2019s a great feeling to be able to come full circle and bring the Picnic to Fairmount Park, I think it\u2019s a big WIN for the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rootspicnic.com\/philly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Tickets go on sale<\/a> on Friday, with presale tickets available beginning on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-806968 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/RootsPicnic2019-MainArt3.jpg?w=663\" alt width=\"663\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/h-e-r-21-savage-lil-baby-2019-roots-picnic-lineup-806947\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H.E.R., 21 Savage and Lil Baby are among the acts tapped for 2019\u2019s Roots Picnic, which will be held on June 1st at The Mann Center at Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, PA a new larger location than its previous home of Festival Pier. In its 12th year, Roots Picnic will feature Raphael Saadiq, who along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 08:14:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}