{"id":2443325,"date":"2019-04-23T16:20:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T22:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=826324"},"modified":"2019-04-23T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T22:20:28","slug":"jamaicas-reggae-sumfest-announces-2019-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/jamaicas-reggae-sumfest-announces-2019-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica\u2019s Reggae Sumfest Announces 2019 Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/reggae\/\" id=\"auto-tag_reggae\" data-tag=\"reggae\">Reggae<\/a> Sumfest has been Jamaica\u2019s premiere festival for more than 25 years; the Montego Bay event mixes the genre\u2019s legends with local acts, plus great local food, all night beach dance parties and more. The festival\u2019s 2019 event will run from July 14th through the 20th. The lineup includes Chronixx, Spice, Spragga Benz, Buju Banton, Elephant Man <a href=\"https:\/\/reggaesumfest.com\/#schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">and more<\/a>.&nbsp;Dancehall DJ Spragga Benz helped announce the lineup at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0hklvhdikg4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">New York party<\/a>, debuting new music at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The most newsworthy part of the fest is the appearance of dancehall veterans Beenie Man and Bounty Killer, who have a rivalry that dates back decades. The two DJs will be performing onstage together on July 19th, having set aside their differences. (<a href=\"https:\/\/urbanislandz.com\/2019\/04\/22\/beenie-man-and-bounty-killer-set-to-clash-at-reggae-sumfest-2019\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Idlanz<\/a> goes deeper into how that happened.) \u201cBeenie and Bounty are icons of Reggae Sumfest,\u201d said Cordell \u201cSkatta\u201d Burrell, of fest organizers Downsound Entertainment. \u201cKnown for their high energy, witty lyrics and outstanding stage presence, they will perform tune for tune, singing songs from different genres through the ages. They will show everyone the skill and talent that\u2019s kept them at the top of the dancehall scene for over two decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-826382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screenshot-2019-04-15-at-2.54.31-PM.png?w=1019\" alt=\"reggae sumfest\" width=\"1019\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/reggae-sumfest-2019-lineup-826324\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reggae Sumfest has been Jamaica\u2019s premiere festival for more than 25 years; the Montego Bay event mixes the genre\u2019s legends with local acts, plus great local food, all night beach dance parties and more. The festival\u2019s 2019 event will run from July 14th through the 20th. The lineup includes Chronixx, Spice, Spragga Benz, Buju Banton, [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 20:05:15","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}