{"id":114805,"date":"2026-01-12T09:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/114805\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:44:34","slug":"reggae-rise-up-florida-returns-to-st-pete-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/114805\/","title":{"rendered":"Reggae Rise Up Florida returns to St. Pete for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 This March, the nation\u2019s largest touring reggae festival returns to downtown St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">From March 12-15, Reggae Rise Up Florida returns to Vinoy Park, with this year\u2019s lineup reflecting a mix of iconic headliners and rising voices that showcase the festival\u2019s decades of growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The festival opens Thursday, March 12, with Slightly Stoopid, joined by hip-hop legends Cypress Hill, making their Florida edition debut. Also joining them will be fan favorites Pepper and special guests Roots of Creation and Rhythm-Inya.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Credit: Reggae Rise Up Florida\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cae4ce0058bc235815690aeacb7f993a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Reggae Rise Up Florida<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/49bc3b27364a568b5a1ee07184d72ce6.jpeg\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2b65f9f5b34742e63534579c95571e6c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Friday, the celebration continues with headlining sets from festival staples Iration and SOJA. Joining them will be hometown heroes The Hip Abduction. Yelawolf, Skip Marley, Satsang and Rik Jam will also perform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Saturday will feature Rebelution headlining. Fans can also look forward to sets from Protoje, The Expendables, Tribal Seeds, Ballyhoo!, Kash\u2019d Out and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The festival will close Sunday with a performance by Sublime, one of the scene\u2019s most influential bands. They will be joined by Steel Pulse, Little Stranger, Common Kings, G. Love &amp; Special Sauce, along with a few other artists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To view the full lineup or purchase tickets, <a href=\"https:\/\/reggaeriseup.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:go here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 This March, the nation\u2019s largest touring reggae festival returns to downtown St. Petersburg.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[58105,17222,58106,28,58104,202,204,203,199,201,200,25912],"class_list":{"0":"post-114805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-cypress-hill","9":"tag-downtown-st-petersburg","10":"tag-festival-returns","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-slightly-stoopid","13":"tag-st-pete","14":"tag-st-pete-headlines","15":"tag-st-pete-news","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news","19":"tag-vinoy-park"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}