{"id":169455,"date":"2026-04-18T16:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169455\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:08:18","slug":"roots-picnic-is-heading-to-london-for-the-first-time-ever-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169455\/","title":{"rendered":"Roots Picnic is heading to London for the first time ever \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most popular festivals held in the City of Brotherly Love is heading across the pond to London, England. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootspicnic.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Roots Picnic<\/a>, the annual music festival hosted by the legendary hip-hop group The Roots, announced their expansion overseas with Roots Picnic London. <\/p>\n<p>The London edition will be held at Crystal Palace Bowl on Saturday, August 8, and Sunday, August 9, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Day one features performances by Nas and The Roots, Sasha Keable, Nia Smith and  JPERIOD&#8217;s Live Mixtape, featuring Black Thought, Yasiin Bey and Benny The Butcher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Day two, performers include Robert Glasper, Questlove, Common Bilal, Gotts Street park and Olive Jones. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as Philadelphia gears up to host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/entertainment\/the-scene\/roots-picnic-2026-philadelphia-new-venue-belmont-plateau\/4368059\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">18th annual Roots Picnic\u00a0this May at a new location, the Belmont Plateau.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palacebowlpresents.co.uk\/events\/the-roots-picnic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Presale tickets for Roots Picnic London<\/a> go on sale Monday, April 20, at 12 p.m. BST, with general sale beginning Tuesday, April 21, at 12 p.m. BST. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most popular festivals held in the City of Brotherly Love is heading across the pond&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,28576],"class_list":["post-169455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-the-scene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}