Roots Picnic
| Roots Picnic | |
|---|---|
The Roots at the 2025 Roots Picnic for the 30 year anniversary celebration of Do You Want More?!!!??! | |
| Genre | hip hop, R&B, reggae, funk, hard rock, rock, blues, contemporary, electronic, americana, folk, metal, indie, jam band, jazz, pop |
| Location(s) | Mann Center in Fairmount Park; previously at Festival Pier at Penn's Landing |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Founders | The Roots |
| Website | rootspicnic |
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The Roots Picnic is an annual music festival created and hosted by hip hop group, The Roots. The festival is held in the Roots' hometown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Mann Center in Fairmount Park. The first festival was held on June 7, 2008. Co-founder, Shawn Gee, and manager of The Roots serves as executive producer of the festival.
The festival is a one-day event but for one year it was expanded for two-days in 2012. It was expanded again in 2022. Another festival was held outside of Philadelphia in 2016, with Roots Picnic Experience being held at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California.