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Reggae Summer Fest 2011

Reggae Summer Fest 2011

Reggae Summer Fest 2011

By Karl Pearson on Monday, June 6, 2011 - 1 comment

French festival continues to grow.

The Summer Reggae Fest at Fort St-Père in Brittany near St. Malo, France first took place over one night in 2008 and has now grown, following the success of last year, so that it is held over two days.

Summer Reggae Fest 4This year’s event will take place on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th July and offers a varied international line up across two stages. The Friday night will feature main stage performances from Jamaican stars Horace Andy and Michael Prophet plus headliner the Italian born Alborosie. The sound system stage is set to offer the UK’s Channel One and Martin Campbell along with French systems OBF and Legal Shot and a special appearance from Shinehead.

Saturday sees Jimmy Cliff, Aswad, Diana Rutherford and David Rodigan taking to the main stage, accompanied by an impressive team of artists on the sound sytem stage consisting of Johnny Clarke, Al Campbell, Dancehall originators U-Brown and Echo Minott plus the talented Scottish female vocalist Soom T and more from Shinehead.

Tickets are priced at 26€ for the Friday, 30€ for the Saturday or 52€ for both. Included in this is reserved camping for festival-goers, with toilets and water points. There is also a Festival Village with bar, Caribbean restaurant, vinyl and CD stands as well as clothing.

Site opens on Friday, 8th July at 12 am and closes Sunday, 10th July at 12pm.

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Posted by jamall on 07.14.2011
Have you got pictures of this festival?

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