List of reggae festivals

This is a list of notable reggae festivals by country.

This list may have some overlap with list of jam band music festivals. Reggae festivals may include classic reggae and related or derivative genres such as ska, dancehall, dub, hip-hop, ragga, reggae fusion, and drum and bass.

Reggae originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s, influenced by Rastafarian culture, Jamaican dance music, traditional mento and calypso music, as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady. By the 1970s, large festivals in Jamaica were being held featuring notable reggae bands, and the Wonder Dream Concert in 1975 in Jamaica was one of the first internationally noted festivals to focus on reggae. In 1979, Reggae Geel became the first reggae festival in Europe, and these concerts soon spread to other locales, becoming popular in regions such as Northern California. With the introduction of the electronic reggae genre ragga in the 1980s, reggae began to be featured at electronic music festivals as well.

Festivals by region

Africa Gambia West Africa Gambia Cultural Reggae Festival The Hamlet, Gunjur, Medina Salam

South Africa Reggae Ark Festival, Mamelodi, Pretoria

Mauritius Festival Reggae Donn Sa

Nigerian Roaring thunder concert

Kenya Shashamane International Sepetuka Reggae In the Sun Royal Reggae Fest

Mozambique Maputo Reggae Slam

Uganda Reggae on the Nile

North America Antigua Reggae in the Park, Nelson's Dockyard, English Harbour

Barbados The Barbados Reggae Festival

Canada Calgary International Reggae Festival, Calgary, Alberta Montreal International Reggae Festival, Montreal, Quebec Ottawa Reggae Festival, Ottawa Victoria Ska Festival, Victoria, British Columbia Toronto's Caribana, Toronto, Ontario Afrofest, Toronto, Ontario

Mexico Baja Beach Fest, Baja California, Mexico Skatex, Texcoco, Estado de México

United States California Roots Music and Arts Festival, Monterey, California ("Cali Roots") Cali Vibes, Marina Green Park, Long Beach, California Chicago Reggae Festival, Chicago, Illinois JazzReggae Festival @ UCLA, Los Angeles, California Midwest Reggae Festival, Nelson, Ohio Reggae on the River, Humboldt County, California Reggae Rising, Humboldt County, California Reggae Rise Up, Saint Petersburg, Florida, Las Vegas, Nevada, Phoenix, Arizona and Baltimore, Maryland Reggae on the Way, Tacoma, Washington Reggae in the Rockies, Alpine, Wyoming

Oceania Australia

East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival, Byron Bay Raggamuffin Music Festival, also held in New Zealand

New Zealand

One Love, Tauranga

South America Paraguay Reggae Fest, Rakiura Complex, Luque

Brazil Maranhão Roots Reggae Festival, São Luís, Maranhão República do Reggae, Salvador, Bahia Juriti Rasta, Limoeiro do Norte, Ceará

Asia India Goa Sunsplash, Goa

Japan Yokohama Reggae sai, Yokohama Shibuya Reggae sai, Tokyo HIGHEST MOUNTAIN, Osaka

Korea Rise Again, Seoul

Philippines Bob Marley Fest, Cebu Boracay Reggae Festival, Boracay Fête de la Musique, Manila/international Kadayawan Roots, Arts and Reggae Festival, Davao Manila Reggae Summit, Manila Puerto Galera Reggae Festival, Puerto Galera SunSplash Pilipinas!, Manila

Sri Lanka Rock meets Reggae, Colombo

Europe Austria Rise & Shine Festival, Falkenstein

Belgium Reggae Geel, Geel Wadada Festival, Geel Dubyard, Landen Irie Vibes Roots Festival, Kortemark Bomboclat Festival, Zeebrugge Humble Festival, Wijtschate

Bosnia and Herzegovina Una Riversplash, Bihać

Bulgaria Big Big Summer Reggae Party

Croatia Seasplash, Pula

Cyprus Reggae Sunjam

Czech Republic GoodTown Reggae & Dub Festival Mighty Sounds Real Beat Festival Urban Rapublic

Denmark Silkeborg Reggae Festival, Silkeborg

France Garance Reggae Festival, Bagnols-Sur-Cèze No Logo Festival Reggae Sun Ska, Pauillac Verjux Saone System, Verjux Ida y vuelta - festival, Perpignan LA FEE ESTIVAL - festival, Chatelneuf Jura

Germany Afrika Karibik Festival, Aschaffenburg Reggaejam, Bersenbrück Ruhr Reggae Summer, Mülheim/Dortmund Splash! Summerjam, Cologne Chiemsee Summer, Übersee/ Grabenstätt Black Forest On Fire, Berghaupten Reggae im Herzen Open Air, Radolfzell am Bodensee Reggae in Wulf, Wulfertshausen

Hungary LB27 Reggae Camp

Italy

Montenegro MontenegroSun ReggaeFest, Petrovac, Budva

The Netherlands Reggae Rotterdam Festival, Rotterdam Reggae Lake Festival, Amsterdam Reggae Sundance, Eersel Two Sevens Splash, Amsterdam Rastaplas, Zoetermeer

Poland Afryka, Toruń Bass Camp, Rudawka Rymanowska Ostróda Reggae Festiwal, Ostróda Reggae & Dub Festiwal, Bielawa Reggaeland, Płock Stolica Reggae Festiwal, Kluczbork Winter Reggae, Silesia Independent Dub Day, Wrocław

Portugal HIM DUB Festival, Rapoula do Côa Boa Onda Reggae Festival, Mafra

Serbia Reggae Serbia Fest, Pančevo

Slovakia Uprising, Bratislava

Slovenia Overjam, Tolmin Soča Reggae Riversplash Roots in the woods festival, Trije Kralji

Spain Rototom Sunsplash, Bénicassim Reggaeboa Festival, Balboa Lagata Regge Festival, Zaragoza La Concha Reggae Festival, Cantabria Nowa Reggae, Barcelona IDG, Barcelona Bless Festival, Galicia Dub Yard Festival, Galicia

Sweden Bob Marley minneskonsert, Skärblacka Öland Roots, Öland Uppsala Reggae Festival, Uppsala

Switzerland Plein-les-Watts Festival Geneva, GE Pachamama Connexion Festival, Lancy, GE Lakesplash, Twann, BE Reeds Reggae Festival, Pfäffikon, ZH Enter the Dancehall Festival, Rote Fabrik, ZH

Turkey Unite in Paradise Reggae Festival, Olympos

United Kingdom Notting Hill Carnival, London, England One Love Festival, Essex, England Positive Vibration, Liverpool, England Reggae Land, Milton Keynes, England Simmer Down Festival, Birmingham, England

Middle East Israel Reggae In The Desert, Ramat HaNegev Regional Council

Lebanon Kul=Cha Reggae Festival, Amsheet

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