Rototom festival expects 240,000 visitors in a week … – eldiario.es

The Concert Hall Benicassim offers this Saturday the twenty-first edition of the Rototom Sunsplash reggae festival, until next July 26 will host over 250 concerts and a broad agenda of debates, conferences and panel discussions on various social issues.

With a 18% increase in ticket sales compared to 2013, the organization expects to exceed this year, the fifth consecutive contest in reggae Castellon town, 240,000 visits Edition 2013, which had an economic impact than fourteen million and created 3,500 jobs.

The Rototom Sunsplash 2014 designed a poster with over 250 actions that happen in six scenarios for eight days with the Main Stage as a hub.

figures emphasize first class, as the singer and actress Lauryn Hill for the first time and exclusively in Spain this summer, along with Sean Paul, premiering at the festival; Jimmy Cliff, “a living legend who never fails”; or Femi Kuti, the prodigal son of the king of Afrobeat Fela Kuti.

Those names are combined with the leading exponents of the new scene that emerged in Jamaica roots reggae, as Chronixx, Jah9 or Jesse Royal .

In addition to the strictly musical section, one of the bets of more media contest goes through its Social Forum, a space for discussion and analysis of current issues to be held Sunday 17 to Saturday 23 under the theme “Paths of culture and freedom ‘and will open a tribute to Nelson Mandela.

This” think tank “as defined from the organization-analyze Wednesday 20′s “slaughter in Gaza” in a paper entitled ‘Palestine: the failure of the international community’ and which will involve “activists and professionals over the past decades have risked their lives to denounce policies segregation and repression suffered Palestine. “

Universal justice, border policy in southern Europe, labor rights, the creative economy, prison model or legalization processes Marijuana internationally will focus other discussions of the Social Forum, for which pass names like Thubten Wangchen, the Lama in exile in Barcelona and representative of Tibet in Spain, or economist Look Etxezarreta.

Under the motto ‘We have a dream’, the twenty-first edition of the Rototom Sunsplash European Reggae Festival incorporates several new features, such as scheduling the exhibition which will be open from 16-9 hours-and the expansion of activities in the beach.