PHILADELPHIA – The set times for this weekend’s Roots Picnic have been released.
This year, the two-day music festival presented by the Philadelphia hip-hop band, led by rapper Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter and drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, is being staged at Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park for the first time after spending recent years at the nearby campus of the Mann Center.
The Picnic will be bigger than ever this year, with the gated festival site big enough to hold 40,000 attendees each day – 10,000 more than peak capacity at the Mann. The city has announced road closures in the area around the festival, including the Montgomery Avenue exit nearby the festival grounds…