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After 16 years as one of the major summer reggae festivals in America, The Peoples Festival & Tribute to Bob Marley more than 1,000 people from different nationalities in downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
"It's not just a music festival, it's much more than a music festival. It's a reggae experience. The singers, journalists, producers come to the festival to meet other people to learn about the history of each other.
The The Peoples Festival has been taking place every summer at Harriet Tubman Riverfront Park, in the heart of Wilmington, Delaware. The First Annual Tribute to Bob Marley was born at Frawley Stadium on August 4, 1995. 22 bands performed at that historic event. Richie Havens, Damian Marley, Mutabaruka, Cindy Breakspear, Momma Booker, and a host of local and national acts came to bless our two stages that first year. Scheduled to go from noon to 7 p.m. the festival had a ‘Woodstock’ kind of ending when Richie Havens finally took the stage at 12:30 a.m. saying, “This is so reminiscent of Woodstock!” to which the crowd roared and stayed to the very last note shouting and chanting. It was a great time!
The Peoples Festival is one of the top three events yearly in Delaware. The Poeples Festival gives people that normally would not come to Delaware a reason to visit. The festival is full of great family oriented things to do all day long from the rain hut to the children village. The peoples’ Festival has brought dozens of international, national, regional and local bands to Wilmington in our years since that day: Culture, The Abyssinians, Morgan Heritage, Toots and The Maytals, Justin Hines, Israel Vibrations, The Meditations, Inner Vision, KRS1, Richie Havens, Mutabarukah, The Wailers, Ziggy Marley, Stephen Marley, Damian Marley, Ky-Mani Marley, Julian Marley, Momma ‘B’, The Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble, and many, many more.
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