The documentary film, Wattstax, directed by Mel Stuart, follows the 1972 Watts Summer Festival, founded to commemorate the Watts Riots of 1965.

Get the kids off the screens and into the park for a day of music from all over the world including LADAMA, Tiga Jean-Baptiste and DJ Ali Coleman.
 

SKIP MARLEY, the grandson of the reggae legend, will be joined by IVY SOLE, who will kicks things off.

The versatile Tygapaw joins the lineup to infuse us with an electrifying DJ set. Mari World will infuse the early set with his high-energy performance.

The film fuses Lin-Manuel Miranda’s kinetic music and lyrics with the director of “Crazy Rich Asians,” Jon M. Chu’s lively and authentic eye for storytelling to capture a world very much of its place, but universal in its experience.

San Fermin, a Brooklyn-based chamber pop collective and Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet start things off and innovative guitarist and singer Son Little, will hold down the middle set. Both will join San Fermin for a mashup finale.

Founded in 2016 by Tatiana Desardouin with a mission to promote the authenticity and contributions of social dance styles and cultures like street and clubbing, Passion Fruit Dance Company comes to the park for the world premiere of TRAPPED, a brand new work with developmental support from BRIC, and developed at MASS MoCA and the Guggenheim’s Works & Process residency program.

MR EAZI will light the Bandshell on fire. AJO will warm up the stage and DJ BEMBONA opens.