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Rototom Sunsplash delivers to l’Aurora Grup de Suport the 18.900 euros of contribution obtained with the solidarity glasses this edition.

The Solé Rototom Beach has hosted this Saturday a meeting with the volunteers of the NGO to thank them for their collaboration and involvement in the campaign to collect cups donated by the public of the festival.

The solidarity donation of glasses by the Rototom Sunsplash audience raises 18,900 euros to help l’Aurora Grup de Suport save lives at sea.

The organization supporting humanitarian civilian rescue boats based in the port of Borriana will allocate the contribution to two projects: the training boat Eulàlia-Rescue Rhib and L’Aurora-Sicily, which will replicate the action of the NGO in Italian ports.

More than 220,000 people from 77 countries unite for peace at the 28th edition of Rototom Sunsplash

The streaming channels go beyond the Benicàssim concert venue and bring the essence of the festival to 3,000,000 viewers. The family profile of the reggae event is reinforced and breaks records with the participation of 21,000 children under 13 years of age during the seven days of celebration. Rototom Sunsplash intensifies its recycling policy in the first edition with carbon footprint certified by Aenor to achieve emissions neutrality

Tuawa and Rototom break record and avoid 600,000 plastic bottles

Thanks to the Valencian company Tuawa, part of Global Omnium, 168 tons of CO2 have been saved for the planet, which would mean approximately 8,500 trees. Last year Rototom became the first festival in Spain to replace plastic bottles with filtered water, saving more than 420,000 bottles.

The sixth day of the Rototom Sunsplash brings together the legendary The Pioneers, stars like Gentleman and Valencian bands in projection as Zoo and La Fricativa Sonora.

Human rights activism closes this Monday, August 21st, the agenda of the Rototom Sunsplash Social Forum
The organization is working on the replacement of Stella Assange for the debate ‘In support of Julian Assange’, as she is unable to participate due to personal reasons unrelated to the festival.

The roar of reggae city gathers 90,000 people from 70 countries in its first three days.

Every day, before the night falls, the festival offers a cultural agenda throughout five hours of activities with no age limit, a wide range of restaurants and a market to wander.

The line-up for this Sunday, August 20, materialises the global reggae scene between Jamaica and Europe with legends Willi Williams, Linval Thompson and Johnny Osbourne, the sound of Lone Ark by Roberto Sanchez and Steel Pulse, the British ‘battleship’ of world Roots & Culture.

Rototom Sunsplash exudes environmental awareness with YouTuber Soy Tribu and renowned botanist Francis Hallé at the halfway point of its 28th edition

With 4.8 million followers on social networks, Soy Tribu documents native tribes on Agustín’s motorcycle to stress the urgency of caring for the land and respecting their different ways of life.
The sound proposal for next Saturday, August 19th, covers distances: from the rural Jamaican tradition of Inna De Yard to the hip hop connections of the Grammy award-winning Kabaka Pyramid and L’Entourloop.

The legend of Burning Spear and the dub poetry of Mutabaruka and Mad Professor guide the third evening of Rototom Sunsplash

This Friday, August 18, also brings together two representatives of the contemporary African sound: Afrobeats queen Yemi Alade and the band Gultrah Sound System, together with Protoje, an exponent of the new wave of Jamaican music.
Francesco Vignarca, coordinator of the Italian Disarmament Network; journalist and writer Teresa Aranguren; and Tica Font, researcher in peace studies, will lead the session ‘Who defends peace’ at the Social Forum.

The globality of the most vindictive reggae spreads through the second day of Rototom Sunsplash in Benicàssim

This Thursday, August 17, the festival will travel from the Africa of Tiken Jah Fakoly, homeland of reggae, to the purifying fire of Capleton, through the unique voice of Barrington Levy and the beginnings of the English sound of Cimarons.

The universality of the genre expands with the French Biga Ranx, the Argentinian Miss Bolivia and the Italian band Train To Roots, while the Dub Academy brings out the powerful return of Iration Steppas and the Jamkunda Stage presents its first Afrobrunch.

The festival activates its more social and environmental profile with the premiere of the agenda of debates and talks at the Social Forum, Jamkunda and Pachamama.