Rototom Sunsplash Says Goodbye in Benicàssim, Together with 218,000 People from 111 Countries, after Three Decades of Music, Awareness, and Life.
The “Celebrating Life” edition seals an anniversary of unity, commitment, and solidarity that has brought more than 200 shows and DJ sets to the festival’s seven stages and multiple cultural activities in its ten extra-musical spaces during its eight days. Next year we will celebrate our 31st edition from August 16 to 22, 2026 in Benicàssim
Community, Reggae, and Life: the Good Vibes of Rototom Sunsplash are (Re)Installed in Benicàssim for its 30th Anniversary
More than 200 concerts, 8 days of reggae vacation, and an extensive cultural offer without age limit converge in the “Celebrating Life” edition of the international festival, which lands next to the Mediterranean from August 16 to 23
The Social Forum is once Again a Platform for Peace, Human Rights, and the Defense of the Planet
The international festival’s space for dialogue and collective reflection returns to the Teatre Municipal de Benicàssim with six free sessions from August 16 to 21.
Rototom Sunsplash welcomes Black Uhuru’s roots reggae and the dancehall of Busy Signal in their only concerts in Spain this Saturday
Marcus Gad from New Caledonia, accompanied by his band Tribe and a brass section, will emerge on the Main Stage and joined by the local sound of Iseo Dodosound, the Spanish duo from Navarra.
Rototom Sunsplash reggae planet goes into orbit in Benicàssim
We go inch by inch through the map of the Concert venue, and its almost 20 musical and extra-musical spaces, to immerse ourselves in the proposals and novelties of this 29th edition.
Spain’s leading hip hop duo SFDK and the ‘old school’ style of Fernandocosta guide the most rapacious Rototom Sunsplash
Representing the new generation are the successful Ibizan rapper Fernandocosta and Barcelona’s Anier and Santa Salut, who together with the historic Valencian rapper Los Chikos del Maíz complete the hip hop proposal of the international reggae festival.
The climate and migration emergencies, the ethical limits of AI and the health of press freedom will be addressed at the Social Forum
The reggae festival’s space for collective reflection expands and moves the five sessions that make up its agenda from the Concert venue to the Teatre Francesc Tàrrega in Benicàssimple, Benicàssimple, Benicàssimple, Benicátez.
The Social Forum expands and will move its sessions, with free access, to the Municipal Theater of Benicàssim.
The debate space takes a leap from the Concert venue to the center of Benicàssim to strengthen ties with the territory and attract new audiences.
Rototom Sunsplash and Exodus’ ‘Dialogues without Borders’ series takes to the deck of a vintage ship to share their plea in defense of the oceans
The event ‘Escala a Castelló’ will host on Friday, April 5 (18.30 hours) a dialogue with the sea aboard a fishing boat of the early twentieth century, the Santa Maria Manuela.
Dialogues without borders’ is born, an alliance between Rototom and Exodus to deseasonalize the cultural activity of the festival
The cycle exports and reinforces the essence of the idiosyncratic Social Forum as a platform for raising awareness and collective reflection for change. Filming will begin on December 4 at the Llotja del Cànem in Castelló with a meeting with human rights as the central theme.
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.
Medical reasons prevent Noam Chomsky’s participation at the Rototom Sunsplash Social Forum
The inaugural session of the festival’s debate space includes the expert in geopolitics and conflict prevention and co-director of the IEACH Jesús A. Núñez, who will share the table with journalist Olga Rodríguez.