Rototom SL

The International Reggae Festival Rototom Sunsplash was born in 1994 in northern Italy. Founded by a group committed to combining music and social issues, this binomial has been maintained throughout a trajectory of almost 30 years. Jamaican music, and the values of peace and respect linked to this musical genre, guide its history. Since 2010 the festival has been based in Benicàssim, in the Spanish Mediterranean, where the festival builds a reggae city that every summer attracts more than 200,000 people from five continents. Rototom Sunsplash is a projection of reggae music and culture, becoming a common place of passage for virtually all the names of Jamaican and world reggae, from legends of the genre to emerging talents of the international scene. 3,000 artists have written the musical history of the festival giving life to shows that branch out through the multiple stages that pulsate in the concert venue and that are projected to the world for free through streaming channels, its radio station and the presentation parties that travel the planet. Along with its musical content, Rototom has sculpted its idiosyncrasy by expanding its cultural offer to the extra-musical level, with areas within the venue that boast their own programmes and that open the festival to all kinds of audiences: from the most familiar spaces like Magicomundo or ArteSano Market, to the area for teenagers Teen Yard, the committed Pachamama and the reflective Jamkunda, Social Forum and Reggae University. The diversity of the audience reinforces the uniqueness of this cultural, global and family-friendly experience, characterized by its social and environmental commitment: it is the first event in its category to certify its carbon footprint to reduce emissions, it is a plastic-free festival and a has firm commitment to recycling. Its inclusive and independent profile is endorsed by a self-financed and sponsor-free management model that it has maintained since its inception.