Fiesta In the Park

Event Information

PLEASE NOTE - TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE GATE FROM 4.30pm, SAT 2ND JULY

Sensational UK hip hop legend Roots Manuva heads a lineup of nationally renowned world, reggae and carnival bands with Oxford’s Count Skylarkin on the decks. Fiesta in the Park will be a spectacular evening celebration of music, dance and summer fun for all the family that is unique for Oxford. His class act of swaggering rap with a Jamaican groove will get the crowds of South Park on their feet for the Carnival’s biggest annual fundraiser!

Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva has been dubbed by The Independent as ‘the Doyen of British Rap’. Not only taking the UK hip-hop scene by storm, Roots is now also challenging American artists. Known for his socio-political lyrics and fearless writing, he is a supreme MC and one of the most compelling lyricists in the last two decades of British music, nominated for the prestigious MOBO Award for Best Hip Hop Act and Mercury Prize nomination for ‘Run Come Save Me’ in 2001.Mixing infectiously danceable hip hop, dub and electronica with reggae and gospel, his fascination with and love of soundsystem culture informs not just his music and lyrics but his whole attitude towards life and goes some way to explain his popularity both as an artist and an individual. Currently working on a new album, his sound is as fresh and fired up as ever in 2011.

DJ Count Skylarkin - Skylarkin’ Soundsystem was born via a 1997 mixtape in a South London cafe, and has been kicking out its patented brew of Jumpin’ Jivin’ Rockin’ Swingin’ Reggae, Ska, Soul, Dancehall and Rhythm & Blues Exotica in Oxford and London since 2002. Now one of the hottest acts on the UK's festival and club scene, Aidan Larkin entertains us Fiesta style!