Three-day GA passes are also available for purchase online today for $275 plus fees, although limited VIP passes remain on sale for $450. The premier Hip-Hop music festival in the Midwest returns bigger and better than ever. Solario makes an earnest effort to keep the festival in the good graces of neighbors, is glad the It Takes a Village event will still happen, Shaw said. When massive crowds flock to Douglass Park for Riot Fest and Lyrical Lemonade, it does ruin the park, Cortes said. It feels more like exploitation than something for the community, she said. But the audience is Chicago-wide or even nationwide. Single-day tickets to the weekend event are on sale today via starting at just $95. Lyrical Lemonade organizers also plan to help the school pay for the relocated Juneteenth event, festival Director Berto Solorio said in a statement. Lyrical Lemonade is having local artists, which is cool. Summer Smash Festival has grown into one of the largest independent music festivals in the country after playing host to 90,000 attendees last summer.
International hip-hop superstar Post Malone will headline Saturday night. Additional Day 1 performers include Wiz Khalifa, Trippie Redd, Lil Skies, Rico Nasty, Nardo Wick, Sheck Wes, Yung Bans, Chicago’s very own Lucki, and newly added SSGKobe, among many others. Kicking off the festival on Friday night features a headlining performance from Grammy Award-winning, platinum-selling emcee Lil Uzi Vert. Summer Smash Festival, the premier hip-hop music festival in the Midwest, is excited to reveal an expanded music lineup broken down by day for this year’s three-day music festival returning Friday, June 17 through Sunday, June 19 to Douglass Park in Chicago, Illinois.