Northern europe’s largest festival has on Thursday added 30 new names to the poster in the summer of 2020.
the Rapper Tyler, The Creator, the aarhus popkonge Thomas Helmig and the 90’s trio TLC plays on the iconic Orange Stage at the Roskilde Festival 2020.
It is clear Thursday, when the festival has announced the 30 names for this summer’s poster.
Thomas Helmigs 21-year-old son, Hugo Helmig, Baymavi must play at the festival. While it is his son’s debut, Thomas Helmig played six times before at the festival – the first time in 1986 with the band, Thomas Helmig Brothers.
‘I have played at the Roskilde Festival many times and it has always been a big experience.’
‘over the last many years I have been the audience at the festival and attended some of my life’s best concerts,’ says Thomas Helmig in a press release from the Roskilde Festival.
In september announced the festival and its first headliner, namely the american recording artist Taylor Swift. With Tyler, The Creator is yet another american star added to the program.
“Headliners Tyler, The Creator and Taylor Swift is pretty young, and it blends in fine with that we are hitting the festival number 50, where we are not looking back, but forward,” says head Anders Wahrén.
Thursday’s publication also contains Roskilde-debutanterne in the u.s. r’n’b group TLC. This summer’s concert will be their first in Denmark.
TLC broke through as a trio in the 90’s, and hit ‘Waterfalls’, ‘No Scrubs’ and ‘Unpretty’, has provided TLC to this day stands as one of the best-selling female groups in the world with more than 65 million sold records.
Of the other names adds Roskilde Festival, among other things, the Danish singer Hjalmer, son of Kim Larsen, and upcoming rapper Tessa, australian Alex Cameron and metalbandet the Deftones.
Roskilde Festival is Northern europe’s largest festival. Approximately 130,000 people had at this year’s festival ticket purchased, where the 188 names were on the poster.
the Festival celebrating next year the 50th anniversary. Therefore, it has received the distinctive title of ‘RF50: Time Is Now’.
Roskilde Festival 2020 will run from 27. June to 4. July.
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