The 1988 Artist Lineup
1988 Twenty Thousand Came To Town
Oakledge Park 1988
The success of the 1987 Vermont Reggae Festival made the statement to the entire region that a peace-loving, fun, and inspiring gathering was taking place in Burlington Vermont and that it would be an annual event. 1988 proved that statement to be correct. An estimated crowd of over 20 thousand people in Oakledge park officially broke the record for any public gathering in Burlington up to that time. Held Saturday July 30 1988. Although the stage should have been elevated higher, nothing hindered the appreciative crowd from the enjoyment that the stage provided. The 1988 Vermont Reggae Festival was a huge success and the expectations and talk about the festival was spreading like wild-fire all over the nation. By now the Vermont Reggae Festival is a bona-fied, plan ahead for event.
Local , Regional, National, and
International Artist
Reggae, Worldbeat, Ska, and Afro-Pop acts from around the nation and the world was beginning to hear about the vibe of the Vermont Reggae Festival and were either inquiring, or being invited to perform.
The Ambassadors
Every festival has to have an official ambassador. What Michael Lang, Max Yasgur, and Ritchie Havens was to Woodstock, and Perry Farrell was to Lollapalooza, so was the Reggae band Lambsbread to the Vermont Reggae Festival, With band leader Bobby Hackney being the founder of the festival, and the popularity of Lambsbread throughout America help spread the word about the festival on every tour stop the band made.
A True Social Gathering
This is 1988. Seven years before the first computer operating system became available to the public. No cell phones, no social media, just true human socializing in a crowd of thousands promoting an atmosphere of peace and love.
Sundog
Commodity Fetish
High Society
Jah Roy’s Symphonic High Power
Bop Harvey
Rebel Souls
Yemesgane
Winston Grennen
Lambsbread
Ini Kamoze
Reggae Fest Vending Village
Sponsors, vendors, merchandise dealers, and new local entrepreneurs supported and benefited from the festival and provided a fun village of wares, food and drinks, and all types of arts and crafts.
Design And Content © DL4 Musical Enterprises Inc. All Rights Reserved
The 1988 Artist Lineup
1988 Twenty Thousand Came To Town
Oakledge Park 1988
The success of the 1987 Vermont Reggae Festival made the statement to
the entire region that a peace-loving, fun, and inspiring gathering was
taking place in Burlington Vermont and that it would be an annual event.
1988 proved that statement to be correct. An estimated crowd of over 20
thousand people in Oakledge park officially broke the record for any
public gathering in Burlington up to that time.
Held Saturday July 30 1988.
Although the stage should have been elevated higher, nothing hindered
the appreciative crowd from the enjoyment that the stage provided.
The 1988 Vermont Reggae Festival was a huge success and the
expectations and talk about the festival was spreading like wild-fire all
over the nation. By now the Vermont Reggae Festival is a bona-fied, plan
ahead for event.
Local , Regional,
National, and
International Artist
Reggae, Worldbeat, Ska, and Afro- Pop acts from around the nation and the world was beginning to hear about the vibe of the Vermont Reggae Festival and were either inquiring, or being invited to perform.
The Ambassadors
Every festival has to have an official ambassador. What Michael Lang, Max Yasgur, and Ritchie Havens was to Woodstock, and Perry Farrell was to Lollapalooza, so was the Reggae band Lambsbread to the Vermont Reggae Festival, With band leader Bobby Hackney being the founder of the festival, and the popularity of Lambsbread throughout America help spread the word about the festival on every tour stop the band made.
A True Social
Gathering
This is 1988. Seven years before the first computer operating system became available to the public. No cell phones, no social media, just true human socializing in a crowd of thousands promoting an atmosphere of peace and love.
Sundog
Commodity Fetish
High Society
Jah Roy’s Symphonic High Power
Bop Harvey
Rebel Souls
Yemesgane
Winston Grennen
Lambsbread
Ini Kamoze
Reggae Fest
Vending Village
Sponsors, vendors, merchandise dealers, and new local entrepreneurs supported and benefited from the festival and provided a fun village of wares, food and drinks, and all types of arts and crafts.
Design And Content © DL4 Musical Enterprises Inc. All Rights Reserved
