Jamaica Planning Its First Major Music Festival

A massive electronic music festival is headed to Jamaica, marking the first major music festival in the country. The festival, called Paradise Lost, will reaffirm Jamaica’s roots as the originators of dance music and attempt to reclaim EDM as a Jamaican genre.

“Some Jamaicans don’t know that the genre started here, and some of the foreign markets don’t know either,” said festival organizer Jason Newman. “This is going to educate them to learn about Jamaica and appreciate our music all over again…Let’s reclaim EDM, lets teach our artists how to put their music out there, too. This is not about closing doors on Jamaican entertainers, this is about restructuring how we look at our music and how we treat it.”

The festival will be huge for the nation’s economy. They’re expecting it to bring in nearly $5 billion in revenue and create close to 2,500 jobs.

Paradise lost will take place March 10-12, 2016 at Grizzly’s Plantation Cove in St Ann.

[Via Dancing Astronaut]