Lincoln Park Music Festival Returns To Newark For 2019

NEWARK, NJ — A popular, free outdoor music festival is returning to Newark for the 14th year.

The 2019 Lincoln Park Music Festival will kick off with three days of music from Friday, July 26 to Sunday, July 28. (Learn more about the lineup and schedule)

This year’s festival features Trinidad-born Timmy Regisford, the music industry veteran behind the legendary Club Shelter parties in New York City.

“I’m excited to play in New Jersey for the first time,” Regisford said, adding that he’s “looking forward to seeing everyone come out and dance and have a great time.”

Festival hosts for 2019 include actor Tobias Truvillion (BET’s In Contempt, Fox’s Empire), hip hop icons Rah Digga, house music host legends Ms. Theresa the “Queen of New Jersey”, Eddie Nicholas, Marcy Depina/DJ MD (Forsa), Broadway Blake (Vibes In The City), SL (Art4Change) and Kids Zone hosts Bella Star, sister rap duo Mora Mina and youth scholar Lloyd Brown.

In addition to music, the festival will include vendors selling international foods, clothing and other items, as well as a “Kids Zone Village.”

Organizers offered the following details about the festival.

FRIDAY, JULY 26

The three-day festival opening weekend starts July 26 with Youth, Gospel, Soul, Jazz.

Friday kicks off at noon with the Lunchtime In The Park and Soulful Seniors segment featuring LaQuin Lay and the Family Tree Jazz Band, Gospel DJ Willie Gee and Gospel singer Darren Deac.

Starting at 2 p.m., the long-running YOPAT LIVE! - acronym for Youth Outreach for Performing Arts and Technology - features Newark’s next generation such as singer Whitney Jackson, Billie, Delaney, and Deneen, rapper Yung T, a YOPAT Fashion Show and former YOPAT protégé, vocal powerhouse Tia Holt.

Stomps and shouts will kick up at 6 p.m. with Gospel In The Park, starring season three winner of the BET gospel singing competition show Sunday Best Le’Andria Johnson. Johnson's Sunday Best coronation song, "I Shall Leap into My Destiny," co-written by Johnson, entered the Billboard Gospel chart at number 1. Also performing Gospel is Joshua Nelson, Revival Temple Center of Deliverance Choir, Crystal Levell, and Michael Gray.

Starting at 8:30 p.m., Jersey’s own Lenny Harold, a former member of Teddy Riley’s multiplatinum, stadium rockin’ group Blackstreet will headline Soul In The Park, our R&B segment. Soul In The Park also include soul stirring songstress Gail Campbell and close out with our first-ever Friday night dance party with DJ Cole Crush (of Soul In The Horn) and Trew & Culture.

SATURDAY, JULY 27

The festival will reach fever pitch on House Music Day, Saturday, July 27 with Timmy Regisford, one of the great legends of dance music. The complete House Music Day lineup includes “The Voice of First Choice” Rochelle Fleming; Keith Thompson singing the mega-hit “Break 4 Love”; DJ Duce Martinez of DWILD Music Radio; House Music prodigy DJ Ameer; vocalist Cynthia Tucker; Cassio Ware of Whatszzz Up Superstar; The Beat Brothas of Humble Beginnings and DJ Sassy of Newark’s Femme Tribe.

SUNDAY, JULY 28

The festival will continue on Sunday, July 28 with Hip Hop Culture Day featuring curated sets by Newark’s FORSA Radio hosted by Marcy Depina, aka “DJ MD”; the three-year running popular showcase series Vibes In The City hosted by Broadway Blake; and the Caribbean infused collective Art 4 Change hosted by founder Stan aka “SL.”

Straight “outta Brooklyn” is next to blow lyricist Marcus Charles, Jersey Club Hip Hop star Kherk Cobain, Samad Savage, J.1.DA, Khalil Jibran, other surprise “special guests” and a special head-to-head DJ Exhibition between Jersey’s DJ Cheese, 1986 DMC DJ Competition World Champion and Philly’s DJ Cash Money, 1988 DMC DJ Competition World Champion and first-ever DJ inducted into the Technics DJ Hall of Fame.

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