Reggae Sumfest Govt Producer and CEO Joe Bogdanovich says ticket gross sales for the summer season pageant, from Jul. 13 to Jul. 19, in Montego Bay, Jamaica are “shifting alongside properly.”
Bogdanovich advised Caribbean Life on Tuesday, April 22, that since he launched Reggae Sumfest 2025 final Friday, ticket gross sales have been “off and operating.”
“We received off to a late begin, however gross sales are shifting alongside properly,” stated Bogdanovich, who was lately in New York for Vybz Kartel’s historic back-to-back, sold-out live performance on the Barclays Enviornment, downtown Brooklyn.
“Early Chicken VVIP Centre Stage tickets for Friday evening at the moment are bought out, so, too, are Weekend Early Chicken Extremely VIP Seat tickets,” he disclosed.
Requested in regards to the “Vybz Kartel impact” on ticket gross sales for Competition Evening 1, Friday, July 18, Bogdanovich stated issues have been going higher than anticipated.
“Friday is trying very robust, whereas Saturday is closing the hole day by day since we launched on Friday at 6:00 p.m.,” he stated.
Bogdanovich additionally stated that on-line ticket gross sales have exceeded expectations, with robust assist from worldwide markets together with the UK, Canada, Mexico, the USA and France.
“There’s no pageant like Reggae Sumfest — it’s a special type of cultural power,” he stated, stating that the pageant’s advertising and marketing push “spans social media, on-line radio, the US Diaspora, and the official web site and reggaesumfest.com, the place followers can discover particulars in regards to the lineup, tickets, and extra.
“Conventional promotion strategies, similar to flyers and posters in Diaspora communities are additionally getting used,” he added.
As for the artists’ lineup for the thirty fourth version of Reggae Sumfest, Bogdanovich stated extra bulletins are coming.
“We’re trying ahead to asserting a shock artist and different fun-loving parts that can add much more spice to this 34-year-strong reggae/dancehall celebration,” he stated.
Bogdanovich burdened that Kartel will headline Friday evening’s star-studded lineup, alongside Masicka, Tommy Lee Sparta, Govana, Skeng, D’Yani, Laden, Shaneil Muir, Younger Wild Apache and Jah Fabio; whereas Saturday will function Tarrus Riley, Protoje, Shenseea, Lala Ike, Fantan Mojah, I-Wayne, Stress and Bugle.
