COTTON FEST KICKED OFF 2020 WITH A BANG!

COTTON FEST 2020

The King of Umswenko has done it again! Riky Rick’s annual Cotton Festival took place in
Newtown early this month. With acts such as AKA, Kabza De Small, DJ Maphorisa,
A-Reece, Reason and some of South Africa’s finest Hip Hop royalty, they brought the city
to a stand still across 3 stages with their performances.


The festival, which embraces the Hip Hop culture in it’s entirety alongside other local
genres, saw individuals coming out in numbers to showcase their unique fashion, music
and art. The day was filled with bright colour and power sound including a performance
from Riky Rick on his show stopping, first-time-seen-in-SA, elevated moving stage that
had the audience in awe.


The Cotton Festival which is only on its’ second year running, has continued to bring a
diversified group of people across Mzansi to share the love they have for the culture. With
unforgettable moments between Riky Rick and DaLES, A-Reece’s performance and a fiiiiiiiiire set by the Scorpion Kings (DJ Maphorisa and Kabza da Small), it’s no doubt that Cotton Fest kicked the year off on a good note.

Ricky Rick and Oskido at Cotton Fest
Ricky Rick and Oskido

Riky thanked everyone who showed up on the day and expressed on Instagram that
“Cotton Fest 2020 is not about me at all. It’s about the great people we have in this
industry coming together and creating history for the people. I’m humbled by all the performers who gave up their time to come spread love with us. I’m humbled by the fans who came in their numbers to spread love with us. All 3 stages were unforgettable. Thank you so much for being part of this movement. This is only the beginning.”

COTTON FEST 2020 EARLY BIRD TICKETS NOW ON SALE

Cotton Fest 2020

Following the announcement last month of the second annual Cotton Fest taking place in February 2020, festival curator / festival founder Riky Rick together with his team today launched the festivals highly-anticipated artwork and early bird ticket sales.

The second edition of the festival is taking place on the 1st February 2020 at The Station (Newtown).

Having created great buzz and interest in the culture last year, focus was placed on the creation of new and improved artwork for the second edition of the festival taking place next year.

As done with all events, the brand logo this year was used on various promotional material including the merchandise, posters, flyers and TV ads.

The team realised it’s popularity within the sub-culture when various graffiti pieces popped up in and around Johannesburg. Young stylista’s adapted the merchandise and kept rocking it at events over the past few months. Social media was abuzz months after the festival took place. The LOGO had made a statement and wasn’t going anywhere.

The design team then worked on a new creative for the 2020 look and feel for the festival. It launched online today.

“Apart from the huge support we got from young people last year, the love we received for our simple logo was just insane. We were never ready for it to be honest. So we decided to flip it up again for the festival next year, we kept the aesthetic clean and fresh. We included some feel good characters to the logo. We tried to keep in tune with the drip, keeping in the fun and light heartedness” says Cotton Fest’s Riky Rick. “Hope the kids and culture love it because all about them. Looking forward to their response and support as always of course.”

MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

Cotton Fest 2020 returns to the Old Park Station in Newtown, Johannesburg with early bird tickets now on sale at Webtickets and Pick n Pay outlets nationwide.

Merging both known and unknown South African talent, Cotton Fest showcases the diversities in hiphop while fusing the gaps within the different local movements. This one-day urban music and fashion explosion is back with plans to be even bigger and better.

Cotton Fest 2020 plans to bring together 100 unique acts performing on three different stages. Media giants MTV and YFM return as media partners. Desperados joins the party as affiliate brand partner. 

Full artists lineup to be confirmed later this year.

COTTON FEST INFORMATION

Date:              Saturday, 1st February 2020

Venue:           The Station (Carr Street & Nelson Mandela Bridge, Newtown, JHB)

Price:             R150 (Earlybird now available)

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