NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 15: Black Thought of The Roots performs onstage during WhyHunger's Amplified: Annual Hungerthon Kickoff Concert Presented by EY at Irving Plaza on October 15, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for WhyHunger)
The 18th annual Roots Picnic went down over the weekend at Philadelphia’s Mann in Fairmount Park, but not everything panned out according to plan. Firstly, D’Angelo canceled his headlining set — which would’ve been his first proper live performance in nearly a decade — just a week before the festival, citing an “unforeseen medical delay.” But that wasn’t the only unforeseen delay to affect this year’s Roots Picnic.
