As you’re reading this, an army of 400 is swarming over Vinoy Park, on the St. Petersburg bayfront, setting up for this weekend’s Reggae Rise Up Florida Festival.
The workers, the majority of them locally-hired, will be toiling day and night to put the music and lifestyle celebration’s three stages and associated public areas together, plugging everything in and making sure it all works. Then there’s the temporary fencing that goes around the festival site.
It’s been this way since 2014, when Utah-based LNE Events first brought the reggae music extravaganza to Vinoy Park. It began as a two-day event, then expanded to three, then to four. Read more at www.stpetecatalyst.com.
